Re: Kernel updating to 2.6.32-3 ABI

2010-02-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 23 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: I has been informated that tomorrow (02/24/2010) a new kernel with ABI 3 will be uploaded. In front of that, I've asked to ftp-masters to ignore the package I uploaded today. Why? It makes no difference at all for D-I if the ABI is different.

Bug#498731: debootstrap: Move setup_devices to second_stage (or hurd-i386 fails)

2010-02-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 19 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: If you could test the patch (and no one else objects) I'll make sure it gets included in the next upload. With D-I alpha1 released, a new version of debootstrap has been uploaded (not including a patch for this BR). But it does mean my proposed

Bug#571035: [squeeze alpha1] installationsreport: grub2: machine doesn't boot

2010-02-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: This image is an image only containing a vmlinuz kernel, no initrd They never do... The initrd always gets generated when a kernel package is installed. I installed that, and booted: system starts and gets a kernel panic, because root file

Bug#571044: [Debian-hebrew-package] Bug#571044: Seeing this with debconf prompts

2010-02-23 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 23 February 2010, أحمد المحمودي wrote: That's debconf right ? Both debconf D-I use newt, am I right about this ? Yes, that's correct. You should probably also be able to reproduce the issue using whiptail. Note that D-I uses cdebconf (C implementation) and not debconf (perl

Re: mirror-sync and build_all.sh (debian-cd)

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, mancyb...@gmail.com wrote: ./easy-build.sh NETINST cp: cannot stat `/media/mike2/srv/mirror/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/cdrom/initrd.gz': No such file or directory FAILED: error 1 Failed to start disc 1, error 256 You don't have

Re: mirror-sync and build_all.sh (debian-cd)

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, mancyb...@gmail.com wrote: note the '--section=main,main/debian-installer' That includes the *udebs* for the installer, but not the *images*. Just look at the file name from the error message and check your mirror; you'll see that it's imply not there. To also

Re: mirror-sync and build_all.sh (debian-cd)

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 22 February 2010, mancyb...@gmail.com wrote: note the '--section=main,main/debian-installer' That includes the *udebs* for the installer, but not the *images*. Just look at the file name from the error message and check your mirror

Accepted auto-install 1.7 (source all)

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
: Debian Install System Team debian-b...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: ai-console-setup-udeb - Delayed configuration of keyboard for auto-install (udeb) ai-kbd-chooser - Delayed configuration of keyboard for auto-install (udeb) ai-localechooser - Delayed

Accepted auto-install 1.8 (source all)

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
: Debian Install System Team debian-b...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: ai-console-setup-udeb - Delayed configuration of keyboard for auto-install (udeb) ai-kbd-chooser - Delayed configuration of keyboard for auto-install (udeb) ai-localechooser - Delayed

Accepted auto-install 1.9 (source all)

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
: Debian Install System Team debian-b...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: ai-console-setup-udeb - Delayed configuration of keyboard for auto-install (udeb) ai-kbd-chooser - Delayed configuration of keyboard for auto-install (udeb) ai-localechooser - Delayed

Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 06:47:44AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I guess for the icon issue you mean #561902? I don't see any problem with the search engine dropdown list without libgnomeui-0 installed under KDE. No, I mean a different issue

Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: Could you send the output for reportbug --template xulrunner-1.9.1 on your machine ? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686

Bug#570949: Overrides: please change priority for partman-reiserfs to optional

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
Package: ftp.debian.org Tags: d-i We are making support for reiserfs in Debian Installer optional (i.e. only available if explicitly selected) as the file system is no longer as relevant as a few years ago and is only marginally maintained upstream. The priority change in $subject is needed

Bug#567866: reiserfsprogs: Minor improvements for the udebs

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
Now that the alpha1 release of D-I has been released I've started the process of making reiserfs support optional. There's no great rush, but an upload of reiserfsprogs with these changes would be appreciated as it will help testing. TIA, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#569589: Request for additional kernel modules in D-I for s390

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
tag 569589 pending thanks On Friday 12 February 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: dasd_fba_mod is essential to support FBA DASD. This module is already included in dasd-modules. dasd_diag_mod is necessary when using the DIAG driver, which can be used with either CKD DASD or FBA DASD. I've added

Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: M... looks like I was too conservative... Let's try to demote these to suggests once the current version hits testing. Cool. Thanks Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#570905: iceweasel is no longer a desktop environment independent browser

