Re: Bug#737658: some notes on util-linux takeover of eject

2020-05-03 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi, * Cyril Brulebois : > Michael Biebl (2017-10-24): > > But there is one complication: I noticed that eject in util-linux > > currently linux only. > > > > If we made the udeb linux-any, how would this affect the installer? > > It might mean a regression on kfreebsd-* (I don't see an

Re: Bug#959744: util-linux: install all libs into usr/lib

2020-05-04 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi Cyril, * Chris Hofstaedtler [200504 21:30]: > util-linux installs libraries into /lib and /usr/lib. It has been > requested that it should install everything into /usr/lib. > AFAIK there is no tracking bug for it, so here it is. > > Michael Biebl has provided a merge req

Re: Bug#963267: buster-pu: package multipath-tools/0.7.9-3+deb10u1

2020-07-06 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Adam D. Barratt [200706 17:17]: > Control: tags -1 + confirmed d-i > > On Sun, 2020-06-21 at 16:53 +0000, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > I'd like to push a fix for #959727 to buster. The bug causes us some > > trouble with block devices that are -sometimes- missing. I'

Bug#963573: partman-target: please add systemd hints to fstab

2020-06-23 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
systemd might umount newly mounted filesystems, if the in-memory mount units conflict with info in /etc/fstab. Please find a potential patch attached. Thanks, Chris >From 0cae8e3d5e18fae9961894336f5cd9bd0fdcc7f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Hofstaedtler Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 23:24:3

Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-04-29 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Cyril Brulebois [210429 18:03]: > Cyril Brulebois (2021-04-29): > > This time around, testing 1.43.0 with debian/ carried over from > > debian/1.42.4-8, adjusted for docs (some files are missing) and symbols > > (one new symbol), the problem cannot be triggered in an obvious manner. > > > >

Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-04-30 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Cyril Brulebois [210430 09:47]: > Anyway, looking at the diffstat between 1.43.0 (last known good) and > 1.44.4 (first known bad), we have this: > 179 files changed, 19157 insertions(+), 7045 deletions(-) > > Between 1.43.0 and 1.44 (if it were an earlier known bad): > 165 files changed,

Bug#985956: #985956 - missing kernel module in installer

2021-04-23 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Control: reassign -1 src:linux Control: retitle -1 Missing kernel module in install for Raspberry Pi 4 Ben already said in this bug report that src:linux also needs to be fixed for this to work.

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-24 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hello, * Holger Wansing [210424 21:42]: > While trying to debug another problem yesterday, I found that the RC1 > graphical > installer fails to go forward, when selecting one of these languages: > - Kannada > - Marathi > - Persian > - Sinhala I spent a few hours today

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-25 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi, * Holger Wansing [210425 11:34]: > Chris Hofstaedtler wrote (Sat, 24 Apr 2021 23:45:13 +0200): > > * Holger Wansing [210424 21:42]: > > > While trying to debug another problem yesterday, I found that the RC1 > > > graphical > > > installer fai

Bug#987449: [rc-1 graphical d-i] graphical installer hangs at language chooser step for several languages

2021-04-25 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Holger Wansing [210425 16:53]: > Chris Hofstaedtler wrote (Sun, 25 Apr 2021 14:13:05 +0200): > > While the -exact- same bug does not appear on the > > 20210424-7/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso image, I > > think the bug is still there, just better hidden.

Bug#982244: debian-installer: please stop using genisoimage

2021-02-07 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Control: tags -1 + patch * Chris Hofstaedtler [210207 16:17]: > As far as I can tell, debian-installer uses genisoimage only for > alpha and hppa. It _looks_ like the genisoimage invocations could > be trivially replaced with xorriso, but I do not have any systems to > test this. Un

Bug#982244: debian-installer: please stop using genisoimage

2021-02-07 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Source: debian-installer Version: 20201202 Severity: important Dear Debian Installer Maintainers, the debian-installer package depends on genisoimage, which as you know, comes from cdrkit. This causes cdrkit to be marked as a key package for the release. As far as I can tell, debian-installer

Bug#982244: debian-installer: please stop using genisoimage

2021-02-07 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [210207 17:24]: > On 2/7/21 5:18 PM, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > Untested patch below: > > An untested change to debian-installer isn't really something we can commit. I didn't suggest for you to commit it untested. Chris

