Bug#1029848: hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support

2023-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 patch pending Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-29): > If we really want not to use a bare /firmware, maybe /firmware-lookup? > But having something specialized in hw-detect and something much more > generic in preseed would look strange to me. I don't really mind eit

Bug#1029848: hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support

2023-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
iated semantic) right now. > > Yup, good call. We can extend this more to add the nuanced options > once we've got the basics - let's do it incrementally! Thanks for confirming the approach! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1029922: apt-setup: remove duplicate, commented-out cdrom entries

2023-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ue to the finish-install hook that disables cdrom entries in certain conditions, which also adds the informative text at the bottom. That can be kept as is. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

Bug#1029849: hw-detect: storing firmware information specifically

2023-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
that's a short-term blocker at all.) But building a 2-column table out of existing information shouldn't be much work anyway… Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

Bug#1029848: hw-detect: decide how to configure firmware support

2023-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
tic) right now. Implementing this (and documenting it in the installation guide) would make us comply with what was agreed to. Swift feedback would be appreciated, thanks! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team

Bug#934822: ath9k-htc free firmware still an issue in free software distributions

2023-01-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
working on main & non-free & main-non-free-firmware, soon to become main & non-free-firmware (once the move is complete). I don't have such hardware to confirm what happens at runtime though. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I releas

Re: Moving firmware packages from non-free to non-free-firmware

2023-01-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Here's an update regarding firmware packages vs. non-free-firmware. I'm extending the list of recipients a little; feel free to let me know if you spot packages/teams that I would have missed! Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-17): > For this first round, I've checked on amd64/unstable wh

Bug#1029814: ixp4xx-microcode: no longer useful, ixp4xx support dropped in 2014

2023-01-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
place to configure to find all firmware packages (release notes etc. are being worked on). Thanks for your time! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

Bug#1029804: hw-detect: decide whether to automatically install amd64-microcode/intel-microcode

2023-01-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
, is not something I consider a blocker for the upcoming D-I release, or even for the first Bookworm release. Just something that seems nice to have, if we want to. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Fre

Bug#1029543: hw-detect: clarify use cases about searching for firmware packages on external media

2023-01-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
re the installer image, and rely on an extra USB stick to hold the firmware part (and rely on mountmedia). But again, I have no idea how common it is for the boards we support in the installer to require loading firmware files during the installation process… Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)

Bug#1029543: hw-detect: clarify use cases about searching for firmware packages on external media

2023-01-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-24): > I'm also not sure what our plan for e.g. ARM images (concatenateable > images) would be; I don't think we'll pull any firmware packages during a > d-i build, so they wouldn't end up under [2], but maybe it'd be feasible > to just concatenate som

Bug#1029543: hw-detect: clarify use cases about searching for firmware packages on external media

2023-01-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-24): > In the meanwhile, I'll disable both mountmedia calls in the upcoming > upload: > - to reduce delays when official installation images are just >self-sufficient (that's why we had that GR in the first place!); I thought about this a few ho

Bug#1029543: hw-detect: clarify use cases about searching for firmware packages on external media

2023-01-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
shortcomings in the historical implementation. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

Bug#1029352: netcfg: broken ifupdown support for wireless interfaces

2023-01-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 pending Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-21): > I've pushed three commits in the pu/ifupdown+wireless branch: > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/netcfg/-/commits/pu/ifupdown+wireless Updated branch: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/netcfg/-/commits/pu

Re: DEP-11 metadata for non-free-firmware?

