Bug#965596: installation-guide: Removal of obsolete debhelper compat 5 and 6 in bookworm

Source: installation-guide Version: 20200715 Severity: normal Usertags: compat-5-6-removal Hi, The package installation-guide uses debhelper with a compat level of 5 or 6, which is deprecated and scheduled for removal[1]. Please bump the debhelper compat at your earliest convenience /outside

Re: RFC: Make dh_makeshlibs auto-detect udebs in common cases

Cyril Brulebois: > [...] > Clarifying what I meant in the rest: > >>> While I'm of course fine with the idea of automating what can be >>> automated, > > == your patch > >>> I think I'd be happier to also see some hint somewhere for >>> maintainers who wish to drop the --add-udeb, e.g. checking

Re: RFC: Make dh_makeshlibs auto-detect udebs in common cases

Cyril Brulebois: > Niels Thykier (2019-07-20): >> Thanks for the feedback. :) >> >> I have tested this and they do. >> >> Test method: I have verified this against systemd at git master[1] using >> the following three variants/builds: >> >>

Re: RFC: Make dh_makeshlibs auto-detect udebs in common cases

Niels Thykier: > [...] The goal for this change is to simplify udeb handling to remove > one papercut /in the common case/ for udeb packages in two forms: > > 1) Packages that need to add a new udeb will have one less step to > worry about when they follow the naming conve

Re: RFC: Make dh_makeshlibs auto-detect udebs in common cases

Cyril Brulebois: > Hi, > > Niels Thykier (2019-02-24): >> (Please CC me on replies per mail). > > (Done.) > >> I am seeing feedback on a PoC patch for dh_makeshlibs to have it >> auto-detect udebs in the common case, where the udeb has the same name >>

Re: RFC: Make dh_makeshlibs auto-detect udebs in common cases

Niels Thykier: > Hi, > > (Please CC me on replies per mail). > > I am seeing feedback on a PoC patch for dh_makeshlibs to have it > auto-detect udebs in the common case, where the udeb has the same name > as the deb followed by the suffix "-udeb". AFAICT, this

Re: Bug#929956: unblock: glib2.0/2.58.3-2

Cyril Brulebois: > Simon McVittie (2019-06-04): >> Please unblock package glib2.0 to fix CVE-2019-12450. >> >> glib2.0 builds a udeb (for the graphical installer) so this will need >> a d-i ack. >> >> unblock glib2.0/2.58.3-2 >> unblock-udeb glib2.0/2.58.3-2 > > Tests look good, no objections

Re: Bug#929912: unblock: ltsp/5.18.12-3

Cyril Brulebois: > Niels Thykier (2019-06-04): >> Control: tags -1 confirmed d-i >> >> Vagrant Cascadian: >>> Please unblock package ltsp >>> >>> unblock ltsp/5.18.12-3 >> >> Looks good to me, CC'ing KiBi for a d-i ack before comple

Re: Bug#929913: unblock: simple-cdd/0.6.7

Cyril Brulebois: > Niels Thykier (2019-06-04): >> Vagrant Cascadian: >>> unblock simple-cdd/0.6.7 >> >> Looks good to me, CC'ing KiBi for a d-i ack before completing the unblock. > > No objections, thanks. > > > Cheers, > Unblocked, thanks. ~Niels

Re: Bug#927437: unblock: openssl/1.1.1b-2

Cyril Brulebois: > Hi Kurt, > > Kurt Roeckx (2019-04-19): >> Can you please unblock openssl. It fixes 2 important bugs. >> debdiff attached. > > (And thanks for the cc.) > > I have been able to confirm during my work on haveged (#923675) that > your upload indeed fixes the wget issues we had

Bug#926299: unblock: busybox/1:1.30.1-4

Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock (X-CC'ed kibi + debian-boot). Hi kibi/d-i, The recent upload of busybox fixes the bug #925979 in busybox-udeb. Should we (RT) unblock it now or do you prefer waiting (as I understand it

Bug#923585: debian-installer-netboot-images: Built against openssl1.0 and ttf-freefontfrom stable (neither are in sid/testing atm.)

