Bug#939070: removing gnome desktop in tasksel has little or no effect

2019-10-18 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 05:05:15PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Nicolas Braud-Santoni writes: > > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 03:57:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > >> I accidentially installed debian 10.0 with gnome rather than xfce, so > > >> a

Re: Bug#935589: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package missing in xfce-CD-1 iso

2019-10-16 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo Hi everyone, On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 10:32:11AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Julien Cristau writes: > > > The synaptics Xorg driver is obsolete and should not be installed by > > default. > > Maybe the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package could hint about this and >

Bug#939070: removing gnome desktop in tasksel has little or no effect

2019-10-16 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Hi Joey, On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 03:57:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I accidentially installed debian 10.0 with gnome rather than xfce, so > after the installation, I re-ran tasksel, unselected gnome, and selected > xfce. > [...] > Tasksel probably removed task-gnome-desktop, but many of its >

Re: Bug#933764: buster-pu: package e2fsprogs/1.44.5-1+deb10u1

2019-08-18 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: tag -1 - d-i Hi Jonathan, On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 02:37:25PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > As there's a udeb involved I will just check with the d-i release managers > that this isn't an issue, though I can't see that fixing a crash would be > all that controversial. I can confirm

Bug#934990: nmu: tasksel_3.54

2019-08-17 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: binnmu -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 nmu tasksel_3.54 . ANY . unstable . -m "Rebuild for transition to bullseye" tasksel/3.54 had to be a binary upload, as it went through NEW

Bug#934719: RM: task-print-server -- NBS; RoM

2019-08-13 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear ftpmaster, In tasksel/3.54, task-print-server was renamed to task-print-service. Despite being NBS, it doesn't appear in the latest [cruft-report], so I am filing this request for removal. Best,

Bug#854429: tasksel: Raising Wayland support severity to important

2019-07-13 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
severity 854429 important severity 925391 important thanks Hi, I think we should provide good wayland support in the Bullseye release cycle, especially considering that several DE now default to it over X11. Best, nicoo signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#864665: task-kde-desktop: Please, remove Apper from recommends

2019-07-13 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo Hi Andrek, and thanks for the report. Could the KDE team confirm that this is still happening, and clarify whether Apper is intended to be the default package-management app for Debian on KDE? Best, nicoo On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 06:04:03PM +0200, Andrej Mernik

Bug#902321: task-desktop: please install fonts-symbola by default

2019-07-13 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: tag -1 + confirmed pending Hi Adam, Thanks for reporting this. I'm adding it, considering that: 1. symbola provides wide coverage of Unicode (not only emojis), which makes it a reasonable default to avoid showing “Unicode tofu” to users; 2. it only weights in ~3MB in installed size,

Bug#593105: tasksel: Please add a "Smartphone" task

2019-07-13 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: tag -1 + wontfix Hi, Sorry for replying to your bug a decade after you opened it. Considering that Debian-powered smartphone are currently a very-niche thing, that support is (AFAIK) currently very poor, and that it's not the role of the d-i team to make Debian-on-Smartphones happen,

Bug#930283: task-cinnamon-desktop: metapackage should include gnome-terminal

2019-07-13 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: tag -1 + moreinfo Hi Leon, Thanks for your interest in improving tasksel. The task-cinnamon-desktop package already depends on the package cinnamon-desktop-environment, which does specify terminal emulators as dependencies: |Depends: gnome-terminal Depends: deepin-terminal

Bug#904804: debootstrap: Unable to deboostrap a sid environment on stretch

2018-07-28 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.89 Severity: important Control: tag -1 + sid stretch Hi, I just realised it's currently impossible to debootstrap a sid (build) environment on Debian stretch, creating difficulties for attendees of the DebConf packaging workshop, presumably because of util-linux

Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines

2018-06-08 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 07:37:09PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi nicoo, > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 09:27:10PM +0200, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote: > > On virtual machines, however, the data that the HAVEGE algorithm produces > > is not necessarily unpredictable [1]; hence,

Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines

2018-06-08 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Hi Holger, On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 09:06:27AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > Do we have a reasonablish way of telling whether a system is “real” > > > hardware or a virtual machine, and choose whether to install haveged or > > > not > > > accordingly? > > why only install it on physical

Bug#852646: task-xfce-desktop: please recommend atril not evince

2018-05-23 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: clone -1 Control: reassign -1 atril Control: retitle -1 Remove the dep of atril on mate-desktop-common Hi, Is the dependency of atril on mate-desktop-common necessary? If not, could you please consider removing it? This would let the xfce maintainers ship atril instead of evince in

Bug#849578: task-xfce-desktop: Why you use the vlc player in the task-xfce-desktop meta package?

2018-05-23 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: tag -1 + pending On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 08:37:19AM +, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Once again, I have strictly no advice about this. Formerly in the bug > report, Yves-Alexis didn't really object but argued about VLC being > kind of the reference player which "everybody" expects. On

Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines

2018-05-23 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 Please install haveged on physical machines COntrol: tag -1 + moreinfo Hi, On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 05:37:32PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > On 20.01.2014 10:22, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton: > >> It would probably be very beneficial to

Bug#828685: tasksel: characters when trying to install ssh server

2018-05-22 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: severity -1 normal Control: tag -1 + moreinfo Hi, What do you mean by “renders some strings like stdin, stdout and other that i cannot identify them”? Could you provide the complete output from tasksel on the terminal? Also, please test with the released version of stretch or the

Bug#861652: task-kde-desktop: Speed of the mouse pointer does not depend on the speed settings in the system settings of the kde.

2018-05-22 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: reassign -1 kde-config-touchpad Control: tag -1 + stretch upstream Hi Igor, I am reassigning the bug to the package kde-config-touchpad; task-kde-desktop is only a virtual package to install the KDE desktop environment. Best, nicoo On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 10:59:13AM +0200, Igor

Bug#794366: Bug #794366: Users and Groups of LXDE hangs (logged as root) using Jessie on Raspberry Pi 2

2018-05-22 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: reassign -1 lxde Control: tag -1 jessie moreinfo Hi Larry, I am reassigning your bug, quite late, to the lxde package, whose maintainers might be able to help you. Do you still encounter the issue? Best, nicoo

Bug#891472: task-desktop should Recommend libu2f-udev

2018-02-25 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Package: task-desktop Severity: normal User: nico...@braud-santoni.eu Usertags: u2f Dear maintainer, libu2f-udev ships udev rules that make sure U2F devices can be used by unprivileged users; as those devices become more prevalent, we should make sure they work by default. In Debian stretch,

Guaranteeing initramfs integrity during Secure Boot

2016-05-16 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Hi, This is a basically a recap of ideas I had while talking to Ben Hutchings (benh@) and my friend and colleague Johannes Winter, so a good part of the credit should go to them. All blame, however, should be directed to me. The current plans for implementing Secure Boot are (roughly) as