2023-01-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi again, Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-19): > Sorry for the noise. I missed there were several rsync calls on the > dak side, and at least dak needs patching… > > https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/dak/-/merge_requests/267 This was merged and works fine for sid, but for some reason, w

Re: Bug#991533: lintian: please forget about required-field Standards-Version for udeb packages

2023-01-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: tag -1 patch Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-23): > Can we please finally drop those checks? You'll find above the green > light from Sean regarding lintian's possibly moving ahead of changes in > Policy; since December, 5.6.11 even ends with: > > udebs and source pac

Package-wide changes, intent to revert Standards-Version addition

2023-01-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
on what's been a huge time sink already. The only packages where this field makes sense are packages which build at least one deb binary package (not just udebs). For those, compliance against current(-ish) Policy should be *actually* checked before adding this field. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k

Re: Bug#991533: lintian: please forget about required-field Standards-Version for udeb packages

2023-01-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi lintian maintainers, Cyril Brulebois (2022-04-13): > Sean Whitton (2021-08-12): > > On Tue 27 Jul 2021 at 04:08AM +02, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > > > Whatever happens on the debian-policy front (if anything), I'd prefer if > > > lintian would stop

Re: Review for the non-free-firmware template in apt-setup

2023-01-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Justin B Rye (2023-01-22): > tldr: looks good to me. [ + Holger's green light in the other mail. ] Thanks to both of you! I've managed to confirm patched apt-setup udebs alongside patched hw-detect udebs give the desired results, so I've just uploaded apt-setup. Cheers, -- Cyril Bruleb

Bug#1029352: Bug#1022843: ifupdown: network down after systemctl restart

2023-01-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-22): > The configuration found below manages to: > - let my allow-hotplug slow-to-appear wireless interface come up at >boot-up, via the udev integration; > - allow me to stop and start networking, losing then regaining all >relevant configs (

Bug#1029352: Bug#1022843: ifupdown: network down after systemctl restart

2023-01-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: reopen 1022843 Control: found 1022843 0.8.40 Control: severity 1022843 serious Hi, Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-22): > d-i believes that everything should be allow-hotplug, and we end up > using that everywhere. I'm wondering whether to just use auto everywhere > instead, since th

Bug#1029352: Bug#1022843: ifupdown: network down after systemctl restart

2023-01-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
in: https://bugs.debian.org/1029352 (which is mainly about wireless interfaces but ends up in the third issue about other kinds of interfaces as well.) Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consulta

Re: Review for the non-free-firmware template in apt-setup

2023-01-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen (2023-01-22): > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:01:36PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > don't we want to default this to true? > > Why would we enable non-free-firmware if there's no use for it? > > hw-detect makes that determination, based on contents p

Re: Review for the non-free-firmware template in apt-setup

2023-01-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen (2023-01-22): > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 04:24:12PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Template: apt-setup/non-free-firmware > > Type: boolean > > Default: false > > don't we want to default this to true? Why would we enable non-free-firmware i

Review for the non-free-firmware template in apt-setup

2023-01-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
on into non-free-firmware, but we shouldn't block on this… I'll let Holger comment about that part and possibly propose different plans. Thanks for your help! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Fre

Bug#1029352: netcfg: broken ifupdown support for wireless interfaces

2023-01-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
rned with networking.service being marked as failed could always revert from “auto” to “allow-hotplug” if that works for them (remember the timing issue mentioned above). → ifupdown maintainers, comments welcome! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D

Re: DEP-11 metadata for non-free-firmware?

2023-01-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-19): > At the moment, we have 3 packages there, with no appstream metadata at > all. Questions: > > - Would that explain that no files are generated on mekeel, and >therefore nothing is synced into the archive? > - Or should we have empty indices

DEP-11 metadata for non-free-firmware?

2023-01-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
, having no dep11 indices for non-free-firmware breaks debian-cd builds against unstable (which is how I'm testing support for non-free-firmware in various components of the installer plus debian-cd). Thanks for your help! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<ht

Bug#1029184: NTP server address provided during initial Debian installation is not used by the running system

2023-01-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Al, Al Watts (2023-01-19): > /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf appears to be unchanged from the default > packaged config file, with all lines commented out. It looks like we should create some /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf.d/*.conf snippet. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debi

Re: Total removal of floppy support?

2023-01-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ternal storage anyway, which has proven to be confusing users anyway. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Total removal of floppy support?