Source: debian-installer-netboot-images Version: 20190118 Severity: serious Hi, The "Built-Using" field of debian-installer-netboot-images references openssl1.0/1.0.2q-1~deb9u1 and ttf-freefont/20100919-1, neither of which are in unstable nor testing at the moment. The former was removed very

RFC: Make dh_makeshlibs auto-detect udebs in common cases

Hi, (Please CC me on replies per mail). I am seeing feedback on a PoC patch for dh_makeshlibs to have it auto-detect udebs in the common case, where the udeb has the same name as the deb followed by the suffix "-udeb". AFAICT, this will make --add-udeb obsolete in many cases as many udebs

Re: Bug#920001: unblock: json-c/0.12.1+ds-2

Boyuan Yang: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > X-Debbugs-CC: k...@debian.org debian-boot@lists.debian.org > > Dear Release Team and d-i Team, > > As previously mentioned in [1], I made a new upload (QA upload)

Bug#905634: tasksel: Please remove dependency on manpages-fr in task-french (#871564)

Holger Wansing: > Hi, > > Niels Thykier wrote: >> Source: tasksel >> Version: 3.44 >> Severity: important >> >> Hi, >> >> The manpages-fr package is outdated and unmaintained >> (defacto-orphaned too). >> >> Please re

Bug#905634: tasksel: Please remove dependency on manpages-fr in task-french (#871564)

Source: tasksel Version: 3.44 Severity: important Hi, The manpages-fr package is outdated and unmaintained (defacto-orphaned too). Please remove the dependency on manpages-fr in task-french so we can remove the package from testing or the archive. Thanks, ~Niels

Packages kept in testing due to d-i despite being removed in unstable

Hi, I noticed that nslu2-utils was removed from unstable (#869430) in August 2017, but at the moment we have a constraint to keep it in testing for d-i. Please let us know when we can drop this constraint and let britney remove nslu2-utils from testing. Thanks, ~Niels

RC buggy packages kept in testing due to d-i

Hi, I noticed that apex and nis are currently testing despite the auto-remover wanting to remove them (#865585 and #862778). At the moment, they are (only) retained due to a constraint that ensures that d-i's packages are all present and installable. Please have a look at these packages and let

Re: Bug#886968: btrfs-progs-udeb: depends on non-udeb: libzstd1

clone 886968 -1 retitle -1 debhelper: Make -V the default for dh_makeshlibs severity -1 wishlist tags -1 patch thanks Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: > [...] > > It's not in policy (but I don't think it has to be), but following the > conversation on #-ftp yesterday I opened: > > #895949 lintian: warn

Re: debian-archive-keyring_2017.7+exp_source.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

Cyril Brulebois: > Hi, > > Debian FTP Masters (2017-12-16): >> debian-archive-keyring (2017.7+exp) experimental; urgency=medium >> . >>* Team upload. >>* Install separate keyrings for each release in /usr/share/keyrings >> (both in the regular deb

Re: [debhelper-devel] Bug#879478: debhelper: dh_testroot regression: relies on debian/control

Cyril Brulebois: > Package: debhelper > Version: 10.10 > Severity: serious > Tags: d-i > Justification: triggers FTBFS > > [ Please keep both debian-boot@ and myself in the loop, thanks. ] > > Hi, > > debian-installer uses compat 7, a build/ directory, and its daily-build > script is started

Re: Use better compression for udebs?

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:44:30 +0300 Adrian Bunk wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 10.2.5 > Severity: normal > > Following up on an observation I made in #868674: > > udebs are currently compressed with "xz -1 -extreme", > while normal packages are compressed with "xz -6". >

Re: Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority

On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 15:54:00 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: > Ansgar Burchardt writes: > > > I discussed this a bit on IRC with the other ftp-masters and we came to > > this summary: > > > 0) We would like to drop the requirement for packages to not depend on > >

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20170608

Cyril Brulebois: > Release team, please hint it into testing: > > unblock debian-installer/20170608 > urgent debian-installer/20170608 > > > [...] Hints added, thanks. ~Niels

Re: Preparation for d-i RC5?

