Re: Now that freeze is in effect, is there going an alpha 5 soonish, bugs to be squished and any working release notes ?

Reply in-line :- On 27/01/2019, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi Shirish! > Hi Steve! > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 07:20:03PM +, shirish शिरीष wrote: >>Dear all, >> >>I saw earlier today that the Debian buster freeze has become [1]. I >>also saw that the alpha 4 release last month [2] and the errata

Bug#920664: installation-reports: unable to decrypt drive from grub after alpha4 setup

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal [email not working from system. This is cut and pasted from reportbug] Dear Maintainer, Since the system is unbootable, this may warrant higher severity. After a seemingly successful installation the system would not start because the pass phrase

resolvconf

I just tried the buster alpha 4 installer http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso in a VM. I selected only the ssh server and base tasks at the end. I noticed (because my DNS wasn't working) that when I got back into the system (via rescu

Bug#920309: Acknowledgement (lilo-installer: lilo fails to install on virtio environments)

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 12:23:31PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >Hi, > >i was asked yesterday to try to avoid virtio as harddisk driver, which >i did. This now works like a charm, i can install and successfully boot >the VM in kvm. > >So it seems it is /dev/vda being the problem for lilo-insta

Re: Now that freeze is in effect, is there going an alpha 5 soonish, bugs to be squished and any working release notes ?

Hi Shirish! On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 07:20:03PM +, shirish शिरीष wrote: >Dear all, > >I saw earlier today that the Debian buster freeze has become [1]. I >also saw that the alpha 4 release last month [2] and the errata >published with it [3] . I would probably share both the free and >non-free

Bug#920631: debian-installer: Ensure build is reproducible regardless of the user's umask(2)

Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist Version: 20190118 Tags: patch User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: toolchain environment X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org Hi, Attached is the following: commit 74d332d454fa246af50b469e2c5dec73e452572c

Bug#920627: debian-installer: Please update or clarify comment for MTOOLS_SKIP_CHECK=1

Source: debian-installer Version: 20190118 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, In/via #823881 it was noticed that mmd(1) had a buggy heuristic check that can fail the build. On the d-i side this was added with a prefixing comment: # Temporary workaround for #823881: export MTOOLS_SKIP_CHECK

Re: LUKS bugreports to be closed (house-cleaning)

Hi, Am Sonntag, 27. Januar 2019 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > On Sat, 2019-01-26 at 22:35 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Hi, > > > > since LUKS is no longer supported by d-i, all LUKS related bugreports > > against > > d-i packages can be closed, right? > > I don't know what makes you think that.