2023-01-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2023-01-18): > On 1/18/23 15:28, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > While working on extending firmware support, I've stumbled upon floppy > > support in various components. Even if the maintenance costs are low, I > > suppose this could go away no

Total removal of floppy support?

2023-01-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, While working on extending firmware support, I've stumbled upon floppy support in various components. Even if the maintenance costs are low, I suppose this could go away nowadays? Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- R

Re: Moving firmware packages from non-free to non-free-firmware

2023-01-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
done. Uploading atmel-firmware_1.3-7.debian.tar.xz: done. Uploading atmel-firmware_1.3-7_all.deb: done. Uploading atmel-firmware_1.3-7_amd64.buildinfo: done. Uploading atmel-firmware_1.3-7_amd64.changes: done. Successfully uploaded packages. Thanks for the swift

Fwd: Moving firmware packages from non-free to non-free-firmware

2023-01-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
will require a similar review from there). Please let us know if there's anything we can do to make your life easier. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant --- Begin Message --- Hi folks,

Bug#1029116: hw-detect: check-missing-firmware fails will attempting to reload kernel module on MT7922 WiFi card

2023-01-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
so maybe I'll be able to reproduce it somewhere, and/or find a different solution to account for the newly installed firmware (current plan would be to keep hw-detect ± as is while introducing support for non-free-firwmare). Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax

Moving firmware packages from non-free to non-free-firmware

2023-01-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Issue with Bullseye Packages.xz on ftp.debian.org

2023-01-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
n-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.xz - https://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages.xz The first one lists udebs, to be used by the installer; the second one lists debs, to be installed in the target system. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)&l

Re: Can't exec "debootstrap": Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden at /usr/bin/sbuild-createchroot line 424.

2023-01-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Start by refreshing your apt cache? Also, while some of us can read error messages in German, it's best practice to set LC_ALL=C so that you get English messages to report (this is a development list, where English is expected). Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debama

Bug#1028250: Processed: found 1028250 in 20220917

2023-01-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: notfound -1 20220917 Debian Bug Tracking System (2023-01-09): > > # that version is nearest to "daily builds" > > found 1028250 20220917 No, that bug isn't found in that version. We wouldn't have released d-i with such an obvious issue. Cheers, -- Cyril Brul

Bug#1028250: debian-installer: broken cryptsetup support

2023-01-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: severity -1 important Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-08): > I'm seeing at least two problems with cryptsetup while testing daily > builds: > - with 6.1.0-1 (currently getting into the archive), my very usual 1G >RAM / 5G storage setup can no longer get an automated e

Bug#1028250: debian-installer: broken cryptsetup support

2023-01-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
. The first point could be waved aside with an errata entry; the second point is going to be a blocker for the next release. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois -- Debian Consultant @ DEBAMAX -- https://debamax.com/

Re: bterm-unifont_1.7_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2023-01-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault (2023-01-01): > Yes, that's it, I have uploaded a fixed choose-mirror. Many thanks for the investigation and the fix! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance C

Re: bterm-unifont_1.7_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2022-12-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
nitrd.gz] Error 2 | make[1]: *** [Makefile:298: _build] Error 2 | make: *** [Makefile:292: build_kirkwood_netboot] Error 2 Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Comments regarding depthcharge-tools-installer_1_amd64.changes

2022-12-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ebian-boot/2022/12/msg00030.html Yes, that's definitely a welcome and coordinated addition! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1026858: Dependency on debconf dropped prematurely

2022-12-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
0044.html Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1026485: debian-installer: FTBFS: Failed to stat - stat (2: No such file or directory)

2022-12-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build > on amd64. We know, there's no need to open a bug report against debian-installer every time the Linux ABI is bumped. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- R

Re: Debian Installer support for Chromebooks

2022-12-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
red out it doesn't make sense to. OK. That was really minor/uninteresting anyway. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1026027: graphical installer: using nano in a installer shell fails