Cyril Brulebois: > Hi, > > Samuel Thibault (2017-06-08): >> Could we have an unblock for installation-guide=20170607 to be in d-i >> RC5, to be uploaded soon? > > This was definitely on my checklist for stretch; release team: unblock > welcome. > > Samuel: Thanks again

Re: [d-i/stretch] Status on Installation guide and Release notes (from a d-i PoV)

Baptiste Jammet: > Hello, > > Dixit Niels Thykier, le 03/04/2017 : > >> Please let reply to this thread once the changes have been done, so I >> can mark them as done in my checklist. :) > Doing so, see > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2017/0

Re: Preparation for d-i RC4?

Samuel Thibault: > Hello, > > Could we have an unblock for installation-guide=20170525 to be in d-i > RC4, to be uploaded soon? > > Thanks, > Samuel > Done. Thanks, ~Niels

Re: Bug#862746: unblock: simple-cdd/0.6.5

Cyril Brulebois: > Vagrant Cascadian (2017-05-16): >> Package: release.debian.org >> Severity: normal >> User: release.debian@packages.debian.org >> Usertags: unblock >> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org, >> simple-cdd-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org >> >> Thanks

Re: [d-i/stretch] Status on Installation guide and Release notes (from a d-i PoV)

Holger Wansing: > Hi, > > [...] > > After Samuel's commits > https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i?view=revision=70661 > and > https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i?view=revision=70695 > this issue is now done. > > > Holger > > Thanks for the follow up and thanks to Samuel for the work :)

Re: Bug#860370: unblock: cracklib2/2.9.2-4

Cyril Brulebois: > Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> (2017-04-15): >> Jan Dittberner: >>> Package: release.debian.org >>> Severity: normal >>> User: release.debian@packages.debian.org >>> Usertags: unblock >>> >>> Please unb

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20170407

Cyril Brulebois: > Hi, > > FTPmasters, please sync the installer from sid to testing: > > dak copy-installer 20170407 > > > Release team, please hint it into testing: > > urgent debian-installer/20170407 > > > KiBi. > I have urgent'ed the installer. :) Thanks, ~Niels

Re: [d-i/stretch] Status on Installation guide and Release notes (from a d-i PoV)

Baptiste Jammet: > Hi, > > Dixit Niels Thykier, le 03/04/2017 : > >>> * release-notes: d-i team signoff for specials with this update >>> (check esp. if old versions of d-i should be purged if new versions >>> enter $suite's d-i area) >>> >&

Re: [d-i/stretch] Status on Installation guide and Release notes (from a d-i PoV)

Niels Thykier: > Hi, > > There are two d-i related items in the release checklist that we need > input from the d-i team[1] > > Items are: > * Installation Guide should be up-to-date Besides the "arm" notes that Holger + Samuel brought up, I have not heard an

Re: [d-i/stretch] Status on Installation guide and Release notes (from a d-i PoV)

Samuel Thibault: > Holger Wansing, on dim. 26 mars 2017 19:16:00 +0200, wrote: >> Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote: >>> There are two d-i related items in the release checklist that we need >>> input from the d-i team[1] >>> >>> Items

Re: Bug#858943: unblock: systemd/232-22

Cyril Brulebois: > → ACK for the whole lot. > > > KiBi. Unblocked, thanks. ~Niels

Re: Various unblock-udebs

Cyril Brulebois: > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (2017-03-26): >> - pcre3 > > ACK. > >> - screen > > Already ACK'd separately. > >> - glib2.0 > > ACK. > >> - dmraid > > config.{guess,sub} updates, and version encoded in directories = yay. > > No objections anyway. > >> -

[d-i/stretch] Status on Installation guide and Release notes (from a d-i PoV)

Hi, There are two d-i related items in the release checklist that we need input from the d-i team[1] Items are: * Installation Guide should be up-to-date * release-notes: d-i team signoff for specials with this update (check esp. if old versions of d-i should be purged if new versions enter

