Danish inclusion on the international disk

2001-11-18 Thread Claus Hindsgaul
Hi, I suggest we include the danish support to the internationalized root disk. Using the Linux Counter (as the source code suggests), danish rank as number 15 - above sk (#51), ja (#48) and hu (#20). I'm not confident, that it is fair that e.g. Japan is ranking that low on the list. If we

Re: last gasp to achieve b-f i18n (was Re: LC build failing)

2001-11-18 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:00:08AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: I don't see any alternative to stripping down the language list. I suggest 'de pl fr es ja'. Well, actually there is an alternative: make more (2?) rootdisks. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Danish inclusion on the international disk

2001-11-18 Thread Philip Blundell
In message Fn9jBC.A.sdG.EH797@murphy, Claus Hindsgaul writes: I suggest we include the danish support to the internationalized root disk. Using the Linux Counter (as the source code suggests), danish rank as number 15 - above sk (#51), ja (#48) and hu (#20). I'm not confident, that it is fair

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by jtarrio

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:jtarrio time: Sun Nov 18 08:25:19 PST 2001 Log Message: Galician translation update (:-)) Files: changed:gl.po -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: more on LC

2001-11-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Philip Blundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem with the Choose The Language menu spilling over to the right of the screen turns out to be a newt bug; I filed #119354. Looks like we should be getting close to a point where it is safe to switch i18n on by

[d-i]: Localization and cdebconf

2001-11-18 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
I have begun looking into i18n with cdebconf. First, it didn't parse Description-$LANG lines, I have fixed this now (patches are coming later). The only things I have found in the docs are (ui.txt): : The short description of the module is used as the text for its menu : item. TODO: this

Re: Danish inclusion on the international disk

2001-11-18 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Philip Blundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, the Linux Counter results aren't the only thing one has to consider. According to http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=JPN there are 126 million Japanese speakers worldwide, against about 5.5 million for Danish. Also, a large

Re: Debian por PowerPC

2001-11-18 Thread Colin Walters
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alejo Escobar) writes: [...] The problem is with the mouse. One of the very last messages in the installation is about the mouse. It says that if the mouse is not recognized in X environment, i can delete /dev/mouse and hope the system hardware scan could guess the

cvs commit to modconf by blade

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: modconf who:blade time: Sun Nov 18 11:32:45 PST 2001 Log Message: - Check for description beginning with -, prevents modconf from dying on mailformed descriptions which are interpreted as whiptail options otherwise. Files: changed:modconf --

cvs commit to modconf/debian by blade

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: modconf/debian who:blade time: Sun Nov 18 11:32:45 PST 2001 Log Message: - Check for description beginning with -, prevents modconf from dying on mailformed descriptions which are interpreted as whiptail options otherwise. Files: changed:

boot-floppies_3.0.17_powerpc.changes INSTALLED

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Installer
Installing: bf-misc_3.0.17_powerpc.tar.gz byhand bf-archive-install_3.0.17_powerpc.sh byhand install-doc_3.0.17_powerpc.deb to pool/main/b/boot-floppies/install-doc_3.0.17_powerpc.deb bf-arch_3.0.17_powerpc.tar.gz byhand bf-doc_3.0.17_powerpc.tar.gz byhand Changes: boot-floppies (3.0.17)

swim3 problems reading root disk on 9500 and PowerBase 150

2001-11-18 Thread Chris Tillman
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a floppy hardware incompatibility. I've burned three different root.bin floppies, and they all run fine on my usual PowerBase 180 machine. On the other two machines, the hfs floppy always boots up fine, no evident errors. Then after inserting the root floppy, I

Re: cvs commit to modconf by blade

2001-11-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Adam Di Carlo wrote on Sun Nov 18, 2001 um 11:32:45AM: Log Message: - Check for description beginning with -, prevents modconf from dying on mailformed descriptions which are interpreted as whiptail options otherwise. Okay, since I fixed 2 (or 3) nasty

Translation statistics

2001-11-18 Thread Claus Hindsgaul
søndag den 18. november 2001 15:27 skrev Philip Blundell: I'm not confident, that it is fair that e.g. Japan is ranking that low on the list. According to http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=JPN there are 126 million Japanese speakers worldwide, against about 5.5 million for

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by dancer

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:dancer time: Sun Nov 18 12:58:10 PST 2001 Log Message: Some more updated translations... I will get there, sometime Files: changed:ja.po -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Translation statistics

2001-11-18 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 09:15:18PM +0100, Claus Hindsgaul wrote: The figure is even worse for the install manual. *No* languages but fr, de and da have touched welcome.sgml since February! There were major non-fluff revisions, the potato words are in many cases just not right for woody. Users

Re: Translation statistics

2001-11-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 09:15:18PM +0100, Claus Hindsgaul wrote: Code date translated up-to-date strings (out of 769) ca 2001-10-15 774 How can there be 774 up-to-date strings out of 769? Are strings which are no longer used considered up-to-date? -- - mdz -- To

[again] basedebs.tgz: Supported or not?