2022-12-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
t error seems to come from ncurses though (https://sources.debian.org/ is wonderful). Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Installer support for Chromebooks

2022-12-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
es to your UID's ACL via the right commands file but I'm not sure that's going to be successful since those are unknown packages at the moment. We'll see. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freela

Re: Debian Installer support for Chromebooks

2022-12-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi again, Cyril Brulebois (2022-12-12): > I've glanced at depthcharge-tools-installer and while I'm no debconf > expert and I can't assess the postinst with high certainty, the overall > impression was good enough for me to sign and upload; I did change the > Maintainer to debian

Re: Debian Installer support for Chromebooks

2022-12-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Cyril Brulebois (2022-12-03): > I'm happy to have those moved under installer-team/ whenever is most > convenient for you and your potential sponsor. I've done that a few days ago. > I can't promise to do the reviewing/uploading right away (I'd like to > tie up some loos

Re: failed to insert STA entry for the AP (error -2)

2022-12-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
les end up in what udebs is decided in src:linux, under debian/installer/modules. Commit fixing the bug mentioned above: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/782d644da7ab74e04bfebd30b66c264654028da3 Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/

Re: Debian Installer support for Chromebooks

2022-12-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
tramfs/modules-udebs changes for more boards as needed... > > [3] Solving "How Can I Run Debian on My Chromebook?" For Good > https://debconf22.debconf.org/talks/87-solving-how-can-i-run-debian-on-my-chromebook-for-good/ I'll definitely catch up with it at some point! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: 11.6 planning

2022-11-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
you indicate your availability and preferences between: > > - December 3rd > - December 10th > - December 17th > > At this point, the 10th is probably my preference, as I'm likely to be > busy with work stuff at the tail end of November. I should be able to make any of those work fo

Re: busybox uploads

2022-11-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
fine. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1019752: libpcre3-udeb: Can this be dropped?

2022-11-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
someone else might spot something I might have missed. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ppc64el porterbox replacement: plummer.d.o -> platti.d.o

2022-10-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
) updated accordingly to allow uploading from platti instead of plummer. A first build should show up after the next static push. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.

Bug#1021919: virtionet device not found in debian testing netinst ISO 20221017

2022-10-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
and debian-cd for information given the way testing images are built… Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#887649: Bug#885563: vte: Do not release with Buster

2022-10-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
workload on firmware and other things, it looks to me working on this is likely to trigger more immediate questions/problems than we'll have time to figure out before it's time to release. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
oving that. (It's hard to get right for end-users.) Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
be packaged once their redistributability is clarified? Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ian/ftpsync/ after a build, so the package doesn't look like it needs an update for that (even though a lot of work happened in master since the last tag/release). Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member --

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ing. Thanks for patching and verifying the extra component's presence on a per-suite basis isn't an issue, that was on my to-do list. And yes, it looks like bullseye-proposed-updates material to me; esp. given that tiny diff… Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://de

Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
tion (probably installation guide plus release notes), and of course implementing it; then see if/how we expose it? Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1020717: installation-reports: bookworm alpha1 netboot install FAILED on basesystem install / usrmerge

2022-09-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
e-installer/debootstrap-failed I only followed that from afar, but I suspect the difference between both installations is that netinst embeds init-system-helpers 1.64 (in testing at the time the image was built), while netboot pulls 1.65.2 (in testing currently). For the actual debootstrap issue, see #102042

Re: Some confusion regarding PCMCIA-related changes

2022-09-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
tool had failed to include or exclude the right entries. :) Thanks for the fix! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 1 release

2022-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team 2. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata 3. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

Re: Temporary freezes of udeb-producing packages for d-i releases

2022-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi dd@, Cyril Brulebois (2022-09-12): > Looking at the previous release cycles, such freezes usually last for a > few days only, from a given debian-installer upload until installation > images have been built successfully, and haven't found to be crippled > with obvious bugs. The

