Re: Hints for d-i jessie RC3, part 5

2015-04-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Sat 18 Apr 2015 04:57:35 +0200, a écrit : > All are in, including installation-guide; thanks everyone! Mmm, brltty didn't make it, it's waiting for 2 days. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Hints for d-i jessie RC3, part 5

2015-04-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Sat 18 Apr 2015 12:00:32 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault (2015-04-18): > > Cyril Brulebois, le Sat 18 Apr 2015 04:57:35 +0200, a écrit : > > > All are in, including installation-guide; thanks everyone! > > > > Mmm, brltty didn't make i

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

2015-04-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Paul Wise, le Wed 22 Apr 2015 20:30:38 +0800, a écrit : > 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

Re: Unable to preseed keyboard layout

2015-04-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lucas Nussbaum, le Thu 23 Apr 2015 18:43:33 +0200, a écrit : > (Replying to a super-old email) > > On 03/12/12 at 12:57 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Antoine Pitrou, le Mon 03 Dec 2012 11:55:49 +0100, a écrit : > > > d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select fr(oss)

Bug#783613: installation-guide-amd64: Incorrect usage of the --revision string.

2015-05-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + pending Hello, Ben Patrick, le Tue 28 Apr 2015 22:07:31 +1000, a écrit : > I suggest updating the guide to reflect this requirement, > > "Now compile the kernel: fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --revision=1.0.custom > kernel_image" Indeed, commited, thanks! Samuel -- To UNSUB

Bug#783637: Installation fails because starting colord fails on missing libudev.so.0

2015-05-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
> See attached. Err, this is really not the way to submit bug reports: just copy/paste the text in the mail, that'll make it *way* easier to process for everybody. > Boot method: Upgrade from Debian 7.8 in terminal inside Firefox via network? So this is not actually an installation. > 2. on fir

Re: Bug in kernel compilation section of the 'Installation Guide"

2015-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Tom H, le Mon 04 May 2015 03:19:53 -0400, a écrit : > Against which package should a bug in the 'Installation Guide" be reported? See section 1.9. Your Documentation Help is Welcome We welcome suggestions, comments, patches, and bug reports (use the package installation-guidefor bugs, but

Bug#783637: Installation fails because starting colord fails on missing libudev.so.0

2015-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Lager, le Mon 04 May 2015 12:54:14 +0100, a écrit : > /usr/local/lib/libusb-1.0.so.0 > NEEDED libudev.so.0 > NEEDED librt.so.1 > NEEDED libpthread.so.0 > NEEDED libc.so.6 > dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/local/

Re: Packages to install be default for Stretch

2015-05-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ansgar Burchardt, le Tue 05 May 2015 20:45:09 +0200, a écrit : > - info, texinfo, install-info: > I admit having used info only in desperation. Most documentation > comes in man page format. > -> demote to "optional" Proper autoconf, automake, gcc, etc. documentations only re

Re: Packages to install be default for Stretch

2015-05-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Wed 06 May 2015 01:14:28 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault (2015-05-06): > > Ansgar Burchardt, le Tue 05 May 2015 20:45:09 +0200, a écrit : > > > - info, texinfo, install-info: > > > I admit having used info only in desperation. Most docu

Bug#783637: Installation fails because starting colord fails on missing libudev.so.0

2015-05-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Lager, le Wed 06 May 2015 14:32:23 +0100, a écrit : > The reason the upgrade failed when starting X was that colord couldn't start > because it was missing libudev.so.0 as reported: > > "/usr/lib/colord/colord: error while loading shared libraries: libudev.so.0: > cannot open shared object

Re: debian-installer: dropping library reduction pass?

