Bug#496723: tasksel: Please add consolekit to the desktop task

2008-08-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: tasksel Version: 2.75 Severity: minor Hi, a standard GNOME or KDE desktop installs tools like gnome-power-manager, kpowersave and network-manager-(gnome|kde). This tools are used for powermanagement and network configuration and they access HAL and NetworkManager via D-Bus.

Bug#496723: tasksel: Please add consolekit to the desktop task

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Joey Hess wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: For a better out-of-the-box experience I'd like to see consolekit installed by default as part of the desktop and/or laptop task in lenny. I hope you're aware that lenny is frozen.. Of course I am. The simple truth is, that all the necessary bits

Re: Bug#500119: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#500119: Better way to avoid both knetworkmanager and nm-applet are started in parallel

2008-11-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Quoting Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Andrew Lee [Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:11:18 +0800]: Cc'ed this to debian-boot and debian-release. Dear RMs, This is only one line change in nm-applet.desktop which benefit other Window Managers and Desktops user. Please accept this change into Lenny.

Bug#375927: RAID: groot is always set to (hd0,0)

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: debian-installer Severity: grave I tried the latest dailly snapshot of the etch debian-install cd. The installation went pretty smoothly, there was one major issue though: I setup a software raid (RAID1) with the following layout: md0 (sda1,sdb1) = swap md1 (sda2,sdb2) = / The hard disks

Bug#375927: RAID: groot is always set to (hd0,0)

2006-06-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Frans Pop wrote: reassign 375927 installation-reports severity 375927 normal thanks On Thursday 29 June 2006 01:53, Michael Biebl wrote: md0 (sda1,sdb1) = swap md1 (sda2,sdb2) = / grub is installed correctly, but groot in /boot/grub/menu.lst is set to (hd0,0), so update-grub generates

Bug#554151: os-prober does not detect initramfs for dracut/F12

2009-11-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: os-prober Version: 1.35 Severity: normal Hi, Fedora 12 uses dracut to generate its initrd. This initrds are named /boot/initramfs-$ver.img. os-prober does not detect initrds named that way, thus creating an unbootable grub entry for Fedora Cheers, Michael -- System Information:

Bug#476184: os-prober: Mounted partitions after running update-grub

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: os-prober Version: 1.24 Severity: normal Hi, todays update of grub-pc pulled in os-prober. After running update-grub, I still had a mounted partition, that was not unomounted again by os-prober: /dev/sda10 on /var/lib/os-prober/mount type ext3 (ro) If os-prober mounts a partition to

Bug#444488: WARNING: Undefined kernel key code for 214

2007-09-28 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: console-setup Version: 1.19 Severity: normal Since the uprade of one of the X componentes (iirc it was the xserver), I get the following warning messages when running console-setup: WARNING: Undefined kernel key code for 214 WARNING: Undefined kernel key code for 215 WARNING: Undefined

Bug#451380: tasksel-data: Please stop installing acpi-support and hibernate (in the laptop/desktop task)

2007-11-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: tasksel-data Version: 2.70 Severity: normal Hi, currently tasksel installs hibernate *and* acpi-support for the laptop and desktop task. This is already one package too much, as they overlap in functionality and confuses users, as they don't really know which one they should use. In

Bug#526250: tasksel: Please add pm-utils to the laptop and desktop tasks

2009-04-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: tasksel Version: 2.78 Severity: normal Hi, currently the hal package depends on pm-utils, so it can ensure proper power management functionality. There is a wishlist bug to demote that to a recommends [1]. As d-i does not install recommends during the initial installation, I'd like to

Bug#526250: tasksel: Please add pm-utils to the laptop and desktop tasks

2009-04-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello Michael, It is done in tasksel git. Awesome Thanks by coordinate it with us. Well, I have to say thanks for the quick response. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?

