Re: A notice to the Debian Installer team...

2010-05-23 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Hi Petter, I have actually used the multi partman recipe. My hard drive is 160G in size. The space allocated to /usr was more than enough under Lenny. I used to install both Gnome and KDE and lot more additional packages. But now I have only Gnome with a very small number of additional package

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > But withdrawing it from the distribution seems like overkill to me, > especially since you want to withdraw it from Squeeze and not > Squeeze+1. Lilo, as it exists today, works just fine for my > purposes. If the maintainer doesn't wish to maintain it f

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 23 May 2010 16:11:30 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote: > "Stephen Powell" wrote: >> (blah blah blah blah) > > Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become > lilo upstream, it's going away. > > William I do understand why a Debian package maintainer does not

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-23 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, - "Stephen Powell" wrote: > (blah blah blah blah) Nobody cares if you are opposed to it. Unless you are offering to become lilo upstream, it's going away. William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 22 May 2010 23:39:52 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote: > > After some discussion about lilo on #debian-devel in IRC, it has pretty > much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the line past where > lilo can reliably determine the payload size. > > This bug *can* be fixed, but n

Re: A notice to the Debian Installer team...

2010-05-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Nima Azarbayjany] > I faced a problem in using Debian Squeeze recently which you should be > aware of it by now but I'm writing you anyway to make sure it gets > resolved sooner (if it is not yet). Very good. > The problem is that using the installer's default partitioning > scheme nearly 5Gb i

A notice to the Debian Installer team...

2010-05-23 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Hi all, Let me first thank you for your work which has made using the great Debian operating system possible! :-) I faced a problem in using Debian Squeeze recently which you should be aware of it by now but I'm writing you anyway to make sure it gets resolved sooner (if it is not yet). Th

applying the "looking for firmware on CD+DVD" patch to lenny?

2010-05-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, recently #574116 (and #574158) were fixed in sid and IMO it would be very nice to have this patch in lenny too. So I wonder if this is possible and if the SRMs would accept it. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-23 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 01:11:48PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > William Pitcock (22/05/2010): > > This means that users should *test grub2 extensively* before Squeeze > > is released so that any issues can be resolved now. > > There should also be some folks fixing the discovered issues. grub

Re: Do you still maintain mouseemu in Debian?

2010-05-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Gaudenz Steinlin] > AFAIK there are severyl possible ways: > - synclient (only runtime configuration) > - statically in Xorg.conf > - with the gnome-control-panel (and possible by setting some gconf keys) Right. I guess all of these should be handled outside the installer, and will limit hw-dete

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Dropping -release, which isn't a discussion list.) William Pitcock (22/05/2010): > Given that there is no active upstream and that the Debian lilo > package carries many patches for bug fixes that are alleviated by > standardizing on grub2, this seems like the best option for Debian. Speaking o

Re: Do you still maintain mouseemu in Debian?

2010-05-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Gaudenz Steinlin] > I'm not sure if mouseemu (at least in it's current status) should be > activated by default on these machines. I'd prefer to have the two > and three finger tapping acivated by default instead. OK. How is this multifinger tapping activated? How can machines with such touchpa

Re: Do you still maintain mouseemu in Debian?

2010-05-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:26:45PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Gaudenz Steinlin] > > I'm not sure if mouseemu (at least in it's current status) should be > > activated by default on these machines. I'd prefer to have the two > > and three finger tapping acivated by default instead. > > OK

Bug#516851: hdparm not installed

2010-05-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joey Hess] > AFAICS, hdparm is only installed via the laptop task, which pulls in > acpi-support, which depends on hdparm. But there is need for hdparm > on many other systems. OK. Do you propose to install it on all systems, or only some? If some, how do you propose to detect which system need

Re: Do you still maintain mouseemu in Debian?

2010-05-23 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Petter On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:40:39AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Hi, Gaudenz. I am planning to integrate a patch to hw-detect from > Ubuntu, which installs the mouseemu package by default on Mac machines > likely to only have one mouse button. But I notice the Ubuntu version >

Bug#495676: marked as done (hw-detect: hw-detect new device detection misbehaves with wlan* devices)

2010-05-23 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 23 May 2010 11:59:58 +0200 with message-id <20100523095958.gu4...@login1.uio.no> and subject line Re: hw-detect: hw-detect new device detection misbehaves with wlan* devices has caused the Debian Bug report #495676, regarding hw-detect: hw-detect new device detection misbeh

Do you still maintain mouseemu in Debian?

2010-05-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Hi, Gaudenz. I am planning to integrate a patch to hw-detect from Ubuntu, which installs the mouseemu package by default on Mac machines likely to only have one mouse button. But I notice the Ubuntu version of mouseemu have a lot of fixes that are missing in the Debian package, and that it is 3