Re: Various unblock-udebs

Cyril Brulebois: > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (2017-02-22): >> On 22/02/17 00:29, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >>> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (2017-02-22): #854616scdaemonscdaemon cannot access yubikey using ccid driver without pcscd >>> >>> Not sure

Re: Bug#855432: unblock: openssl/1.1.0e-1

Cyril Brulebois: > Cyril Brulebois (2017-02-21): >> I think that should work, yes. Please let me know when that's happened, >> and I'll do the testing as soon as possible. > > This has happened, and building a netboot-gtk image with stretch udebs > and with p-u enabled got me a

Re: Various unblock-udebs

Cyril Brulebois: > Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (2017-02-22): >> Some more: >> >> #854474 src:alsa-libalsa-lib: FTBFS when built with >> dpkg-buildpackage -A > > No objections. > >> #854616 scdaemonscdaemon cannot access yubikey using ccid >> driver without

Re: Bug#855432: unblock: openssl/1.1.0e-1

Cyril Brulebois: > Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> (2017-02-19): >> [...] > > Hrm. You mentioned on IRC you were pondering possibly rebuilding wget > against 1.1 for stretch; if that happens, this needs d-i testing… > > > KiBi. > I did and I agree on t

Re: Bug#855432: unblock: openssl/1.1.0e-1

Cyril Brulebois: > Kurt Roeckx (2017-02-18): >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 06:16:28PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >>> How soon do you want to see this package in testing? Given I've just >>> fixed a few things related to https support in d-i, it would be nice if >>> I were able to

Re: Various unblock-udebs

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: > On 14/02/17 03:48, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Emilio asked me on IRC to have a look at a bunch of packages which both >> have block-udeb and RC bug fixes. Here's a list with comments, I'm OK >> with unblock-udeb'ing most of them (which doesn't mean you

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20170127

Cyril Brulebois: > Hi, > > FTPmasters, please sync the installer from sid to testing: > > dak copy-installer 20170127 > > > Release team, please hint it into testing: > > urgent debian-installer/20170127 > > > KiBi. > Urgented. ~Niels

Bug#849912: preseed: xgettext fails on PO template (non-ASCII entry without explicit encoding set)

Package: preseed Version: 1.76 Severity: normal Hi, Noticed this issue in the lintian archive wide processing (runs stable w. -backports): """ N: Processing source package preseed (version 1.76, arch source) ... [...] ERROR: xgettext failed to generate PO template file because there is

Artwork submission period ended (Was: Call for Stretch artwork proposals)

Hi, The submission period for the Stretch work is now over. We have received 11 (confirmed) submissions for Stretch. Please give a hand to the artists, whom took their time to prepare an artwork submission for Debian Stretch! :) * Alberto Moshpirit (3 submissions) * Federico Mosquera *

Re: [PATCH] Add Stretch pages

Holger Wansing: > [Added debian-boot to the loop] > > > [...] > > There is some room for improvement with the current debian-installer page for > Stretch: https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/debian-installer/ > contains the chapter for Stretch (stable) images > ("To install Debian

Bug#830869: [debhelper-devel] Bug#830869: debhelper: script fails first stage due to missing devices.tar.gz despite no longer being used

Alex Bennée: > > Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> writes: > >> Alex Bennée: >>> Package: debhelper >>> Severity: normal >>> >> >> Hi Alex, >> >> I am a bit confused by this bug. Did you perhaps intend to submit it >>

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20160516

Cyril Brulebois: > Hi again, > > [...] > Release team: since that's a binNMU, the source is already in > testing, so no action needed AFAICT? > > > KiBi. > Indeed, Britney will try it on the next run. ~Niels

[Decision] Kernel version for stretch

Hi, On the Release Team's IRC meeting today we concluded the following[1]: * We expect to release Stretch with the LTS release based on Linux 4.10 * We intend to delay the freeze (all milestone dates) by 2 months to accommodate the above. - Note that the expected release date of Linux

