Bug#698105: Please remove pcmciautils from laptop task

2013-01-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org): > Package: tasksel > Version: 3.14 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > PCMCIA is so uncommon nowadays that installing pcmciautils on every laptop > by default is imho no longer warranted. I would thus like to see it removed > from task-laptop, si

Re: Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2013-01-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steven Chamberlain (ste...@pyro.eu.org): > Hi, > > On 13/01/13 06:41, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Quoting Daily build aggregator (debian-boot@lists.debian.org): > >> * OLD BUILD:mipsel Jan 10 00:10 buildd@rem > >> build_cobalt_netboot-2.6_serial &g

Re: Remaining pending changes in master branches of D-I packages (as of Jan 13th)

2013-01-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steven Chamberlain (ste...@pyro.eu.org): > Hi Christian, > > On 13/01/13 06:56, Christian PERRIER wrote: > >New additions since last summary > > > > Also debian-installer-utils: > - Fix procfs mounting on GNU/kFreeB

Re: Remaining pending changes in master branches of D-I packages (as of Jan 13th)

2013-01-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org): > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 07:56:14AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > - netcfg > > - Julien Cristau fix: "debug: use gai_strerror() on getnameinfo() > > failure" > > - seems good for debugging so we might want

Remaining pending changes in master branches of D-I packages (as of Jan 13th)

2013-01-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
ix: "debug: use gai_strerror() on getnameinfo() failure" - seems good for debugging so we might want to have it in RC1 -- Christian Perrier Service informatique individuelle et départementale Direction des Réseaux et de l'Informatique http://iris.onera/departements/DRIS/ --

Re: Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2013-01-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Daily build aggregator (debian-boot@lists.debian.org): > Debian installer build overview > --- > > Failed or old builds: > > * OLD BUILD:mipsel Jan 10 00:10 buildd@rem > build_cobalt_netboot-2.6_serial > > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-imag

Bug#698007: mklibs: Fix undefined reference to __dso_handle problem encountered with librt.so

2013-01-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Package: mklibs Tags: patch - Forwarded message from Joe Seymour - Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:13:56 + From: Joe Seymour To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: [PATCH] Fix undefined reference to __dso_handle problem encountered with librt.so X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/170862

Bug#681227: Can anyone reproduce #681227: installation-reports: grub-install tries to install to a nonsense string?!

2013-01-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steven Chamberlain (ste...@pyro.eu.org): > Patch for this actually just a diff limited to ./grub-installer from: > > $ git revert a070f516 99389d59 926cee22 Agreed from my side. I guess we now just need Cyril's ACK to apply in git and probably buildunless something else is needed in

Re: finish-install: save entropy for target system

2013-01-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Colin Watson (cjwat...@debian.org): > I think we should include this change in wheezy. +1...unless Cyril really wants us to be feature-frozen during the RC stage, which would be understandable. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Last 2 commits in cdrom-checker

2013-01-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Colin Watson (cjwat...@debian.org): > > I suspect e8ae8876bcea30cc45bcba25ed1e9ea2a317aff0 to be safe and a > > good idea.I have however no idea for > > 1ec13c5a378076c10988237972d4df0f1eefafd3, given my own C-fu..:-) > > It made the jenkins build stable and was non-intrusive enough t

Last 2 commits in cdrom-checker

2013-01-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Hi Colin, Do you target wheezy for the last 2 commits your made in cdrom -checker? I suspect e8ae8876bcea30cc45bcba25ed1e9ea2a317aff0 to be safe and a good idea.I have however no idea for 1ec13c5a378076c10988237972d4df0f1eefafd3, given my own C-fu..:-) commit 1ec13c5a378076c10988237972d4df0

Bug#697890: installation-reports: iwconfig not in /sbin

2013-01-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting d28jm (jswmb...@mobistarmail.be): > root? iwconfig > bash: iwconfig : commande introuvable You don't give much details. Is that on the installed system or during the installation phase, when switching to another console? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: r68463 - trunk/packages/po/sublevel3

