Bug#369664: Graphical DebianInstaller does not save passwords

2006-06-02 Thread Davide Viti
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:11:25AM +0700, Christian Perrier wrote: > There are also problemns with capitalized letters (already reported). #339352 and #368881 in case you needed to have more infos. Ciao, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#368881: linuxgui install

2006-06-02 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Holger, On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:09:11AM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Yes, I tried the new gtkdfb 2.9 g-i from [1] and the mentioned > issues are fixed! Well done. thanx alot for trying this on the 2.9 iso! Another bug that's going to be fixed as soon as the libs get packaged. I'm really

Bug#368881: linuxgui install

2006-05-28 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Holger, On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:06:22PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 25 May 2006 18:58:13 +0200 Patrick Cornelißen wrote: > > Package: installation-reports > > > Comments/Problems: > > > > There are some missing translations in the installer for the german > > language.

Bug#368602: making screenscreenshots

2006-05-23 Thread Davide Viti
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:30:59PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > Idea: > > Include a screenshot program a la > gnome-panel-screenshot (1) - capture screen or window and save the image to > a file. > > where the (default) file location in the log file directory > that is available to the d-i h

Bug#367783: Remove the brackets as possible workaround

2006-05-18 Thread Davide Viti
Just found out that it does not segfault when removing the square brakets ~ # echo test | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' Segmentation fault ~ # tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' ~ # echo test | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' TEST regards, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#366441: Mklibs: should not remove symbol iconv_open

2006-05-09 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 10:24:28PM +0200, Davide Viti wrote: > Package: mklibs > Version: 0.1.20 > Severity: important > Tags: d-i > > mklibs is stripping the iconv_open symbol from glibc causing debconf to > segfault: > > ~ # debconf -o d-i /usr/bin/main-menu > /b

Bug#366441: Mklibs: should not remove symbol iconv_open

2006-05-09 Thread Davide Viti
>I recomment to do desparate actions like `make really-clean`, `svn >update`, `make clean`. With some luck you get a working d-i again. tried that already and seems like ppc is broken as well (see [1]) even if it is not confirmed that the cause of the problem is the same >If the problem presists

Bug#366441: Mklibs: should not remove symbol iconv_open

2006-05-08 Thread Davide Viti
Package: mklibs Version: 0.1.20 Severity: important Tags: d-i mklibs is stripping the iconv_open symbol from glibc causing debconf to segfault: ~ # debconf -o d-i /usr/bin/main-menu /build/buildd/cdebconf-0.100/src/frontend.c:175 (frontend_new): Cannot load frontend module /usr/lib/cdebconf/fro

Bug#363251: Please provide an udeb needed by g-i

2006-04-17 Thread Davide Viti
Package: ttf-dzongkha Version: 0.2-1 Severity: whishlist Tags: d-i Please provide an udeb needed to display Dzongkha text inside the graphical installer. A test has been run (see [1]) using an unofficial tarball containing the ttf file and seems to be working properly. TIA, Davide [1] http://lis

Bug#358226: [Debian-in-workers] Bug#358226: ttf-tamil: Please build an udeb with fonts needed by the graphical installer

2006-03-22 Thread Davide Viti
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:30:51AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > >Please consider packaging an udeb containing TSCu_Paranar.ttf which > >will be used for the graphical installer. > >See [1] > > > > Only that one? Is freefont going to be used for the other supported Indic > languages or will th

Bug#358226: ttf-tamil: Please build an udeb with fonts needed by the graphical installer

2006-03-21 Thread Davide Viti
Package: ttf-tamil-fonts Version: 1:0.4.7 Severity: wishlist Please consider packaging an udeb containing TSCu_Paranar.ttf which will be used for the graphical installer. See [1] regards, Davide [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/03/msg00025.html signature.asc Description: Digital sig

Bug#358227: ttf-khmeros Please build an udeb with fonts needed by the graphical installer

2006-03-21 Thread Davide Viti
Package: ttf-khmeros Version: 3.10-2 Severity: wishlist Please consider packaging an udeb containing KhmerOS.ttf which will be used for the graphical installer. See [1] regards, Davide [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/03/msg00510.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#358213:

2006-03-21 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, spoke to Christian on IRC and he volunteered uploading the package: please get in touch with Hopefully we'll have a shiny new udeb asap. regards, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#358213: ttf-dejavu: new version [2.4] available

2006-03-21 Thread Davide Viti
Package: ttf-dejavu Version: 2.1-2 Severity: wishlist Please consider packaging the latest upstream version (2.4); we're considering to use dejavusans as default font for the graphical-installer. Version 2.4 covers the Vietnamese range which ATM is covered only by freefont (with some limitations).

