Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?

2022-10-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2022-10-13 at 17:35 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > I'd prefer if we could make things work vs making things fail, > however loudly. There seem to be a few ways to deal with this transition: 1. Document it in the release notes and let users handle it. This means lots of users won't get

Re: bugreports housekeeping: closing yaboot-installer bugs

2020-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
fixed 735260 1.1.41+rm fixed 771040 1.1.41+rm fixed 795211 1.1.41+rm fixed 412723 1.1.41+rm fixed 267309 1.1.41+rm fixed 518399 1.1.41+rm fixed 688247 1.1.41+rm fixed 417525 1.1.41+rm fixed 264815 0.0.44+rm fixed 266123 0.0.44+rm fixed 274115 0.0.44+rm fixed 283142 0.0.44+rm fixed 383740 0.0.44+rm

Re: Graphical installer on arm64 (netboot and cdrom)

2020-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:15 AM Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > IMO, the right answer is "tty0 not even being in /proc/consoles in this > case (where it should've also been the /dev/console) is a kernel bug". I > tried to write a patchset [1] a while back, but received no feedback > except from kbuild

Bug#941300: finish-install: write random seed to correct location for chosen init system

2019-10-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 17:59 +0800, Ian Campbell wrote: > If it's going to override/shadow (as opposed to simply working > alongside/in parallel) urandom, probably it ought to also be looking > at/consuming the urandom seed? Perhaps. I'm not sure systemd upstream would be convinced though. --

Bug#941300: finish-install: write random seed to correct location for chosen init system

2019-10-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2019-10-01 at 11:55 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Wouldn't it just be easier to write it one location and replace the > other with a symlink to it? Looks like neither the urandom init script nor systemd-random-seed unlink the file before writing to it, so this could potentially work

Bug#941300: finish-install: write random seed to correct location for chosen init system

2019-09-28 Thread Paul Wise
Package: finish-install Version: 2.56 Severity: important Tags: security Control: found -1 2.81 Control: found -1 2.100 Control: found -1 2.101 finish-install creates a random seed in the location used by the urandom init script from the initscripts package. On systemd based systems,

Bug#693219: Bug#826709: Doesn't mention --foreign in help output

2018-03-31 Thread Paul Wise
CCing the maintainer of arch-test who will probably have some input. On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 11:32 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > + if [ "$HOST_ARCH" = "amd64" ] && [ "$ARCH" = "i386" ] ; then > + # i386 binary can be run on amd64 host It is a bad idea to hard-code this

Bug#876947: di-netboot-assistant: conffiles not removed

2017-09-26 Thread Paul Wise
Package: di-netboot-assistant Version: 0.49 Severity: normal User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: obsolete-conffile adequate The recent upgrade did not deal with obsolete conffiles properly. Please use the dpkg-maintscript-helper support provided by dh_installdeb to remove these obsolete

Re: Installation guide is not updated in some languages

2017-06-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > AFAICT, the notable difference is that files are named e.g. .html.en on > the website, while they are named .html in the package. These names make > sense in their respective contexts: we need a .html extension in the > package so that it

Re: Installation guide is not updated in some languages

2017-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > However, seeing the cron.git repository, I think you wanted debian-www? Some folks on debian-doc have debwww access IIRC. > I've poked #debian-www to see whether it might be a good idea to get a > debwww sudo a bit wider than just

Bug#859386: busybox sh: bogus home dir handling in cd and tilde expansion

2017-04-02 Thread Paul Wise
Package: busybox Version: 1:1.22.0-19+b2 Severity: normal Usertags: home The HOME environment variable does not have to be present, programs must fall back to the value in the passwd file. busybox sh does not do this in the following two places.  * When running cd without any argument  * When

Re: Default theme for Stretch

2016-11-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:00 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I'm wondering whether it would make sense to have some kind of todo list > for new desktop themes, with a list of packages needing an update. Maybe > that exists already? (I remembered this one by accident, while booting > up d-i and

Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2016-08-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 07:10 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Well, FTR it's exactly the kind of hardware I was using yesterday > (with the current jessie installer) Did you try with the cable plugged into only eth1?  If so, I guess this is fixed. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2016-08-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 17:48 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > What you put in the preseeding file has no effect for network > detection (at least in the case where this file is fetched over the > network). The preseeding I was talking about was added to the ISO IIRC. > So it's possible that this

Bug#826709: debootstrap: fail early when debootstrapping foreign arches whose binaries cannot be run