2013-01-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Dmitrijs Ledkovs (x...@alioth.debian.org): > Author: xnox > Date: Wed Jan 9 13:46:40 2013 > New Revision: 68463 > > Log: > Fix incomplete preseed template string in the ml translation. Hello Dmitrijs, Thanks for your fix. A minor remark: > > Modified: >trunk/packages/po/sublevel3/

Bug#697331: installation-reports: Printer not working / recognised - Fixed

2013-01-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting jswmb01x (jswmb...@mobistarmail.be): > > Clarification : > Adding "user1" to the lpadmin group was required to add the printer in CUPS > (otherwise after entering the user name and password the operation is > "forbidden"), not for printing. Hmmm, well, then I would say this is cups tha

Bug#697331: installation-reports: Printer not working / recognised - Fixed

2013-01-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 697331 user-setup retitle 697331 Please add the first created user to lpadmin thanks Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com): > The problem encountered by de28jihem in setting up and administering a > print queue is not uncommon; #680195 gives another example. > > The list of "use

Re: console-setup for wheezy....

2013-01-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Anton Zinoviev (an...@lml.bas.bg): > My opinion is that at some time the new console-setup has to go to > wheezy whatever the proper procedure for this is. The changes in the > .config file are not there for beauty, they fix very real and well > hidden bugs. Thats why I am not uploadi

Bug#697331: installation-reports: Printer not working / recognised - Fixed

2013-01-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting de28jihem (de28ji...@scarlet.be): > > The user was not in lpadmin group (checked with "id"). > This caused problem to use the CUPS configuration menu (localhost:631). > > Added the user in lpadmin (under root) : > > usermod -a -G lpadmin user1 > > Plugged in printer/scan. > > Started a

Re: anna: t-p-u upload?

2013-01-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Christian PERRIER (03/01/2013): > > Well, it had two translation updates, one being Jordi's > > harmonization of "double l" in Catalan, so it might be good to have > > a wheezy-targeted upload. > > Feel free t

console-setup for wheezy....

2013-01-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Anton Zinoviev (an...@lml.bas.bg): > On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 03:58:19PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com): > > > > > > In either install or expert mode with the text or graphical interface > > > the instal

Bug#697449: console-setup-udeb: Configuring the keyboard hangs

2013-01-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com): > Package: console-setup-udeb > Version: 1.91 > Severity: important > Tags: d-i > > > The ISO used was from > >http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/current/i386/ > > In either install or expert mode with the text or graphical

Bug#697327: installation-reports: Can not write on usb flash memory

2013-01-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting d28jm (jswmb...@mobistarmail.be): > Package: installation-reports > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > Dear Maintainer, > >* What led up to the situation? > I installed wheezy-xfce (testing - build cd binay-1 20121217-05:10) on a new > partition. > Can not write to USB flash memory (~ "

Bug#696521: dvorak

2013-01-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org): > Étienne BERSAC, le Thu 03 Jan 2013 11:18:56 +0100, a écrit : > > Well, dvorak US is in the debian-installer. Why not the french dvorak ? > > As I mention along the thread, the presence of dvorak itself is > questionable. Historical reasons, only.

Re: Switching to graphical installer by default?

2013-01-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Bob Proulx (b...@proulx.com): > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Also, is there anyone aware of any reasons against switching to > > graphical installer by default? > > Can I at least say that I don't like the mouse installer and much > prefer the standard keyboard one? > > I don't have any iss

Re: Switching to graphical installer by default?

2013-01-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steve McIntyre (st...@einval.com): > >Also, is there anyone aware of any reasons against switching to > >graphical installer by default? > > None here, we could/should have done it a while back IMO. The only reason I know is that D-I development was really hosed until you took the relea

anna: t-p-u upload?

