On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 02:54:26PM +0100, Brendan Donegan wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 02:25:15PM +0100, Brendan Donegan wrote: > >>On 01/06/12 14:21, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: > >>>Do we know when we'll be dropping the alt installer images? Heck, I'd > >>>love to just have multi-arch so the i386/x64 can also be the same disc.. > >>>A guy can dream :-) > >>In Hardware Certification we have at least some systems which are > >>only installable and therefore certifiable with the alternate image. > >>Perhaps this shouldn't be the case, but it's worth taking into > >>account before thinking about dropping the image. > >In order to take this into account, we would need more information about the > >issues that prevent these systems from being certified with the desktop > >image. Do you have a list of these somewhere?
> We had this issue which prevented us from PxE installing some systems: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/553609 > This would not stop the systems being certified but would give us a > major headache. Daniel (cc'ed) can confirm that we do *not* see any > issues like this in Precise. As it stands we wouldn't be directly > impacted by the removal of the alternate image. It would be nice to > have some confidence though that any issues like this encountered > going forward will be fixed, even if they don't directly impact > certification or the 'standard' user experience. I can't speak for the kernel team, but IMHO such bugs should be escalated via the release meeting reports and UE should commit to fixing them, yes. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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