2015-05-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Aurelien Jarno, le Sun 10 May 2015 20:51:23 +0200, a écrit : > This has some drawbacks: I see mklibs as a fragile thing indeed. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https:

Bug#769616: tasksel: fails to preseed desktop on kfreebsd, hurd

2015-05-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Fri 08 May 2015 22:22:41 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault (2014-11-30): > > Samuel Thibault, le Sat 22 Nov 2014 23:19:24 +0100, a écrit : > > > I however fail to preseed this and still let the user choose. > > > > Ok, forget what I

Bug#769616: tasksel: fails to preseed desktop on kfreebsd, hurd

2015-05-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Steven Chamberlain, le Sun 10 May 2015 22:41:57 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > I believe it's completely fixed by now: using > > > > tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard, xfce-desktop > > > > works to preseed the desk

Bug#775120: task-mate-desktop: Should install mate-system-tools

2015-05-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mike Gabriel, le Mon 11 May 2015 03:27:17 +, a écrit : > >>>* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > >>> ineffective)? > >>> > >>> Once the system boots, after lightdm, I want to change password, set > >>the date, > >>> network, etc. through a GUI.r > >>> > >>>

Re: Fwd: Re: not co-installable Multi-Arch:same packages

2013-04-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andreas Beckmann, le Sat 27 Apr 2013 13:06:55 +0200, a écrit : > you might consider doing a no-change upload for your package to get rid > of a bin-NMU and restore multiarch co-installability. I'm unsure we want to risk anything with bogl, as it is used in the debian installer, even if the install

Re: Bug#705802: installation-reports: installation for blind people

2013-04-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: reassign -1 cdebconf Hello, Hans, le Sat 20 Apr 2013 11:41:23 +0200, a écrit : > Boot method: CD > Image version: latest You mean RC1, or the daily build at that time? > IMO most points are working fine. Cool, thanks :) > 1. The "?" is not spoken. The speeker says: "Fuer Hilfe" and f

Bug#705599: finish-install: 07speakup needs to be updated for Wheezy and GNOME 3

2013-04-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Raphaël Hertzog, le Wed 17 Apr 2013 11:40:55 +0200, a écrit : > Please find a tested patch in attachment. So now we have agreed on using this patch, do we include it in 7.0.0? Otherwise, people installing a graphical desktop with the speech synthesis will not have screen reading enabled in the gra

Bug#705599: finish-install: 07speakup needs to be updated for Wheezy and GNOME 3

2013-04-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
peakup to use the relevant dconf +settings used by GNOME 3 (via a gsettings schema override file). +Closes: #705599. + + -- Samuel Thibault Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:59:55 +0200 + finish-install (2.41) unstable; urgency=low * Make sure to run update-initramfs if both cryptsetup and console-setu

Bug#706103: installation-guide: Refer to isc-dhcp-server Debian package (instead of dhcp3-server)

2013-04-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + pending Salvatore Bonaccorso, le Wed 24 Apr 2013 18:56:25 +0200, a écrit : > During re-reading the installation-guide appendix it looks like there > are some reference to the old dhcp3-server package, renamed to > isc-dhcp-server. > > Attached is proposed patch for the english

Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] installation-manual: Should it suggests to switch to run level 1 and back?

2013-04-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Petter Reinholdtsen, le Thu 18 Apr 2013 06:30:58 +0200, a écrit : > [Samuel Thibault] > > Which way? Do you think we can still provide a recipe to manage to > > get the system booted, or should we forget about it and tell the > > user to just fix the issue and reboot? > &

Re: Missing Country: Côte d'Ivoire

2013-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Thu 02 May 2013 11:52:55 +0200, a écrit : > Didier Depri (02/05/2013): > > i'm sure you get busy but i would like to know why Côte d'Ivoire is > > not in the list of countries when we are installing Debian. > > If you picked “French” as a language, you just have to select “Aut

Re: Missing Country: Côte d'Ivoire

2013-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Prévot, le Thu 02 May 2013 19:21:12 -0400, a écrit : > Le 02/05/2013 18:11, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > Mmm, I wonder why French-national-language countries other than > > BE/CA/LU/CH are not listed there. > > Maybe something based on a statistical probability? We

