Does anyone have any comments on the man pages?
If the pages are ok, can someone add them to the Debian package?
On 18 March 2015 at 11:59, Holger Levsen wrote:
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> And really, the best way to get this fixed is to write the missing manpage.
Attached. Please add to the Debian package.
linux-boot-prober.8
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os-prober.8
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On 18 March 2015 at 11:35, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
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> Pretty sure that's in no way a serious bug. If you want it to happen,
> submit one. Artificially bumping the severity won't help.
Isn't a missing man page a violation of the requirement stated in
Debian Policy Manual 12.1? Hence violation of p
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: USB
Image version: debian-jessie-DI-b2-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso
Date: 20141008
Machine: Virtualbox VM
Processor: i5
Memory: 1GB
Partitions: /dev/sda1 ext4
Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please
os-prober man page is still missing in 1.64
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0. bad GPT checksum - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740504
1. grub no hidpi support - upstream
2. bad documentation - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740500
3. minor grub video corruption - ?
4. Debian installer hiDPI support -
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bu
0. "error prefix is not set" - mentioned in #700974 and #707998 but no
specific open bug?
1. out-of-date documentation - bug #740500
2. missing documentation - bug #740500
3. bad GPT checksum - bug #740504
4. grub no hidpi - upstream (apparently some Ubuntu developers are
working to fix it, search
Package: debian-installer
The installer says "The firmware can be loaded from removable media,
such as a USB stick or floppy".
As a Linux user, it would seem reasonable to assume that it might work
with ext2 formatted media, so the fact that it does not, should be
stated:
"The firmware can be lo
Package: netcfg
In bug #739668 (wheezy install report, see section 13) I had problems
connecting from a laptop to a particular AP from a commercial wifi
provider using the Debian installer. At the same time a phone next to
the laptop had no such problems, and the same laptop running a
non-Linux OS
Package: debian-installer
Version: 7.0.4 wheezy release
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Installing from debian-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
1 check-missing-firmware "missing files" list is incorrect. Installer
detects that wifi needs Broadcom firmware and says "The missing firmware
files are: b43/u
Package: debian-installer
Version: 7.0.4 wheezy release
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Installing from debian-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
"FAT-fs (sdc): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems,
filesystem will be case sensitive!"
check-missing-firmware mounts partitions in a cas
Package: debian-installer
Version: 7.0.4 wheezy iso
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Installing from debian-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
check-missing-firmware does not work with a USB drive that
contains a partition table. When a USB drive with a single partition
containing the firmware is inser
Package: debian-installer
Version: stable
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en
Documentation is out of date - does not mention that this the amd64
images are "isohybrid" BIOS/EFI boot format, with both a MBR/GPT
partition scheme. Documen
Package: debian-installer
Version: firmware-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s04.html.en says
"Alternatively, unofficial CD builds containing non-free firmware can be
found at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/no
I recently installed Debian 7.0.4 and noted multiple problems: with
the check-missing-firmware phase
1. check-missing-firmware "missing files" list is incorrect. Installer
detects that wifi needs Broadcom firmware and says "The missing
firmware files are: b43/ucode29_mimo.fw b43-open/ucode29_mimo.
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: USB flash drive
Image version: debian-7.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 20 Feb 2014
Machine: MacBook Pro Retina 13-inch late-2012 (MacbookPro10,2)
Processor: i5-3210m
Memory: 8GB
Partitions:
Model: ATA APPLE SSD SM128E (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 121GB
Sector siz
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: USB flash drive
Image version: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Jessie 20140219
(md5=1a32dff1dc4a137428aecbce85b2bf32)
Date: 20 Feb 2014
Machine: MacBook Pro Retina 13-inch late-2012 (MacbookPro10,2)
Processor: i5-3210m
Memory: 8GB
Partitions:
Model: AT
The severity of this bug should be higher as it breaks the Debian
installer in many use cases that would otherwise work (eg. user
creates partitions on a multiple OS system outside of debian
installer, then boots into installer to do the install - this should
work, but instead it now fails if the u
This bug also causes the debian installer to fail with "Partition Disk
Failed to create a file system." when btrfs is chosen. With ext2 it
works fine. I'm not sure whether this is a bug with mkfs.btrfs (for
not allowing overwrite of an existing filesystem), or with the debian
installer (for not usi
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