Bug#402547: Processed: Re: Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

2006-12-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 403112 network-manager Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot Warning: Unknown package 'networkmanager' Bug reassigned from

Bug#402547: Processed: Re: Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot

2006-12-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl wrote: Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 403112 network-manager Bug#403112: NetworkManager: Workaround for OldWorld beige G3 Macintosh bmac network interface disabled on reboot Warning: Unknown package 'networkmanager' Bug

Bug#632405: Fails while trying to install core packages

2011-07-01 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.32 Severity: grave Hi, trying to create a chroot like debootstrap sid /tmp/chroot/ fails ... I: Installing core packages... W: Failure trying to run: chroot /tmp/chroot dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.13-8_i386.deb This makes

Bug#633153: /run transition: Please switch use of /lib/init/rw to /run

2011-07-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: console-setup Version: 1.73 Severity: important User: rle...@debian.org Usertags: run-transition Your package is currently using /lib/init/rw/ which is now deprecated and pending removal. Please update your package to use /run/ with a versioned dependency on initscripts, as detailed

Bug#645849: obsolete conffiles not removed on upgrades

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: console-setup Version: 1.73 Severity: important While doing a test-upgrade from squeeze to sid, the following conffiles were not cleaned up during the upgrade and marked as obsolete in the dpkg status file: Conffiles: /etc/console-setup/remap.inc 775b76c6c04cd18f8c72563e413a36aa

Bug#646741: Changes to task-gnome-desktop for GNOME 3

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: tasksel Version: 3.05 Severity: important Hi, with GNOME 3 getting ready for testing, we would like the attached patch applied to the task-gnome-desktop package. It contains the following changes: - a typo fix in the package description - gdm3 being dropped from Depends, as it is a

Bug#633153: closed by Anton Zinoviev zinov...@debian.org (Bug#633153: fixed in console-setup 1.74)

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Biebl
On 29.11.2011 14:21, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: * setupcon: add /run and /dev to /lib/init/rw as alternative directories for temporary files. /dev for temporary files? I hope this is a typo. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life

Bug#633153: closed by Anton Zinoviev zinov...@debian.org (Bug#633153: fixed in console-setup 1.74)

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, On 29.11.2011 16:05, Anton Zinoviev wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:50:10PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On 29.11.2011 14:21, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: * setupcon: add /run and /dev to /lib/init/rw as alternative directories for temporary files. /dev for temporary

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Biebl
On 16.12.2011 18:38, Joey Hess wrote: Christian PERRIER wrote: I'm inclined to follow this advice and would indeed propose that the atomic partman-auto recipe is kept, however without a separate /usr partition (discussions on -devel and the current practice convinced me that a separate /usr

Bug#652672: busybox: modprobe does not handle builtins

2012-01-06 Thread Michael Biebl
However, there is another error message that even appears with official kernels: modprobe: module unix not found in modules.dep I found unix in the initramfs in conf/modules, don't know where it comes from. This comes from udev, see [1]. Cheers, Michael [1]

Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#609201: Also affects installation from USB

2012-02-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On 15.02.2012 05:25, scott wrote: I recently installed a weekly build from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ by booting from a USB stick, and was also affected by this bug. I assume this means that anyone doing a USB installation will also be affected. This make the bug

Re: Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi KiBi, Am 11.08.2014 21:58, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org (2014-08-10): Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal As part of the transition plan to switch the default init system to system for Jessie, the priorities of the sysvinit and sysvinit-core package were

Re: Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.08.2014 22:31, schrieb Michael Biebl: Hi KiBi, Am 11.08.2014 21:58, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org (2014-08-10): Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal As part of the transition plan to switch the default init system to system for Jessie, the priorities

Re: Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.08.2014 22:51, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Michael Biebl em...@michaelbiebl.de (2014-08-11): Your second mail: Btw, since init still pulls in sysvinit-core atm, lowering the severity of sysvinit and sysvinit-core shouldn't have an effect for d-i. If it does, could you elaborate, what

Re: Bug#757650: override: sysvinit:admin/optional sysvinit-core:admin/extra

2014-08-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.08.2014 23:15, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org (2014-08-11): A minimal installation should still pull sysvinit-core as it is the first alternative in init. Since that's not happening I'm going to guess that systemd-sysv's priority being higher than sysvinit