Re: Missing Country: Côte d'Ivoire

2013-05-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian PERRIER, le Fri 03 May 2013 08:51:23 +0200, a écrit : > In short, plenty of locales are certainly badly needed for countries > that have French as official language. One just has to write > them...:-) Ok, so it's as "simple" as this, and not any kind of decision. Thanks. Samuel -- To

Re: Missing Country: Côte d'Ivoire

2013-05-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Prévot, le Fri 03 May 2013 08:30:30 -0400, a écrit : > Le 03/05/2013 02:51, Christian PERRIER a écrit : > > In short, plenty of locales are certainly badly needed for countries > > that have French as official language. One just has to write > > them...:-) > > Just to be sure, do you encoura

Bug#707479: iso-scan: Indicate .iso files must be _Debian_ files

2013-05-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian PERRIER, le Fri 10 May 2013 07:47:08 +0200, a écrit : > If so, I would propose "scan hard drives for a supported installer ISO > image"and a small update to the installation manual to mention > that ISO images have to be named s specific way. Note: the image does not need to be named

Bug#708424: d-i manual: Partitioning for Debian - confusing phrase

2013-05-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Wed 15 May 2013 19:41:11 +0200, a écrit : > I just read something in the d-i manual in > Appendix C. Partitioning for Debian (see > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs01.html.en), which is > confusing: > Shortened to some words, it's like this: > > Debian needs at l

Re: Bug#708424: d-i manual: Partitioning for Debian - confusing phrase

2013-05-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lennart Sorensen, le Fri 17 May 2013 11:10:46 -0400, a écrit : > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 01:59:51AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Holger Wansing, le Wed 15 May 2013 19:41:11 +0200, a écrit : > > > I just read something in the d-i manual in > > > Appendix C. P

Bug#708775: installation-guide-amd64: C.2. The Directory Tree does not mention /run

2013-05-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + pending Jeroen N. Witmond, le Sat 18 May 2013 16:35:14 +0200, a écrit : > http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/apcs02.html.en "C.2. The > Directory Tree" does not mention /run. Indeed, fixed. > Also, /run seems not to be part of the "Filesystem Hierarchy > Standard". I

Re: d-i Manual: removal of references to 'volatile'

2013-05-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
I've commited it. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130518203048.gd5...@type.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr

Re: preseeding de-latin1-nodeadkeys

2013-05-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Florian Lohoff, le Tue 14 May 2013 11:54:50 +0200, a écrit : > i fail to preseed a de-latin1-nodeadkeys keymap into the Wheezy > d-i. Yes, only choices provided in the menu system can be preseeded. > Having a de deadkeys in d-i would be acceptable but not in the > final system. Our curr

Re: preseeding de-latin1-nodeadkeys

2013-05-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Florian Lohoff, le Mon 20 May 2013 20:50:37 +0200, a écrit : > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:41:05PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Florian Lohoff, le Tue 14 May 2013 11:54:50 +0200, a écrit : > > > i fail to preseed a de-latin1-nodeadkeys keymap into the Wheezy > > &

Bug#709436: debian-installer: too low memory requirement documented on the F2 boot screen

2013-05-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + pending Ferenc Wágner, le Thu 23 May 2013 12:25:37 +0200, a écrit : > The two memory requirement statements should be synchronized, 44 (or even > 64) MB is clearly not enough. Indeed, the update hint was missing in the lowmem package. I have now added that and updated the figur

Bug#709611: installation-guide-amd64: debian 7 grub2 install failure on lvm2 partitioned 2TB disk system

2013-05-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: reassign -1 installation-reports -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130524131129.go6...@type.bordeaux.inria.fr

Re: low memory requirements in the d-i manual

2013-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Sun 26 May 2013 14:02:19 +0200, a écrit : > You must have at least &minimum-memory; of memory > -->%- > which expands to 80MB ATM. > > But Chapter 3.4 contains: > ---%<---

Re: low memory requirements in the d-i manual

2013-05-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le Mon 27 May 2013 11:07:35 +0200, a écrit : > Eventually we could be done with the double of the old values: > Desktop minimal requirements: 128MB -> 256MB > Desktop recommended: 512MB -> 1GB That's what I was thinking, yes. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ.