Bug#357431: [g-i] Missing glyphs needed for Cyrillic

2006-03-17 Thread Davide Viti
Package: ttf-dejavu-udeb Version: 2.1-2 Severity: normal Tags: d-i The following glyphs are missing from the current version of the package and needed to render Kazakh [kk] text inside the graphical installer: used 3 times used 1118 times used once used 1059 times used once used 422 times

Bug#357154: ttf-freefont: FTBFS: wrong permissions for scripts/strip_glyphs.pe

2006-03-15 Thread Davide Viti
Package: ttf-freefont Severity: serious Version: 20060126b-1 Building fails with the following messages: # Strip the fonts for the udeb ./stripfonts.sh ./FreeSans.ttf Script not found: /home/zino/freefont/ttf-freefont-20060126b/scripts/strip_glyphs.pe ./FreeSansBold.ttf Script not found: /home/

Bug#254113: Workaround for ttf-freefont spacing issue (affects graphical debian-installer)

2006-03-12 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Josh, On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:06:34PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > I've put source and binaries at > http://freedesktop.org/~josh/ttf-freefont-spacing-problem/ . Could a > graphical-installer developer please test the udeb with g-i and see if > the spacing problem disappears? I've built a

Bug#356036: [G-I] Please remove DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf

2006-03-09 Thread Davide Viti
Package: ttf-dejavu-udeb Version: 2.1-2 Severity: normal g-i does not use boldoblique fonts, so DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf is not needed. This saves 133700 bytes. Regards, Davide Tiscali ADSL 4 Mega Flat Naviga senza limiti con l'unica Adsl a 4 Mega di velocità a soli 19,95 €

Bug#355447: Please add an udeb to be used with g-i

2006-03-05 Thread Davide Viti
Package: ttf-farsiweb Version: 0.4-2 tags: d-i After various tests with the graphical installer, looks like nazli fonts are the only fonts working both for Farsi and Arabic; the only problem is the fontsize (too small), but that will be handled in a config file (grtkrc). You can see a couple of sc

Bug#355385: libsysfs2-udeb: package does not contain any file

2006-03-05 Thread Davide Viti
Package: libsysfs2-udeb Version: 2.0.0-4 Severity: serious tags: d-i the udeb has no content: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/gtk-miniiso/installer/build$ dpkg -c udebs/libsysfs2-udeb.udeb drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-02-22 12:39:01 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2006-02-22 12:38:49 ./lib/ regard

Bug#354080: installation-report

2006-02-23 Thread Davide Viti
Lately there was a thread on directfb-dev about problems with touchpad (see [1] and followups) Not sure this is the same problem but I hope at least it gives some hints regards, Davide [1] http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2006- February/001511.html Tiscali AD

Bug#354044: fontconfig-udeb: missing fc-* binaries

2006-02-23 Thread Davide Viti
> At the time of the installation, only one or a few fonts are > available. Thus, the overhead for scanning them at is very small, and, > if there is only one application using it (which is the case as I > understand it), it only happens once. In order to render text for all the languages support

Bug#254113: Extra space between lines in new version of ttf-freefont

2006-02-22 Thread Davide Viti
I did some experiments with the FreeSans.ttf file affected by the problem and looks like the extra vertical space is "cumulative": I experimented with some English text (which uses latin glyphs whose glyphs reside in an unicode range < u100, u7a to be more precise). Compare the following screensh

Bug#354044: fontconfig-udeb: missing fc-* binaries

2006-02-22 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Josselin, On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:58:40PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Yes, this is because we thought these binaries are not necessary for the > installer. Removing them makes the udeb smaller. Are there real reasons > for having them in the udeb? Not seeing this mentioned in the Chang

