Bug#771825: release-notes: Update information on non-systemd Jessie upgrades and installations
On 2014-12-02 18:17, Svante Signell wrote:
> Package: release-notes
> Severity: Important
>
> Hello,
>
> As promised on debian-devel attached is a first proposal for an update
> of the release notes. There are two small issues with the patch:
> - The text is edited without seeing the markup result. How to do that?
> - The second part about preseeding will be tested tonight, and an
> updated patch will be submitted if any changes are needed.
>
> Thanks!
>
Hi,
Thanks for taking the time to write a patch for the release notes.
I have two remarks:
* It is not clear to me that this is a valid patch against the original
source of the release notes (SVN)[1]. I can certainly extract the
relevant parts and apply it manually, but this is inefficient use of
our time (yours and mine) in the long run.
* The second "hunk" of the patch seems better suited for the
installation-guide. The release notes concerns itself with upgrades
and does not cover the debian-installer.
The original source of the release notes is at [2]. There is a git
clone maintained by Julien at [3] if you prefer git over SVN.
To build the release notes (for a single language and architecture), you
run:
make html LINGUA="en" architecture=amd64
Which would build the English HTML version for amd64. The generated
output will be in en/release-notes.amd64.html/index.en.html.
NB: Some parts of the build system assumes you have a subversion
checkout. The above command does not, but if you simply run "make"
without any arguments you will trigger some of them.
~Niels
[1] I would be expecting you to modify a file called "en/issues.dbk"...
and I am not sure what the "numbers" at the beginning of each line is
doing in an XML document, but...
[2] https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes/
[3] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/jcristau/release-notes.git/
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