2001-11-18 Thread Chris Tillman
I understand there is a capability provided to use a basedebs.tgz file to install base from the hard disk in lieu of a network install. This was particularly needed for those who connect via a modem, because ppp is not available in the pre-base installer system. But there still isn't any

Funny console colors

2001-11-18 Thread Chris Tillman
I did a new install on a PowerBase 150 this afternoon. When the installer disk booted, the letters were bright red rather than white. Then the installer system had a light orange/orange background instead of black/blue. It was all readable, though, just odd. Finally when I got everything

Re: [d-i]: Localization and cdebconf

2001-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: I have begun looking into i18n with cdebconf. First, it didn't parse Description-$LANG lines, I have fixed this now (patches are coming later). Looking forward to that. The only things I have found in the docs are (ui.txt): : The short description of the module is

Re: Funny console colors

2001-11-18 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 09:42:50PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: I did a new install on a PowerBase 150 this afternoon. When the installer disk booted, the letters were bright red rather than white. Then the installer system had a light orange/orange background instead of black/blue. It was all

Re: Translation statistics

2001-11-18 Thread Philip Blundell
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Claus Hindsgaul writes: I hope this can encourage other translators to update the support for their languages. Some may simply have waited for the next release to come closer before doing this. Well, it seems it is just around the corner now! Perhaps it would be a

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Sun Nov 18 14:33:18 PST 2001 Log Message: rework the way dinstall.zip is created on arm, using mini[un]zip rather than the zipinfo stuff, which is illegal for us to use since it's in non-US/main; i hope the resulting .zip actually works on

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by aph

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:aph time: Sun Nov 18 14:34:19 PST 2001 Log Message: use = rather than := for root.bin dependancy vars, I think that's needed so that we actually are using these dependancies Files: changed:root -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

cvs commit to boot-floppies/make by aph

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/make who:aph time: Sun Nov 18 14:37:20 PST 2001 Log Message: fix the production of flavored rootdisks for i386, they didn't have the right dependancies before and reiserfs and udma100-ext3 didn't have entries here, which caused the wrong kernel modules

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Sun Nov 18 14:38:09 PST 2001 Log Message: arm uses zlib-bin rather than zip from non-US/main Files: changed:control -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Bug#119825: Wrong boot= line in lilo.conf

2001-11-18 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h Bug Hunter wrote on Fri Nov 16, 2001 um 01:52:08PM: Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-16 Severity: normal When the install finished, the Make System Bootable option created a wrong lilo.conf. The machine had 2 disks: hdc as the target, hdd as the

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Sun Nov 18 15:12:32 PST 2001 Log Message: add pt to langs_root; cosmetics Files: changed:config -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-11-18 Thread Philip Blundell
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian Boot CVS Master write s: rework the way dinstall.zip is created on arm, using mini[un]zip rather than the zipinfo stuff, which is illegal for us to use since it's in non-US/main; i hope the resulting .zip actually works on RiscPC otherwise, uh, I think we're

Re: Translation statistics

2001-11-18 Thread Claus Hindsgaul
søndag den 18. november 2001 23:29 skrev Philip Blundell: Perhaps it would be a good idea to ask for help over on debian-i18n? Some of the original translators may have lost interest or just dropped off debian-boot in the meantime. Brilliant idea! Done! -- Claus Hindsgaul -- To

Re: [d-i]: Localization and cdebconf

2001-11-18 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:15:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Tollef Fog Heen wrote: I have begun looking into i18n with cdebconf. First, it didn't parse Description-$LANG lines, I have fixed this now (patches are coming later). Looking forward to that. The only things I have found in

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation by aph

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation who:aph time: Sun Nov 18 18:32:57 PST 2001 Log Message: work around some non-SGML characters; not sure if this is the correct fix for the problem, it certain isn't complete Files: changed:po2sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: teamwork (was Re: #103302 ask permission blah blah)

2001-11-18 Thread Colin Walters
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can we trust someone who isn't one of us? Adam, this is ridiculous. We implicitly trust a heck of a lot of people who aren't one of us. Have you audited all the code of all the non Debian-native programs you maintain (whose authors were not Debian

Re: #103302 ask permission before erasing /var/cache/apt/archives

2001-11-18 Thread Colin Walters
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey, you SHOULD quit this project. You are of no use to it any longer, you are publically displaying an absolute intent to force YOUR system administration policies down upon ALL of debian's users. Ethan, I think losing Joey would be a heck of a lot

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2001-11-18 Thread E-mails do Brasil
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summary and notes on this bug

2001-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
So since this bug report has accumulated an astonishing amount of irrelevent cruft, this is a summary for my own use when I get around to dealing with the bug, or for the use of anyone who might feel more inspired to deal with it due to recent events than I do. I should add that this bug remains

cvs commit to boot-floppies/documentation/da by aph

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/documentation/da who:aph time: Sun Nov 18 21:36:42 PST 2001 Log Message: SGML tagging error fixed Files: changed:preparing.sgml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cvs commit to boot-floppies/debian by aph

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/debian who:aph time: Sun Nov 18 21:39:23 PST 2001 Log Message: my recent changes; cosmetics on some other entries Files: changed:changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

cvs commit to boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po by peterk

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/po who:peterk time: mån nov 19 07:25:13 CET 2001 Log Message: Updated Swedish translation. Removed two fuzzy markers I forgot to remove last time. Files: changed:sv.po -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Translation statistics

2001-11-18 Thread peter karlsson
Claus Hindsgaul: Yes, you are right. I do not know how tight we need to prioritize. I vote for Swedish too. They both have dbootstrap and the boot disk text files translated, and quite well updated (se below). If someone could tell me, say, one or two days before the releases of the package,

cvs commit to boot-floppies by aph

2001-11-18 Thread Debian Boot CVS Master
Repository: boot-floppies who:aph time: Sun Nov 18 23:57:42 PST 2001 Log Message: clean up extract area when we're done Files: changed:kernel.sh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]