Bug#989863: debian-installer: Firmware problems in bullseye

2021-06-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois 
Package: debian-installer
Severity: important

Hi,

This is an umbrella bug report that I intend to use to track at least
two separate issues (that are really the two sides of the same coin):

 - Official installation images (main-only) might lead to a successful
   installation but result in a black screen upon rebooting the
   installed system. Some of these issues are due to free drivers
   wanting or even requiring some firmware to work properly, on a
   per-device basis.

 - Unofficial installation images (shipping firmware from non-free)
   might also lead to a successful installation but result in the same
   kind of issue due to the way firmware detection is happening.


Please don't turn this bug report into a “firmware packages should have
their own section”, or “firmware packages should be in the installation
images”, etc. If you'd like to change the project's consensus on this,
please follow the appropriate process (see previous firmware GRs). I'm
not speaking for the installer team as a whole, but I would personally
be happy if we could make the life or our users easier in the current
times where escaping non-free is *very* hard. But again, I don't think
we're entitled to making this kind of decision, and that kind of thing
should be discussed with the Debian project as a whole, not here.


This bug report and follow-ups (one bug report for each of those two
issues, which will block this one) are about trying to implement
practical (even if imperfect) solutions for Debian 11.

People wanting to learn about this can refer to Lucas's tentative
summary of earlier threads on mailing lists, and to my reply:
 - https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2021/04/msg00646.html
 - https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2021/04/msg00711.html


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

Processed: block 987441 with 989863

2021-06-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System 
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:

> block 987441 with 989863
Bug #987441 [src:debian-installer] debian-installer: D-I must get ready for 
Bullseye
987441 was blocked by: 988786 987568 961056 987368 987377 988826 987788 987449 
988951 926539 988787
987441 was not blocking any bugs.
Added blocking bug(s) of 987441: 989863
> thanks
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Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2021-06-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois 
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second
release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye".

I'd like to personally thank Simon McVittie for going above and beyond
the call of duty, providing us with an incredible amount of support on
the cdebconf vs. GTK front!


Improvements in this release


 * cdebconf:
- Intercept the size-request event and adjust the requested width
  to a minimum of 300 pixels. This seems sufficient to avoid the
  infinite loop in GTK (#988786). This fixes a number of scenarios
  including:
   + Hang before offering a shell in rescue mode (#987377).
   + Hang immediately with Sinhala and other languages (#987449).
   + Hang in various places with Swedish (mirror selection or
 package manager configuration).
- Capture new-style GLib structured logging messages (#988589).
- Align the display of info messages (e.g. “Rescue mode”) to the
  right again, since Debian (logo and name) is back on the left
  side with the Homeworld theme.
- Make sure info messages (e.g. “Rescue mode”) get displayed on
  the banner on the start-up screen (#882804).
 * choose-mirror:
- Update Mirrors.masterlist.
 * debian-cd:
- Add brltty and espeakup to all images from netinst up, for users
  installing without a network mirror (#678065).
 * debian-installer:
- Bump Linux kernel ABI to 5.10.0-7.
 * grub-installer:
- Make sure reinstalling GRUB on BIOS systems doesn't report an
  error when everything went fine (#988826).
 * gtk+2.0:
- Avoid a relayout loop that's likely to happen in the graphical
  installer (#988786).
 * lowmem:
- Allow forcing a lowmem level (e.g. lowmem=+0).
- Update lowmem levels for arm64, armhf, mipsel, mips64el, and
  ppc64el.
 * open-iscsi:
- Ship the contents of the library package inside the udeb,
  instead of having the udeb depend on the library package
  (#987568).
 * partman-base:
- Fix and extend support for /dev/wd* devices with rumpdisk.
 * systemd:
- udev-udeb: setup /dev/fd, /dev/std{in,out,err} symlinks
  (#975018).


Hardware support changes


 * linux:
- [arm64] udeb: Include mdio module for RPi4 Ethernet (#985956).
- [s390x] udeb: Include standard scsi-modules containing the
  virtio_blk module (#988005).


Localization status
===

 * 78 languages are supported in this release.
 * Full translation for 33 of them.


Known bugs in this release
==

 * The firmware for graphic cards situation already mentioned in the
   RC 1 announce is now tracked via an umbrella bug report (#989863).

See the errata[2] for details and a full list of known issues.


Feedback for this release
=

We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so
please try it. Installation images, and everything else you will need
are available at our web site[3].


Thanks
==

The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this
release.


 1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team
 2. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata
 3. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 release

2021-06-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois 
Charles Curley  (2021-06-14):
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 23:26:22 +0200
> Cyril Brulebois  wrote:
> 
> > See the errata[2] for details and a full list of known issues.
> 
> You might want to include 980271 in the errata. See
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980271#15 for the
> gist of it.

Reply-To was set to debian-boot@ (re-added), why mail debian-user@ and
myself instead? Anyway, rather than putting more burden on translators,
I've just pinged the package maintainer informally instead.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant


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