2016-06-08 Thread Paul Wise
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.81 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: ma...@python.it On #debian-mentors we had a person (CCed) who was trying to create an armhf chroot like this:   $ sudo debootstrap --arch=armhf testing /mnt This failed with this non-intuitive reason:   ...   W: Failure

Re: Going ahead with non-free-firmware

2016-01-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > I think there was consensus to introduce the non-free-firmware section > and move the non-free firmware blobs there. I'm wondering what we need > to do next? I have a question about the implementation; will non-free firmware be in

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Looking at the various proposals, those caught my attention: - get.debian.org - download.debian.org - install.debian.org - installer.debian.org I kind-of like the idea of pointing all of these to the relevant service. -- bye,

Bug#784709: issue with os-prober

2015-05-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 22:09 +0200, Jérôme Kieffer wrote: # uname -a ... # fdisk -l /dev/sdb ... # blkid /dev/sdb? ... /dev/sdb4: PTTYPE=dos PARTUUID=9a2578f7-04 ... The extended partition looks different from the other, but the result of blkid under 3.2 is the same as 3.16. Yep, as

Bug#784709: when would blkid success but not filesystem type?

2015-05-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 21 May 2015 13:07:35 +0200 Karel Zak wrote: The option '-s' does not affect return code ... we have information about all (including empty) partitions! Ok, I see. Sounds like the proposed patch is appropriate then.

Bug#784709: when would blkid success but not filesystem type?

2015-05-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 12:21 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2015 13:07:35 +0200 Karel Zak wrote: The option '-s' does not affect return code ... we have information about all (including empty) partitions! Ok, I see. Sounds like the proposed patch is appropriate then. https

Re: 8.1 (and maybe 7.9) planning

2015-05-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 16:27 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: press@ - ping? :-) ... Based on received responses and the current date, I'm proposing June 6th for 8.1 (and then looking at other dates for 7.9). Does that still work for people? I can be available as a backup for Neil if needed.

Bug#784709: when would blkid success but not filesystem type?

2015-05-21 Thread Paul Wise
In https://bugs.debian.org/784709 Jérôme Kieffer wrote: Here is the answer for the 3.16 kernel: jerome@patagonia:~$ sudo blkid -o value -s TYPE /dev/sdb4 jerome@patagonia:~$ echo $? 0 ... The output is the same on 3.2, as you can see on attached images. Anyone know when blkid would

Bug#784709: issue with os-prober

2015-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 20 May 2015 14:59:04 +0200 Jérôme Kieffer wrote: jerome@patagonia:~$ sudo blkid -o value -s TYPE /dev/sdb4 jerome@patagonia:~$ echo $? 0 That is strange, what about just this? sudo blkid /dev/sdb4 ; echo $? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc

Bug#784709: solution

2015-05-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 20 May 2015 02:35:52 +0200 Philippe Coval wrote: I managed to prevent this trouble by adding an extra test is os-prober We discussed this on #debian-boot: rzr hi , would anyone like to help fixing a critical bug ? https://bugs.debian.org/784709 rzr I want to push a patch upstream

Bug#784709: os-prober prevent the upgrade to jessie

2015-05-19 Thread Paul Wise
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Fri, 08 May 2015 00:06:12 +0200 Jerome Kieffer wrote: During the upgrade (apt-get dist-upgrade) of a computer from debian7 (Wheezy) to Debian8 (Jessie) the system still runs the kernel 3.2 from Wheezy; but the os-prober version used by update-grub is already the

Re: Packages to install be default for Stretch

2015-05-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: On 05/06/2015 11:34 AM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: cron is part of POSIX. The problem here is what the expectations of an experienced UNIX person are... Perhaps unix/posix tasks would satisfy such folks. -- bye, pabs

Re: Packages to install be default for Stretch

2015-05-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: * Same for question for dmidecode: could the priority be lowered to standard? As this relates to specific hardware/firmware, this should be moved to optional and d-i/isenkram/PackageKit/etc should install it when installing on the

Re: All image links missing on ../releases/jessie/debian-installer

2015-05-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/ is lacking all image links, the complete listing is empty. Looks like that got fixed during/after the release. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: obsolete info on https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/index.en.html

2015-04-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 14:25 +0200, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: I've gathered the sizes of each netinst iso (from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/jessie_di_rc3/ ): Probably that should be done automatically or manually as part of the release process so this never gets out of date? -- bye,

