On lun., 2015-02-09 at 14:30 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hello Xfce people,
What's your take on this? Is an addition through the xfce task the
best way?
I just saw that email, sorry for the delay. We're not responsible for
the pulseaudio part (I actually don't recommend it, and prefer
On sam., 2015-05-09 at 00:13 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org (2011-12-13):
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
It seems that this is something hurting a few people already, so maybe.
I'm not too sure why pulseaudio is installed by default, but if
xfce4-mixer doesn't work
On lun., 2015-07-13 at 16:46 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hi,
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk (2015-07-13):
Package: task-xfce-desktop
Version: 3.32
Severity: important
task-xfce-desktop depends on xfce4. While that may seem the very
purpose of this package, it causes problem
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.75
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/debootstrap/functions
Hi,
dpkg behavior is to preserve as hard as it can the current layout of the
filesystem wrt. symlink to directories: it will try not to replace a
symlink by a folder or even the opposite.
In debootstrap
On jeu., 2015-12-03 at 13:26 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>
> so BSD tar wouldn't get the fix for your usecase?
I guess not.
>
> (Inspecting its code, ./tar/write.c is where symlink_mode is used, and
> only when writing an archive.)
>
>
> Looking at GNU tar I read:
> | -h, --dereference
On dim., 2016-06-19 at 02:01 -0700, Leo L. Schwab wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 10:46:55AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > task-xfce-desktop is for installation time, so here Depends is correct. We
> > want light-locker by default, but people are free to remov
On dim., 2016-06-19 at 08:03 +, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 08:57:44AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > > task-xfce-desktop is for installation time, so here Depends is correct.
> > > We
> > > want light-locker by default, but people are free to remove it
> > > afterwards
On sam., 2016-06-18 at 07:25 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Xfce people, could you please bring some input on that issue?
Sure.
>
> TIA
>
> Quoting Leo L. Schwab (ew...@ewhac.org):
> > Package: task-xfce-desktop
> > Version: 3.35
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> >
On dim., 2016-06-19 at 09:19 +, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:08:56AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > Because we *want* light-locker as part of the default Xfce install.
>
> Well, having it in recommends is enough for that.
Then I don't see the point in
On dim., 2016-06-19 at 09:59 +, Holger Levsen wrote:
>
> I'm surprised this is news for you.
This is not. And we're not going anywhere.
>
> Depends are used when something doesnt work without the depends. XFCE
> definitly works without a screensaver.
So you actuallu missed my point,
On mar., 2016-02-02 at 17:16 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> I didn't check the whole archive, but doing so might be interesting.
I did a quick check on a local mirror (which might be incomplete), and found
three packages with errors:
dpkg -c debian/pool/main/s/sed/sed_4.2.2-4+b1_amd64.deb |grep
On mar., 2016-02-02 at 16:23 +0100, HacKurx wrote:
> Hi,
Hey,
> I just saw that the /bin directory does not have the correct
> permissions (775 instead of 755).
Interesting, I saw that on few boxes but we didn't push the investigation too
far.
For other people: it matters because on a grsec
On mar., 2016-02-02 at 16:48 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> Good to know. I'm actually unsure if the problem lies in debootstrap or
> somewhere else. debian-boot, any idea?
Running:
debootstrap jessie jessie
ls -dl jessie/bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2240 Feb 2 17:02 jessie/bin
so it
On mar., 2016-02-02 at 17:16 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Notice sed's being different.
>
> I didn't check the whole archive, but doing so might be interesting.
Thanks for the investigation. That also means any package can change the
permissions on any folder (outside of /etc, I guess)? Or
-parsechangelog output:
Source: tasksel
Version: 3.35
Distribution: UNRELEASED
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:29:04 +0100
Changes:
tasksel (3.35) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
.
* debian/control:
- replace iceweasel by firefox-e
On mer., 2016-02-03 at 14:37 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> [Context: packages shipping /bin with “funny” permissions, seen in stable.]
>
> Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> (2016-02-03):
> >
> > On mar., 2016-02-02 at 17:16 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 05:41 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl):
> > Package: task-xfce-desktop
> > Version: 3.39
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Hi!
> > Currently, the XFCE task pulls in evince, whose interface is really out of
> > place outside of Gnome.