Bug#354044: fontconfig-udeb: missing fc-* binaries

2006-02-22 Thread Davide Viti
Package: fontconfig-udeb Version: 2.3.2-2 Severity: important tags: d-i Latest version of the udeb does not contain fc-cache, fc-list, fc-match Here's the content of the udeb just rebuilt from source: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp$ dpkg -c fontconfig-udeb_2.3.2-2_i386.udeb drwxr-xr-x root/root

Bug#353439: Warning message suggests badly formed ttf file

2006-02-18 Thread Davide Viti
Package: ttf-devanagari-fonts Severity: minor While stripping a glyph from "Gargi_1.7.ttf" using a fontforge script I get the following message: Copyright (c) 2000-2005 by George Williams. Executable based on sources from 12:08 5-Dec-2005. Warning: Glyph 367 is named emp1 which should mean it is

Bug#353438: Warning message suggests badly formed ttf file

2006-02-18 Thread Davide Viti
Package: ttf-punjabi-fonts Severity: minor While stripping a glyph from "lohit_pa.ttf" using a fontforge script I get the following message: Copyright (c) 2000-2005 by George Williams. Executable based on sources from 12:08 5-Dec-2005. Glyph 148 is called ".notdef", a singularly inept choice of

Bug#350517: New version of ttf-freefont to test

2006-02-14 Thread Davide Viti
Hi all, On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 05:33:36PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > I just built a new upstream version of ttf-freefont. As Konstantinos > is mostly away currently, I wanted to give a try for getting a new > version in as the graphical installer could benefit it. very appreciated: thank

Bug#339855: Some options for a shell under g-i

2006-01-24 Thread Davide Viti
At the Extremadura meeting we did a little bit of research on possible options for having a shell on G-I; linking will have to be done against the gtk+-directfb libs rather than standard gtk+. Should be fairly easy to use one the following: * vte (see [1]) footprint seems to be about 800Kb, IMO fa

Bug#338191: Endianess pbs are mostly fixed mainline

2006-01-24 Thread Davide Viti
Some tests were performed building a g-i image based on the latest gtk+2.8.10 with gdk-directfb backend: colors lookm right. There's a minor problem with the labels over the buttons: the "X" next the "Cancel" button, for example, is surrounded by a rectangle (almost not visible though) Regards, D

Bug#339352: [g-i] shift+key not working on AZERTY keyboards

2006-01-06 Thread Davide Viti
Following a discussion about keyboard-related bugs on directfb-dev, I asked some infos about this problem; > > > Hi ppl, > > > I did not follow very closely the threads about input handling bug, > > > so > > > excuse me if my question is OT: > > > could #339352 be related to such problems

Bug#343446: [g-i] Missing Bengali fonts

2005-12-18 Thread Davide Viti
> > [5], [6], [7] where taken using the current freefont in the debian > > archive after stripping Bengali glyphs (u981:u9fa both from > > FreeSans.ttf and FreeSerif.ttf), and using MuktiNarrow.ttf and > > MuktiNarrowBold.ttf as you previously suggested. > > The correct links for these are missing

Bug#343446: [g-i] Missing Bengali fonts

2005-12-18 Thread Davide Viti
Here a few more screenshots so that you can figure out which font looks better. [2], [3], [4] were taken using freefont-ttf-20051206.tar.gz ([1]) which includes fixed Bengali glyphs [5], [6], [7] where taken using the current freefont in the debian archive after stripping Bengali glyphs (u981:u9

Bug#343446: [g-i] Missing Bengali fonts

2005-12-15 Thread Davide Viti
Hi all, I tested the new ttf-freefont package [1] and produced a g-i image which uses it for Bengali; some screenshots are available in [1],[2],[3]. Let me know if they look ok; I'd like to take also some screenshots of a g-i image which uses MuktiNarrow as suggested by Jamil (not tonight). I guess

