Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

2009-08-22 Thread Fathi Boudra
We may not have a task ATM, but the user *can* choose which desktop to install from the installer's boot menu (for i386/amd64). See: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/ch06s03.html.en#di-install-software   Some CD images (businesscard, netinst and DVD) also allow selection   of the

planning directfb 1.4 transition

2009-08-22 Thread Fathi Boudra
(cc'ing related teams) Hi, This is an informative mail. I have uploaded DirectFB 1.4 to experimental. At some point, the transition could be started (after coordination with the related maintainers). I didn't tried myself to rebuild affected packages yet. Thus, quoting upstream: Most software

Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

2009-08-20 Thread Fathi Boudra
Hi, Let's re-discuss the situation as Lenny is released. On another front, the situation changed for opensuse (see my previous mail on the bug report). Below, you'll find some links about it and I think it's the way to go: http://lwn.net/Articles/345139/

Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

2009-01-09 Thread Fathi Boudra
Hi, IMHO, it's too late to change things now for Lenny. But I guess, we'll need to re-discuss the situation after Lenny release for KDE 4 series. Especially when I read this: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3416 and the nice screenshot here: http://en.opensuse.org/Image:OS11.0beta1-inst7.png

Bug#511287: debian-installer: Should have a task for installing KDE or XFCE instead of Gnome

2009-01-09 Thread Fathi Boudra
On Friday 09 January 2009 17:18:42 Ana Guerrero wrote: I hope the website is a bit clearer now. Still have to update the instructions for lenny. done. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Freeze exception request for directfb 1.0.1-11

2008-08-18 Thread Fathi Boudra
+directfb (1.0.1-11) unstable; urgency=low + + * Remove 92_reopen_console.patch: it fails in the usual case, +but works when run through strace. (Closes: #493899) + + -- Fathi Boudra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:42:54 +0200 + +directfb (1.0.1-10) unstable; urgency=low + + * Add

Please unfreeze libdirectfb 1.0.1-9

2008-06-10 Thread Fathi BOUDRA
Hi, Could you please unfreeze libdirectfb 1.0.1-9 ? It contains cross build support for emdebian, a patch accepted upstream (1) and unblock splashy 0.3.10 to enter Lenny. (1) when libdirectfb detects zero length reads, it attempts to reopen the console (possibly from a newly mounted root

Re: etch/sid amd64 failed to install

2006-06-10 Thread Fathi Boudra
Le Jeudi 8 Juin 2006 22:09, Joey Hess a écrit : Goswin von Brederlow wrote: i've got now no codename error ... any workaround ? No idea where that even appears. base-installer can complain about this if cdrom/codename is not set. Only way I can see that happening is if the cd does not

etch/sid amd64 failed to install

2006-06-08 Thread Fathi Boudra
hi, i found a similar thread on may but that doesn't help me. I try to install etch amd64 using netinst daily build and failed on grub installation step : apt-install: Reading package lists... apt-install: Building dependency tree... apt-install: E: apt-install: Package grub has no installation

Re: etch/sid amd64 failed to install

2006-06-08 Thread Fathi Boudra
Le Jeudi 8 Juin 2006 13:00, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : grub-installer: info: Calling `apt-install grub` failed That is because until last night there was no grub in etch. i've got now no codename error ... any workaround ? Fathi

advices/comments on strange graphics with Intel Corp. 82815 CGC reported bug

2006-03-25 Thread Fathi BOUDRA
hi, someone reported this bug : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=302696 I asked on #debian-boot, Eddy Petrisor (eddyp) proposed: maybe cloning the bug is a good idea, one for the X config part, and one for the d-i (though I doubt is d-i itself that is to be blamed and not