Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-05-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Simon! Simon McVittie (2021-05-17): > My instinct is that it's far, far too late to be moving to GTK 3 this > cycle, and I'd prefer to get a suitable hack into GTK 2 if we can > find one. We can make it #ifdef DEBIAN_INSTALLER to avoid disrupting > the installed system. If you're happy with f

Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-05-17 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 18:12:35 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > And for those not following #debian-boot, I'm finding myself between a > rock and a hard place, as both options (trying to work around the > rendering-related hangs versus switching to GTK 3 at the last moment) > are very far from idea

Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-05-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le lun. 17 mai 2021 18:12:35 +0200, a ecrit: > Additionally, even with all 3 cdebconf-gtk-* packages converted, we > still get libgtk2.0-0-udeb pulled into a netboot-gtk build, because this > package pulls it: > > build/pkg-lists/gtk-common:libgail18-udeb > > Adding debian-ac

Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-05-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois (2021-05-17): > > The steps to use GTK 3 in d-i would be: > > > > - convert cdebconf-gtk-udeb from GTK 2 to GTK 3 > > - convert cdebconf-gtk-entropy from GTK 2 to GTK 3 > > - convert cdebconf-gtk-terminal from GTK 2 to GTK 3 and, simultaneously, > > from libvte9-udeb to libvte-2