Bug#343446: [g-i] Missing Bengali fonts

2005-12-15 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Jamil, > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freefont-announce/2005-12/msg0.html I'm sure Christian posted the announcement on d-boot a while ago... > So, I think if D-I contains latest Freefont package then this issue > might be resolved. :) > what I read between the lines is that you p

Bug#343446: [g-i] Missing Bengali fonts

2005-12-15 Thread Davide Viti
Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb Current g-i iso (i.e [1] for the i386 version built on 20051130) has problems whith Bengali ([2]); I tried to see what is going on and found two problems: * there are no Bengali specific fonts (there are ttf-devanagari-fonts and ttf-punjabi-fonts which do not cover Be

Bug#343244: GTK frontend shortcuts should be documented

2005-12-13 Thread Davide Viti
"Stamp" is the (Italian) equivalent of "PrtSc" or whatever is written on the key which is meant to "Print Screen" Ciao, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#342239: Problem fixed with 2.8.3 libs

2005-12-07 Thread Davide Viti
Severity: minor The problem does not happen with new version of DFB libs. I tried the iso image based on such libraries created by Attilio and available at: https://debian.polito.it/downloads/mini_gtkdfb_2_8_3.iso and verified the problem disappears regards, Davide signature.asc Description:

Bug#342242: [INTL:lt] Variable substitution

2005-12-06 Thread Davide Viti
Package: exim4 Severity: normal Tags: l10n patch Please fix the wrong variables spotted at: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/spellcheck/level2/latest/nozip/lt_var.txt Got in touch with the translator (Gintautas Miliauskas) and attached you can find the patch he submitted which fixes the problem. The

Bug#342239: [g-i] Arabic text is left-justified

2005-12-06 Thread Davide Viti
Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb Buttons and text are left-justified during an installation with Arabic language. regards, Davide __ TISCALI ADSL Solo con Tiscali Adsl navighi senza limiti e telefoni senza canone Telecom a partire da 19,9

Bug#341770: cursor bug details

2005-12-02 Thread Davide Viti
As stated in http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2005-December/001071.html there are a couple of similar problems which affect powerpc and make cursor / images look wong. As for wrong images please refer to #338191 The cursor problem has been described by Sven Luther: " 1) the cur

Bug#338191: [g-i] endianess problem on ppc: cursor

2005-12-02 Thread Davide Viti
clone 338191 -1 retitle -1 [g-i]: PPC cursor is surrounded by a rectangle thanx As stated in http://mail.directfb.org/pipermail/directfb-dev/2005-December/001071.html there are a couple of similar problems which affect powerpc and make cursor / images look wong. As for wrong images please refer

Bug#341442: Right patch for NL

2005-11-30 Thread Davide Viti
I just realized the patch for NL I previously submitted is _not_ right: --- exim4_debian_po_nl.po~ 2005-11-30 17:45:45.507877800 +0100 +++ exim4_debian_po_nl.po 2005-11-30 17:46:34.836002800 +0100 @@ -604,5 +604,5 @@ msgstr "" "De koptekst van uitgaande e-mail kan herschreven worden o

Bug#341442: Variable substitution for ca, nl, tl translations

2005-11-30 Thread Davide Viti
Package: exim4 Severity: normal Tags: l10n patch Please fix the wrong variables spotted at: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/spellcheck/level2/index.html please note that the fixes involves adding/removing "$" character (just in case this mail client decides to mess up character encoding) regards, D

Bug#339563: Possible cause

2005-11-17 Thread Davide Viti
Flashing screen is known to happen on AMD64 when trying to switch to a VT (see #339379). I tried to install the same iso image on my qemu VM (I have no AMD64 real hw) and the problem did not reproduce; OTOH i got a "unable to install initramfs-tools" but that would be another problem since I got ba

Bug#339352: Possible workaround

2005-11-15 Thread Davide Viti
"Actually, I found a whacky way to enter shifted characters: use the CapsLock key" --- Christian Perrier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#339379: [g-i] Crash if switch to VT2 when fe is busy

2005-11-15 Thread Davide Viti
Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb Severity: normal if you switch to a VT (i.e ctrl-alt-f2) while the graphical frontend is busy, the fe itself crashes; easily reproducible for example while progressbar is running during he detection. If you switch while the graphical frontend is waiting for input, the p