Re: Bug#712879: debian-installer: unable to preseed german nodeadkeys keyboard for installed system

2013-06-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: reassign -1 keyboard-configuration Hello, Florian Lohoff, le Thu 20 Jun 2013 14:57:52 +0200, a écrit : > i have now tried for 2 weeks to find preseeding config which will > install a system with a german nodeadkeys keyboard. Whatever i try > preseeding the final system has a "us" keyboar

Bug#713616: netcfg: FTBFS: ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcheck.a(check.o): undefined reference to symbol 'floor@@GLIBC_2.2.5'

2013-06-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + pending David Suárez, le Sat 22 Jun 2013 14:42:38 +0200, a écrit : > > cc -o test/run test/test_inet_mton.o test/test_inet_ptom.o > > test/test_netcfg_parse_cidr_address.o test/test_netcfg_network_address.o > > test/test_netcfg_gateway_reachable.o test/test_nc_v6_interface_con

Bug#713616: netcfg: FTBFS: ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcheck.a(check.o): undefined reference to symbol 'floor@@GLIBC_2.2.5'

2013-06-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian PERRIER, le Mon 24 Jun 2013 10:06:31 +0200, a écrit : > Now, it gives: > > cc -o test/run test/test_inet_mton.o test/test_inet_ptom.o > test/test_netcfg_parse_cidr_address.o test/test_netcfg_network_address.o > test/test_netcfg_gateway_reachable.o test/test_nc_v6_interface_configured.o

Re: Bug#717107: limited TZ choices

2013-07-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Daniel Pocock, le Wed 17 Jul 2013 10:21:22 +0200, a écrit : > On 16/07/13 23:56, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Daniel Pocock (2013-07-16): > >> Actually, it's a little confusing - I just went back in the installer > >> and yes, I can choose that permutation and then I'm told "There is no > >> locale d

Bug#717792: debian-installer: locale warnings after clean installation in US English with Dutch timezone

2013-07-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + unreproducible Christian PERRIER, le Thu 25 Jul 2013 18:39:30 +0200, a écrit : > > - US English language > > - Europe/Ansterdam timezone > > - US keymap > > > > Pretty common in The Netherlands. With these options, the locales are not > > correctly generated. > > Output of `lo

Bug#717792: debian-installer: locale warnings after clean installation in US English with Dutch timezone

2013-07-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Thu 25 Jul 2013 22:10:21 +0200, a écrit : > Mmm, I couldn't achieve that. I have: > > - selected english > - selected netherlands > - selected the en_US.UTF-8 locale > - selected US keymap And yes, the Europe/Amsterdam timezone automatically got sel

Bug#717792: debian-installer: locale warnings after clean installation in US English with Dutch timezone

2013-07-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sander Marechal, le Fri 26 Jul 2013 09:11:13 +0200, a écrit : > Absolutely sure. I did a clean install in a Virtualbox VM, just > following the console installer (not the GUI one). Did you follow exactly the same steps as I did? Did you install any package beyond just the base? (i.e. not even the

Re: sid netinst broken due to pool depends

2013-08-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joseph M. Deming, le Wed 28 Aug 2013 12:06:06 -0400, a écrit : > busybox fails to install due to dependency on libperl packages which then > depend on perlapi-5.14.2. We're at the beginning of a perl transition. Packages need to be rebuilt, simply. Perhaps we can ask for rebuilding busybox to fix

Bug#870628: Please warn about slow starts on USB

2017-08-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, on jeu. 03 août 2017 17:38:46 +, wrote: > Am Donnerstag 3. August 2017 schrieb Steve McIntyre: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 05:18:58PM +0200, Jean-Michel Vourgère wrote: > > >Package: installation-guide-amd64 > > >Severity: normal > > > > > >Hello > > > > > >I recently installed