Bug#758167: installation-reports: System does not reboot automatically after install is finished

2014-08-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Tony, On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 07:58:37PM -0300, Tony Rowe wrote: didn't expect that. It all worked very well with only the one minor problem at the end of the install. I selected LXDE desktop for this install. The remove-install-media-and-boot-into-the-new-system step left the

Bug#758307: installation-reports: First user not added to the lpadmin group

2014-08-17 Thread Michael Biebl
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 08:35:45AM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: On Sun 17 Aug 2014 at 08:29:57 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: Still: # Allow preseeding the groups to which the first created user is added Template: passwd/user-default-groups Type: string Default: audio cdrom dip

Re: Re: the audio group

2014-08-17 Thread Michael Biebl
Adding the first user to group audio shouldn't break any ACL management that is done by systemd-logind. It just means, the first user *always* has access to the audio device, no matter if his session is marked active for he is logged in locally. So he get's access even when e.g. logged in

Bug#698105: Please remove pcmciautils from laptop task

2014-08-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 21.01.2013 22:30, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org (14/01/2013): That seems fair, though I think it's a bit late for this to happen wrt the release. I was about to do the removal when partly cleaning out tasks at DebConf 11, then finally I remained

Bug#758762: Please drop acpi-support from task-laptop

2014-08-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: tasksel-data Version: 3.20 Severity: normal Hi, looking at [1] I'm really concerned that we still install acpi-support by default via task-laptop. acpi-support does a lot of scary stuff and pulls in deprecated components like consolekit on everyones laptop. With the switch to systemd,

Bug#758762: Acknowledgement (Please drop acpi-support from task-laptop)

2014-08-20 Thread Michael Biebl
I'd like to add, that this would mean two less system daemons running: acpid and console-kit-daemon, without relevant loss of functionality. You'd still have the shutdown-on-powerbutton-press feature or the suspend-on-lid-close handling via logind. -- Why is it that all of the instruments

Re: Bug#759849: multipath-tools: FTBFS: uxsock.c:20:31: fatal error: systemd/sd-daemon.h: No such file or directory

2014-09-02 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 02.09.2014 10:03, schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf: And by the way, can someone please shed some more light on Debian bug: 760182 Per the bug report, there is no systemd support in d-i. Which then means that I need to disable systemd support ? In your udeb build, yes. That typically means you

Re: Bug#759849: multipath-tools: FTBFS: uxsock.c:20:31: fatal error: systemd/sd-daemon.h: No such file or directory

2014-09-02 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 02.09.2014 10:03, schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf: And by the way, can someone please shed some more light on Debian bug: 760182 Per the bug report, there is no systemd support in d-i. Which then means that I need to disable systemd support ? In your udeb build, yes. That typically means you

Re: Bug#760778: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#760778: xfce4-session: Please depend on gnome-orca

2014-09-08 Thread Michael Biebl
I fail to see why a11y would be important enough to force it to Xfce installations while not beeing important enough to force it to default installations. Right, we can probably add it to task-desktop instead. Joey? I'm not sure if this is the right approach. Isn't there a risk that

Bug#678793: task-desktop: libreoffice-gcj no longer exists

2014-09-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: tasksel Version: 3.24 Followup-For: Bug #678793 Since this bug has been open for quite a while and the libreoffice-gcj packages weren't added back, is it safe to assume this will remain the case for jessie? In that case, please consider applying the attached patch. After all, we can

Re: Re: default desktop: availability on all arches

2014-09-11 Thread Michael Biebl
So it looks like gnome3 is the only one that doesn't work on most architectures. You tested qemu, not real hardware. For your tests to be really meaningful, they would have to be done on actual hardware. That said, I don't see a good reason why availability on architectures should be a

Bug#761372: Acknowledgement (Not all packages with priority standard are installed by standard system task)

2014-09-13 Thread Michael Biebl
Attached is a screenshot from tasksel selection dialog. Ansgar was contemplating, if maybe d-i uses the priorites from built time and not the live priorities. If this is the case, this would explain the issue (the d-i image is from 09.09.2014 and the prios were bumped on 11.09.2014). -- Why is

Bug#761501: partman-ext3: add acl mount options for ext4?