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Sandeep G.R wrote: I have a sid PPC64 from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports running on Freescale Powerpc. Is their PPC64(Big-Endian) for Jessie similarly? The PPC64 port didn't get added to jessie, if you want jessie you'll need to switch to ppc64el. If

adventures in UEFI PXE land

2015-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I had some adventures in UEFI land. I had an Intel NUC fried during a lightning storm but the hard drive was fine so I wanted to get the hard drive to boot within a new NUC. I didn't have any USB stick so I went with PXE boot from my laptop. The existing system on the hard drive was

Bug#774466: choose-mirror: references cdn.debian.net, which is deprecated

2015-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2015-01-03 at 23:59 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Please get the upstream file fixed? Filed #774528 -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#774466: choose-mirror: references cdn.debian.net, which is deprecated

2015-01-02 Thread Paul Wise
Source: choose-mirror Severity: important cdn.debian.net is in the process of being deprecated, orphaned and transitioned to http.debian.net, please remove it from the mirrors list. This should be fixed in both wheezy and jessie d-i.

Bug#769996: debian-installer: Possible help text for win32diskimager users

2014-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: [ Maybe this could better be added to the Debian website under ] [ http://www-staging.debian.org/CD/faq/index#write-usb ] [ instead of adding it to the installer manual ? ] [ debian-www in CC.

Bug#712907: grub-installer: No longer installs automatically on a normal machine with one hard drive

2014-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:55:16 +0200 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: To make it easier for teachers and others without knowledge about disk devices to install Debian Edu, I implemented this workaround for this issue in debian-edu-config: For those of you doing automatic installs via preseed on both

Bug#712907: grub-installer: No longer installs automatically on a normal machine with one hard drive

2014-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:20:16 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: d-i partman/early_command string debconf-set grub-installer/choose_bootdev $(echo /dev/[sv]d[a-z]) Woops, got the wrong debconf item, this one is correct: d-i partman/early_command string debconf-set grub-installer/bootdev $(echo /dev/[sv

Bug#763426: installation-report: installed system not bootable by default

2014-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:20:58AM +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote: The installed system was not bootable upon installation, but grub could be installed manually: I just tried the latest daily netinst and this issue appears to be fixed, please confirm. -- bye, pabs

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there?

2014-09-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: I guess I would want to see it installed on all non-chroot installs, hence maybe hw-detect makes more sense. If there's a SCSI/ATA disk drive, install smartmontools. Sounds good to me. You also need smart-notifier on desktops where the

[tasksel] [PATCH] Add missing dependency task-cinnamon-desktop - task-desktop

2014-09-09 Thread Paul Wise
dependency task-cinnamon-desktop - task-desktop + + -- Paul Wise p...@debian.org Wed, 10 Sep 2014 01:30:47 +0800 + tasksel (3.23) unstable; urgency=medium * Individual desktop environments are displayed by tasksel. diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 6645875..b3d7020 100644

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there? (reloaded)

2014-09-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: sum-up It's looking like some of the options are confusing for both advanced users and newbies. The technologies behind the tasks are hidden, and there's no obvious way to know what will happen (other than looking at the package source

Re: blends install preseeding?

2014-03-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: If firmware is needed (kernel reports this to udev) The Linux kernel no longer reports this: https://bugs.debian.org/725714 A natural step would be to provide the apt-file data fragment needed to figure out which package to download

Re: blends install preseeding?

2014-03-05 Thread Paul Wise
kOn Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:44 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: What I might do instead is give up on firmware-linux and for more more specific firmware check if any was used during install (e.g. using firmware-* netboot image or feeding firmware udebs from a separate USB stick) and if so install

blends install preseeding?

2014-03-03 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I noticed on the wiki that the DebianParl blend is working on install preseeding. I think this is a particularly interesting approach that might be interesting for more blends to adopt. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianParl#Profiles https://parl.debian.net/desktop/email/ One thing I

[base-installer] [PATCH] Create DPKG_CONFDIR before putting files in it

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
--- library.sh | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/library.sh b/library.sh index e40b51c..a89d7db 100644 --- a/library.sh +++ b/library.sh @@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ Acquire::https::Verify-Peer false; EOT fi + [ ! -d $DPKG_CONFDIR ] mkdir -p $DPKG_CONFDIR + #

[base-installer] [PATCH] Allow preseeding the debootstrap variant to use

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
--- debian/bootstrap-base.postinst | 5 + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst b/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst index 5beaf01..13950e7 100755 --- a/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst +++ b/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst @@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ if [ ! -e