Some confusion regarding PCMCIA-related changes

2022-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
a déjà-vu while adding this in the upcoming one (https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2022/20220922): - hw-detect: + Replace /etc/pcmcia/ with /etc/pcmciautils/ (#980271). It would be great if someone could double-check what's going on here. :) Cheers, -- Cyril

Re: debian-installer 20220917 via tpu

2022-09-20 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Ansgar (2022-09-20): > Cyril Brulebois writes: > > FTP Masters, please sync the installer from *tpu* to testing, once it's > > available there. > > > > dak copy-installer 20220917 -s bookworm-proposed-updates > > Done: > > +--- > | $ dak co

debian-installer 20220917 via tpu

2022-09-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
-installer 20220917 -s bookworm-proposed-updates Thanks for your help! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Status of Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 1: 2 blockers

2022-09-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault (2022-09-17): > Cyril Brulebois, le sam. 17 sept. 2022 01:41:52 +0200, a ecrit: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/commit/23e4451d7132e3bac7bd589747a44a776ea69834 > > > > To get back on track with the release,

Status of Debian Installer Bookworm Alpha 1: 2 blockers

2022-09-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
) instead, and relying on an extra/hopefully final prop-up (as done during point releases…) might be more straightforward. Thanks for reading up so far, and for any advice on the way forward! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release m

Possible clean-up: installer-* directories

2022-09-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
all of them could go away. I see no urgency in getting that cleaned up though, you might want to wait a little in case someone monitoring debian-boot@ expresses some use case I didn't think of. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release m

Please dak copy-installer 20220914

2022-09-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, FTP Masters, please sync the installer from sid to testing, as it seems to be Installed for all release architectures (9 total): dak copy-installer 20220914 Release team: FYI, I've urgented it. Thanks for your time. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<ht

Bug#1019697: debootstrap: aid reproducible boostrapping by providing a --cleanup-logs option

2022-09-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
already being used as a flag in other places. Good to know, thanks. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: What to do with partman-hfs?

2022-09-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ions.txt 2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2022/09/msg0.html And… partman-hfs was one of them. Apparently, it's buildd-built and a source-only upload should do the trick (that's what Holger did so far), but I thought I'd mention it anyway. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)

Re: What to do with partman-hfs?

2022-09-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
pt via the packages_exceptions mechanism: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/d-i/-/commit/afd1b542b6f45a11a75afdfd68fe2781e8c8df8f Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc

What to do with partman-hfs?

2022-09-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
-powerpc64/hfs-modules Until partman-hfs (possibly) hits testing, I'm tempted to ignore it in calc-release-status, instead of dropping it entirely from the l10n infrastructure: I suppose the latter would mean lower chances for translators to work on this package? Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k

Re: Analysis: mismatched shim* packages vs. debian-installer (opu/pu)

2022-09-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2022-09-08): > TL;DR: Everything matches what was already assessed by Steve McIntyre: > mismatched shim* packages shouldn't be an issue from a d-i perspective, > we're “just using the old shim” (sorry, buster…). Furthermore, I've just checked on two laptops (Dell G3

Analysis: mismatched shim* packages vs. debian-installer (opu/pu)

2022-09-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ckages shouldn't be an issue from a d-i perspective, we're “just using the old shim” (sorry, buster…). Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1018788: override: rsyslog:admin/optional

2022-08-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ansgar (2022-08-30): > Yes. Changing the Priority in unstable will automatically propagate to > testing, but (old)stable will be unaffected. Perfect, thanks for the confirmation! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager --

Re: Bug#1018788: override: rsyslog:admin/optional

2022-08-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
the default set are a no brainer, but I expect many admins to have some deployment code that acts on rsyslog, either configuring it in some specific ways, or getting rid of it… I wouldn't want stable to get a different set of packages overnight, esp. if it comes via archive metadata updates, rather th

Bug#1018740: debootstrap: better initialisisation of /etc/machine-id

2022-08-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen (2022-08-29): > So probably it would be better to either remove the file or write > "uninitialized" into it... or support both via commandline flags :) For anyone wanting to look into this, it doesn't seem worth it to add a command line flag for this… Cheers, --

Re: d-i alpha release?

