Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

2020-07-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Thank you Thomas. Yes, that's obviously why it was done.So - a quick look > on Wikipedia suggests that this was a current machine in 2006 and was > replaced in 2007 / 2008. So - if anyone has one running anywhere, it's > somewhere between 12-15 years old. If anybody knows of any that they really

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

2020-07-18 Thread João Pirralha
I'm just a user, but: * I disagree with dropping the first 4GB "DVD" install image, I think it's quite useful (although you might just name it "4GB" and drop the DVD naming). Users shouldn't need Internet to have a mostly functional system, and I cannot imagine they produce too much

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

2020-07-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Andrew Cater wrote: > Separately, we also had a quick think about the numbers of iso images in > general. A suggestion: For the future, we should produce physical media for > the netinst.iso, the first DVD image in any set and one larger image to be > written to a USB stick if wanted - and

Re: stretch EOL point release (9.13) and 10.5 planning

2020-07-18 Thread Andy Simpkins
On 18 July 2020 22:39:05 BST, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 10:12:41PM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote: >>On Sun, 2020-07-12 at 15:35 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >>> Hi Steve, >>> >>> On Sun, 2020-07-12 at 12:46 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> > Argh, massive apologies... >>> >

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

2020-07-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew Cater wrote: > If anybody knows of any [Mac Mini] that they really must keep > running, speak now or forever hold your peace. It is possible to create an ISO without EFI boot lures from a normal i386 or amd64 ISO. Follow https://wiki.debian.org/RepackBootableISO but leave out the

Re: stretch EOL point release (9.13) and 10.5 planning

2020-07-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 10:12:41PM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote: >On Sun, 2020-07-12 at 15:35 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> Hi Steve, >> >> On Sun, 2020-07-12 at 12:46 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > Argh, massive apologies... >> > >> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:38:14AM +0200, Laura Arjona

Re: stretch EOL point release (9.13) and 10.5 planning

2020-07-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adam D. Barratt (2020-07-18): > Now that stretch EoL is (more or less) out of the way, it would be good > to get 10.5 done as soon as we sensibly can, so as not to slip too far > off schedule. > > Next weekend is probably a little too soon - I'd at least like to not > jump straight back into

Re: stretch EOL point release (9.13) and 10.5 planning

2020-07-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sun, 2020-07-12 at 15:35 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Sun, 2020-07-12 at 12:46 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > Argh, massive apologies... > > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:38:14AM +0200, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > > > El 15/6/20 a las 18:44, Adam D. Barratt escribió: >

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

2020-07-18 Thread Andrew Cater
Thank you Thomas. Yes, that's obviously why it was done.So - a quick look on Wikipedia suggests that this was a current machine in 2006 and was replaced in 2007 / 2008. So - if anyone has one running anywhere, it's somewhere between 12-15 years old. If anybody knows of any that they really must

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

2020-07-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew Cater wrote: > [...] here are > a couple of architectures that are built but not tested because the testers > have no hardware. > One set  is an old Mac on Intel media, Do you mean these ? https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-mac-10.4.0-i386-netinst.iso

Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

2020-07-18 Thread Andrew Cater
As folk will be aware: we're building and releasing the final release of Stretch before transition to LTS support. Testing is going well - there are a couple of architectures that are built but not tested because the testers have no hardware. One set is an old Mac on Intel media, the other is