Re: [base-installer] [PATCH] Create DPKG_CONFDIR before putting files in it

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 11:52 +0300, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hmm, I guess this doesn't hurt; but from what I can see, bootstrap-base.postinst calls that function after having installed the base system, and dpkg ships this directory. I only noticed that after I sent the patch, sorry. While trying

[base-installer] [PATCH] Allow preseeding the debootstrap variant to use

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Wise
--- debian/bootstrap-base.postinst | 6 ++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst b/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst index 5beaf01..ed2e0ab 100755 --- a/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst +++ b/debian/bootstrap-base.postinst @@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ if [ ! -e

Bug#739938: apt-install: log list of packages installed by the installer

2014-02-23 Thread Paul Wise
Package: di-utils Severity: wishlist File: /bin/apt-install Since my request in #730162 was rejected, how about creating a log of the packages installed by the installer using apt-install? apt-install appears to be the thing used within the installer to install hardware-specific things. I'm

Bug#730162: apt-install: prevent autoremoval of packages installed by the installer

2013-11-21 Thread Paul Wise
Package: di-utils Severity: wishlist File: /bin/apt-install It would be a good idea to prevent autoremoval of packages installed by the installer since users might mark all packages as automatically installed, autoremove stuff and have their power button not work due to acpi-support-base being

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: bizarre. ok, so the question is: what's a /init doing in the debian-installer initramfs, particularly as they're completely different? /init is in my desktop initramfs too, but not on the rootfs. It looks like a script

Re: modifying and verifying debian installer for armhf board (a10-eoma68)

2013-05-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: yea... i modified it to add DEBUG_BOOT=3 so that i could get in, then followed it through. /init is mounting /proc which then causes /sbin/init to fail to mount /proc. so there's something really odd going on. I

Re: debootstrap, bzcat and packages on install CDs containing data.tar.bz2 members

2013-05-19 Thread Paul Wise
Ignore me, the package indirectly depending on libpng was marked as Priority: required so debootstrap attempted to install it. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

debootstrap, bzcat and packages on install CDs containing data.tar.bz2 members

2013-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
[I'm not subscribed, please CC me in reply] I'm remastering the install CDs to do offline installs of a custom package and its dependencies. I am updating the apt repository on the CD to include the package and its dependencies. One of the dependencies (libpng) has a data.tar.bz2 member in it.

default LUKS/LVM names

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, The current default names for an LVM on LUKS setup are: disk_crypt host-root host-swap_1 I would like something more consistent like these: host-crypt host-root host-swap Any thoughts? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2013-02-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 23:24 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: Now I'm not sure why we're checking for a link in netcfg_autoconfig again without error handling, but why does it try the wrong ifname in the first place? In the auto selection process we should've picked one earlier that had a link

Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Wise
Package: netcfg Severity: normal Tags: d-i netcfg/choose_interface=auto in preseeding or on the installer kernel command-line fails to choose the right interface when the first interface has no link. This is annoying for automated installs from CD. For netboot installs, it is possible to use the

Bug#698909: installation-reports: successful install in GNOME Boxes using kFreeBSD

2013-01-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 19:47 +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: Not a problem... I've had a read through and we can follow up on some things in separate bug reports. Ok great. Yes, harmless. Should be able to silence it by picking out just the relevant bit from Jeff Epler's patch here:

Bug#698909: installation-reports: successful install in GNOME Boxes using kFreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Wise
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal I did a successful install of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD in a GNOME Boxes virtual machine running on a Debian GNU/Linux (wheezy) system. -- Package-specific info: Boot method: GNOME Boxes booted the ISO for me Image version:

Bug#698909: installation-reports: successful install in GNOME Boxes using kFreeBSD

2013-01-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 06:58 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Given that your installation was a complete success, I do as usual with reports for successful installations: I close the bug..:-) It wasn't a complete success, my report contained a few issues that could/should be polished up, I

Re: CD1 without a network mirror isn't sufficient to install a full desktop environment

2012-09-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Ztatik Light wrote: But, even *more* reason to not entirely push GNOME aside for Xfce. ;) That hasn't happened at all, the tech media you have been reading and believing neglected to check their facts: pabs@chianamo ~/tasksel-3.13 $ grep -A3 tasksel/desktop

Re: EFI BoF at DebConf

2012-07-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Here's a summary of what we discussed in the EFI BoF [1] last week (9th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case you missed it. I've also attached the Gobby

Re: debian-cd BoF at DebConf

2012-07-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: Here's a summary of what we discussed in the debian-cd BoF [1] last week (9th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case you missed it. I've

