Bug#311188: update current status in BTS

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Holger Levsen]
> Good to hear / have this documented here. So do need,
> debian-edu-config in etch at the moment or can this package be
> removed (esp. from the radar of people working on releasing etch in
> time..)?

Well, I would like to have all the packages we have on the CD pulled
from etch, so I want d-e-config in etch alongside with all the other
packages.

> Great. "But" with the package from our (=debian-edu) archive?!

My goal is to use the debian-edu archive only for testing, and to get
all the packages we need into etch before it freezes.  I am not sure
we succeed, but will do my best to make it happen.  We need fewer and
fewer non-debian packages for each release, so I hope we can get down
to < 5 packages for etch.

> I mean, that the debian d-i (in it's released state on the official
> etch cds or whatever medium) provides no means to load the
> debian-edu-config udeb.

Sure it does.  When creating the CD, create .disk/udeb_include on the
CD listing debian-edu-install-udeb, and the rest happen
automatically. :)

> For etch+1 I would be very happy to see a official debian dvd with
> capabilities (select install, installgui, expert, skolelinux,
> debian-med...)  to (also) install CDDs (and not only pure debian),
> which can only use packages from main, obviously. Maybe this
> constraint is too much to make it useful in etch+1, or maybe
> unofficial (from debians POV) DVDs are the way to go then.

That is definitely a bit further ahead, yes.  But it would be fairly
easy to only enable the debian-edu udeb if some kernel option is
passed into d-i, and get the d-i team to include it on the DVD.  Of
course we might not be able make sure all "our" packages are on the
official DVD. :)

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen