Bug#751704: libparted ped_disk_clobber() overwrites firmware on some arm systems

2014-08-18 Thread Karsten Merker
Hello, the following is a discussion from the Debian bugtracking system regarding Debian Bug#751704 (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751704). It needs involvement from parted upstream, therefore I am forwarding it to bug-par...@gnu.org. Kind regards, Karsten - Forwarded

Re: Artwork for jessie?

2014-08-18 Thread juliette . belin
Hi, I've upload the theme with the rescaled logo. If everything is OK, I can start the others artworks to complete the theme. Regards, Juliette - Mail original - De: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org À: Vincent Blut vincent.deb...@free.fr Cc: Adrien Aubourg adrien.aubo...@gmail.com,

Re: Re: the audio group

2014-08-18 Thread Floris
which is fine. But what if people decide to later not use logind/systemd? In what does it hurt that the first created user is *also* added to the audio group? When a user is added to the audio group. He will always see all sound devices, even when logind tries to hide the device from the

Bug#758522: installation-reports: Jessie beta1 on Dell T410 successful

2014-08-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Jessie beta1 on Dell PowerEdge T410 installation was successful. I had to manually copy bnx2 firmware files into /lib/firmware/ but that is to be expected at this stage, I suppose. -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version:

Re: Re: the audio group

2014-08-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 03:24:50PM +0200, Floris wrote: which is fine. But what if people decide to later not use logind/systemd? In what does it hurt that the first created user is *also* added to the audio group? When a user is added to the audio group. He will always see all sound

Re: Re: the audio group

2014-08-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:52:34PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: And if we ignore the multi-seat stuff (which is going to be used by a *tiny* minority of users) there is no down-side. There are still likely going to be vastly more non-systemd users than multi-seat users. That sure sounds

Re: Re: the audio group

2014-08-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:22:16AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: That sure sounds likely. Perhaps there can be a README.multiseat in the systemd package that explains what changes to make for such a setup. Just because systemd is default doesn't mean everything else should stop working.

Re: Re: the audio group

2014-08-18 Thread Floris
Op Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:52:34 +0200 schreef Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 03:24:50PM +0200, Floris wrote: which is fine. But what if people decide to later not use logind/systemd? In what does it hurt that the first created user is *also* added to the audio

Re: Re: the audio group

2014-08-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 05:20:19PM +0200, Floris wrote: how about users who will login remotely? They also have full access to all the audio devices, even when they don't able to hear the music, because the speaker is on the other side of the world. Remote login might be from a computer

Re: Use dedicated partition for /boot/grub instead of /boot

2014-08-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:40:13AM -0500, Christopher Chavez wrote: 2. Would it be a better idea to only have /boot/grub, instead of /boot, on a separate partition? (I can confirm that it works both when installing and in existing setups, i.e. grub-install and update-grub both work as

Bug#751704: bug#18289: libparted ped_disk_clobber() overwrites firmware on some arm systems

2014-08-18 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 08:19:17AM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: Hello, the following is a discussion from the Debian bugtracking system regarding Debian Bug#751704 (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751704). It needs involvement from parted upstream, therefore I am forwarding

Re: Re: the audio group

2014-08-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steve McIntyre (st...@einval.com): On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 03:24:50PM +0200, Floris wrote: which is fine. But what if people decide to later not use logind/systemd? In what does it hurt that the first created user is *also* added to the audio group? When a user is added to

Bug#758522: marked as done (installation-reports: Jessie beta1 on Dell T410 successful)

2014-08-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:15:53 +0200 with message-id 20140818171553.gi3...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org and subject line Re: Bug#758522: installation-reports: Jessie beta1 on Dell T410 successful has caused the Debian Bug report #758522, regarding installation-reports: Jessie beta1 on

Re: Re: the audio group

2014-08-18 Thread Joey Hess
user-setup-apply is run in finish-install, so it can check if systemd is installed or not. The only downsides I see: * Still need to add the groups in non-systemd installations, eg freebsd, so this will be an point of difference that will need testing. * If a user chooses to remove systemd

Re: Use dedicated partition for /boot/grub instead of /boot

2014-08-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 00:40 -0500, Christopher Chavez wrote: (Please let me know if there's a better venue for collecting feedback for this idea, or additional ones I should solicit feedback from. I primarily use Ubuntu, but I assume this is as upstream as it gets.) Background: It has

Re: Artwork for jessie?