Bug#871751: installation-guide: please transition from jadetex to texlive-formats-extra

2017-08-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, on ven. 11 août 2017 20:41:08 +0200, wrote: > jadetex is only used for creating ps variants of the manual (strictly spoken > to generate dvi file, as a intermediate step to create ps), and ps variant > is disabled for a long time already. > > Should we completely remove cr

☑wow surprising surprise

2017-08-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dear, I know you are going to be stunned by that information, just take a look http://www.ilsorriso.dreamhosters.com/sweater.php?0908 Looking forward, Samuel Thibault

Re: Bug#872953: stretch-pu: package at-spi2-core/2.22.0-6

2017-09-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, on sam. 09 sept. 2017 15:42:36 +0200, wrote: > Control: tag -1 confirmed > > Memory and debtree -R --rdeps-depth=99 seem to agree: dependencies of > the gtk3 udeb, which we don't use yet, so no objections. Thanks, I have now uploaded it. Samuel

Bug#868357: installation-guide: get rid of "not up to date for " warnings

2017-09-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, on mar. 26 sept. 2017 20:51:34 +0200, wrote: > Holger Wansing wrote: > > Those warnings are there since Woody or Sarge, and I think they are no > > longer true. > > We should remove them. > > A patch is attached. > It removes the warnings for all archs except hurd and kfreebsd var

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-10-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, on sam. 30 sept. 2017 20:17:19 +0200, wrote: > On 09/30/2017 07:19 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Not sure, but [1] says that it should be sufficient to add all console > > devices > > to the kernel command line for systemd to detect and activate them, e.g. > > `c

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-10-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, on dim. 01 oct. 2017 12:49:25 +0200, wrote: > On 10/01/2017 12:33 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> Yes, I'm aware of that and that's what people usually use to enable the > >> serial > >> console post installation. However, it&#x

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-10-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, on dim. 01 oct. 2017 13:09:02 +0200, wrote: > >> There is nothing special about sparc64 in this regard. > > > > Perhaps that "enabled by default" thing. > > The difference would be that d-i is not booting with console=ttyS0 > but it's still using the serial console on s

Re: Fixing the missing serial console after installation issue

2017-10-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, on dim. 01 oct. 2017 15:30:58 +0200, wrote: > > And if you want something to be backported to older releases (version > > tracking, etc.), entries in the BTS are more than welcome. > > A backport isn't necessary in this case, I think, as we currently > only provide unst

Re: Sound Parameters on Net Installer? Need speech for accessibility

2017-10-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Dave Hunt, on mer. 04 oct. 2017 09:56:56 -0400, wrote: > I am trying to get software speech to work on the Stretch net installer, on > a machine having multiple sound output possibilities. When typing 's', and > pressing enter, at the boot prompt/beep, I am expecting spoken prompts for > t

Re: Sound Parameters on Net Installer? Need speech for accessibility

2017-10-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Dave Hunt, on mer. 04 oct. 2017 11:23:50 -0400, wrote: > I get sound on live images having a gui and pulse/alsa audio, so, the board > works. Ok, but with which driver? Perhaps we just lack it on the installer CD. > Maybe I'm getting prompted and just don't know it? It'd still mean that the outp

Re: isc-dhcpd vs udhcpd

2017-10-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Chris Boot, on lun. 23 oct. 2017 09:22:29 +0100, wrote: > Speaking as one of the two busybox maintainers, we'd certainly be happy > to help make sure udhcpc is usable across as many systems as possible in > Debian. As James has mentioned the udhcpc code is Linux-specific > currently so need

Bug#880210: installation-guide: validity errors when building the manual

2017-10-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: severity -1 wishlist Hello, Cyril Brulebois, on lun. 30 oct. 2017 16:57:39 +0100, wrote: > Now we've got those as well (excerpt): > | /home/d-i/trunk/manual/en/preparing/bios-setup/arm.xml:5: element sect2: > validity error : ID boot-dev-select already defined > | Boot Device > Selec

