Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:31:53PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > I changed Bulgarian, Esperanto and Georgian. > > Consider the following two changes, the first because we are changing Both committed. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-15 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:31:53PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I changed Bulgarian, Esperanto and Georgian. Consider the following two changes, the first because we are changing the charmap and the second because ruscii_8x16 doesn't support Kazakh. (But notice that if either of console-se

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Christian, > > I looked at the locales in localechooser and it seams that currently > the only non-UTF8 locales are C, Bulgarian, Esperanto and Georgian. > Maybe it is time to swith all locales to UTF-8? If you decide to do > this please add a command

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 15 July 2007 21:05, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > I looked at the locales in localechooser and it seams that currently > the only non-UTF8 locales are C, Bulgarian, Esperanto and Georgian. Note that there is no such thing as a C.UTF-8 locale in installed systems. We do have it in the installe

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-15 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Christian, I looked at the locales in localechooser and it seams that currently the only non-UTF8 locales are C, Bulgarian, Esperanto and Georgian. Maybe it is time to swith all locales to UTF-8? If you decide to do this please add a command db_set debian-installer/charmap UTF-8 somewhere in lo

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-15 Thread Christian Perrier
> I uploaded the new console-setup and the package is now in > trunk/packages/console-setup. I disabled the UTF-8 default from the > Colin's patch because not all locales use UTF-8. However in d-i > environment console-setup will always use UTF-8 so this should not be > a problem (only one unnece

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-15 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 07:40:16PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Hmm. The only disadvantage of doing this first in people is that a git-svn > checkout will not have the full commit history of console-setup. The dump is still in my home dir on svn.debian.org. Before it can be loaded it will requir

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 15 July 2007 19:34, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 15 July 2007 19:31, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Monday 02 July 2007 19:06, Frans Pop wrote: > > > Not sure if that would need to be done by an alioth admin or if we > > > can do it ourselves. AFAICT we should be able to do it ourselves. > > > A

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-15 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 07:31:16PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Unless anybody objects, I will try to do this migration tomorrow. Another uncoordinated coincidence related to console-setup. :) I finished the migration seconds before you wrote this message. I uploaded the new console-setup and the

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 15 July 2007 19:31, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2007 19:06, Frans Pop wrote: > > Not sure if that would need to be done by an alioth admin or if we > > can do it ourselves. AFAICT we should be able to do it ourselves. At > > least, I had no problems creating a dump of the current

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 02 July 2007 19:06, Frans Pop wrote: > Not sure if that would need to be done by an alioth admin or if we can > do it ourselves. AFAICT we should be able to do it ourselves. At least, > I had no problems creating a dump of the current repository and I'd > expect just having write access t

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 07:06:45PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2007 15:16, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > I don't mind if the sources of console-setup are moved to the d-i > > repository (and I've even proposed this already), > > Great. > > > but I have > > absolutely no idea what I h

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 02 July 2007 15:16, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > Unfortunately this week I have a journey that will make me unavailable > so I prefer not to do this right now. I expect I will be able to make > the upload around 12 July. That's no problem. > I don't mind if the sources of console-setup are

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-02 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not sure if that would need to be done by an alioth admin or if we can do > it ourselves. AFAICT we should be able to do it ourselves. At least, I > had no problems creating a dump of the current repository and I'd expect > just having write access to be

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
I have 3 questions about the attached patch. On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:35:22AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > if which locale >/dev/null; then > default_charmap=`locale charmap` > +elif [ -d /lib/debian-installer ]; then > +default_charmap=UTF-8 > else > -default_charmap=unknown

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-02 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:59:43AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Could you enable these udebs again, preferably including the changes that > Colin says are needed? Unfortunately this week I have a journey that will make me unavailable so I prefer not to do this right now. I expect I will be able

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:59:43AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 27 April 2007 15:04, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > The second stage is the full deployment of the udebs of console-setup. > > Currently these udebs are disabled but I can enable them as soon as > > you tell me. > > Could you enable

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-07-02 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Anton, On Friday 27 April 2007 15:04, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > The second stage is the full deployment of the udebs of console-setup. > Currently these udebs are disabled but I can enable them as soon as > you tell me. Could you enable these udebs again, preferably including the changes that C