2013-01-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@alioth.debian.org): > Author: kibi > Date: Wed Jan 2 18:57:37 2013 > New Revision: 68450 > > Log: > unwanted-packages: Exclude anna, per Colin's mail. Well, it had two translation updates, one being Jordi's harmonization of "double l" in Catalan, so it might be good

Re: debian-installer-utils for wheezy

2013-01-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Christian PERRIER (02/01/2013): > > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > > > I'm starting a wheezy branch to apply Steven's patch for procfs > > > vs. linprocfs (#696901); Christian, if you want to cherry-

Bug#693839: debian-installer: kernel install fails on armel buffalo linkstation pro, missing uboot-mkimage

2013-01-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Hector Oron (hector.o...@gmail.com): > Hi, > > 2013/1/2 Cyril Brulebois : > > Christian PERRIER (29/12/2012): > > >> > u-boot-tools is only in “Suggests” for flash-kernel, while your > >> > situation suggests it might be better to have it in

Re: debian-installer-utils for wheezy

2013-01-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Cyril Brulebois (20/12/2012): > > in debian-installer-utils I see another dpkg-buildflags > > conversion. Is that something we could live without, or is it > > fixing/hiding a bug users could hit? > > > > Based on your answer, we might end up pushing d

Spam cleaning effort: December 2012

2013-01-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
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Remaining pending changes in master branches of D-I packages (as of Dec 31st)

2012-12-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
yaboot-installer: - need more review. Cyril might do it after being done with other packages debian-installer-netboot-images: - wait RC1 release, then upload grub-installer: - Fix the workaround for #681227 to work with grub-efi and grub-yeeloong. - Allow installing GRUB to a character de

Bug#646704: Bug severity is too high

2012-12-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > release and that it's not planned to happen in 2012, I'll be fine with s/2012/2014 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#646704: Bug severity is too high

2012-12-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Daniel Baumann (daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net): > since you put yourself into uploaders of live-installer some time ago, > maybe you want to look at it yourself too? You know the reasons for this: be able to do l10n upload when needed without them to be considered NMUs. That's

Bug#646704: Bug severity is too high

2012-12-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Daniel Baumann (daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net): > severity 646704 serious > thanks > > On 12/29/2012 0502 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > This bug doesn't fit the definition of "serious" as it only shows up > > for a precise set of insta

Bug#646704: Bug severity is too high

2012-12-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
severity 646704 important thanks This bug doesn't fit the definition of "serious" as it only shows up for a precise set of installation types, those not being the most common, particularly when people use the Live CD to install. Downgrading to "important" as per the definition of "improtant" seve

Bug#693839: debian-installer: kernel install fails on armel buffalo linkstation pro, missing uboot-mkimage

2012-12-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Hi, and thanks for your report. > > u-boot-tools is only in “Suggests” for flash-kernel, while your > situation suggests it might be better to have it in “Recommends”. > What do others think? Well, I even moved it to Depends in my commit. I'm not sure

Bug#433568: add vlan support

2012-12-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org): > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 03:41:33AM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: > > The Linux kernel's vlan udeb is added in linux/3.2.35-1, so there is > > no outside thing to block us from adding vlan support to netcfg, can > > anyone review the patch? > > It needs a rewrite,

Re: Remaining pending changes in master branches of D-I packages

2012-12-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Those other packages include: > - busybox vs. setupcon: #606395 > - cdebconf: Info message position (comments welcome): #696699; >apparently that one didn't reach the list… One more package popped up: lowmem (1.38) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [

Re: anna for wheezy

2012-12-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Colin Watson (cjwat...@debian.org): > None of this is needed for wheezy as far as I know, and I only ever > intended it as ongoing code cleanup on master. The undefined-behaviour > change was exposed by buildflags changes rather than being something I > expect to encounter in practice.

Re: Upload needed for s390-dasd and s390-netdevice

2012-12-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org): > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:24:35PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Is anyone among s390 porters able to build and upload these two packages. > > Done. Thanks for doing what's needed to get this: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/

Remaining pending changes in master branches of D-I packages

2012-12-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
Here is the current status. In theory, we should no longer have pending things in master branches, as they are targeted for wheezy. So, I'll continue to hang on these things "like a mussel on its rock"(KiBi will undertsand this one, I guess)...:-) ./debian-installer-netboot-images/debian/changelo

Bug#694156: debian-installer: Wrong keymap at first boot-up with encrypted LVM

2012-12-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > > 2. patch some d-i component to manually trigger an initramfs update > > when cryptsetup and console-setup are installed; maybe some > > finish-install thing? As far as I understand, the only risk you're taking here is triggering the u-i upd

Upload needed for s390-dasd and s390-netdevice

2012-12-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
These two D-I packages have pending translation fixes: [ Updated translations in ./packages/s390-dasd ] * Asturian (ast.po) by ivarela * Catalan (ca.po) by Jordi Mallach (Plus other UNRELEASED changes.) [ Updated translations in ./packages/s390-netdevice ] * Asturian (ast.po) by ivar

Bug#696658: Everything worked fine, well done!