2014-09-14 Thread Michael Biebl
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 01:19:22PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Package: partman-ext3 Version: 78 Severity: wishlist User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: debian-edu Hi. In bug report #638822 we discuss the wish to add user_attr and acl as file system options in Debian Edu

Bug#765406: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#765406: please add dependency on pinentry-gtk2

2014-10-23 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 23.10.2014 um 03:36 schrieb Eric Dorland: Control: reassign -1 tasksel Control: retitle -1 please add dependencies on pinentry Control: tags -1 patch Reassigning to tasksel as suggested and patch attached. * Eric Dorland (e...@debian.org) wrote: Package: gnome Version: 1:3.8+8

Bug#765406: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#765406: please add dependency on pinentry-gtk2

2014-10-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 24.10.2014 um 06:39 schrieb Eric Dorland: Hmmm, are you talking about gnome-keyring? It actually hijacks the gpg-agent protocol and breaks some things (see http://b/760102). You still need the pinentry program if you disable gnome-keyright AFAIK. Couldn't that warning message also include

Bug#765406: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#765406: please add dependency on pinentry-gtk2

2014-10-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.10.2014 um 01:04 schrieb Eric Dorland: * Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org) wrote: Am 24.10.2014 um 06:39 schrieb Eric Dorland: Hmmm, are you talking about gnome-keyring? It actually hijacks the gpg-agent protocol and breaks some things (see http://b/760102). You still need the pinentry

Re: vt2-6 still not available with base system

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Samuel Am 08.11.2014 um 12:54 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Hello, I've just checked this morning with the latest netboot, when installing just the base system with no task, dbus does not get installed, and thus vt2-6 do not have a login banner because systemd-logind needs dbus for that.

Re: vt2-6 still not available with base system

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 09.11.2014 um 20:04 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Michael Biebl, le Sun 09 Nov 2014 19:56:40 +0100, a écrit : The alternative would be, to bump dbus to priority standard, so it's installed by default (on new installations). It is already priority standard. That is not enough to make it part

Re: vt2-6 still not available with base system

2014-12-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 03.12.2014 um 22:42 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Simon McVittie, le Sun 09 Nov 2014 20:43:36 +, a écrit : I'm very tempted to say systemd in Debian should just make these 5 symlinks to preserve traditional Debian behaviour, at least for jessie. It doesn't really even need to run systemctl,

Re: vt2-6 still not available with base system

2014-12-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 08.12.2014 um 01:12 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Michael Biebl, le Thu 04 Dec 2014 00:10:57 +0100, a écrit : Am 03.12.2014 um 22:42 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Simon McVittie, le Sun 09 Nov 2014 20:43:36 +, a écrit : I'm very tempted to say systemd in Debian should just make these 5 symlinks

Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#606268: Bug#606268: Bug#606268: now ignores interfaces configured by d-i

2011-01-13 Thread Michael Biebl
Sorry for the short and probably unsatisfying answer. I'll try to provide more detail. On 09.01.2011 02:52, Michael Biebl wrote: On 08.01.2011 23:24, Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:15:02 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Please also note that e.g. if you setup

Re: Bug#606268: Bug#606268: Bug#606268: now ignores interfaces configured by d-i

2011-01-13 Thread Michael Biebl
, Michael Biebl wrote: Imho, the cleanest solution here would be, if d-i simply wouldn't write out any configuration (dhcp/wireless) if network-manager is installed (through the desktop task). CCing the d-i team, to know if that would be feasible. No, this is not feasible at this stage

Bug#611951: Default GNOME desktop installation has both xsane *and* simple-scan

2011-02-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: tasksel Version: 2.88 Severity: normal Hi, I did a default GNOME desktop installation using the RC2 net installer. The resulting GNOME desktop had bot xsane and simple-scan installed. xsane is pulled in via tasksel, simple-scan is pulled in through the meta packages gnome and