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Wouter Verhelst, on jeu. 16 nov. 2017 12:53:16 +0100, wrote: > I can't help but notice that their current installer is extremely easy > to use; and that, as compared to ours, it seems like a huge step > forwards: > > - First screen of the installer allows to select a language > - Second sc

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Lange, on ven. 17 nov. 2017 19:20:09 +0100, wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 01:17:47PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > In Debian, using netinst, we have > . > . > > and that's it. > > > > That's a bit more items, but not by so much. > No, th

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Wouter Verhelst, on dim. 19 nov. 2017 15:03:03 +0100, wrote: > - Selecting a particular option in the overview screen causes the > installer to configure the selected udeb, as though it was selected > from the main menu. Mmm, do we really need to actually configure the udeb? The way I

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Wouter Verhelst, on dim. 19 nov. 2017 16:12:13 +0100, wrote: > - That would require that at least part of the functionality that's > already implemented in the other udeb (e.g., asking for username etc) > be duplicated into the proposed new udeb. That seems like a waste. But the idea was preci

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Wouter Verhelst, on dim. 19 nov. 2017 19:27:16 +0100, wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 04:31:21PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Wouter Verhelst, on dim. 19 nov. 2017 16:12:13 +0100, wrote: > > > - That would require that at least part of the functionality that's > &g

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lennart Sorensen, on lun. 20 nov. 2017 10:24:35 -0500, wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 09:20:36PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Implementing locale selection using a map also runs the risk of getting > > your software banned in countries that disagree with where you put the > > borders. > > Als

Bug#888513: huge graphical bug

2018-01-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
melissa M., on ven. 26 janv. 2018 16:21:08 +0100, wrote: > is there a workaround ?? > a parameter to pass to the kernel ?? There is documentation about it in the help screen of the boot menu. Samuel

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-01-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: debian-installer Version: 20171204 Severity: normal Hello, When booting with syslinux, one has some boot-menu help screens which document some convenient kernel parameters (e.g. to avoid bugs like Bug#888513). That help is not available in the grub menu used for UEFI booting, it should b

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-01-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello Grub maintainers, any idea about this? Samuel - Forwarded message from Steve McIntyre - From: Steve McIntyre To: Samuel Thibault , 888...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:12:46

Bug#888513: huge graphical bug

2018-01-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
melissa M., on ven. 26 janv. 2018 19:12:32 +0100, wrote: > despite the different options, there is no change, the bug persists... If there is no change, there must be an error in passing the kernel arg, how do you pass them? vga=normal fb=false should get you to a pure textmode, there's no way

Re: Bug#888513: huge graphical bug

2018-01-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, on ven. 26 janv. 2018 20:02:09 +0100, wrote: > On 1/26/2018 7:21 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > melissa M., on ven. 26 janv. 2018 19:12:32 +0100, wrote: > > > despite the different options, there is no change, the bug persists... > > > > If there is no cha

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: block -1 by -2 Control: retitle -2 Add support for help screen Control: reassign -2 grub Control: forwarded -2 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53065 Hello, I have reported the feature request to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53065 Samuel

Bug#891806: busybox: Please include stty in busybox-udeb

2018-02-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Source: busybox Version: 1:1.27.2-2 Severity: normal Tags: a11y Hello, In order to be able to tune the console size for better accessibility in the Debian installer, we would need to have the stty tool available in d-i, could you enable it? Thanks, Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release:

Re: possibility to install debian in Russian using A11Y

2018-03-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, александр епанешников, on mar. 06 mars 2018 18:37:34 +0300, wrote: > Hello. as far as I know now it is impossible to make installation using text > mode and speakup with espeakup in Russian. > > if I'm not mistaken this is because espeakup does not support unicode. in > the git I saw a com

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-03-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, on lun. 05 févr. 2018 10:31:40 +0100, wrote: > I have reported the feature request to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53065 Here is an answer: “ the solution which is available atm is: set pager=1 cat ($root)/boot/grub/MESSAGE.txt unset pager echo -n "-- Press ESC