2014-08-18 Thread Zak
Hi Debian fellows, In fact I was on the point to upload various Debian 8 themes, unfortunately I had a huge computing problem and I lost my recent works (and so my Debian 8 theme propositions). So, I would like to know if it would be possible to wait until the 25th August before closing

Bug#758411: marked as done (d-i manual: aptitude is no longer the recommended package management tool)

2014-08-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:28:06 +0200 with message-id 20140818212806.fd90fa36b2db83f2b9bc6...@mailbox.org and subject line Re: Bug#758411: d-i manual: aptitude is no longer the recommended package management tool has caused the Debian Bug report #758411, regarding d-i manual:

Bug#751704: bug#18289: libparted ped_disk_clobber() overwrites firmware on some arm systems

2014-08-18 Thread Karsten Merker
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 09:59:49AM -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 08:19:17AM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: Hello, the following is a discussion from the Debian bugtracking system regarding Debian Bug#751704

Bug#485586: debian-installer: Default to graphical install

2014-08-18 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Holger Wansing hwans...@mailbox.org (2014-08-17): That would lead to more changes to the d-i manual IMO. Indeed, and since you were updating the manual already I thought it might make sense to batch everything together. At least: booting of

Bug#485586: debian-installer: Default to graphical install

2014-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Holger, and thanks for the proposed patch! Holger Wansing hwans...@mailbox.org (2014-08-18): Index: en/boot-installer/x86.xml === --- en/boot-installer/x86.xml (Revision 69238) +++ en/boot-installer/x86.xml (Arbeitskopie) @@

Bug#485586: debian-installer: Default to graphical install

2014-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Mon 18 Aug 2014 23:36:03 +0200, a écrit : +notepara + +The graphical installer requires significantly more memory to run than +the regular installer: minimum-memory-gtk;. If insufficient memory is +available, it will automatically fall back to the regular

Bug#485586: debian-installer: Default to graphical install

2014-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Helloo, Holger Wansing, le Mon 18 Aug 2014 23:07:11 +0200, a écrit : Basically I moved the chapter Appendix D.6. The Graphical Installer to 5.1.8 (at the end of Booting the installer on 32-bit PC), leaving the content unchanged. And I moved chapter Appendix D.6.1. Using the graphical

Bug#758581: debian-installer: FTBFS on armhf/network-console: No library provides non-weak __aeabi_unwind_cpp_pr0

2014-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: debian-installer Version: 20140802 Severity: serious Justification: FTBFS Hi, I've noticed what $Subject says through the daily builds. Looking at last successful build and today's (failing) one, a few things pops up: | -Unpacking libdebian-installer4-udeb (0.94) ... | +Unpacking

Bug#485586: debian-installer: Default to graphical install

2014-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2014-08-18): Now, hurd-i386 doesn't need caring about; kfreebsd-* architectures are looking quite badly already, so I won't change anything on those right now. I expect arm* people to tell us whether any change is needed for those, but since I see no menu

Bug#485586: debian-installer: Default to graphical install

2014-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ Adding -accessibility@ and -cd@ to the loop. ] Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (2014-08-17): On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 01:25:28PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Control: tag -1 confirmed Another issue is that it requires much more memory, but that IMO is not a blocker. It does require

Re: Bug#485586: debian-installer: Default to graphical install

2014-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Tue 19 Aug 2014 01:17:02 +0200, a écrit : = debian-accessibility@: if we go from i386 to amd64 by default, is there anything that needs to be done on your side (doc update etc.) Normally, only the installer manual would need an update. I don't see the multi-arch boot menu

Bug#757985: kfreebsd-* release status? (was: #757985: kfreebsd: d-i hangs)

2014-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ I'm adding -release@ to the loop. I tried to refrain from mentioning my concerns in the Jessie Beta 1 announce, that's why I used a quite neutral wording, but let's be honest: kfreebsd-* is looking bad right now. ] Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (2014-08-14): Steven Chamberlain

Processed: Re: Bug#758476: d-i manual: part about bootloader installation is missing in example preseed file 'preseed.txt'

2014-08-18 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: tags -1 + pending Bug #758476 [installation-guide] d-i manual: part about bootloader installation is missing in example preseed file 'preseed.txt' Added tag(s) pending. -- 758476: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758476 Debian Bug Tracking System

Bug#758476: d-i manual: part about bootloader installation is missing in example preseed file 'preseed.txt'

2014-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + pending Holger Wansing, le Sun 17 Aug 2014 22:59:19 +0200, a écrit : The relevant paragraph was set to arch=any-x86 with this commit: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/d-i/trunk/manual/en/appendix/preseed.xml?r1=65001r2=65009 This attribute works for building the manual

Re: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 1 release

2014-08-18 Thread cstrobel
I installed Jessie using a Braille display. Debian-Jessie-DI-b1-amd64-net inst.iso I tried to get Orca going like this. Open a text console and login as root: aptitude instal gnome-orca orca -t Now it tells me no speech is available, so I do aptitude install espeak orca -t Still no speech

Re: Re: the audio group

2014-08-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): user-setup-apply is run in finish-install, so it can check if systemd is installed or not. Interesting suggestion, yes. The only downsides I see: * Still need to add the groups in non-systemd installations, eg freebsd, so this will be an point of

Re: Bug#485586: debian-installer: Default to graphical install

2014-08-18 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hoy, Le mardi, 19 août 2014, 01.17:02 Cyril Brulebois a écrit : The default is Install right now, which installs i386. The topic of this bug report is switching to Graphical install by default, but shouldn't we also promote amd64 by default while we're at it? This would mean having 64 bit