Re: An appeal to d-i devs for software freedom

2023-12-31 Thread Russell Hernandez Ruiz
On Sun, 2023-12-31 at 09:26 -0600, Russell Hernandez Ruiz wrote: > would you kindly point me to where this is controlled? It appears that the answer is: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/apt-setup Handy-dandy https://codesearch.debian.net gives this as the sole match. I am writing the

Re: An appeal to d-i devs for software freedom

2023-12-31 Thread Russell Hernandez Ruiz
Submitted merge requests here https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/apt-setup/-/merge_requests/14 and here https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/apt-setup/-/merge_requests/15

Bug#806900: partman-multipath: issue remains in Debian 12

2023-12-31 Thread Jarl Gullberg
Source: partman-multipath Version: 7 Followup-For: Bug #806900 X-Debbugs-Cc: jarl.gullb...@algiz.nu Dear Maintainer, This issue remains a blocker for multipath installations in Debian 12. In some experimentation on my end, the proposed patchset works fine and resolves the issue. I would advocate

Re: An appeal to d-i devs for software freedom

2023-12-31 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 06:59:55AM -0600, Russell Hernandez Ruiz wrote: > Dear debian-installer developers, Hi Russell, Hi Others, > I feel the need to begin this message by stating what it is NOT. This message > is > NOT meant to contest the decision to include non-free firmware in the >

busybox: CONFIG_FEATURE_DI_ENV_HACK: is it still needed?

2023-12-31 Thread Michael Tokarev
Hi! There's a debian-specific patch in busybox since 2017 which adds ability to lift variable name filtering rules for d-i. A comment in there says: This is not a long term fix for this problem: a different approach is needed to parse the values from the kernel command-line, but we

Re: An appeal to d-i devs for software freedom

2023-12-31 Thread Russell Hernandez Ruiz
On Sun, 2023-12-31 at 17:45 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > > Poke me saturday 13 january > I cannot; does not seem appropriate for a Sabbath. Also, that is my birthday. But I can poke the day after. I'll put it on my calendar.

An appeal to d-i devs for software freedom

2023-12-31 Thread Russell Hernandez Ruiz
Dear debian-installer developers, I feel the need to begin this message by stating what it is NOT. This message is NOT meant to contest the decision to include non-free firmware in the installer. This post concerns UI. Primary proposal: that the priority of the question concerning

Re: An appeal to d-i devs for software freedom

2023-12-31 Thread Russell Hernandez Ruiz
On Sun, 2023-12-31 at 16:13 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > Convert that into a patch and/or merge request. > I would have loved for that to be in the first, but I lack knowledge; would you kindly point me to where this is controlled? Then I am confident I could do it. > Groeten > Geert Stappers

Re: Immediate fallouts from the big linux changes, and actions

2023-12-31 Thread Roland Clobus
On 29/12/2023 12:14, Holger Levsen wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 08:04:19AM +0100, Roland Clobus wrote: Yesterday I published 3 fixes which got merged really quickly. [...] Now Jenkins is running fine for the live sid images again :-) In the next step, I'll check the trixie live builds.

Re: An appeal to d-i devs for software freedom

2023-12-31 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 09:26:42AM -0600, Russell Hernandez Ruiz wrote: > On Sun, 2023-12-31 at 16:13 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > > Convert that into a patch and/or merge request. > > > > I would have loved for that to be in the first, but I lack knowledge; > would you kindly point me to