Bug#888515: debian-installer: UEFI boot menu (grub) misses the help screen

2018-03-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, on mar. 06 mars 2018 19:13:45 +0100, wrote: > Samuel Thibault, on lun. 05 févr. 2018 10:31:40 +0100, wrote: > > I have reported the feature request to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53065 > > Here is an answer: > > “ > the solution which is available

Re: Non-ascii characters broken in d-i [ Re: Debian-Installer: Issue with Tajik characters ]

2018-03-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, on ven. 09 mars 2018 19:58:06 +0100, wrote: > wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > It looks like something went wrong with Tajik characters for > > Debian-installer. > > Could you please, help to resolve the issue. Please, see the attached > > capture with broken characters. >

Bug#892499: Non-ascii characters broken in d-i (text-based installer)

2018-03-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: reassign -1 installation-locale Control: done -1 1.7+b1 As mentioned on the list, this gets fixed by rebuilding installation-locale (against the latest glibc) Samuel

d-i: Enabling Georgian in textmode with font switch support?

2018-03-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I have noticed that Georgian is not enabled in d-i in textmode, event when font switch support is available. I have attached screenshots of the first question. I can't read Georgian :) so I don't know if something looks wrong on the text side, but with a foreigner look it looks good, what

d-i: Enabling Vietnamese in textmode with font switch support?

2018-03-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I have noticed that vietnamese is not enabled in d-i in textmode, event when font switch support is available. I have attached screenshots of the first question. I don't actually understand vietnamese :) so I don't know for sure, but can read it, and it looks to me like all vietnamese acc

Accepted console-setup 1.180 (source) into unstable

2018-03-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Version: 1.180 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Install System Team Changed-By: Samuel Thibault Description: bdf2psf- font converter to generate console fonts from BDF source fonts console-setup - console font and keymap setup program console-setup-amiga-ekmap

Debian installer and braille

2008-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Starting from version 0.9.1-4, debian's qemu has support for virtual braille device. That means that you can very easily (i.e. without any hardware) test the debian installer support for braille device by just installing brltty, running: brltty -b xw -A auth=user,host=:1 & BRLAPI_HOST=:1

Bug#479208: debian-installer: text frontend isn't localized

2008-05-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: l10n Hello, When booting the installer (today's daily build of x86 mini.iso) with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text , the language selection is reduced to C and English. Is there a reason for that? Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid AP

Bug#479227: kernel-wedge: add speakup modules

2008-05-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: kernel-wedge Version: 2.44 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello, Here is a patch to add the speakup-modules series of packages. (speakup will be uploaded soon, I'm submitting this ASAP to have it in kernel-wedge when we actually need it). Samuel -- System Information: Debian Release: l

Bug#479208: debian-installer: text frontend isn't localized

2008-05-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Sat 03 May 2008 22:31:27 +0200, a écrit : > reassign 479208 localechooser Ah ok. > On Saturday 03 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > When booting the installer (today's daily build of x86 mini.iso) with > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text , the language select

Bug#479227: kernel-wedge: add speakup modules

2008-05-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sat 03 May 2008 19:39:11 +0100, a écrit : > Here is a patch to add the speakup-modules series of packages. Mmm, we may actually have copyright problems on the speakup_decpc module (and it's not so much used nowadays, since that's an ISA card), so for now please u

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Sun 04 May 2008 19:29:08 +0200, a écrit : > On Sunday 04 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > I tried it (only quickly) and could not get it working, so some more > > precise instructions would be welcome (the first command at least needs > > sudo): baum_init: brlapi_openConnection: Unknown

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 04 May 2008 18:38:33 +0100, a écrit : > Frans Pop, le Sun 04 May 2008 19:29:08 +0200, a écrit : > > On Sunday 04 May 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > > I tried it (only quickly) and could not get it working, so some more > > > precise instructions