On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 23:42 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 05:41 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl):
> > > Package: task-xfce-desktop
> > > Version: 3.39
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > &
On Sun, 2017-02-05 at 14:21 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Cyril Brulebois writes:
> > Adding debian-bsd@ and pkg-xfce-devel@ to the loop:
> >
> > Adam Borowski (2016-07-26):
> > > Package: task-xfce-desktop
> > > Version: 3.35
> > > Severity:
On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 07:58 +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > The advantages from parole player are, you don't need Qt dependencies from
> > vlc player. The parole player is written in Gtk+, runnig fine and need
> > the gstreamer framework only.
> >
> > Please do set the parole player as
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On Tue, 2018-06-05 at 15:44 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Context: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests/30
>
> Many thanks for the heads-up. I'll be on the lookout for a possible
> late ABI bump then. Feel free to poke me
control: tag -1 -patch
On Thu, 2018-02-22 at 09:20 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Bugreport tagged with 'patch', hope this helps.
Hi,
There is no patch in that bug report. While copying the whole directory might
be doable, it's not the first solution we would consider, and it would
definitely
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:44:02PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> Also, atril seems to bring mate-desktop-common package, which is not yet
> present in Xfce installations. I don't really like that (and yes, I don't
&g
Package: di-netboot-assistant
Version: 0.59
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I'd like to setup some netboot images for serving over PXE, storing
stuff in /var/lib/tftp is not practical for me. I'd like to be able to
specify the target directory from the command line, but it's apparently
not possible for
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On Thu, 2019-02-28 at 21:34 +0300, Andreas B. Mundt wrote:
> I already draft-implemented this, seems to be pretty simple (and
> indeed usefull):
>
>
>
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On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 00:16 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> I thought severity was higher than that. Reasoning for serious is that
> rendering looks ***bad*** plus this breaking d-i's automated testing.
>
> I'm told desktop users also suffer from
Hi,
I think there is some problems with installation files (kernel and
initrd) for netboot.
I pick the files from:
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/
linux is kernel 2.6.24, so it's correctly etch'n half
but initrd.gz
On mer, 2008-08-06 at 19:14 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
This does not make any sense to me. 'strings' tells me the kernel in that
dir is 2.6.18. And that is exactly as it is supposed to be as _none_ of
the images under dists/etch/main/installer-* has anything at all to do
with etchnhalf. They
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.80
Severity: wishlist
Hey,
here's an updated xfce-desktop task definition for squeeze, matching the
changes in Xfce 4.6.
Could you import it in next tasksel upload?
Thanks,
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On mar, 2009-09-08 at 22:10 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
tags 545431 peding
thanks
Quoting Yves-Alexis Perez (cor...@debian.org):
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.80
Severity: wishlist
Hey,
here's an updated xfce-desktop task definition for squeeze, matching the
changes
On mar, 2009-09-29 at 06:31 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting Yves-Alexis Perez (cor...@debian.org):
Commited to git.
Thanks. Could you add the attached patch too?
Done.
Thanks!
Would that help if you have commit access to tasksel's git?
Sure, though I'm not that often
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.66
Severity: wishlist
To display svg background, xfdesktop needs librsvg2-common installed. As
desktop-base use by default an svg background, it'd be nice that this
lib should be installed with xfce-desktop task.
Patch is attached.
Regards,
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On dim, 2007-01-21 at 20:35 +0100, Per Olofsson wrote:
Yves-Alexis Perez:
Package: tasksel
Version: 2.66
Severity: wishlist
To display svg background, xfdesktop needs librsvg2-common installed. As
desktop-base use by default an svg background, it'd be nice that this
lib should
On mer, 2008-12-31 at 10:15 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
reassign 510300 tasksel 2.77
thanks
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Pietro Pizzo wrote:
Comments/Problems:
I chose to install the xfce desktop environment and the installation
process worked like a sharm. The only problem I had after
On jeu, 2009-01-01 at 00:19 +0800, Andrew Lee wrote:
Frans Pop wrote:
reassign 510300 tasksel 2.77
thanks
Is the same maybe needed for the LXDE desktop?
LXDE in lenny hasn't support trash can yet. So no need for LXDE desktop
for now.
This is not about trash support but about dbus one.
tag 510300 +patch
thanks
Attached trivial patch should do the trick. I'll test on a lenny
standard install what install dbus-x11 on top of xfce-desktop adds.
Cheers,
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diff --git a/tasks/xfce-desktop b/tasks/xfce-desktop
index 53895bf..4628228 100644
--- a/tasks/xfce-desktop
+++
reassign 506406 tasksel
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On lun, 2009-01-05 at 13:31 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
On Monday 05 January 2009, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
Reason is that tasksel makes use of the Task: fields in the Packages
file, not the task files included in tasksel itself (which,
simplified, are only used to update the Packages file
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:58:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
severity 506406 minor
thanks
On Monday 05 January 2009, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
Well, testing the desktop task not really, especially if it uses
Packages files. But we can test installing xdm on top of xfce4.
