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

2013-04-16 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 16/04/13 01:49, Michael Biebl wrote: The recommends is pointless, task-gnome-desktop depends on gnome-core which already has a Recommends on network-manager-gnome. That is probably true but it is not going to cause harm by staying there? So it may as well stay now and can be removed

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

2013-04-15 Thread Steven Chamberlain
For all the problems OdyX mentioned from testing, I've found a single cause and filed bug #705435. I've updated this page to demonstrate a functioning GNOME desktop on GNU/kFreeBSD: https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_Desktop#Wheezy_GNOME On 15/04/13 05:53, Christian PERRIER wrote: I

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

2013-04-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (15/04/2013): For all the problems OdyX mentioned from testing, I've found a single cause and filed bug #705435. I've updated this page to demonstrate a functioning GNOME desktop on GNU/kFreeBSD:

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

2013-04-15 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 15/04/13 11:14, Cyril Brulebois wrote: But you should have made it clear when I asked. I thought I made it clear I needed feedback, and I wrote “*right now*”. I replied to your mail same day and used the words 'should work'... For unrelated reasons, d-i will need a new upload, so I can

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

2013-04-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:23:09AM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: On 15/04/13 11:14, Cyril Brulebois wrote: But you should have made it clear when I asked. I thought I made it clear I needed feedback, and I wrote “*right now*”. I replied to your mail same day and used the words 'should

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

2013-04-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org (15/04/2013): I replied to your mail same day and used the words 'should work'... Well, maybe that's just me, but that “should work” is no certainty at all, nobody says “works for me” (quite the contrary, given Didier's feedback after that). This “should

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

2013-04-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
severity 704748 important thanks According to the thread that follows https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2013/04/msg4.html, Gnome is too broken on kFreeBSD to be considered useful. As a consequence, having the desktop-gnome task broken on kFreeBSD because of the dependency on n-m-gnome can

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

2013-04-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 14/04/13 11:03, Christian PERRIER wrote: According to the thread that follows https://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2013/04/msg4.html, Gnome is too broken on kFreeBSD to be considered useful. Oops, an error occurred is known as the GNOME 'fail whale'. It could happen also on GNU/Linux

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

2013-04-14 Thread 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. Why could this not have been fixed in any case, it

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...:-))

2013-04-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steven Chamberlain (ste...@pyro.eu.org): 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