AFAIU debian-installer currently contains only documentation, where is the actual code for the Alternate CD installer?
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is this what you were looking for? http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/CheckOut – fossfreedom Nov 24 '12 at 10:30
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Looks like a proper one, will you create an answer? – int_ua Nov 24 '12 at 10:41
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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
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Any idea whether the Ubuntu devs make any changes to the upstream version? – romandas Jul 15 '13 at 16:46
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@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