That's
On lun, 2009-01-05 at 12:50 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
Ok it seems that adding xfce4-session before gdm in the list enables
apt-get and aptitude to satisfy the dependency on x-session-manager.
Unfortunately this cannot be fixed in tasksel this way. The order in which
packages are actually
On lun, 2009-01-05 at 22:55 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:31:59 +0100
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl wrote:
Would replacing gdm by xdm solve the problem (see #510422)?
Well, I guess so.
Could you (or someone else from the desktop teams) test this?
I'm
On mar, 2009-01-06 at 16:06 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
Perhaps it's only when one tries to install xfce after doing a
standard
install and not when using an xfce cd (that's when it showed up for
me). So probably tasksel is fine, the problem is that if you apt-get
or aptitude|select
On mar, 2009-01-06 at 20:01 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
It occurs to me the reason you are confused is that when I 'Standard
System' you are thinking I mean 'typical system' when in fact I mean
that I select the option 'Standard System' on the tasksel menu.
No I'm confused because you
On jeu, 2009-01-08 at 00:21 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
Ah! Aptitude also has the ability to select tasks. One of the
categories in the defaults displays is 'Tasks' and under that there
are
things like 'End User' and 'Localisation'. For XFCE you open 'End
User' and the highlight 'Xfce
On mar, 2009-03-17 at 19:49 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
[please CC me, I'm not subscribed]
Hello,
Hey,
I'm (one of) the Xfce maintainer in Debian. I'll comment on this, but
I'm not subscribed either.
I recently installed sid with desktop=xfce and some things I consider
should
On mer, 2009-03-18 at 18:59 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org writes:
[...]
Good point, but the change need to be made in tasksel, so it's not
irrelevant to discuss that in tasksel lists. But maybe it'd be even
better to discuss that on a bug reported
On lun, 2009-04-27 at 07:47 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On dim, 2009-04-26 at 21:36 +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
I got forwarded this today. Do we need anything more from a fresh
install? It's been a while since I've done one...
We have ktsuss for Xfce but I'm not sure it fills
reopen 621769
severity 621769 wishlist
retitle 621769 please include file-reseed udeb on netboot images
thanks
On ven., 2011-04-08 at 13:27 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
I'm using the netboot files (so linux kernel and initrd.gz). I've tried
various setups:
preseed
On mar., 2011-09-06 at 11:07 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
$ sudo aptitude install quodlibet
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs{a} python-gpod{ab} quodlibet
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not
upgraded.
Need to get 854 kB of
On 13/12/2011 18:02, Joey Hess wrote:
Hello, i just installed wheezy with a desktop=xfce option at grub in netinst
cd.
Works fine, but xfce-mixer don't.
Probably a dependency problem in tasksel program.
I install gstreamer-alsa and i fixed this manually
My guess from this limited and
On jeu., 2014-08-07 at 23:57 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
Hi Debian,
About the decision itself, as Debian Xfce main maintainer, I honestly
don't really care. I don't think the default desktop matters that much
on Debian (while I guess it means a lot for Ubuntu, for example). I
actually think
On ven., 2014-08-08 at 18:38 -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
With all due respect to XFCE, I'd hate the interpretation to be along
the lines of, Oh, Debian state of the art desktop environment feels
something like Windows, circa 2000. But, XFCE's lightweight. It's
meant
to lack such fancy
On mar., 2014-08-12 at 21:18 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hello desktop people,
Jessie is approaching, it would be nice to know what's going to happen
for this release. If there's no new artwork I suppose it's OK to stick
to the current one, but stating that in advance of the freeze would
On ven., 2014-09-05 at 16:46 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
As part of the process described on this wiki page --
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Requalification/Jessie
We're requesting some information from each desktop team, as well
as the systemd maintainers:
Hi,
what kind of reply do you
On dim., 2014-09-07 at 21:13 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Well, for a blind user, it *is*!...
Sure, but not everyone's blind. I sympathise with a11y, but forcing
gnome-orca on everyone won't happen.
Anyhow, what do you propose to fix the accessibility of XFCE? Adding
the
dependency to
Control: tag -1 wontfix
On dim., 2014-09-07 at 21:53 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Yves-Alexis Perez, le Sun 07 Sep 2014 21:15:19 +0200, a écrit :
On dim., 2014-09-07 at 21:13 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Well, for a blind user, it *is*!...
