Bug#684128: SI units (was Re: failure to communicate)

2013-04-05 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/13 22:43, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting ian_br...@fastmail.net (ian_br...@fastmail.net): If Debian bug report #684128 proves anything, it is that you will never convince anyone with technical argument, facts advanced in support of

Re: no kernels found

2013-04-05 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi Chris, What happened here? The install media is labelled 'Debian' but there is an Ubuntu repository found? Apr 4 22:41:13 base-installer: This disc is called: Apr 4 22:41:13 base-installer: 'Debian GNU/Linux wheezy-DI-rc1 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot i386 CD Binary-1 20130214-11:13'

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 4 April 2013 20:47, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 19:09:04 +0200 Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: This mail is a very good argument to confirm that overcomplicated methods to make your point will just fail. If you have a point to make it, make ti. Once.

Bug#684128: SI units (was Re: failure to communicate)

2013-04-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Pocock writes (SI units (was Re: failure to communicate)): It may actually be useful for the technical committee to review what is on the wiki and make some general statement about Debian's position (if they haven't done so in the past), and that can guide the way similar bugs are

Processed: Re: Bug#704748: task-gnome-desktop: uninstallable on kfreebsd-*

2013-04-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 704748 src:tasksel Bug #704748 [src:task-gnome-desktop] task-gnome-desktop: uninstallable on kfreebsd-* Warning: Unknown package 'src:task-gnome-desktop' Bug reassigned from package 'src:task-gnome-desktop' to 'src:tasksel'. No longer

Bug#684128: SI units (was: failure to communicate)

2013-04-05 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Freitag, den 05.04.2013, 12:59 +0100 schrieb Dmitrijs Ledkovs: The default to base-10 units, is good as majority of the installer deals with HDD drives (not SSD) and not RAM. SSD manufactures use base-10 units, too. Even 128 GB SSDs have 128 * 10^9 bytes for the users, but 128 * 2^30 bytes

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/05/2013 07:59 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: The default to base-10 units, is good as majority of the installer deals with HDD drives (not SSD) and not RAM. Come on... it's not! Let's be serious 5 minutes here. There isn't even a warning about which units are in use. This fools our users (me

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Thomas, Le vendredi, 5 avril 2013 17.52:19, Thomas Goirand a écrit : On 04/05/2013 07:59 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: And all of these features will only land for the next cycle with a release in ~= 2 years time. I really hope that it wont be the case. That it doesn't go into Debian

Re: Bug#684128: down the memory hole

2013-04-05 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Ian. ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: It seems that Historical Revisionism, of the bad kind, is now in operation at Debian, in that critical commentary about unapplied patches is made to disappear down the memory hole, without leaving so much as a trace on the relevant bug report. If it

Bug#704768: debian-installer: no neo2 keymap

2013-04-05 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Package: debian-installer Version: wheezy RC-1-Release Severity: wishlist Hi, I have a keyboard with the german Neo2 layout. Currently it appears that there is no option to select it in the debian- installer. I can only enable it after the installation with dpkg --reconfigure keyboard-

Bug#704768: debian-installer: no neo2 keymap

2013-04-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Simon Reinhardt (simon.reinha...@stud.uni-regensburg.de): Package: debian-installer Version: wheezy RC-1-Release Severity: wishlist Hi, I have a keyboard with the german Neo2 layout. Currently it appears that there is no option to select it in the debian- installer. I can only

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/06/2013 12:16 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Hi Thomas, Le vendredi, 5 avril 2013 17.52:19, Thomas Goirand a écrit : On 04/05/2013 07:59 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: And all of these features will only land for the next cycle with a release in ~= 2 years time. I really hope that it

Re: no kernels found

2013-04-05 Thread Chris Frey
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 12:34:10PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Hi Chris, What happened here? The install media is labelled 'Debian' but there is an Ubuntu repository found? Apr 4 22:41:13 base-installer: 'Debian GNU/Linux wheezy-DI-rc1 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot i386 CD

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ Not answering all occurrences, things got repeated a few times… ] Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org (06/04/2013): I've wrote that we should at least address the issue, in a way or another, through the next point release if that is safer. It is not. But, are you seriously proposing that we

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): But, are you seriously proposing that we leave the issue as-is ??? Of course. The issue is there since partman exists (about 2005, from memory) and has probably never prevented anyone to install Debian since then. So, yes, this issue will still be in

tasksel arch any vs. keeping track of n-m in debian-cd?

2013-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org (07/03/2013): My concerns with going arch any would be that it becomes slower to make a tasksel change for some pressing concern, and this magnifies any installation breakage, or blockage caused by task dependencies. The same reason we keep debootstrap arch all. I'm

Bug#697890: installing iw

2013-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (16/03/2013): Le Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 05:39:56PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Le Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 07:59:46AM +0100, Christian PERRIER a écrit : Here, we know about the bug and solution (I haven't looked at the code but adding iw at the same

Bug#703747: netcfg: preseed netcfg: confusion or regression about disable_dhcp, disable_autoconfig and use_autoconfig

2013-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (26/03/2013): Thanks for testing, the bug will be closed on upload :) Along with the iw thing, it would be nice to fix ASAP. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: no kernels found

2013-04-05 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri 05 Apr 2013 at 15:10:39 -0400, Chris Frey wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 12:34:10PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Hi Chris, What happened here? The install media is labelled 'Debian' but there is an Ubuntu repository found? Apr 4 22:41:13 base-installer: 'Debian

Bug#702125: 'Invalid device' error on reboot after installation on YDL PowerStation

2013-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Milan Kupcevic mi...@physics.harvard.edu (02/03/2013): This bug was fixed in yaboot-installer 1.1.26. Sorry, been busy. ACK for an upload, tagged in git at the moment. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [PATCH] mention git, not svn, in http://d-i.alioth.d.o/doc/internals/ch01.html

2013-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Regid Ichira regi...@nt1.in (20/02/2013): Should the following be applied to http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/ch01.html ? --- ch01.html 2013-02-20 15:55:23.0 +0200 +++ ch01.html.new 2013-02-20 15:54:40.0 +0200 @@ -38,10 +38,10 @@ the debian-boot

Bug#702125: marked as done ('Invalid device' error on reboot after installation on YDL PowerStation)

2013-04-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:03:21 + with message-id e1uofff-0003rb...@franck.debian.org and subject line Bug#702125: fixed in yaboot-installer 1.1.26 has caused the Debian Bug report #702125, regarding 'Invalid device' error on reboot after installation on YDL PowerStation to be

Processing of yaboot-installer_1.1.26_powerpc.changes

2013-04-05 Thread Debian FTP Masters
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yaboot-installer_1.1.26_powerpc.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2013-04-05 Thread Debian FTP Masters
Accepted: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:49:39 +0200 Source: yaboot-installer Binary: yaboot-installer Architecture: source powerpc Version: 1.1.26 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team