Bug#339352: [g-i] shift+key not working on AZERTY keyboards

2005-11-15 Thread Davide Viti
Package: cdebconf-gtk Tags: upstream Severity: normal Step to repeat: Set language to "French"/France, keyboard "Francais (fr-latin9) Shift+key is not working when trying to use uppercase chars for setting the system name after network hw has been detected. The problem shows up _on i386_ both whe

Bug#335885: URL with the patch

2005-11-10 Thread Davide Viti
The problem has been already fixed upstream: http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-09/msg00073.html regards, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#335885: TLS symbols

2005-11-09 Thread Davide Viti
It turns out that "-uh_errno" alone produces the error (at least on ppc, amd64) ld -uh_errno -o foo.so ./libc6/lib/libc.so.6 on i386 and m68k it does not segfault. looks like it complains because you try to add a new definition for an existing TLS symbol which is not TLS. Of all the _many_ symbo

Bug#335885: Nr of symbols

2005-11-08 Thread Davide Viti
The problem is not the number of chars on the command line, but the number of "-usymbol"s; I verified that with 47 works with 48 crashes. I reproduced the problem with crosscompiled binutils running on a i386 host both when target is ppc and amd64. Not tested for other targets. On i386 works. If a

Bug#337993: save-logs: overlapping windows when no partitions mounted

2005-11-07 Thread Davide Viti
Package: save-logs Severity: normal Tags: d-i I used a 20051107 mini.iso for i386 If you "go back" very early (before network detect) and then choose to "save debug logs" on a mounted filesystem, this is what you get: http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/save_log_bug.jpg and I could not get rid of the

Bug#322479: "getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)" fix

2005-10-29 Thread Davide Viti
Looks like adding /lib/libnss_files* fixes the problem; I tried to add /lib/libnss_files-2.3.5.so to the d-i tree and the warning disappears. The file is part of the libc6 deb package. regards, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#322479: Missing pixbuf loader

2005-08-20 Thread Davide Viti
The warning "cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders'" can be avoided recreating a custom (unofficial) "fonts-udeb" which contains an empty file named the right way. I modified the "rules" file as to contain the following line in the "build" target touch debian/fon

Bug#322479: Warning messages using installer's GTK frontend

2005-08-10 Thread Davide Viti
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i While testing the gtk fe, I noticed some warning messages on vt1: http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/vt1_errors.png for a screenshot My tests are done using qemu and a "mini.iso" built from a fresh checkout of the installer, plus a bunch of unoffic

Bug#308526: aspell-it: Warning messages while compiling Italian dictionary

2005-05-10 Thread Davide Viti
Package: aspell-it Version: 0.60-2 Severity: wishlist During the compilation of the dictionary file (it.rws), a lot of warning messages are generated and many of them can easily be removed. The wordlist (it.cwl) is derived from Myspell and has the following format: (1) the first line is an integ

Bug#308524: aspell-it: Words not included in the Italian dictionary

2005-05-10 Thread Davide Viti
Package: aspell-it Version: 0.60-2 Severity: normal aspell-it is being used to spellcheck translations of the debian-installer (http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/spellcheck/); it turns out that some Italian words are not included in the dictionary: avviabile malfunzionante partizionabile partizionamen

Bug#308155: it_affix.dat is needed by aspell-it-0.60

2005-05-09 Thread Davide Viti
I messed things up with my previous message, that's why it is empty: sorry about that. The fact that "it_affix.dat" is missing _IS_ a bug: i think also that the severity of this bug should be raised up, since the Italian dictionary is useless without the affix file. Seems like a new version of the

Bug#308155: it_affix.dat is needed by aspell-it-0.60

2005-05-08 Thread Davide Viti
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Bug#284377: aspell-it: elided words are mistakenly recognised as errors

2005-01-25 Thread Davide Viti
just tried the patch described in the original message on the source package downloaded from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/it/aspell-it-0.53-0.tar.bz2 1) I created a text file ("test_it.txt") containing the following list of words #--- START LIST all'inizio d'aiuto dall'elenco dell'attuale

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