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: In that case I personally don't think we can maintain iceweasel's status as desktop independent browser for new installations and we'll have to consider removing it from the common desktop task in tasksel. Given that the default browsers

Bug#571044: fribidi: new version causes regressions in Debian Installer

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
Package: fribidi Version: 0.19.2-1 Severity: serious Tags: d-i We're seeing regressions in the newt frontend with the new version of the fribidi udeb, as these screenshots show: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/daily-borked2.png http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/daily-borked3.png Note

Bug#571045: syslinux: Incorrect display of boot screen image in D-I

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
Package: syslinux Version: 2:3.85+dfsg-1 Severity: important The regression can be seen in this screenshot: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/daily-borked1.png The image is supposed to fill the screen and not be tiled. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers

Re: Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 06:47:44AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I guess for the icon issue you mean #561902? I don't see any problem with the search engine dropdown list without libgnomeui-0 installed under KDE. No, I mean a different issue

Re: Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: Could you send the output for reportbug --template xulrunner-1.9.1 on your machine ? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686

Re: Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: M... looks like I was too conservative... Let's try to demote these to suggests once the current version hits testing. Cool. Thanks Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: [RFH] Next Debian Installer release

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: I plan to do a test with updated kernel packages tomorrow and depending how it looks upload it. I've just fixed the last few dependency and build problems, so all that's needed is the check for new modules since 2.6.30. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 06:47:44AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I guess for the icon issue you mean #561902? I don't see any problem with the search engine dropdown list without libgnomeui-0 installed under KDE. No, I mean a different issue

massbuild: support for building kfreebsd kernel udebs added

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
It looks to work correctly (even on a linux host), but the resulting udebs have not been checked in detail. Running depmod is simply skipped; AFAICT it's not relevant for kfreebsd kernels. If some other form of module dependency calculation is used, then it probably needs more work. To build

Re: Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: Could you send the output for reportbug --template xulrunner-1.9.1 on your machine ? -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686

Bug#569589: Request for additional kernel modules in D-I for s390

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
tag 569589 pending thanks On Friday 12 February 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: dasd_fba_mod is essential to support FBA DASD. This module is already included in dasd-modules. dasd_diag_mod is necessary when using the DIAG driver, which can be used with either CKD DASD or FBA DASD. I've added

Re: Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Mike Hommey wrote: M... looks like I was too conservative... Let's try to demote these to suggests once the current version hits testing. Cool. Thanks Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#570905: iceweasel is no longer a desktop environment independent browser

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: In that case I personally don't think we can maintain iceweasel's status as desktop independent browser for new installations and we'll have to consider removing it from the common desktop task in tasksel. Given that the default browsers

FYI: daily images borked; cause not yet known

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
Looks like syslinux has a regression: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/daily-borked1.png There's also something wrong with the newt frontend: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/daily-borked2.png http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/daily-borked3.png I also saw that a few days ago with

Bug#571044: fribidi: new version causes regressions in Debian Installer

2010-02-22 Thread Frans Pop
Package: fribidi Version: 0.19.2-1 Severity: serious Tags: d-i We're seeing regressions in the newt frontend with the new version of the fribidi udeb, as these screenshots show: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/daily-borked2.png http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/daily-borked3.png Note

Bug#570770: Debian Edu squeeze images

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 21 February 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: What VCS are you using, are you using one? ;) Isn't that hard to find: http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-cd.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Accepted hw-detect 1.76 (source all amd64)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: archdetect - Hardware architecture detector (udeb) disk-detect - Detect disk drives (udeb) ethdetect - Detect network hardware and load kernel drivers for it (udeb) hw-detect - Detect hardware and load kernel drivers

Accepted live-installer 17 (source all amd64)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: live-installer - Install the system (udeb) live-installer-launcher - Debian Installer desktop launcher for live systems Changes: live-installer (17) unstable; urgency=low . * Update waypoints in line with changes in base

Accepted partman-auto 90 (source amd64)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-auto - Automatically partition storage devices (partman) (udeb) Changes: partman-auto (90) unstable; urgency=low . [ Colin Watson ] * Merge from Ubuntu: - Remove explicit $primary{ } specifiers from standard recipes. We only need them

Accepted partman-auto-crypto 13 (source all)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-auto-crypto - Automatically partition storage devices using crypto and LVM (udeb) Closes: 564718 Changes: partman-auto-crypto (13) unstable; urgency=low . [ Colin Watson ] * Upgrade to debhelper v7. . [ Frans Pop ] * Remove