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Wookey wrote: And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to put on. It's no wonder newbs are still downloading CD/DVD images. I thought HD-media was a thing of the

Bug#668128: task-desktop: please adjust xorg depends to allow having just one input/video driver installed

2012-04-08 Thread Paul Wise
Package: task-desktop Severity: wishlist Currently task-desktop uses these depends on video, input drivers: Depends: ... xserver-xorg-video-all, xserver-xorg-input-all It would be good if it could use these depends instead: Depends: ... xserver-xorg-video-all | xorg-driver-video,

Bug#660057: task-chinese-s-desktop: please remove recommends on x-ttcidfont-conf

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Wise
Package: task-chinese-s-desktop Severity: wishlist Usertags: defoma-removal Please remove the recommends on x-ttcidfont-conf. It has been removed from Debian as part of the defoma removal: http://wiki.debian.org/OldPkgRemovals#defoma -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Bug#660058: task-chinese-t-desktop: please remove recommends on x-ttcidfont-conf

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Wise
Package: task-chinese-t-desktop Severity: wishlist Usertags: defoma-removal Please remove the recommends on x-ttcidfont-conf. It has been removed from Debian as part of the defoma removal: http://wiki.debian.org/OldPkgRemovals#defoma -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Needed input from Australian users and developers:; choosing timezones for Australia in D-I

2011-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
I agree with the other Australians in the thread; the east-coast timezones are currently all the same but might not be in the future so we shouldn't rely on them being the same and we should allow selection of Australia/Sydney vs Australia/Melbourne. I would suggest doing what Ubuntu do for

Re: Announcing d-i betas / rcs properly

2011-01-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 18:33 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: So, hoping that I don't distract you from your job, do you have any timeline? And can you tell us, what we should announce / where we can find your changes? In the meantime RC1 was announced on d-d-a. I've taken the liberty

Re: Activating t-p-u by default (was: Re: For those who care about their packages in Debian)

2010-08-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org): Hmhm, out of curiosity, why is t-p-u “way riskier”. Mostly because there isn't any large pool of systems using t-p-u the way there is for unstable, so the aging process where

unblock busybox?

2010-06-19 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Would it be possible to unblock busybox? It has been waiting for 117 days with no RC bugs. If it is not unblocked then there will be no udhcpc/udhcpc packages in squeeze (there were in lenny). [I'm subscribed to -release, no need to CC] -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

unblock freetype, cairo, pango1.0?

2009-08-10 Thread Paul Wise
Hi, Would it be appropriate to unblock freetype, cairo and pango1.0? All three seem to be frozen due to udebs (debian-boot CCed). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Coordinating efforts to get a new kernel in testing?

2009-07-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote: Like FTBFS of linux-modules-extra-2.6 on 3 architectures I guess? That seemed to me like a valid reason not to want to migrate .29 to testing. Also the armel linux-2.6 FTBFS:

unblock fontconfig?

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, fontconfig has been waiting 21 days for migration, perhaps it should be unblocked? No RC bugs were filed during that time. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

unblock vte?

2009-07-01 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Looks like vte can be migrated to testing. Unblocking it will allow 3 other packages to immediately migrate too and in time, 5 more packages. http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=vte;printalldeps=1 http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?waiting=vte -- bye,

nano migration

2009-06-29 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Would it be acceptable to allow nano into testing finally? It has been waiting for 84 days for the maintainer to request migration to testing. BTW, has there been any progress towards automatic udeb migration? Even just an automatic ping, nano has been waiting for 10 days to -boot,

Re: How about playing a game while installing Debian?

2009-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Evgeni Golov wrote: some time ago I was cleaning the gnujump package and noticed some commented notes about udeb creation in the packaging, asking the main-maintainer, he said that this was an idea to give users the possibility to play while waiting for D-I,

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: as grub was not really maintained. Also grub2 doesn't seems so fast in development. I think these kind of project have difficult to maintain motivated maintainer. I would really love to own a computer that used coreboot, Linux and

Bug#520999: [INTL:kk] Kazakh debconf templates translation

2009-03-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 20:38 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:00:52PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Please note that NSIS does not use gettext for localization and is completely external to Debianso we cannot really help here. Technically, we could help by

Re: please unblock mdadm 2.6.8-12-gb47dff6-2

2009-02-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:33 AM, martin f krafft madd...@debian.org wrote: please unblock mdadm 2.6.8-12-gb47dff6-2 PS: why are udeb-providers blocked right after a stable release? They are always blocked (before, after and during the freeze) so that the installer team has to approve each