Bug#982283: override: bsdmainutils:oldlibs/optional

2021-02-08 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, bsdmainutils has become a transitional package in bullseye. It would be great if we don't install it by default - right now its Priority: important. Changing this will probably make these utilities not available by default: from package ncal: cal

Re: Bug#982283: override: bsdmainutils:oldlibs/optional

2021-02-11 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Samuel Thibault [210211 00:56]: > As I mentioned previously in the bug, bsdutils (required) recommends > bsdextrautils, so for that part things don't change. > > For calendar and cal/ncal, the question indeed holds. For bsdmainutils > maintainers: I guess the goal of splitting them out of

Bug#991621: unblock: util-linux/2.36.1-8

2021-07-28 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
1-07-28 19:09:07.0 + @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +util-linux (2.36.1-8) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Apply upstream patch for CVE-2021-37600 (Closes: #991619) + + -- Chris Hofstaedtler Wed, 28 Jul 2021 19:09:07 + + util-linux (2.36.1-7) unstable; urgency=medium * libmount: allow -

Bug#1014925: hw-detect: Fails to install open-vm-tools if fuse is already installed

2022-07-28 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Ben Hutchings : [..] > Right. So this seems like a botched transition - fuse3 should have > taken over the fuse binary package but instead each reverse-dependency > has to be updated. I agree it would make sense in the short term to > force fuse3 installation. [..] > Thank you for pointing

Re: Bug#864423: Software RAID is not activated at boot time

2022-07-30 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi debian-boot, * László Böszörményi (GCS) [220730 15:34]: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 1:50 PM Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > whats the status of dmraid? Do you have dmraid hardware or is this > > merely on life-support? > Please note dmraid upstream is dead for more than

Re: Bug#864423: Software RAID is not activated at boot time

2022-07-30 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi Laszlo, whats the status of dmraid? Do you have dmraid hardware or is this merely on life-support? * Paul Gevers : > What would you say about this? Even if d-i would not need it anymore, we > would need work to drop the dependency chain via > libblockdev/udisks2/gnome-control-center. I'm

Re: Bug#1013079: installation-reports: GUI install option isn't visible on boot

2022-07-31 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Control: reassign -1 debian-cd Hi, * Holger Wansing : > > > - On Jun 17, 2022, at 7:43 AM, Philip Hands p...@hands.com wrote: > > > > > > > > https://openqa.debian.net/tests/60553#step/_boot_to_debianinstaller/2 > > > > > > > > if you look closely in the highlighted box, you can just

Re: Bug#864423: Software RAID is not activated at boot time

2022-08-02 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
16:44:50.0 + +++ dmraid-1.0.0.rc16/debian/changelog 2022-08-02 23:30:56.0 +0000 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +dmraid (1.0.0.rc16-11.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Drop udebs. + + -- Chris Hofstaedtler Tue, 02 Aug 2022 23:30:56 + + dmraid (1.0.0.r

Bug#1033524: Simplify the instructions for making bootable media

2023-03-26 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Steve McIntyre : > We should definitely also kill section 4.4.2: Loadlin is *dead* - > *nobody* has DOS any more. Section 5.1.4. "Booting from DOS using loadlin" should also go, I guess.

Bug#1033524: Simplify the instructions for making bootable media

2023-03-26 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* Steve McIntyre [230326 23:23]: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 12:52:41AM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > >* Steve McIntyre : > >> We should definitely also kill section 4.4.2: Loadlin is *dead* - > >> *nobody* has DOS any more. > > > >Section 5.1.4. "Bo

Bug#1033535: installation-guide: Remove dmraid information

2023-03-26 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Source: installation-guide Version: dmraid support was removed Severity: normal Tags: patch Please remove information related to dmraid from the installation-guide. Installer support for dmraid was removed in #864423. MR: https://salsa.debian.org/zeha/installation-guide/-/merge_requests/2 Chris

Bug#1058728: netcfg: Please switch away from wireless-tools

2023-12-15 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Source: netcfg Severity: important Hi, netcfg currently installs wireless-tools when configuring a WiFi interface without WPA key management. Please stop doing that. A possible solution is to always use wpa_supplicant, with wpa-key-mgmt NONE for no encryption. If I'm reading

Bug#1058729: netcfg: Please replace libiw-dev dependency

2023-12-15 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Source: netcfg Severity: normal Hi, libiw-dev / libiw30 come from src:wireless-tools 30~pre9, which is over a decade old (i.e. upstream unmaintained since 2009). Please stop using it. Thanks, Chris