Bug#611951: Default GNOME desktop installation has both xsane *and* simple-scan

2011-02-05 Thread Michael Biebl
On 04.02.2011 14:52, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:26, Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org wrote: XSane is complex to use and simple-scan will do for the vast majority of desktop users. Dropped xsane from gnome-desktop for next upload. Would be awesome if this could be

Re: Iceweasel/Icedove ESR and Whezzy

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Biebl
On 13.10.2012 09:43, Mike Hommey wrote: That being said, I think we should actively advise people to use backports for iceweasel. Making that statement part of the release notes might be a good idea. Possibly with a working pinning setup. Or maybe it would be a good idea to add the working

Bug#691651: Please add backports configuration to /etc/apt/sources.list

2012-10-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Hi, please consider adding a sources.list configuration for (wheezy) backports during the installation. Commenting them out by default would probably be a safe default. Cheers, Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers

Re: Proposal to add patches to netcfg (#682737)

2012-11-20 Thread Michael Biebl
On 20.11.2012 14:13, Luca Capello wrote: Hi there! On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:42:14 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: * ba5ee42 Write out network-manager configuration files with mode 0600. [...] NM config files need to be 0600, so this is correct. * 4e1dbbd finish-install: Do not set

Bug#698105: Please remove pcmciautils from laptop task

2013-01-13 Thread Michael Biebl
liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-7+b1 ii perl-base 5.14.2-16 ii tasksel-data3.14 tasksel recommends no packages. tasksel suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded From 11500575ad8febfe1fb88ea2f76700278ddba8cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Biebl bi

Bug#699390: Please drop menu from desktop task

2013-01-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: tasksel Version: 3.14+deb7u1 Severity: normal Hi, as briefly discussed on IRC: I think menu should be dropped from the desktop task. It's not really beneficial to desktop environments or GNOME (or current default desktop). Window managers or desktop environments which want menu or

extlinux fail to boot (error loading ldlinux.c32)

2013-02-01 Thread Michael Biebl
severity 699382 serious thanks After last package update, when I boot, I get an error about loading ldlinux.c32. I tried several times to reinstall extlinux, but not changes, until I downgraded extlinux. I stumbled upon this issue myself when trying to create netboot iso images for d-i

Bug#699742: syslinux 5.x support

2013-02-05 Thread Michael Biebl
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 01:18:45PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: Package: debian-installer Tags: patch Attached patch includes the required additional syslinux modules when building with vesamenu and syslinux version 5.x. I tried this patch against cc123e0 from debian-installer git.

Bug#699742: syslinux 5.x support

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, On 06.02.2013 16:36, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/05/2013 09:33 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: I tried this patch against cc123e0 from debian-installer git. Unfortunately the problem is still the same. indeed; only the first part of the patch was attached; here's the complete one. I can

Bug#699742: syslinux 5.x support

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
On 06.02.2013 17:48, Michael Biebl wrote: Hi, On 06.02.2013 16:36, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/05/2013 09:33 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: I tried this patch against cc123e0 from debian-installer git. Unfortunately the problem is still the same. indeed; only the first part of the patch

Re: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
On 06.02.2013 23:22, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: Assuming that the patch for #699742[0] fixes this issue with DI RC releases being installed, is there still an outstanding issue for the CTTE? Earlier in this thread,

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
On 07.02.2013 07:30, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/06/2013 11:48 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Unfortunately the second patch doesn't work either. See [1]. that is incorrect; the patch works, it's just the old vbox version in current debian testing/sid which has a bug (try the image on real

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
On 07.02.2013 07:58, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/07/2013 07:45 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Well, VBOX is pretty popular, so shipping an installer which doesn't work for such an environment is certainly a no-go. again, the syslinux in sid would not be in wheezy. making it a *temporary* problem

Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-06 Thread Michael Biebl
On 07.02.2013 08:06, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/07/2013 07:55 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: I think it is obvious by now that reverting to syslinux 4 from wheezy is the only sensible way forward at this point in the release. 'obvious'? Imho, yes. But then, it's not up to me to decide

Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#606268: Workaround

2012-04-04 Thread Michael Biebl
On 04.04.2012 19:50, Filipus Klutiero wrote: I just reinstalled Debian and for the first time did it via my wireless network (with WPA encryption), without even requiring non-free firmware. It was disappointing after that to discover that using wireless during the install was what caused

NetworkManager and wireless interfaces created by d-i (Re: Bug#606268:...)

2012-04-04 Thread Michael Biebl
On 04.04.2012 22:48, Michael Biebl wrote: On 04.04.2012 19:50, Filipus Klutiero wrote: I just reinstalled Debian and for the first time did it via my wireless network (with WPA encryption), without even requiring non-free firmware. It was disappointing after that to discover that using

Re: Removing block-udeb gtk+3.0?

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Biebl
On 26.09.2012 16:10, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, since gtk+3.0 again appeared on my testing summary page (packages of interest as far as unblock{,-udeb}'s are concerned), I'm wondering whether it shouldn't just get its block-udeb removed? I haven't heard yet of plans to port d-i to gtk3,

Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Proposal to add patches to netcfg (#682737)

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi everyone! KiBi, thanks for forwarding the email and being so persistent about this issue. Sorina, thanks a lot for this nice work and sorry that it took so long for me to answer. On 26.09.2012 22:46, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Sorina - Gabriela Sandu sandu.sor...@gmail.com (16/09/2012): Hello!

Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Proposal to add patches to netcfg (#682737)

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Forgot to add: I'm not subscribed to debian-boot. So please CC me (or pkg-(utopia,gnome)-maintainers) on reply. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Sudo mode and policykit

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.03.2010 23:34, schrieb Josselin Mouette: Actually there are two very simple solutions, so it is really a matter of what design you prefer. 1. (Stolen from Ubuntu) Create a new “admin” group, modify policykit to accept self-authentication for all members of the

Re: Sudo mode and policykit

2010-03-25 Thread Michael Biebl
On 26.03.2010 01:21, Margarita Manterola wrote: The amount of groups that a users needs to belong to in order to get the best experience from their computer is growing and growing. This Actually, I personally tried to work against this trend. The groups plugdev/powerdev/netdev, which

Re: Notes on current squeeze installation

2010-04-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Packages or package groups installed by the standard system or GUI task that looks weird to me. I haven't checked why they are installed in any way. - radeontool. The description looks like: don't use. Also the radeon cards now belong completely to the kernel. - vbetool. Can be considered

Bug#704748: Not a practical issue (could even be considered a feature...:-))

2013-04-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 14.04.2013 20:56, schrieb Steven Chamberlain: On 14/04/13 11:03, Christian PERRIER wrote: As a consequence, having the desktop-gnome task broken on kFreeBSD because of the dependency on n-m-gnome can be considered as non release critical... Just for the record, I'm not happy about this.

Bug#704748: Not a practical issue (could even be considered a feature...:-))

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 15.04.2013 12:14, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: For unrelated reasons, d-i will need a new upload, so I can update tasksel today as well, before rc2 images get built again. I don't want to sound like a broken record, but seeing that network-manager-gnome in task-gnome-desktop was demoted to

Bug#699390: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files

2013-05-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Russ, hi Sune, I'd like to second this request to reword the current section in the policy regarding menu files, suggesting fdo .desktop files as the recommended mechanism and make it clear that .menu files are only really relevant for legacy or more exotic window managers. Sune's patch looks

Re: Bug#709683: libpango1.0-udeb: Depends on libharfbuzz0

2013-05-24 Thread Michael Biebl
For completeness sake: Am 25.05.2013 02:54, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: (echo-ing what was discussed on IRC in to the BTS.) this udeb is currently uninstallable, breaking the netboot-gtk d-i build: libpango1.0-udeb:amd64 Depends on libharfbuzz0 [ amd64 ] none ( none ) can't be

udev-gtk-udeb has been renamed to libudev1-udeb

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi d-i team, as part of the udev update to version 204 (in experimental), the udev-gtk-udeb package was renamed to libudev1-udeb to better reflect what the package actually contains. This will be aligned with the libudev0→libudev1 soname bump, so it seemed like a good occasion to do the rename