Bug#517174: win32-loader: FTBFS: error: exdll.h: No such file or directory

2009-02-26 Thread Paul Wise
Package: win32-loader Version: 0.6.10 Severity: serious Tags: sid Due to some upstream changes in the way nsis has plugins built, win32-loader FTBFS and will need to be adapted. Please see the nsis README.Debian file for more information about that. The good news is this is much less ad-hoc than

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

2009-02-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: That sounds fishy. As I understand it, win32-loader can start the installer from Windows, not needing a reboot (thus not needing BIOS boot order reconfiguration either). I doubt Windows stays running during installation,

Bug#511625: [INTL:ast] Asturian win32-loader templates translation

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 11:01 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: I'm not familiar with NSIS internally. I think they use some win32 API that is equivalent to gettext. In principle it's limited to the set of languages supported by MS (which I think doesn't include Asturian), but I think there are

Bug#511625: [INTL:ast] Asturian win32-loader templates translation

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 15:10 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: IMO the best thing to do would be to ask on the NSIS forum about supporting Asturian, but frankly it may not be possible. The Vista custom locale stuff may help there though. Maybe this helps:

Bug#510288: win32-loader: detect common Windows software and install the equivalents in Debian

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
Package: win32-loader Severity: wishlist I think it would be good if win32-loader could detect various Windows software and prompt the user to install the equivalents available in Debian. FOSS software for Windows could be directly mapped to the Debian packages. Machines containing games could

Bug#510288: win32-loader: detect common Windows software and install the equivalents in Debian

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 05:04 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: I think it would be more useful to migrate the settings for those applications than the list of installed apps itself. Note that the default desktop task already contains a balanced selection of programs that includes Iceweasel, OOo and

Bug#496177: installation-report: successful amd64 install on a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Wise
In addition, the resulting fstab did not specify relatime, which I expected since I was installing on a laptop: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass proc/proc procdefaults0 0

Bug#476389: os-prober: 476389: possible fix

2008-06-03 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I had this same problem on a non-LVM system - grub-pc postinst failing due to os-prober failing due to linux-boot-prober outputting improper lines mentioning non-existent devices. Commenting out line 81 of /usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/mounted/40grub2 fixes this issue on my system. Line 81

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 20:02 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: choose en_AU as an additional language - seems that en_AU.iso88591 got preseeded from debian.exe? If that is true, it would IMO be a pretty serious bug in win32-loader as Debian is supposed to be installed using UTF-8 locales

Bug#476777: win32-loader: doesn't restore the original timeout value from boot.ini on uninstall

2008-04-18 Thread Paul Wise
Package: win32-loader Version: 0.6.5 Severity: normal After uninstalling debian.exe, my system still waits for 30 seconds at the Windows boot prompt. It didn't do this before I installed debian.exe Looking at the code it seems that it modifies the timeout in boot.ini without first saving it

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 15:12 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Paul Wise wrote: The /etc/grub.d/30_otheros that was generated did not allow me to boot Windows. Simply changing (hd0,0) to (hd0,1) fixed this. Looks like grub2 uses 1-based partition indexes instead of 0-based ones like grub1 did

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 18:14 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: For the installation a serial mouse can probably be made working. Please try the following: - boot the installer with installgui BOOT_DEBUG=3 - in the debug shell, edit /etc/directfbrc and add the following line: mouse-source=device

Bug#473364: installation-report: some install glitches (grub2, tasksel, serial mouse)

2008-04-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 21:00 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Do you know if directfb can switch to a different mouse after g-i is already started? Well, we do a keymap switch, which is somewhat similar. Not sure if this will work, but could you try the following just to check: - boot the

Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot

2008-03-30 Thread Paul Wise
Package: grub-installer Version: 1.29 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did an install from debian.exe with d-i dailies to install sid (#473364). Unfortunately the /etc/grub.d/30_otheros that was generated did not allow me to boot Windows. Simply changing (hd0,0) to (hd0,1)

Re: Proposed release goal: Switch to GRUB2

2007-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
On 4/25/07, Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We, the GRUB team, want to swtich to GRUB2 due many reasons, basicaly: Looking at these: http://grub.enbug.org/CurrentStatus#head-3aeedb23576d9559e29d0da487861a82761d0f87

stuffit WAS: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, ...

2004-03-30 Thread Paul Wise
Hi, I noticed the oldworld mac discussion on DWN, and thought that you all might be interested to know that one of the compression methods for stuffit has been reverse engineered and documented. You might find that the author has source code for creating these kind of files, but that is just