Sure, but not everyone's blind
On dim., 2014-09-07 at 16:28 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
So, I see no problem with adding gnome-orca to task-xfce-desktop, given
those installation size numbers.
I do.
I sympathize with Yves in wanting to keep the xfce4-* packages
containing only actual upstream XFCE stuff;
(OT: Yves-Alexis
On dim., 2011-01-16 at 08:49 +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
On 01/13/2011 10:52 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
Is there anything that still needs to happen on the syslinux side
yes.
if so, could it either happen soon or for 6.0.1, please? :)
like i said[0], after my vac[1].
[0]
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 14:43 +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
For now, I've added code to debian-cd to allow for configuration to
specify use of a specified disk type (i.e. size), but then to
over-ride the size for *all* the images (as I did for the KDE CDs for
squeeze), and/or a single specific
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Hey,
it seems that preseed/file doesn't work at all.
I'm using the netboot files (so linux kernel and initrd.gz). I've tried
various setups:
preseed/file=/hd-media/foo.cfg
preseed/file=file:///hd-media/foo.cfg
Looking at the content of the
On ven., 2011-04-08 at 13:27 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
I'm using the netboot files (so linux kernel and initrd.gz). I've tried
various setups:
preseed/file=/hd-media/foo.cfg
preseed/file=file:///hd-media/foo.cfg
Looking at the content of the initrd it seems
On ven., 2011-04-08 at 13:27 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
/hd-media is mounted by iso-scan. That will work fine if you're
installing from a hdF11-media image. Otherwise it won't, and you'll
have to put the file somewhere else.
d-i does not have one initrd, it has initrds customized for different
On dim., 2011-04-10 at 15:29 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 02:32, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org
wrote:
So, this is not a bug, then?
IMO we could close this bug report in this case. Others?
I've already closed it (though I still think it'd be nice to have a
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 23:53 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:01:17PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 15:28 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
What framebuffer is used ? atyfb probably ?
I don't really know. I used video=ofonly but it doesnt help.
I
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:23 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:17:10AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
0 OFfb ATY,264LTP
1 OFfb ATY,264LTP
Ok, this is atyfb, and you probably have a rage something chip in there. I
wonder about the two fbdevs, but i suppose this is one
if it worked.
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in the directfb code for radeon,
which needs disabling also for atyfb, or in general for powerpc.
Some directfb accel i think it was.
On advices got on #debian-boot I added on my /etc/directfbrc:
debug
no-hardware
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I'm unsure about that, but it might make sense to split Xfce and LXDE
cds. I don't really know about LXDE in Debian (although I'm unsure of
its real utility and upstream maintenance in general), but it definitely
make sense to have an Xfce CD.
I'll also try to check what's installed besides Xfce
Package: partman-lvm
Version: 65
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
this is not exactly a feature request, it's more like a start of a
discussion and a maybe-wishlist depending on what people think about that.
I use LVM from the debian-installer since quite some time now, and I find
it really useful. I
On dim., 2013-06-16 at 13:05 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hi Andreas,
Andreas Schneider schneider.a...@gmail.com (16/06/2013):
Package: task-xfce-desktop
Version: 3.16
Severity: normal
The task xfce-desktop recommends xfprint4. This package is not available
anymore (except for
On lun., 2013-10-07 at 20:30 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
On 07/10/13 19:38, Joey Hess wrote:
network-manager-gnome recommnds gnome-bluetooth recommends
gnome-control-center recommends gnome-session
Not sure what to do about this. gnome-bluetooth seems to have
that recommends
On mar., 2013-10-08 at 23:54 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
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
On mer., 2013-10-09 at 15:16 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
It looks like that the problem is that when two desktop systems are installed,
the one that pops up by default is not necessarly the one that the user
wanted.
That's a point, althought alternatives can be used here.
If we can assume
On mer., 2013-10-09 at 10:50 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
On 09/10/13 10:29, Per Olofsson wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 23:54 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
Both recommends are there for a reason. gnome-bluetooth relies heavily
on gnome-control-center when you try to pair /
On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 11:32 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
Or tasksel could stop installing recommends, like it was done before,
and people involved in the various tasks can handle the list explicitly.
This thread seems to have gone off on a tangent after the correct fix
, but the
questions above will help narrow the problem.
Regards,
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 01:13:59AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hi Xfce maintainers,
please find below an installation report regarding Xfce. Feedback welcome.
Thanks for the report, answers inline.
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