Re: Kernel version for stretch

Ben Hutchings: > On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 07:34 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: > [...] >> >> Would you prefer that we moved future freezes (i.e. Buster and later), >> so we could always rely on Greg's branch? > > Yes, I would. > Ok, we will take it into considera

Re: Kernel version for stretch

Hi Ben, Pulling in d-i on this, since they might be affected by this. If you know of a maintainer that would be similarly affected, let me know, so we can ask them as well. Ben Hutchings: > [...] > > For stretch, I would very much like to choose a kernel version for > stretch that gets

Re: Please dak copy-installer 20160106

Cyril Brulebois: > [ not sure what happened with my previous mail… retrying with the right > version this time. ] > > Hi, > > FTPmasters, please sync the installer from sid to testing: > > dak copy-installer 20160106 > > > Release team, please hint it into testing: > > urgent

Re: Fixing udev-udeb vs. net.ifnames for Stretch Alpha 1

On 2015-07-16 09:23, Cyril Brulebois wrote: As for doing a t-p-u: sounds fine with me. I'll be around today/Thursday but then away until Monday. But systemd is in more then capable hands with Martin. I'm attaching the source debdiff against the version in testing to this mail, so that

Re: D-I Stretch Alpha 1: block-udeb * for a few days?

On 2015-07-13 01:36, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hello release team, Now that linux is built on all archs, we're able to contemplate a d-i release. I'm wondering whether enabling all block-udeb entries from the freeze hints file would be appropriate to make sure that no last moment update

Re: On ddebs for udebs

On 2015-06-02 21:06, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2015-06-02 13:25, Steve McIntyre wrote: Actually, I think they might be useful just for helping with core dumps after the fact? We don't tend to have that many binary-arch udebs, but debugging a crash is difficult in-situ. At least getting a core

On ddebs for udebs

Hi, There is an existing experimental patch series for debhelper to have it automatically create ddebs[1][2]. Currently, it /also/ happens for udebs, which leads me to: * Is it useful for you to have ddebs generated from udebs? * Are there limitations or tweaks that I should be aware of in

Bug#783411: Memory leak in libtextwrap

On 2015-04-28 06:52, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Niels Thykier (ni...@thykier.net): Control: retitle -1 libtextwrap: Memory leak in libtextwrap Well, there were potential memory leaks too in cdebconf, no? Given that it appeared inocuous, I committed Niels' patch to cdebconf

Bug#783411: Possible memory leak in cdebconf-udeb

Control: tags -1 confirmed On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 15:31:17 -0400 =?utf-8?b?R3VvIFlpeHVhbiAo6YOt5rqi6K2eKQ==?= culu@gmail.com wrote: Package: cdebconf-udeb Source: cdebconf Severity: normal Tags: d-i Hello, I'm trying to use jessie RC-3 to install on a powerpc (Power Mac G5). When

Re: Bug#780573: release-notes: Review from the d-i team

On 2015-04-20 08:26, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Le dimanche, 19 avril 2015, 20.17:27 Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de (2015-04-19): The release-notes currently contain Graphical installer Graphical installer is now the default on supported

Re: Bug#780573: release-notes: Review from the d-i team

On 2015-04-19 21:23, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net wrote: I tried to ask in #debian-i18n about the new languages, but so far no one has replied me. I am a bit overbooked, so if any you have time to follow on that, then I would greatly appreciate it. I have

Re: Bug#780573: release-notes: Review from the d-i team

On 2015-04-11 08:07, Baptiste Jammet wrote: Hello, Dixit Niels Thykier, le 16/03/2015 : I am contacting you to do a final review of the release-notes for the d-i related topics (as listed on [1]): Here are some items I think it's important to highlight, taken from d-i release

Re: Bug#782712: pre-upload unblock request: systemd/215-17 for RC bug #751707

On 2015-04-17 15:44, Martin Pitt wrote: Hello all, Cyril Brulebois [2015-04-17 14:15 +0200]: I tried to follow the code path in Ubuntu, which offers this option, to track down where the offset can come from; and see whether Debian was affected. I didn't mean to imply that Debian proposes