Accepted partman-auto-lvm 34 (source all)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-auto-lvm - Automatically partition storage devices using LVM (udeb) Changes: partman-auto-lvm (34) unstable; urgency=low . [ Colin Watson ] * Upgrade to debhelper v7. * Merge from Ubuntu: - Ensure that there is always at least one

Accepted partman-base 138 (source amd64)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-base - Partition the storage devices (partman) (udeb) partman-utils - Utilities related to partitioning (udeb) Changes: partman-base (138) unstable; urgency=low . [ Colin Watson ] * Fix display of partman/text/dmraid_volume

Accepted partman-basicmethods 44 (source all)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-basicmethods - Basic partition usage methods for partman (udeb) Changes: partman-basicmethods (44) unstable; urgency=low . [ Colin Watson ] * Upgrade to debhelper v7. * Don't send the SET_FLAGS command when the new flags

Accepted partman-crypto 41 (source all amd64)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
debian-b...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-crypto - Add to partman support for block device encryption (udeb) partman-crypto-dm - Add to partman support for dm-crypt encryption (udeb) partman-crypto-loop - Add to partman support for loop-AES

Accepted partman-ext3 59 (source all)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-ext3 - Add to partman support for ext3 and ext4 (udeb) Closes: 504397 509799 Changes: partman-ext3 (59) unstable; urgency=low . [ Colin Watson ] * Upgrade to debhelper v7. . [ Frans Pop ] * Remove no longer needed Lintian override

Accepted partman-lvm 69 (source all)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-lvm - Adds support for LVM to partman (udeb) Changes: partman-lvm (69) unstable; urgency=low . [ Colin Watson ] * Upgrade to debhelper v7. . [ Frans Pop ] * Remove no longer needed Lintian override for missing Standards- Version field

Accepted partman-md 50 (source all)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:03:29 +0100 Source: partman-md Binary: partman-md Architecture: source all Version: 50 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-b...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop

Accepted partman-partitioning 73 (source amd64)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Changed-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-partitioning - Partitioning operations for partman (udeb) Changes: partman-partitioning (73) unstable; urgency=low . [ Colin Watson ] * Merge from Ubuntu: - When creating a new partition, default to logical if a primary

Accepted partman-target 65 (source all)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
-By: Frans Pop f...@debian.org Description: partman-target - Provides partman with ability to prepare /target (udeb) Changes: partman-target (65) unstable; urgency=low . [ Colin Watson ] * Merge from Ubuntu: - Rather than pretending that partitions have no longer been formatted after

Accepted pkgsel 0.27 (source all)

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:38:23 +0100 Source: pkgsel Binary: pkgsel Architecture: source all Version: 0.27 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-b...@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Frans Pop f

Bug#570749: vlc-data: file conflict with Lenny version of vlc

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Package: vlc-data Version: 1.0.5-1 Severity: serious I backported vlc myself for Lenny from unstable. During the upgrade (from version 0.8.6.h-4+lenny2) I got the following error: Unpacking vlc-data (from .../vlc-data_1.0.5-1~bpo1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing

Bug#533535: Bug#546045: hdparm: Specifying a disk using the by-id etc. links does not work with udev/hotplug

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
There's an alternative patch floating around on launchpad [1]. It's against Ubuntu's udev script but also applies against our init script. Main difference is that it also works for the non-udev case, and I see no good reason why it should not apply for both, especially as long as hdparm is also

Bug#570770: Debian Edu squeeze images

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 21 February 2010, Holger Levsen wrote: What VCS are you using, are you using one? ;) Isn't that hard to find: http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/debian-cd.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#570789: [squeeze alpha1] installationsreport: problem configuring console keymap

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 570789 busybox 1:1.10.2-2 thanks On Sunday 21 February 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: In german we have umlauts (öäüß), which are correctly displayed on the console, when I type them, but it seems they are not completely deleted, when I delete them. This is a very old issue. I've seen

Bug#512679: initramfs-tools: 'more' pager is broken in initramfs shell

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 512679 initramfs-tools 0.92o thanks I can reproduce the problem for Lenny in the initramfs debug shell, but more works fine if I do 'busybox sh' and then 'find | more'. I guess that the most likely cause of the problem is either console or keyboard configuration in the initramfs

Bug#570789: [squeeze alpha1] installationsreport: problem configuring console keymap