Re: [Pkg-systemd-maintainers] udev-gtk-udeb has been renamed to libudev1-udeb

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 20.07.2013 18:23, schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Hi, Michael Biebl (2013-07-20): as part of the udev update to version 204 (in experimental), the udev-gtk-udeb package was renamed to libudev1-udeb to better reflect what the package actually contains. This will be aligned with the libudev0

Bug#717449: Generates /etc/network/interfaces config for eth0 although network-manager is installed (desktop task)

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: netcfg Version: 1.110 Severity: important Hi, I just did a installation of 7.1 inside a VM using the desktop task, which means network-manager was installed along with it. I was surprised to find the following in /e/n/i: # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0

Bug#717449: Acknowledgement (Generates /etc/network/interfaces config for eth0 although network-manager is installed (desktop task))

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Biebl
fwiw, I tested both the 7.0.0 and 7.1.0 install images, with the same result -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#717449: Acknowledgement (Generates /etc/network/interfaces config for eth0 although network-manager is installed (desktop task))

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Biebl
The syslog from the installation can be found at http://people.debian.org/~biebl/syslog -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#717449: Info received (Bug#717449: Acknowledgement (Generates /etc/network/interfaces config for eth0 although network-manager is installed (desktop task)))

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Biebl
On IRC KiBi suspected the following line [1] to be the culprit: if in-target dpkg-query -s network-manager 2/dev/null | grep -q '^Status: install ok installed'; then I ran that on the d-i console, and the check was indeed not successful. Changing that to if in-target sh -c dpkg-query -s

Bug#718855: [Pkg-xfce-devel] network-manager-gnome - full gnome recommends chain

2013-10-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 08.10.2013 15:02, schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez: I still don' think having gnome-control-center installed on Debian Xfce (or any !gnome) installations is a good idea, to be honest. I personally use network-manager-gnome nm-applet under Xfce because it doesn't actually needs GNOME bits, so imho

Re: Processed: Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer

2013-12-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 12.12.2013 21:48, schrieb Debian Bug Tracking System: Processing control commands: reassign -1 udev 204-5 Bug #725714 [installation-reports] installation-reports: Recent netinst.iso doesn't write missing firmware to /run/udev/firmware-missing Bug reassigned from package

Re: Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer

2013-12-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 13.12.2013 00:12, schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun: The Debian installer needs a way to load the firmware during installation, otherwise the netinst.iso is pretty useless for WLAN devices with non-free firmware. Since a majority of the WLAN devices need non-free firmware, just dropping this

Re: Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer

2013-12-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 13.12.2013 00:26, schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 13.12.2013 00:12, schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun: The Debian installer needs a way to load the firmware during installation, otherwise the netinst.iso is pretty useless for WLAN devices with non-free firmware. Since a majority of the WLAN devices need

Re: Bug#725714: udev firmware loading does not work in the Debian installer

2013-12-12 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 13.12.2013 00:34, schrieb Michael Biebl: According to codesearch.d.n, hw-detect is the only tool using /run/udev/firmware-missing. I'm inclined to re-assign this bug to hw-detect and let the hw-detect maintainers decided how to handle this. If something like the isenkram approach would

Bug#568839: tasksel: please add readahead-fedora to the desktop task

2014-01-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Seeing that readahead-fedora is dead upstream [1] and can actually have negative effects with SSDs (which are becoming more and more common on laptop hardware), I would advise against installing readahead-fedora by default for desktop tasks. Michael [1] https://fedorahosted.org/readahead/ --

[RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, as some of you might know, the debian installer allows to install a system with a disabled root account, i.e. there is no root password set for root. In lenny, iirc, this was done via d-i pre-seeding, in squeeze it is as simple as leaving the root password prompt empty. The lenny installer