2012-12-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 696658 tasksel thanks > The only feature suggestion I have: The task to install CUPS and the PPDs > is called "Print server". While technically experienced users understand > that this implies CUPS, it's not obvious to less tech-savvy users that > this task is needed to use a printer att

Re: Staging changes to d-i components during a (deep) freeze

2012-12-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > What do you think? I moved some staging changes that were "obviously" not wished for wheezy in some jessie branches, in two packages: - cdebconf-entropy ("Use dh-autoreconf to avoid huge diffs when the autotools are updated") - libdebian-installer ("Dr

Re: Staging changes to d-i components during a (deep) freeze

2012-12-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Le 20/12/2012 15:27, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Hi, over the last few months, release managers (d-i + “regular” release team) have been quite open to various improvements in d-i components, but it looks like we really should concentrate on finalizing things for wheezy. Things like improved consi

Spam cleaning effort: November 2012

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Bug#694777: Wheezy Beta4 installs but X server unusable

2012-11-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com): > > Perhaps the installer could warn the user if her video card is among those > > listed in AtiHowTo and the installer doesn't see the firmware supplied > > somewhere by the user. Perhaps just a referral to the wiki page ? > > Didn't the installer

Re: yaboot-installer and base-installer need upload

2012-11-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Milan Kupcevic (mi...@physics.harvard.edu): > > > Hi Christian and Cyril, > > As d-i beta 4 is out, could you please upload yaboot-installer and > base-installer? They're listed in the "pending changes in git" summary mail which I sent yesterday. I'm awaiting for Cyril's agreement that

Re: d-i manual (Re: building and testing d-i with jenkins)

2012-11-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Holger Wansing (li...@wansing-online.de): > Hi, > > Holger Levsen wrote: This thread is funny to see in my MUA: Holger talks to Holger who answers to Holger, etc. I should use Holger as first name to add more confusion..:-) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: d-i manual (Re: building and testing d-i with jenkins)

2012-11-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Holger Wansing (li...@wansing-online.de): > We could change the workflow for the po based translations, so that all po > files > are existing, even if the are completely untranslated. > > Christian, what do you think? That could help having better stats, as a side effect, so I would be

Bug#692540: installing with Malayalam gets stuck at configuring apt

2012-11-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
severity 692540 important thanks Quoting Praveen A (prav...@gmail.com): > package: debian-installer > severity: critical > > I was not able to complete installations as it got stuck with > "Configuring apt " step. I was able to install it with English. I will > try to have some more people test i

Bug#692459: debian installer should show a keyboard layout indicator in text fields

2012-11-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org): > reassign 692459 console-setup > thanks > > Praveen A, le Tue 06 Nov 2012 18:30:16 +0530, a écrit : > > There should be a visible indication of current keyboard layout > > selected. Especially when a non-latin language is selected as > > installatio

Bug#692458: debian installer hangs when entering user name in non-latin languages

2012-11-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org): > Praveen A, le Tue 06 Nov 2012 18:22:31 +0530, a écrit : > > debian installer should check if user name is in latin and if not > > should prompt user to select a latin name. > > > > To test, chose a non latin language for installation and enter user

Re: automated tests or builds for d-i

2012-11-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Holger Levsen (hol...@layer-acht.org): > so i'm lucking for an easier target first: automatic d-i-manual builds > triggered on every commit to svn trunk? would that be useful? *that* is definitely useful. Along with failure reports sent to -boot, that would be perfect. Another interesti

Re: Processed: Bug 691750 fixed in SVN (Ext2 -> ext2)

2012-11-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Debian Bug Tracking System (ow...@bugs.debian.org): > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > > tag 691750 pending > Bug #691750 [partman-basicfilesystems] partman-basicfilesystems: ext2 > filesystem name is capitalized in es.po > Added tag(s) pending. I prefer closing the b

