Re: release notes mentioning dropped support?

2021-06-13 Thread Justin B Rye
Paul Gevers wrote: > + > + Hardware that's no longer supported The contraction "that's" seems out of place in a title - probably we should just use: No longer supported hardware > + > + Due to hardware limitations, it's no longer viable for Debian > + to build

Re: New debconf template for the linux package

2014-07-16 Thread Justin B Rye
victory wrote: +Template: linux-image-@abiname@@localversion@/postinst/mips-initrd-@abiname@@localversion@ +Type: note +_Description: Boot loader configuration must be updated to load initramfs + This kernel package will build an initramfs file + (/boot/initrd.img-@abiname@) for the boot

Re: New debconf template for the linux package

2014-07-07 Thread Justin B Rye
Ben Hutchings wrote: I would write something like: Boot loader configuration must be updated to load initramfs This kernel package will build an 'initramfs' file (/boot/initrd.img-@abiname@) that should be loaded by the boot loader in addition to the kernel itself. The initramfs enables

Re: [RFR] templates://firmware-nonfree/{templates/templates.license.in}

2012-08-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: [...] + If you do not agree, the installation will be cancelled. [...] + The installation of this package has been cancelled. Few changes. Only a spelling fix. Sorry, Christian, this is a (particularly fiddly) en_GB-versus-en_US spelling rule difference. Should I

Re: [RFR] templates://firmware-nonfree/{templates/templates.license.in}

2012-08-26 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Sorry, Christian, this is a (particularly fiddly) en_GB-versus-en_US spelling rule difference. Ah, doh. Just learned something (which I'll probably forget soon)..:-) So no double l in en_US? In en_GB, the general rule is that a final short vowel plus single

Re: Bug#608253: [Pkg-xen-devel] Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2011-01-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Thomas Goirand wrote: I don't want to point fingers here (so I wont check who's involved), but I've been advised to point at the wiki. Anyway, this paragraph can now be removed if the issue has been fixed. I haven't seen any claim of a fix for the issue that xen users need to upgrade manually;

Re: Bug#608253: [Pkg-xen-devel] Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2011-01-30 Thread Justin B Rye
Thomas Goirand wrote: Apparently now that there are xen-linux-system-2.6-xen-* metapackages in Squeeze this should read something like: We have this package in Lenny as well, but it wasn't enough. The claim you just had it from Ian... According to

Re: Bug#608253: [Pkg-xen-devel] Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2011-01-29 Thread Justin B Rye
Julien Cristau wrote: # Upgrades from Lenny will not automatically install Xen version 4.0. Instead # you need to install Xen 4.0 and a corresponding dom0 kernel explicitly. See # the wiki page for instructions on how to set up the Xen hypervisor and dom0 # kernel under Squeeze. Is this

Re: [RFR] templates://linux-2.6/{linux-base.templates,templates/temp.image.pla in/templates}

2010-03-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: (I didn't review the package description) The descriptions in the linux-2.6 family don't obey the d-l-e house style (they talk about flavoUrs, doublespace their sentences, and so on) but I don't see anything that matters. Template: linux-base/disk-id-convert-auto

Re: [RFR] templates://linux-2.6/{linux-base.templates,templates/temp.image.pla in/templates}

2010-03-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Ben Hutchings wrote: I feel like ID is more appropriate than lowercas id as acronyms are generally using uppercase. However, the current practice and existing documentation may lead to keep id. 'id' is short for 'identifier' and there is no reason to capitalise an abbreviation of a single

Re: [RFR] templates://linux-2.6/{linux-base.templates,templates/temp.image.pla in/templates}

2010-03-31 Thread Justin B Rye
Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 11:45 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: In my case the name of my IOmega Zip drive changed too. Yes, I only had it installed on that machine to see if it would cause trouble, and it still worked as /dev/sdc1. Mind you, I imagine it would be a bit

Re: project smith review linux-2.6 templates

2008-04-14 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian Perrier wrote: Here's a complete rewrite. My comments, slightly delayed by a weekend AFK. Template: =ST-image-=V/preinst/bootloader-initrd-=V [...] You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version =V) This will not work unless the boot loader is configured to use an

Re: [RFR] templates://redhat-cluster/{cman.templates}

2008-01-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Frederik Schueler wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:32:20AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: I think that ALL packages are missing a common paragraph describing *what* Redhat cluster suite is. Anyone feeling like proposing one? RHCS is a cluster management infrastructure, which allows to