Bug#781075: sbuild: Breaks d-i build by assuming it is a deb

Source: sbuild Version: 0.65.1-1 Severity: grave Tags: d-i User: release.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: jessie-is-blocker Hi, The debian-installer currently FTBFS on various architectures, but the build itself is followed by I: Built successfully. Then there is a message later saying

Re: Hints for d-i jessie RC2, part 3

On 2015-03-19 03:09, Cyril Brulebois wrote: [...] Thank you. Could we get those added as well please? # fix for nasty bug #778773: unblock partman-base/183 unblock-udeb partman-base/183 # no objection from d-i PoV at first glance: unblock-udeb openssh/1:6.7p1-4 Ack, approved

Re: Hints for d-i jessie RC2, part 3

On 2015-03-18 16:25, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, here's another list of stuff that would be nice to unblock. Feel free to urgent anything (from this list or from the previous ones), so that we don't get previous hints obsoleted. [...] Mraw, KiBi. Unblocked, thanks. ~Niels --

Bug#780573: release-notes: Review from the d-i team

Package: release-notes Severity: normal Dear installer team, I am contacting you to do a final review of the release-notes for the d-i related topics (as listed on [1]): Check with d-i team for specials with this update (check esp. if old versions of d-i should be purged if new versions enter

Re: Bug#776928: unblock: debian-installer-netboot-images/20150107

On 2015-03-08 20:38, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Control: tag -1 confirmed [...] KiBi, if you (as d-i RM) are happy with that, I am willing to make the exception - you are the one that gets to keep the pieces if it breaks. :) Sure, fair enough; let's do that, ta! Mraw, KiBi. Unblocked,

Re: Bug#776928: unblock: debian-installer-netboot-images/20150107

Control: tags -1 -moreinfo d-i On 2015-02-09 22:14, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Hi all, Le dimanche, 8 février 2015, 21.54:04 Cyril Brulebois a écrit : Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net (2015-02-06): [...] Since d-i-n-i is basically about collecting files in packages (see get-images.sh

Re: Hints for d-i jessie RC2, part 1

On 2015-03-05 12:16, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (2015-03-05): Cyril Brulebois, le Thu 05 Mar 2015 07:07:27 +0100, a écrit : here's a first round of unblock/unblock-udeb hints for the upcoming d-i jessie RC2. Don't hesitate to ask questions if anything looks

Re: Hints for d-i jessie RC2, part 1

On 2015-03-05 07:07, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi people, here's a first round of unblock/unblock-udeb hints for the upcoming d-i jessie RC2. Don't hesitate to ask questions if anything looks fishy. Hi, Done all except: [...] # various keymap/options/etc. changes: unblock

Re: Bug#769388: 'PermitRootLogin without-password' in new installations breaks some use cases

On 2015-01-26 00:16, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net (2015-01-16): On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:08:45 + Simon McVittie s...@debian.org wrote: Another possibility would be to use a low-priority question that is only shown in the expert installer, but can be pre-seeded

Re: Bug#775025: unblock: openssl/1.0.1k-1

On 2015-01-25 22:16, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Control: tag -1 confirmed Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be (2015-01-20): Can you ACK that, or is there someone else in the d-i team that can do that? Not at the time this unblock was requested or pinged, but right now: yes. Mraw, KiBi. Added

Re: Bug#769388: 'PermitRootLogin without-password' in new installations breaks some use cases

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:08:45 + Simon McVittie s...@debian.org wrote: [...] Hi, Thanks for the summary. CC'ing debian-boot as I suspect the easiest solution will involve documentation this in the installation-guide. [...] * However, new installations of Debian 8 do not ask which

Re: installer should give warning when creating GPT without BIOS BOOT partition

reopen 644430 reassign 644430 installation-guide On 2014-11-26 10:31, pille wrote: so was this addressed in =7 versions? Sorry, it seems your request was parked at the wrong package - assuming I understand your request correct. What you seem to be wanting is that the installation-guide had a

Lintian's control-file-is-empty and udebs

Hi, Reviewing a part of the Lintian code, I noticed the following[1]: # I'm not sure about the udeb case if ($type ne 'udeb' and $file-size == 0) { tag 'control-file-is-empty', $file; } My question is: Are there control files for udebs where it makes sense

Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors

On 2014-02-25 17:56, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2014-02-13): [...] Failing a short resolution, I'm tempted to pretend sparc isn't an issue, and maybe ask for a migration to testing + dak copy-installer. @debian-release: would that sound reasonable? Ping?

