Review: installation-guide 20260916
Package Information
| Description | Debian installation guide for amd64 This package contains the Debian installation guide for the AMD64 architecture, in a variety of languages. A shorter reference, the installation HOWTO, is included in an appendix. |
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| Maintainer | Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org> |
| Changed By | Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> |
| Sponsor | sthibault@debian.org |
| Distribution | unstable |
| Architecture | all |
| VCS | git: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-guide.git (browse) |
| Closes | #1034267 |
| Popcon Installs | 78 |
| Binary NEW | Yes (binary-only upload) |
| Tracker | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/installation-guide |
| Uploaded | 4 days ago |
New Package Report
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| Date | Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:49:11 +0200 |
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| Source | installation-guide |
| Version | 20260916 |
| Changed-By | Samuel Thibault |
| Architecture | source all |
| Distribution | unstable |
Changelog
installation-guide (20260916) unstable; urgency=medium
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[ Holger Wansing ]
* hu: remove mark, that translation is outdated.
* New translation effort announced for Hindi; add po files.
* Bump release name to forky.
* Bump copyright year to 2026.
* Change order of partman-md and partman-lvm documentation, to reflect the
order as found in "Supported partitioning options" chapter.
* Add missing bug closure in changelog for version 20250803.
* Mention the finding of installation logs prominently visible in chapter
headline, so it appears in document index. Closes: #1034267.
* Hints to recommend a minimum size for ESP partition. Closes: #1141764.
* Update example partition screen to these century's common values.
* Add a warning about mailinglist size limit to installation-reports
template. Inspired by #1107655.
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[ Samuel Thibault ]
* Add loong64 architecture.
* Fix timezone preseed example to America/New_York (Closes: Bug#1135233)
* buildone*.sh: Try to show dblatex errors.
* Add autopkgtest that builds all languages and archs, but not their
combinations.
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[ Colin Watson ]
* Document netcfg VLAN support (see https://bugs.debian.org/433568).
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[ Updated translations ]
* Dutch by Frans Spiesschaert.dsc
| Priority | optional |
|---|---|
| Component | main |
| Package-List | installation-guide-amd64 deb doc optional arch=all installation-guide-arm64 deb doc optional arch=all installation-guide-armhf deb doc optional arch=all installation-guide-loong64 deb doc optional arch=all installation-guide-ppc64el deb doc optional arch=all installation-guide-riscv64 deb doc optional arch=all installation-guide-s390x deb doc optional arch=all |
| Section | doc |
debian/copyright
The Installation Guide is copyright 1996 Bruce Perens; 1996, 1997 Sven Rudolph; 1998 Igor Grobman, James Treacy; 1998-2002 Adam Di Carlo; 2003 Chris Tillman; 2004-2025 by the Debian Installer team, and by other contributors. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2. A copy of the GPL is included in an appendix of the Installation Guide and can also be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 on Debian systems.
Review Information
accepted — allocated to awm 4 days ago, started 4 days ago, completed 4 days ago.
Final Comment
Hi,
Please convert debian/copyright to DEP-5 format. I include an example below.
Thanks!
====================================================================
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: installation-guide
Files: *
Copyright: 1996 Bruce Perens
1996-1997 Sven Rudolph
1998 Igor Grobman, James Treacy
1998-2002 Adam Di Carlo
2003 Chris Tillman
2004-2025 Debian Installer team, and other contributors
License: GPL-2.0
License: GPL-2.0
This document is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
version 2.
.
A copy of the GPL is included in an appendix of the Installation Guide.
On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License version 2
can also be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
Public Notes
4 days ago
● public
Missed Author Check
Command: dnq author-check -prepare
Exit code: 0
Author check: scanned 826 files.
NOT IN debian/copyright (4):
Free Software Foundation, Inc
en/appendix/gpl.xml:42
po/ca/gpl.po:87
po/ca/gpl.po:93
po/cs/gpl.po:81
po/cs/gpl.po:87
... and 119 more files
Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>, 2019
po/de/administrivia.po:3
po/de/boot-installer.po:3
po/de/preseed.po:3
po/de/using-d-i.po:3
quad-nrg.net <galaxico@quad-nrg.net>
po/el/bookinfo.po:8
po/el/boot-installer.po:10
po/el/hardware.po:6
po/el/install-methods.po:8
po/el/installation-howto.po:7
... and 6 more files
Software in the Public Interest
po/es/administrivia.po:2
po/es/bookinfo.po:2
po/es/boot-installer.po:2
po/es/boot-new.po:2
po/es/gpl.po:2
... and 13 more files
Result: ATTENTION REQUIRED — 4 authors not in debian/copyright