Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-18 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:59:09PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: ok, given the replies, let's settle on this: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: * Sep 29/30: ok from RT side We still need a press

Re: Using xz compression for initrd udebs?

2012-09-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 06:48:57AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: One of my co-maintainers for fonts changed the fonts-sil-abyssinica package to use xz compression for *deb packages. Is it OK to upload the package with such change, d-i wise? This is the only change along with the drop of

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:25:06AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: For example: bjorn@canardo:~$ grep localhost /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback bjorn@canardo:~$ host localhost localhost has address 127.0.0.1 localhost has IPv6

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Bjørn Mork
Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:30:58PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 17, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: True, but somehow I feel that freeze time is not the time to change this. I disagree, netcfg should be fixed. There is plenty of time to look at

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Bjørn Mork
Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:25:06AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: For example: bjorn@canardo:~$ grep localhost /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback bjorn@canardo:~$ host localhost localhost has

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:59:04AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: No, I didn't get any wiser. Except that I now am pretty convinced that no service should listen to localhost. They should explictly choose 127.0.0.1 and/or ::1 AIUI the point is to listen to both and hence the (or a?) record should

lowmem_1.36_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2012-09-18 Thread Debian FTP Masters
Accepted: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:52:37 +0200 Source: lowmem Binary: lowmemcheck lowmem Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.36 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org

Debian installer and 4kB sector drives

2012-09-18 Thread Grześ Andruszkiewicz
Hi, Probably this was already raised, but anyway I would like to suggest that the partitions created by the installer should be aligned to the 4kB sectors by default. This is a minor issue for people with older drives, yet can be a massive bottleneck with some of the modern drives. Kind regards,

Re: Debian installer and 4kB sector drives

2012-09-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Grześ Andruszkiewicz, le Tue 18 Sep 2012 11:58:32 +0100, a écrit : Probably this was already raised, but anyway I would like to suggest that the partitions created by the installer should be aligned to the 4kB sectors by default. This is already the case. If not, please tell us in which case.

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-18 Thread Francesca Ciceri
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:13:53AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: That should be read as let's settle for Sep 29. I'm around with a press hat if needed. Me too. Cheers, Francesca -- You're scared of mice and spiders, but

Bug#688045: Installation report for Wheezy beta 2 installer

2012-09-18 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: installation-reports Boot method: DVD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta2/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-wheezy-DI-b2-amd64-DVD-1.iso Date: 2012-09-17 10:00 AM DST Machine: VirtualBox 4.1.12 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)

Bug#688045: Installation report for Wheezy beta 2 installer

2012-09-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Thanks for the report! Fabian Rodriguez, le Tue 18 Sep 2012 12:24:45 -0400, a écrit : - - The option to have speech synthesis should be closer to the top, or be available in a way that will be consistent in upcoming versions. Having it at the end of the list may mean it will move

Bug#688045: Installation report for Wheezy beta 2 installer

2012-09-18 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 12-09-18 12:33 PM, Samuel Thibault a écrit : Hello, Thanks for the report! Fabian Rodriguez, le Tue 18 Sep 2012 12:24:45 -0400, a écrit : - - The option to have speech synthesis should be closer to the top, or be available in a way that

Bug#687687: Installation was mostly successfully on Acer Aspire One D150

2012-09-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Brian Potkin claremont...@gmail.com writes: says for select: Holds one of a finite number of possible values. These values must be specified in a field named Choices:. Separate the possible values with commas and spaces, like this: Choices: yes, no, maybe The values

Re: Installation-guide cleanup

2012-09-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Karsten Merker (mer...@debian.org): What is the current official procedure for updating the po-based translations in the repository when there are changes (like adding conditionals) in the english text? As of now, this is a matter of just do it..:-) signature.asc Description:

Re: Using xz compression for initrd udebs?

2012-09-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org): udebs are already compressed with xz by default without further intervention when a current debhelper is installed. arch:all packages cannot be binNMUed, however. So if you did check the udeb in the archive and it's not xz-compressed, a no change

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-18 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: Hi, ok, given the replies, let's settle on this: On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: * Sep 29/30: ok from RT side We still need a press officer for somewhen in the evening to send out the

Bug#688064: installation-reports: Successful classical install but wrong keyboard layout in GRUB

2012-09-18 Thread Marc-Aurèle DARCHE
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Boot method: USB stick + netinst Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz +

Bug#688045: Installation report for Wheezy beta 2 installer

2012-09-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Fabian Rodriguez, le Tue 18 Sep 2012 12:51:09 -0400, a écrit : - - While installing the base system more optional detail (when downloading updates for example) could be useful . Most people do not care about such details, that is why we don't show them. If you really care, see the

Bug#650819: Worked around

2012-09-18 Thread Filipus Klutiero
severity 650819 normal close 684265 3.2.29-1 forcemerge 650819 686314 thanks This is no longer RC. A workaround has finally been applied, namely the first one, adding fuse. It will take some time before the fix makes it to install media. Note that I did not verify that the current symptom is

Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net writes: Should one not be able to switch out of the installation process and into a browser (2 are already included) to search out answers? One should be able to. Since I haven't tried the life-installer yet, I don't know what's possible. It would be nice

Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Jon Dowland j...@debian.org writes: The installer (in expert mode) supports an ssh client on an alternative VT, afaik. One can connect to another machine with stuff already installed via this if necessary. Surely this is sufficient to address the request. This requires you to have the other

Dropping loop-aes-utils from d-i-meta-faux?

2012-09-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, loop-aes-utils was removed from unstable a while ago (see #680748). It's still in testing, because britney won't remove it due to a dependency from the faux package d-i-meta-faux. d-i-m-f ensures that a number of packages important to d-i are not accidentally removed from testing. I'm not