Re: Debian installer build: failed or old builds

2012-11-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Daily build aggregator (debian-boot@lists.debian.org): > Debian installer build overview > --- > > Failed or old builds: > > * FAILED BUILD: amd64 Nov 03 00:20 buildd@barber build_hd-media > > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/bui

Bug#691977: please add be2iscsi module to d-i image

2012-11-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 691977 linux thanks Quoting Aron Xu (happyaron...@gmail.com): > Package: debian-installer > > Dear d-i maintainers, > > I found that be2iscsi module is absent in d-i image. The module are the > driver of iSCSI functions in Emulex be2/3 NICs, which is a standard > configuration for HP BL

Spam cleaning effort: October 2012

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Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 4

2012-10-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > If you want to see packages migrate from sid to testing before that, > please speak up. I'm tempted to keep everything l10n-ish for release > candidates (beta 4 might be the last beta). That's fair, yes. Gives me more time to use my whip on translato

Bug#691750: partman-basicfilesystems: ext2 filesystem name is capitalized in es.po

2012-10-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Santiago Vila (sanv...@unex.es): > Package: partman-basicfilesystems > Version: 76 > Severity: minor > > Hello Christian. > > I'd like to see the name of "ext2" filesystem not to be capitalized > in es.po, for two reasons: > > a) Because it is not at the beginning of a phrase, and the ac

Bug#691334: task-gnome-desktop: Recommends obsolete system-config-printer

2012-10-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org): > Package: task-gnome-desktop > Version: 3.13 > Severity: important > > The system-config-printer package is still installed by default. > > The GNOME control center now includes a configuration tool for cups, and > the settings daemon replaces the fea

Bug#691651: Please add backports configuration to /etc/apt/sources.list

2012-10-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 691651 apt-setup thanks Quoting Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > please consider adding a sources.list configuration for (wheezy) > backports during the installation. > Commenting them out by default would probably be a safe

Bug#680084: postinst script gets stuck

2012-10-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting intrigeri (intrig...@debian.org): > ... else, this script exits, umount is never run, and a dangling > grub-mount process is left behind. .../... Impressive analysis and solution. Anyone objecting to /me committing intrigeri's fix? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#690918: Q: permission of install screenshot file

2012-10-19 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Hideki Yamane (henr...@debian.or.jp): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: minor > Version: 20120930 > > Hi, > > Question about screenshot which was taken during installation. > > In /var/log/installer, screenshots are not able to touch normal users > as its permission. Is it inte

Bug#690333: Installation of Wheezy successfully on Acer Aspire One 532h

2012-10-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Bernhard (bewoe...@yahoo.de): > No problems detected: > - ISO image was found at USB Stick > - Installation was done with WLAN (WPA2) Given that your installation was a complete success, I do as usual with reports for successful installations: I close the bug..:-) This does not of cours

Bug#689303: Everthing went fine

2012-10-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Fernando Lagrange (ferna...@demo-tic.org): > Package: installation-reports > Version: 7.0 beta 1 > Severity: normal > > > This bugreport to say to whole installation team a big THANKS for all work > done, which is fantastic. Given that your installation was a complete success, I do as u

Spam cleaning effort: September 2012

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Dropping "sublevel 6" for Debian Installer translations

2012-09-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
During the last 3 months, a new Debian Installer "sublevel" was added for strings that had been changed or added after the first freeze of D-I strings happened. Over the weeks, this sublevel gathered up to 46 strings belonging to 4 different packages: netcfg (the majority), cdebconf, network-conso

Bug#688744: ext2 support for USB removable media in debian-installer

2012-09-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 688744 mountmedia thanks Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com): > You can use your ext2 formatted flash drive but you have to be sneaky. > Before detecting the network hardware do "Detect disks", followed by > >modprobe ext2 > > and > >mount -text2 /dev/sdXn /media >

Re: Reviewing choose-mirror changes

2012-09-24 Thread Christian Perrier
Le 24/09/2012 16:58, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : (replying from my work mail, where I don't have the full thread in -boot so I can't notice whether someone else answered) Hi Christian, here's choose-mirror's changelog: | * Replace XC-Package-Type by package-type. | | [ Updated translation

Bug#688335: debian-installer: Should not download all translations from mirror

2012-09-21 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 688335 apt-setup forcemerge 683326 688335 thanks Quoting Nelson A. de Oliveira (nao...@debian.org): > Package: debian-installer > Version: 20120828 > Severity: minor > > Hi! > > (sorry if reported against the wrong package or if already known) Already known, indeed..:-) But thanks for

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 up

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:

Using xz compression for initrd udebs?