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-23 Thread Jim Paris
> At present it has 5 open bugs. I haven't checked if #399531 is really > a bug, but if it is, it should be easy fo fix it. The other four bugs > are agains the openvt utility (#190385, #190386, #190387 and #61559); > they are very old (over 4 years and even over 7 years for one of > them). I ad

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-23 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:00:01PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > I can help on it if need. I not so fluent on C but I have good skills > on it, at least. Great! > What can I help on it? At present this package seems to be in more or less a good state. I never had to maintain it so I don't

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:00:36AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: >> >> - kbd needs more maintainers > > In fact kbd doesn't need a maintainer who knows how to setup properly > the console. We only need someone who is fluent in C and I can help > w

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-22 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:00:36AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > - kbd needs more maintainers In fact kbd doesn't need a maintainer who knows how to setup properly the console. We only need someone who is fluent in C and I can help with the rest. > - there are very few console handling

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-21 Thread Christian Perrier
(CC'ing Alastair) Quoting Anton Zinoviev: > On the other hand I think I am already experienced in scripts to setup > console. The problem here however is that for obvious reasons I am > unable to use simultaneously the scripts in kbd and the scripts in > console-setup on one computer. I am alre

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-21 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:54:38PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > A couple of days ago I uploaded a new release of kbd where I did > > everything I can do about this package (including the udeb). It entered > > unstable today. Now I will wait some time to see if I have introduced > > some

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-18 Thread Christian Perrier
> A couple of days ago I uploaded a new release of kbd where I did > everything I can do about this package (including the udeb). It entered > unstable today. Now I will wait some time to see if I have introduced > some bugs so I have a chance to fix them. After that I will announce > the pa

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-18 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:47:11PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Well, from the very few I see (I'm the de facto console-data > maintainer, mostly because despite my lack of knowledge, I still can > do some work, but I'm not involved in console-tools and kbd), I'm not > sure that there are o

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:04:31AM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > > The next problem is who has to upload kbd... > > I wasn't clear here. My point was that while I can make some > improvements in this package (fix some bugs), I don't feel myself

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:04:31AM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > The next problem is who has to upload kbd... I wasn't clear here. My point was that while I can make some improvements in this package (fix some bugs), I don't feel myself qualified to maintain it. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNS

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:53:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > I have no idea what the real differences between kbd and console-setup are > and what the future of both packages will be next to console-setup. Console-setup detects which one is installed so it doesn't matter. Kbd supports large c

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-09 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:33:39PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 27 April 2007 15:04, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > Can you give some idea of what would be needed? Some questions I > > > have: > > > - would we still need kbd-chooser, or is there a replacement > > > > We need it only during the

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 27 April 2007 15:04, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > Can you give some idea of what would be needed? Some questions I > > have: > > - would we still need kbd-chooser, or is there a replacement > > We need it only during the first stage; the udebs replace it. Sorry, but I don't understand this

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 19:01, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > This means that the console maintainers will have to make an > > > > udeb with loadkeys. > > > > > > You mean a udeb from console-tools, named "console-tools-udeb", > > > with only loadkeys? > > > > Yes. > > > > > If so, we should file

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:01:35PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > > > Well, that would have needed a plan, which didn't really happen. The > > > manpower for console handli

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Anton Zinoviev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > > Well, that would have needed a plan, which didn't really happen. The > > manpower for console handling in D-I is very scarce. > > The patch is attached. It activates console-s

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Well, that would have needed a plan, which didn't really happen. The > manpower for console handling in D-I is very scarce. The patch is attached. It activates console-setup for the non-Latin languages as well as for some Lat

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-01 Thread Christian Perrier
(Alastair, it is probably quite important that you first read this thread in debian-boot. We really might need your involvment) > The first stage is this: (a) make the Cyrillic languages use > console-setup instead of console-cyrillic and (b) use console-setup > for even more languages (such as Vi

Re: About console-setup in d-i

2007-05-01 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:04:46PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > - how are the various architectures supported > > Currently they are not supported well due to problems with the X > keyboard data. Today I notice that the X upstream has made changes that perhaps solve the problems and it is

About console-setup in d-i

2007-04-27 Thread Anton Zinoviev
Hi, Frans Pop asked me to comment the possible switch to console-setup. On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:12:18PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > I'd also appreciate if you and the other console-setup developers could > give some thought to switching from kbd-chooser/console-data to > console-setup for D