Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release

2016-09-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just > like a normal jessie release, but with a few key updates: > > * backports kernel > *

Re: Artwork submission period ended (Was: Call for Stretch artwork proposals)

2016-09-06 Thread Zlatan Todoric
On 09/06/2016 09:43 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > > I have also received a suggestion from Michael Biebl, whom recommended > that included all the submitted artwork for Stretch (e.g. in a > "stretch-artwork" package). This would make the all artwork easily > accessible to users, who might prefer

Artwork submission period ended (Was: Call for Stretch artwork proposals)

2016-09-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Hi, The submission period for the Stretch work is now over. We have received 11 (confirmed) submissions for Stretch. Please give a hand to the artists, whom took their time to prepare an artwork submission for Debian Stretch! :) * Alberto Moshpirit (3 submissions) * Federico Mosquera * Fern

Re: All D-I's debconf templates in a single HTML page.

2016-09-06 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue 06 Sep 2016 at 21:18:58 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hello everybody, Hello Charles, > while working on preseeding D-I to make Cloud images, I found it a bit > difficult to figure out the details of this and that debconf template that is > listed in the preseed.txt example of the instal

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Bug#830869: [PATCH] debootstrap: excise all devices.tar.gz code

2016-09-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 02:05:51PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: >Since bug #571136 was fixed the --second-stage doesn't even use the >devices tarball so we can remove all its related cruft. The README has >been updated to show when real root access is required and give an >example of a foreign deboots

Bug#830869: [PATCH] debootstrap: excise all devices.tar.gz code

2016-09-06 Thread Alex Bennée
Since bug #571136 was fixed the --second-stage doesn't even use the devices tarball so we can remove all its related cruft. The README has been updated to show when real root access is required and give an example of a foreign debootstrap which works with fakeroot. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée ---

All D-I's debconf templates in a single HTML page.

2016-09-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, while working on preseeding D-I to make Cloud images, I found it a bit difficult to figure out the details of this and that debconf template that is listed in the preseed.txt example of the installation guide. Therefore, I collated them in a single HTML page. https://people.