2012-09-17 Thread Christian PERRIER
Hello, 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 an empty directory in the package (cruft left from ttf-* -> fonts-

Bug#687249: debian-installer: Missing time zone region

2012-09-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org): > > Frankly speaking, I have no idea why, in 2004, we decided to drop > > choices with non ASCII characters. I guess this is because of some > > limitation of debconf or po-debconf at that time. Or maybe because we > > have interfaces where only "pur

Re: Proposal to add patches to netcfg (#682737)

2012-09-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Sorina - Gabriela Sandu (sandu.sor...@gmail.com): > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682737 > [2] > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/netcfg.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/people/sorina/write_config > [3] http://swarm.cs.pub.ro/~sorina/debian/images/08_14_write_conf

Re: Installation-guide cleanup

2012-09-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > The nightly build of the manual failed last night: > > openjade:build.tmp.en.s390/install.en.profiled.xml:3242:101:X: reference to > non-existent ID "loading-firmware" > openjade:build.tmp.en.s390/install.en.profiled.xm

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

2012-09-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting lee (l...@yun.yagibdah.de): > Package: installation-reports > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > this is a feature request: It would be nice if users would have at > least a web browser like lynx and an irc client available while they > are using the installer. There has been/c

Re: Installation-guide cleanup

2012-09-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Karsten Merker (mer...@debian.org): > If there are no objections, I would start working on the > installation guide and remove (and in some cases replace) several > outdated parts. Due to limited time available on my side this > will probably have to be done bit by bit during the next wee

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

2012-09-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 687687 netcfg retitle 687687 Cannot preseed ESSID thanks > Installation was mostly successfully. > Two small issues: > > 1. > I have a fully automated installation with preseed. > At installation with WLAN, i have the ESSID and the WPA-Key in the > preseed file. > Here is the content of

New templates related to IPv6 in Debian Installer

2012-09-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
A few templates are about to be added or modified to netcfg, all related to IPv6 support. Before giving them to translators, I would appreciate a review. The templates to review are those marke with "# IPv6" comment. Ideally, changes should be committed by tomorrow Sunday 16th. -- Template: n

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): > > On Sep 12, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > >I have not tried running os-prober from the -F2 console > >during the install, to see if it gives different results. I'll do > >that and report back. Any hints of things I should be looking out > >

Bug#687249: debian-installer: Missing time zone region

2012-09-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org): > FERRINO Maxime, le Wed 12 Sep 2012 12:17:20 +0400, a écrit : > > I just tried it again in Virtualbox with an iso image I just downloaded > > (DVD1, here : > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/). I tried to > > pick other

Bug#687249: debian-installer: Missing time zone region

2012-09-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting dagrut (dag...@yahoo.fr): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > The "Reunion island" time zone is missing in the "Indian Ocean" section. > After the installation, dpkg-reconfigure tzdata fixed it. Please be more specific. There is no place where one cho

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta2 release bug #684265

2012-09-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): > I'll be happy to provide installation log files to anyone who wants > them. > > I'd also be happy to look at the relevant code and see if I can > figure out what's wrong, but I don't know where to look. I don't > have any experience with the insides of

Re: Processed: reassign 687212 to localechooser, found 687212 in 2.44

2012-09-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Debian Bug Tracking System (ow...@bugs.debian.org): > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > > reassign 687212 localechooser > Bug #687212 [installation-reports] localechooser: should use higher > languagelevel with network-console > Bug reassigned from package 'installation