2022-08-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
IRC: we had a brief chat about it with Steve a few hours/days ago… That's been on my todo list for months, but I'm still struggling to find time. I'm trying to make that happen next week (provided Steve is available for the debian-cd part). Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)

Re: Bug#1016786: bullseye-pu: package systemd/247.3-7+deb11u1

2022-08-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
t; unstable/testing. > > > > > > While at it, I also pulled a patch to fix build failures when > > systemd is built against newer kernel headers (>= 5.14). > > Please go ahead; thanks. LGTM, ta. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://deb

Re: Bug#1017777: bullseye-pu: package glibc/2.31-13+deb11u4

2022-08-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
tpt usable after multi-threaded fork to prevent Ansible > deadlocks. No objections in principle on the d-i side. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1015263: libidn2-0: Depends sgml-base

2022-08-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2022-08-11): > This breaks d-i builds, (at least) via libnl udebs picking up a > dependency on sgml-base, which doesn't exist in a udeb context. For completeness, I've just uploaded a workaround for src:libnl3 (see https://bugs.debian.org/1016996 for details), so that part

Bug#1016996: libnl-3-200-udeb: uninstallable, depends on non-udeb sgml-base

2022-08-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
re a workaround to make sure this source package isn't a blocker when we plan for a Debian Installer release. I'll upload shortly, source debdiff attached. Please let me know if you have any comments or questions. In passing, thanks for your work on this package! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (

Re: Bug#1015263: libidn2-0: Depends sgml-base

2022-08-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
a bit. This breaks d-i builds, (at least) via libnl udebs picking up a dependency on sgml-base, which doesn't exist in a udeb context. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#992476: override: gcc-9-base:libs/optional

2022-08-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
more. Fun you should be reprising that today, I stumbled upon it a few hours ago while comparing upgraded 10→11 systems vs. fresh 11 systems… No objections from the d-i side, sorry if that blocked the issue. :/ Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D

Bug#1016868: libc6-udeb: dangling ld-linux symlink

2022-08-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
.so - after: ./lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 Thanks to Aurélien for investigating at the same time as I did, and for the upcoming fix! Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

Re: Time to drop win32-loader ?

2022-08-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
and actual download. TL;DR: No objections either way. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#864423: Software RAID is not activated at boot time

2022-07-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
test them. > > Given d-i does nothing with dmraid unless the boot flag is present, > I want to ask if dmraid could also stop shipping its udeb, if thats > ok with debian-boot? Given how specific it is, opt-in, on a specific arch, and dead upstream, looks like a wholesale removal

Re: buster EOL (10.13) and 11.5 planning

2022-07-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
> do them at the same time or separately. Leaving aside the debootstrap's pu/opu requests that I would be happy not to have to be involved with (trusting Luca's assessment instead), I'm happy to try and accommodate any dates that might be picked up for 10.13 and 11.5, for all other ins

Bug#1015887: debian-installer: Adding https repo doesn't work without manually installing ca-certificates

2022-07-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
eloper on the kernel command line, which should make debconf queries/answers (as triggered by db_get and friends) appear in the syslog. Past $self seems to agree: https://mraw.org/blog/2012/12/23/d-i_hacking_recipe_3/ Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/>

Bug#1015887: debian-installer: Adding https repo doesn't work without manually installing ca-certificates

2022-07-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
elp understand what's going on. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#1015174: lvm2-udeb: uninstallable, depends on non-udeb libsystemd0

2022-07-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
ime (the function call itself is already guarded within an #ifdef/#endif block, so it seems somewhat optional already). Feel free to let us know, and whether you'd like us to try and come up with a tentative patch. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com

Bug#934072: OpenRD images are gone

2022-06-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
resolving this issue! No worries, just applying your suggested changes, you're doing the work. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#934072: OpenRD images are gone

2022-06-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
g if that makes sense. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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