Where is the source code for Alternate CD installer?

Question

AFAIU debian-installer currently contains only documentation, where is the actual code for the Alternate CD installer?

is this what you were looking for? wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut — fossfreedom♦, Nov 24 '12 at 10:30

fossfreedom · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-24 10:59:25Z

Debian Installer.

The alternate installer is created by Debian (upstream from Ubuntu).

Thus to look for the source, you'll need to pull this from the Debian repositories.

According to debian:

Debian Installer developers frequently checkout the whole tree for development.

Debian are transferring to Git - but the alternate installer is not completely migrated yet.

Two steps are required - checkout using subversion - and then checkout the sources from git

sudo apt-get install subversion, git, mr
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk debian-installer

Then pull the git repositories:

cd debian-installer/scripts
scripts/git-setup
mr -p checkout

Go for a coffee or two - each individual component (package) is checked-out - it will take quite some considerable amount of time over a slow link.

All the components are installed under the sub-folder packages

Any idea whether the Ubuntu devs make any changes to the upstream version? — romandas, Jul 15 '13 at 16:46
@romandas - as far as I can gather - its the debian version they use and havent changed. To be absolutely sure, you should drop in on the ubuntu-dev IRC or drop an email on their mailing list. — fossfreedom♦, Jul 15 '13 at 17:24