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Daniel Hartwig (mand...@gmail.com): > Is there potential to see pkgsel use apt-get instead of aptitude > (following the same change in tasksel)? There is already a patch > committed. I'll give this more of a test this week with some induced > errors during the installation. I hesitated

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3 (packages with pending changes in git)

2012-09-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Here is what is pending right now in git: 5 packages with UNRELEASED entries: debian-installer-netboot-images pkgsel netcfg debootstrap libdebian-installer debian-installer-netboot-images: [ Didier Raboud ] * Amend previous changelog to note the change of default mirror for the build tow

Re: Traditional Chinese Translation of debian-installer

2012-09-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting imacat (ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw): > Dear all, > > Hi. This is imacat from Taiwan. I'm the new maintainer of the > Traditional Chinese translation of debian-installer. Could you please > tell me where I can get the latest PO file so that I can download and > review? Thank you very

Bug#686991: installation-reports: Wheezy /etc/inittab fix needed for SheevaPlug

2012-09-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 686991 sysvinit thanks Quoting Niibe Yutaka (gni...@fsij.org): > Package: installation-reports > > Severity: important > > Hello, I installed Wheezy to SheevaPlug with 20120828 uImage and > uInitrd to SD card. Everything goes fine, but it doesn't give me > login prompt after reboot. >

Bug#686927: installation does not detect existing Lubuntu

2012-09-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Rick Thomas (rbtho...@pobox.com): > PS: Is anybody working on this bug? It would be a shame if it got > into beta2... I'd be happy to take a look and see if I could find > anything, but I don't know where to look. Can somebody point me in > the right direction? Thanks in advance! No

Re: Installation-guide cleanup

2012-09-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > Please apply for commit access through Alioth web interface and I'll > be happy to grant you with commit access. I just validated Karsten's application. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installation-guide cleanup

2012-09-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Karsten Merker (mer...@debian.org): > Hello everybody, > > I have been looking through the installation guide and tried to > read it from a "new user" perspective. > > It contains quite a bit of "historic" material, which was > relevant for older debian releases but is not relevant any mo

Bug#686314: Wheezy Instalation Report on Samsung NP305U1A

2012-09-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
clone 686314 -1 reassign -1 linux retitle -1 Please add the fuse module to d-i kernel packages thanks Quoting Rúben Leote Mendes (ru...@nocturno.org): > Em 31-08-2012 06:09, Christian PERRIER escreveu: > >Can you confirm that loading the fuse module *during the install > >process

Spam cleaning effort: August 2012

2012-09-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
We're now in September 2012, so it's time for our team of magic reviewers to work on August 2012 archives. More details on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SpamClean signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#686314: Wheezy Instalation Report on Samsung NP305U1A

2012-08-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 686314 os-prober retitle 686314 Requires the fuse module to be loaded in order to detect Windows 7 thanks Quoting Ruben Leote Mendes (ru...@nocturno.org): > The error on Detect network card is Bug #683849. After workaround the > instalation proceeds until installing GRUB. It does not de

Bug#686032: installation-reports: problems with Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 14

2012-08-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Hideki Yamane (henr...@debian.or.jp): > -- > Problems) > -- > > 1. after detecting network hardware, looks hangs. >Need to press "Ctr

Re: Bug#683216: unblock: tasksel/3.12

2012-08-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > reviewing the git repository since that's easier (and since the 3.12 tag > matches what's in the archive): > - f667b5d1cf23c1a26f44c67babc5d93e172f704a looks fishy: hunspell-da got >added. My fault. That happened in the middle of a big bunch of ch

Beta2 preparation: proposed unblock for netcfg(?)

2012-08-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
netcfg is a bit more tricky than other packages I proposed. testing has 1.81, unstable now has 1.89. Changes summary: * List available ESSIDs: I tested this change myself and...it's working as expected * Add logging to iface activation and deactivation: trivial change which is mostly aimed a

Beta2 preparation: proposed unblocks for D-I packages with low-hanging fruits

2012-08-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
I went through packages with pending changes in git. I first selected those I was thinking to be quite harmless. Here are the proposed unblocks (which I leave up to Cyril to formally requestor approve): # detect the 64bit version of Haiku unblock os-prober/1.55 unblock-udeb os-prober/1.55 #

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