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
tag 570789 fixed-upstream thanks On Sunday 21 February 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: It needs to be utf-8 aware, yes. I'm not sure upstream will likely include that, however. Looks like they will :-) Fixed in 1.16.0. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Here's a final patch set that should address the current deficiencies (and allows for console-setup too). Now that alpha1 has been released I've committed and uploaded this. Will commit changes in pkg-lists when auto-install has been accepted

Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
, Frans Pop wrote: But I question if the Recommends of those packages is policy compliant as Recommends should only be used for packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations [1]. And that's only true for systems running a GNOME desktop environment

Bug#570906: w3m: Recommends for migemo should be lowered to Suggests

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.2-2.1 Justification: Policy 7.2 Severity: serious Given the package description for migemo installing it as a Recommends and thus by default for all users of w3g is IMO not correct. Recommends should only be used (see policy 7.2) for packages that are found together in

Re: Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
, Frans Pop wrote: But I question if the Recommends of those packages is policy compliant as Recommends should only be used for packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations [1]. And that's only true for systems running a GNOME desktop environment

Re: pac207: problem with Trust USB webcam

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Thanks a lot to you both for the pointers! I've gotten vlc to work using v4l1compat.so. The image is recognizable, but the color etc is way off. Haven't found a way to correct that yet. But the main thing for me ATM is that it's working now

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- specific issues/comments

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 19 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: In this mail some more specific issues I noticed while testing/reviewing. I forgot something here. Please use XC-Package-Type: udeb instead of Package-Type: udeb for all new udebs. The advantage of the first is that it will prevent that line

Bug#570789: [squeeze alpha1] installationsreport: problem configuring console keymap

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 570789 busybox 1:1.10.2-2 thanks On Sunday 21 February 2010, Holger Wansing wrote: In german we have umlauts (öäüß), which are correctly displayed on the console, when I type them, but it seems they are not completely deleted, when I delete them. This is a very old issue. I've seen

Bug#512679: initramfs-tools: 'more' pager is broken in initramfs shell

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 512679 initramfs-tools 0.92o thanks I can reproduce the problem for Lenny in the initramfs debug shell, but more works fine if I do 'busybox sh' and then 'find | more'. I guess that the most likely cause of the problem is either console or keyboard configuration in the initramfs

Bug#570789: [squeeze alpha1] installationsreport: problem configuring console keymap

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
tag 570789 fixed-upstream thanks On Sunday 21 February 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: It needs to be utf-8 aware, yes. I'm not sure upstream will likely include that, however. Looks like they will :-) Fixed in 1.16.0. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: [RFC] Draft of announcement and errata, last chance of change

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 21 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: Thanks by helping improving/fixing it. Shouldn't this errata item be expanded? It looks fairly confusing and meaningless as it is. ! GRUB stuff ! Something about issues introduced by GRUB 2. See #477094 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#568292: auto-install: pulls netcfg into images that should not have it

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: Here's a final patch set that should address the current deficiencies (and allows for console-setup too). Now that alpha1 has been released I've committed and uploaded this. Will commit changes in pkg-lists when auto-install has been accepted

Re: Processing of netcfg_1.52_amd64.changes

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
This is brilliant. You've just seriously broken installations in unstable. On Monday 22 February 2010, Archive Administrator wrote: netcfg_1.52_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost This should *never* have been uploaded before a new busybox, because the busybox dhcp client does not

Re: Processing of netcfg_1.52_amd64.changes

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: This is brilliant. You've just seriously broken installations in unstable. On Monday 22 February 2010, Archive Administrator wrote: netcfg_1.52_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost This should *never* have been uploaded before a new

Re: Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
, Frans Pop wrote: But I question if the Recommends of those packages is policy compliant as Recommends should only be used for packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations [1]. And that's only true for systems running a GNOME desktop environment

Re: Thai support in framebuffer d-i: test images available

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 22 February 2010, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: Update: I saw commit logs in d-i SVN regarding this. So, I have tried d-i squeeze alpha 1 image, and Thai is not in the language list yet. What's wrong? It's not included in the alpha release. Try a daily built image. -- To

Bug#570749: vlc-data: file conflict with Lenny version of vlc

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Package: vlc-data Version: 1.0.5-1 Severity: serious I backported vlc myself for Lenny from unstable. During the upgrade (from version 0.8.6.h-4+lenny2) I got the following error: Unpacking vlc-data (from .../vlc-data_1.0.5-1~bpo1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing

Bug#512679: initramfs-tools: 'more' pager is broken in initramfs shell

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 512679 initramfs-tools 0.92o thanks I can reproduce the problem for Lenny in the initramfs debug shell, but more works fine if I do 'busybox sh' and then 'find | more'. I guess that the most likely cause of the problem is either console or keyboard configuration in the initramfs

Bug#570749: vlc-data: file conflict with Lenny version of vlc

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Package: vlc-data Version: 1.0.5-1 Severity: serious I backported vlc myself for Lenny from unstable. During the upgrade (from version 0.8.6.h-4+lenny2) I got the following error: Unpacking vlc-data (from .../vlc-data_1.0.5-1~bpo1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing

Bug#570906: w3m: Recommends for migemo should be lowered to Suggests

2010-02-21 Thread Frans Pop
Package: w3m Version: 0.5.2-2.1 Justification: Policy 7.2 Severity: serious Given the package description for migemo installing it as a Recommends and thus by default for all users of w3g is IMO not correct. Recommends should only be used (see policy 7.2) for packages that are found together in

Re: [RFC] Draft of announcement and errata, last chance of change

2010-02-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 20 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: Please look at errata draft at http://people.debian.org/~otavio/d-i/errata.en.html Country names not properly sorted The country names, in Choose mirror step, are sorted by the country code being difficult to find some countries on

Re: Thai support in framebuffer d-i: test images available

2010-02-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 20 February 2010, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: In fact, what I observed was not true. When I checked it again, I found that not all cases had this problem. Only one or two did. And the lines with this problem happened to be long enough to touch the dialog border. So, I tend to

Bug#498731: debootstrap: Move setup_devices to second_stage (or hurd-i386 fails)

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 19 February 2010, Michael Banck wrote: I will NMU debootstrap in the next days with the proposed patch if I don't hear anything back. I think I'd prefer the attached patch as it makes the exception much clearer. Also, this patch will work for all hurd-* arches and not just hurd-i386

Bug#498731: debootstrap: Move setup_devices to second_stage (or hurd-i386 fails)

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
I will of course also change the call to setup_devices in first_stage_install() for all other scripts. Note that the change is backwards compatible, so custom scripts that use the old call will not break. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
Package: xulrunner Version: 1.9.1.8-2 Severity: important Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-CC: task...@packages.debian.org I was very surprised when I upgraded a KDE system to find that xulrunner tried to pull in all sorts of GNOME packages. It was quite a bit of work to unselect everything that got pulled

Fwd: Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
FYI Please follow up to the BR (#570579) if you have anything to add to it. Cheers, FJP -- Forwarded Message -- Package: xulrunner Version: 1.9.1.8-2 Severity: important Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-CC: task...@packages.debian.org I was very surprised when I upgraded a KDE system to

Re: Status of g-i / showing x11 based g-i prototype at CeBIT

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 19 February 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Short version: May / should we show kibi's prototype of an x11 based installer at the upcoming CeBIT? I don't see why not. BUT... Please don't make a big deal out of it! From a user perspective there is nothing new as the X-based

Bug#498731: debootstrap: Move setup_devices to second_stage (or hurd-i386 fails)

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 19 February 2010, Michael Banck wrote: I will NMU debootstrap in the next days with the proposed patch if I don't hear anything back. I think I'd prefer the attached patch as it makes the exception much clearer. Also, this patch will work for all hurd-* arches and not just hurd-i386

Bug#498731: debootstrap: Move setup_devices to second_stage (or hurd-i386 fails)

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
I will of course also change the call to setup_devices in first_stage_install() for all other scripts. Note that the change is backwards compatible, so custom scripts that use the old call will not break. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#570579: xulrunner: please reconsider recommends for GNOME packages

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
Package: xulrunner Version: 1.9.1.8-2 Severity: important Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-CC: task...@packages.debian.org I was very surprised when I upgraded a KDE system to find that xulrunner tried to pull in all sorts of GNOME packages. It was quite a bit of work to unselect everything that got pulled

Re: Thai support in framebuffer d-i: test images available

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
Quoting Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (t...@debian.org): One small problem, though, is that if a line is ended with combining character, that combining character will not shown. But this is not so serious, and may be bterm's (or newt's) problem, not d-i's by itself. That's certainly a bug that

Re: [RFC] Draft of announcement and errata, last chance of change

2010-02-19 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 20 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: The Debian Installer Team[1] is pleased to announce the Debian Installer 6.0 Alpha1. This is our first release since Lenny and brings a lot of new features and improvements. Better: This first release since Lenny brings a lot of new features

