Hi! > 1. We need to refactor the code; the top-level Makefile is a mess, > and there are far too many hacks in the codebase that make it > impossible to maintain I'm looking forward to refactoring :-) I tried to fully understand debian-cd but failed much to often in the past; now a 'new start' will give me a chance to perhaps contribute something in future :-) > 5. More intelligence in debian-cd > 6. Actual layout of the CDs could be better > A much better way would be to check sizes as each file is copied > into the temporary tree, and Packages and Sources files generated > by copying stanzas in to match. By keeping careful track of how Great idea - and I think it will not very hard to implement. I did some kind of this before, just for filling up backup-cds. It was a rather small python script, that created a temporary destination for the cd and then started to fill it up with symlinks to the actual files - keeping track of the amount of data size. If I still have it, I can publish it - maybe it's useful? > 9. Are business card ISOs actually useful? > CD media is also much more difficult. Do people still think the > effort to create these is useful? They are just nice - tried them out and having them fit on a business card cd is fun. But for real life a netinst image is much more useful. > 10. Signed release files > Release files, which currently are not signed. Signing these would > be good, possibly with a new key held on the machine(s) building > official images. Since I heard that may people dislike this new feature - I think it's great and a secure way to prove that an image is really an official one. For me - buliding my own images - I can live with that, since I can use my key to create signed Release files on my CDs. Cheers, Jan
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