Re: [RFC] disabled root account / distinct group for users with administrative privileges

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Biebl
On 19.10.2010 08:15, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 00:38 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : 1/ The sudo group in previous Debian releases had a different meaning: Members of groups sudo could run sudo without needing a password. Did it exist in previous releases? I don’t

Bug#604072: Please remove apmd from laptop task

2010-11-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: tasksel Version: 2.84 Severity: normal Hi, in order to keep the tasks lean and useful I'd suggest removing the apmd package from the laptop task. APM is long dead and so I think we shouldn't install that package on everyones laptop. Michael -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#604073: Please remove vbetool and radeontool from laptop task

2010-11-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: tasksel Version: 2.84 Severity: normal Hi, I'm the maintainer of pm-utils. With KMS being available for all major drivers, radeontool and vbetool have become mostly obsolete. Besides, that pm-utils uses those tools is an implementation detail and it should be up to the pm-utils package

Bug#604073: Please remove vbetool and radeontool from laptop task

2010-11-19 Thread Michael Biebl
On 20.11.2010 08:02, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org): Package: tasksel Version: 2.84 Severity: normal Hi, I'm the maintainer of pm-utils. With KMS being available for all major drivers, radeontool and vbetool have become mostly obsolete. Besides

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-29 Thread Michael Biebl
On 29.11.2010 07:18, Guillem Jover wrote: Could someone with ext4/btrfs/xfs/etc test w/ and w/o the attached patch against dpkg? I'm using ext4 (as already mentioned), my small benchmark is (re)installing vim-runtime using dpkg -i 1.15.8.5: real0m9.259s user0m4.212s sys 0m0.752s

debian 8.0 errata (Re: Bug#765577: netboot install writes duplicates to 70-persistent-net.rules)

2015-04-23 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi everyone! I talked to the release team and they prefer to postpone a fix to 8.1. I therefor would like to see a short paragraph added to the d-i 8.0 errata [1]. Afaics, the issue so far only happened for automated installations. There is no real solution/workaround ttbomk besides rebuilding

Re: Bug#765577: debian 8.0 errata (Re: Bug#765577: netboot install writes duplicates to 70-persistent-net.rules)

2015-04-23 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 23.04.2015 um 22:22 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org (2015-04-23): netboot install writes duplicate entries to 70-persistent-net.rules ~~~ It might be better not to embed the “netboot install

Re: breaks initramfs if BUSYBOX=n

2015-04-25 Thread Michael Biebl
On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:22:13 +0200 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Package: cryptsetup Version: 2:1.6.6-5 Severity: grave Hi, if the cryptsetup package is installed, it also installed a initramfs-tools hook. I use BUSYBOX=no in initramfs.conf, but the cryptroot hook copies

Bug#783247: Please don't install acpid and acpi-support-base

2015-04-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.04.2015 um 22:29 schrieb Bjørn Mork: m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Apr 24, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: A while ago, I already filed a bug to have acpid and acpi-support-base removed from tasksel [1], since it duplicates functionality which is nowadays provided

Bug#783247: Please don't install acpid and acpi-support-base

2015-04-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Package: hw-detect Version: 1.108 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi! While installing a jessie (GNOME) desktop with the latest RC3 installer, I noticed that we still install acpid and acpi-support-base. A while ago, I already filed a bug to have acpid and acpi-support-base removed from tasksel

Bug#784148: base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC

2015-05-08 Thread Michael Biebl
On Sun, 03 May 2015 17:23:30 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Control: reassign -1 clock-setup Control: retitle -1 Missing support for systems without battery-backed RTC On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 17:40 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: Debian installations on hardware with no

Bug#784148: base-installer: NTP daemon should be installed on any system missing an RTC

2015-05-08 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 09.05.2015 um 03:32 schrieb Michael Biebl: On Sun, 03 May 2015 17:23:30 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk 1. Install/enable NTP client 2. Disable hwclock-save.service See below for the changes in systemd 3. Disable e2fsck time check What exactly do you mean here? I think

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