Re: [D-I] Info needed for partman restructuring

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 06 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: I'm working on some changes in Debian Installer affecting the display of descriptions for block devices. For that I need to know which devices can occur on kfreebsd. Thanks to Kenyon for his reply, but I had hoped for somewhat more comprehensive

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: We can't use the daily images for testing in many arches (mips, mipsel, powerpc, ...). Nonsense. You're failing to distinguish between daily *D-I* builds and daily *CD* builds. Sure, the daily *D-I* builds for mips are failing, but that has

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote: What is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo for a PS3? [cpuinfo] Also, what is the output of 'archdetect' when run in a debug shell of the installer? powerpc/ps3 Thanks. I've added support for kernel selection for ps3 in SVN for the

Bug#570410: partman-base: Please default to GB

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, maximilian attems wrote: if one partitions and neglects to add a suffix partman falls back to use megabytes. noticed on a goofed installed where debootstrap failed due to full disk. better default to gigabytes these days. One reason to stay with MB could be that

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 570273 installation-reports thanks On Thursday 18 February 2010, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: All right, I think I got it... syslinux/pxelinux.txt states, that: Cool. I'd half forgotten about that, but it is documented. I would suggest to put some notes regarding this issue in the

Bug#554493: Bug#551646: installation-reports: [i386] installation failed using netboot

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
Wanted to install a stable Debian version on a Vaio (PCG-GRT816S) with XPE and a netboot, I've been faced to a similar bug as #497212! The screen turn black! We've had another report of possibly the same issue where the cause was identified. It's a known limitation of syslinux, which is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: We can't use the daily images for testing in many arches (mips, mipsel, powerpc, ...). Nonsense. You're failing to distinguish between daily *D-I* builds and daily *CD* builds. Sure, the daily *D-I* builds for mips are failing, but that has

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Julian Hernandez Gomez wrote: What is the contents of /proc/cpuinfo for a PS3? [cpuinfo] Also, what is the output of 'archdetect' when run in a debug shell of the installer? powerpc/ps3 Thanks. I've added support for kernel selection for ps3 in SVN for the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Ian Campbell wrote: Please can somebody confirm which multi-arch netinst images I should be testing to ensure I am testing this alpha1 release? http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/squeeze_d-i/current/multi-arch/iso-cd/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Anton Zinoviev wrote: This is how I would fix the nl keyboard: [...] I chose a variant without deadkeys in levels 1 and 2 (I suppose this is what the people want).  AltGr combinations can be used to produce deadkeys. Yes, that looks correct although I'd need to

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: Could you discuss directly on the bugzilla, maybe? Also, in my understanding it would be better to use the us layout by default as it seems to be the majority in NL? Yes, the US layout definitely needs to be the default. That's why for

Bug#570410: partman-base: Please default to GB

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, maximilian attems wrote: if one partitions and neglects to add a suffix partman falls back to use megabytes. noticed on a goofed installed where debootstrap failed due to full disk. better default to gigabytes these days. One reason to stay with MB could be that

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 570273 installation-reports thanks On Thursday 18 February 2010, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: All right, I think I got it... syslinux/pxelinux.txt states, that: Cool. I'd half forgotten about that, but it is documented. I would suggest to put some notes regarding this issue in the

Bug#554493: Bug#551646: installation-reports: [i386] installation failed using netboot

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
Wanted to install a stable Debian version on a Vaio (PCG-GRT816S) with XPE and a netboot, I've been faced to a similar bug as #497212! The screen turn black! We've had another report of possibly the same issue where the cause was identified. It's a known limitation of syslinux, which is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Alpha1 images, last tests and announce on friday

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 18 February 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: When I try to download the multiarch (i386/amd64) DVD-1 using bittorrent, I get Requested download is not authorized for use with this tracker Am I doing something wrong? Or is the problem on the other end? They won't be seeded until the

Re: [D-I] Info needed for partman restructuring

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 06 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: I'm working on some changes in Debian Installer affecting the display of descriptions for block devices. For that I need to know which devices can occur on kfreebsd. Thanks to Kenyon for his reply, but I had hoped for somewhat more comprehensive

Re: Switching g-i from DirectFB to X11 -- general reflections

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 08 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote: this is a summary of the needed steps to switch from DirectFB to X11. After some time hacking in the wild, I then looked into providing (possibly) clean patches for each package, which I've just finished. Sorry for the delay in replying.

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