Re: d-i wheezy rc2 preparation, take 2

On 2013-04-07 13:23, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hello folks, here's another set of queries. Please hurry those into testing: - apt-setup/1:0.79 l10n + apt-setup/multiarch unbreakage. Even if AFAICT it's undocumented, keeping nonworking cruft looks like a bad idea since we

Re: d-i wheezy rc2 preparation, take 1

On 2013-04-08 02:02, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Updated summary: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (07/04/2013): Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (06/04/2013): Things I'd like to see merged: - netcfg (preseed bug -- fixed in git -- and iw installation); awaiting some bits of review for the

Re: d-i wheezy rc2 preparation, take 1

On 2013-04-06 10:38, Christian PERRIER wrote: Things that want to be migrated (release managers, please push them to testing): - partman-base/165 (l10n + kbsd fix). Unblocked by Adam. - yaboot-installer/1.1.26; fix submitted a while ago, but never reviewed/uploaded until now, mea

Re: Please dak copy-installer, urgent debian-installer

On 2013-02-13 19:25, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, this is this time of the release again! ftpmasters: please dak copy-installer 20130211 release team: please urgent debian-installer/20130211 Thanks! Mraw, KiBi. Urgented. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: More-or-less final unblocks for rc1

On 2013-02-10 16:14, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hello folks, please unblock urgent (if needed) the following packages: # lacks a reference to #696786, changelog fixed in git master: lowmem/1.38 # fix missing network configuration in the installed system on bsd: netcfg/1.106 Mraw,

Re: anna: t-p-u upload?

On 2013-01-28 02:54, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org (06/01/2013): Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org (03/01/2013): Well, it had two translation updates, one being Jordi's harmonization of double l in Catalan, so it

Re: debian-installer-utils for wheezy

On 2013-01-28 02:34, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org (03/01/2013): Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): I'd like you to figure out whether you want the *.po updates from 1.92 to 1.94 in master to be cherry-picked in the wheezy branch which is the base for a

Re: Bug#695343: t-p-u syslinux/2:4.05+dfsg-6+deb7u1 [d-i]

On 2012-12-20 05:19, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, and sorry for the lag (as said on IRC, cc:kibi would have made me reply earlier ;p). Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net (10/12/2012): Control: tags -1 d-i On 2012-12-10 13:32, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: Hi Ivo [...] Uploaded to t-p-u

Re: Bug#695343: t-p-u syslinux/2:4.05+dfsg-6+deb7u1 [d-i]

Control: tags -1 d-i On 2012-12-10 13:32, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: Hi Ivo [...] Uploaded to t-p-u as posted on debian-mentors. Regards, Salvatore Approved from my PoV, just needs a d-i ack. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Unexpanded #DEBHELPER# tokens

On Oct 25, 2012 01:53 Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Hello folks, [...] Lintian folks, maybe it would be nice to have some check to detect unexpanded #DEBHELPER# tokens in maintainer scripts (as shipped in binary packages)? Mraw, KiBi. As far as I understand dh_installdeb

Re: Unexpanded #DEBHELPER# tokens

On 2012-10-25 08:49, Niels Thykier wrote: On Oct 25, 2012 01:53 Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Hello folks, [...] Lintian folks, maybe it would be nice to have some check to detect unexpanded #DEBHELPER# tokens in maintainer scripts (as shipped in binary packages)? Mraw, KiBi

Bug#651299: Installation-report: ASUS Squeeze

Package: installation-reports -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB pen with NetInst CD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-6.0.3-amd64-netinst.iso (Last-Modified: 08-Oct-2011 21:53) Date: 07-Dec 2011