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\title[Managing breakage in Debian Installer] % (optional, use only with long paper titles)
{Managing breakage in Debian Installer}

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{Frans ~Pop}
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{Debian QA meeting,\\ Darmstadt}
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\section{Introduction}

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  \frametitle{Types of breakage}
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	\item
		General or architecture specific
	\item
		Build failures: D-I images, CD images
	\item
		Basic installation problems in D-I itself
	\item
		Base installation problems: (c)debootstrap
	\item
		Base configuration problems
	\item
		Problems installing tasks
	\item
		Internationalization problems 1st/2nd stage
	\end{itemize}
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		D-I is a mini Linux distribution for 12 architectures
	\item
		Great variety: disklabels, filesystems, bootloaders, ...
	\item
		Some components we control ourselves, others... not
	\item
		Complex build environment (including CD building)
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		Complex operational environment
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\section{Why does d-i break?}

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		Changes in D-I itself causing unexpected breakage
	\item
		New upstream releases of stuff used in D-I \\
		\small (random example: dpkg)
	\item
		Library changes
	\item
		Transitions can hit D-I very hard -> delays
	\item
		Kernel configuration changes
	\item
		Migrations of udebs need to be triggered manually
	\item
		Build dependencies
	\end{itemize}
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\small debhelper, apt, gnupg, dpkg, grep-dctrl, bc, libc6-pic | libc6.1-pic | libc0.3-pic | glibc-pic, libdebian-installer4, libdebconfclient0, libparted1.6-13, libslang2-pic, libnewt-pic, libdiscover1-pic [!s390 !s390x], libdiscover1 [!s390 !s390x], libbogl-dev, libtextwrap1, cramfsprogs [powerpc ia64 mips], genext2fs, e2fsprogs, mklibs, mkisofs, genromfs [sparc], hfsutils [powerpc], dosfstools [i386 ia64 m68k amd64], syslinux [i386 amd64], palo [hppa], elilo [ia64], yaboot [powerpc], aboot [alpha], silo [sparc], sparc-utils [sparc], genisovh [mips], delo [mipsel], tip22 [mips], colo [mipsel], sibyl [mips mipsel], atari-bootstrap [m68k], vmelilo [m68k], m68k-vme-tftplilo [m68k], sysutils [i386 amd64], mtools [i386 ia64 m68k amd64], modutils, module-init-tools [i386 powerpc amd64 hppa ia64 sparc], bf-utf-source [!s390 !s390x], upx-ucl-beta [i386], bzip2 [powerpc], mkvmlinuz [powerpc]
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docbook, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl, xsltproc, gawk, w3m, poxml, jadetex, openjade | openjade1.3, docbook-dsssl, gs-common, debiandoc-sgml
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\section{Managing breakage}

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  \frametitle{Options}
	\begin{itemize}[<+->]
	\item
		Prevent breakage
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		Detect breakage as soon as possible
		\begin{itemize}
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			Daily builds for all architectures \\
			http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/build-logs.html
		\item
			The D-I testlab (Joey Hess): \\
			alpha, hppa, i386, ia64, mipsel, sparc \\
			http://people.debian.org/\~{}joeyh/d-i/test-logs.html
		\item
			Installation reports
		\item
			IRC: \#debian-boot
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		Problems often are noticed in D-I before they are seen elsewhere
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		Debug and trace
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		Report
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		If under our control: fix and upload
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		If not under our control: file bug and hound maintainer
	\item
		... or NMU
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		Test locally
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		Wait for fix to make it to daily builds
	\end{itemize}

For some types of problems we need help from porters or specialists
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Keeping the team, porters and users informed: \\
http://wiki.debian.net/DebianInstallerToday
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