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Sun 04 May 2008 18:37:41 +0200, a écrit : > I think the problem may be group memberships or something? Sort of. See the wiki for (hopefully) fixed commands. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cc-ing d-accessibility for the theme part. Frans Pop, le Sun 04 May 2008 18:37:41 +0200, a écrit : > It would also be good if someone tested the alternative "themes" that were > created. Are there several of them? The manual for 4.0 only talks about the dark them. About the dark theme, it woul

debconf themes [Was: Debian installer and braille]

2008-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 04 May 2008 19:24:41 +0100, a écrit : > Frans Pop, le Sun 04 May 2008 18:37:41 +0200, a écrit : > > It would also be good if someone tested the alternative "themes" that were > > created. > > Are there several of them? The manual for 4.0 o

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-05-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Wed 07 May 2008 12:27:23 +0200, a écrit : > On Sunday 04 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Aaaah, that's in brltty-x11 actually. See the > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Accessibility > > page I've just created for other fixups. > &g

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-05-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Wed 07 May 2008 12:38:56 +0200, a écrit : > On Sunday 04 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Also, the text frontend does not follow it, I guess it should be > > feasible to change the framebuffer's colors before running it? > > I guess so as long as th

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-05-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Wed 07 May 2008 13:05:23 +0200, a écrit : > On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > I do now get the brltty window (after running the documented command > > > with sudo). > > > > Odd, you should not need sudo. We need to find out why y

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-05-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Wed 07 May 2008 14:58:15 +0200, a écrit : > On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Frans Pop, le Wed 07 May 2008 13:05:23 +0200, a écrit : > > > On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > > I do now get the brltty win

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-05-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Wed 07 May 2008 11:46:04 +0100, a écrit : > Frans Pop, le Wed 07 May 2008 12:27:23 +0200, a écrit : > > On Sunday 04 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Aaaah, that's in brltty-x11 actually. See the > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstall

Re: New speakup-udeb component

2008-05-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Ok, I'm the culprit, I should have talked about it with debian-boot. I thought about putting the scripts (attached to this mail) in a separate speakup-udeb package because it makes the integration to the debian installer extremely simple: just add speakup-deb to installer/build/pkg-list/so

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-05-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frans Pop, le Sat 31 May 2008 12:52:10 +0200, a écrit : > I have made some changes to the wiki page (some formatting, some > clarifications). Thanks! > Main change is that you had "text mode", while the actual limitation > is "newt frontend without framebuffer" (text mode could be confu

Re: New speakup-udeb component

2008-05-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Sat 31 May 2008 13:41:16 +0200, a écrit : > On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Possibly not, see attached files: speakup-udeb.startup gets run early, > > sees the speakup statement on the kernel command line, and in that > > case modprobes spe

Re: Debian installer and braille

2008-05-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
(Cc-ing Dave Mielke) Frans Pop, le Sat 31 May 2008 13:48:32 +0200, a écrit : > Hmm. Just noticed these in my logcheck mail: These just come from the fake XWindow driver. > brltty[11186]: Could not load a braille font for charset ISO8859-1 > brltty[11186]: Could not load a braille font for charse

Re: New speakup-udeb component

2008-05-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Sat 31 May 2008 18:59:32 +0200, a écrit : > On Saturday 31 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > What is the status of the kernel support and the l-m-e packaging? > > > > Attached is the patch to l-m-e which I have used. > > OK. But my question ac

Bug#479227: kernel-wedge: add speakup modules

2008-06-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, le Sun 04 May 2008 01:51:58 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault, le Sat 03 May 2008 19:39:11 +0100, a écrit : > > Here is a patch to add the speakup-modules series of packages. > > Mmm, we may actually have copyright problems on the speakup_decpc module >

Bug#479208: debian-installer: text frontend isn't localized

2008-06-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, le Sat 03 May 2008 21:55:39 +0100, a écrit : > > On Saturday 03 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > When booting the installer (today's daily build of x86 mini.iso) with > > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text , the language selection is reduced to C a

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