Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* tbm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-05 13:49]: > It would be good to be able to choose between partman and partconf > by subarchitecture. Colin suggested to use isinstallable for this. If some (but not all) sub-arches of an arch use partman, make partman the default but have an isinstallable scrip

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting VEROK Istvan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> I echo the same sentiment. In my Hungarian translation of the "wizard" >> strings, I used something like "partitioning helped by the Wizard" or >> "partitioning guided by the Wizard". > > The french translation uses the c

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 10:46:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> >> We do have a beta3 branch in the repo, but it's acting more like a tag, >> I guess, no changes have been made to it. >> >> I tried the new partman, and it works great. Wow, that's a lot of work! >> My only q

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-07 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting VEROK Istvan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I echo the same sentiment. In my Hungarian translation of the "wizard" > > strings, I used something like "partitioning helped by the Wizard" or > > "partitioning guided by the Wizard". > > The french translation uses the

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting VEROK Istvan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I echo the same sentiment. In my Hungarian translation of the "wizard" > strings, I used something like "partitioning helped by the Wizard" or > "partitioning guided by the Wizard". The french translation uses the commonly accepted word of "Assistant"

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 06:06, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On a system that I've already got an operating system installed on, that I > really, really would prefer not to hose, I'm going to fear and distrust > anything that uses the words "Automatic" and "Partition" together, and > choose some other

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-07 Thread VEROK Istvan
> On a system that I've already got an operating system installed on, that I > really, really would prefer not to hose, I'm going to fear and distrust > anything that uses the words "Automatic" and "Partition" together, and > choose some other option that implies I have more control over whether o

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:06:50PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 10:46:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > We do have a beta3 branch in the repo, but it's acting more like a tag, > > I guess, no changes have been made to it. > > > > I tried the new partman, and it works

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-06 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 10:46:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > We do have a beta3 branch in the repo, but it's acting more like a tag, > I guess, no changes have been made to it. > > I tried the new partman, and it works great. Wow, that's a lot of work! > My only quibble is with the use of the t

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-06 23:42]: > > Wizard to partition". I don't think wizard is a proper noun, so should > > not be capitalised, and I don't see how this is better than the old > > "Automatically partition". It assumes that the user is familiar with > > windows wizard-t

Re: partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joey Hess wrote: > I tried the new partman, and it works great. Wow, that's a lot of work! > My only quibble is with the use of the term Wizard, as in "Use the > Wizard to partition". I don't think wizard is a proper noun, so should > not be capitalised, and I don't see how this is better than the

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-06 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-06 23:41]: > > It doesn't support acorn labels (acorn-fdisk does). However, all > > currently supported ARM subarches use msdos labels, so ARM is not > > using partman. > Oh-kay. That's confusing. Do you mean "so ARM is using partman"? s/not/now/,

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On 5.IV.2004 at 01:08 Thiemo Seufer wrote: >> >> > Eeeww... why was this? I remember partman/libparted had trouble >> > making DVH disklabels... was that the only reason for MIPS? > > There is also a problem with the numbering of the partitions (#238838, > #220990). I h

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-05 15:31]: >> > Lack of support for several arm subarch partitioning schemes. >> >> So far I (and probably the maintainers of parted also) have no info >> about this. :-( > > It doesn't support acorn labels (acorn-fdisk does

partman (was Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive)

2004-04-05 Thread Joey Hess
Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On 5.IV.2004 at 12:44 Joey Hess wrote: > > > > If we're in a string freeze, it's news to me. (Ahemm..) > > OK. Then today or tomorow I am commiting the changes. > > I supposed that I had to wait for a new branch in the repository just > like this happened with beta2 >

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-05 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 5.IV.2004 at 12:44 Joey Hess wrote: > > If we're in a string freeze, it's news to me. (Ahemm..) OK. Then today or tomorow I am commiting the changes. I supposed that I had to wait for a new branch in the repository just like this happened with beta2 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-05 Thread Joey Hess
Anton Zinoviev wrote: > There is also a problem with the numbering of the partitions (#238838, > #220990). I have fixed it in partman (though I am holding my commits > because of the string freeze). If we're in a string freeze, it's news to me. (Ahemm..) -- see shy jo signature.asc Descriptio

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-05 Thread Stephen R Marenka
m68k also still needs partitioner/partconf because atari isn't supported by parted yet (bts #239816). (Now how to only use partitioner/partconf on atari ) partman is pretty slow too (on m68k), but I think it's the way to go. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it ri

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-05 15:31]: > > Lack of support for several arm subarch partitioning schemes. > > So far I (and probably the maintainers of parted also) have no info > about this. :-( It doesn't support acorn labels (acorn-fdisk does). However, all currently supporte

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-05 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 5.IV.2004 at 01:08 Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > Eeeww... why was this? I remember partman/libparted had trouble > > making DVH disklabels... was that the only reason for MIPS? There is also a problem with the numbering of the partitions (#238838, #220990). I have fixed it in partman (though I

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-04 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > Thorsten Sauter wrote: > >> > >> Hello d-i peoples, > >> > >> since we have partman now, I'm wondering if it is time to remove some > >> unused packages from the archive. This will reduce the size of available > >> packages for d-i and makes m

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-04-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Thorsten Sauter wrote: >> >> Hello d-i peoples, >> >> since we have partman now, I'm wondering if it is time to remove some >> unused packages from the archive. This will reduce the size of available >> packages for d-i and makes my bugs list smaller. :-) >> >> I have an

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-03-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > However, are its templates really used? They give translators a lot of > > work. > > Yes, it appears on the partman menu and has a lot of screens under that. OK, so we don't do work for nothing..:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > I have an eye on the following packages: > > > - lvmcfg > > > > A dependency of partman-lvm at least until that package is redone. > > However, are its templates really used? They give translators a lot of > work. Yes,

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-03-30 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I have an eye on the following packages: > > - lvmcfg > > A dependency of partman-lvm at least until that package is redone. However, are its templates really used? They give translators a lot of work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-03-30 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thorsten Sauter] wrote: > I'm wondering if it is time to remove some unused packages from the > archive. The packages discover2 and discover2-data (and ther udebs) should be removed from the archive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-03-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello d-i peoples, > > since we have partman now, I'm wondering if it is time to remove some > unused packages from the archive. This will reduce the size of available > packages for d-i and makes my bugs list smaller. :-) > > I have an eye on the fo

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Thorsten Sauter wrote: > since we have partman now, I'm wondering if it is time to remove some > unused packages from the archive. This will reduce the size of available > packages for d-i and makes my bugs list smaller. :-) > > I have an eye on the following packages: > - lvmcfg A dependen

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-03-30 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > Hello d-i peoples, > > since we have partman now, I'm wondering if it is time to remove some > unused packages from the archive. This will reduce the size of available > packages for d-i and makes my bugs list smaller. :-) > > I have an eye on the following packages: >

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-03-30 Thread Denis Barbier
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 11:50:35PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > > Hello d-i peoples, > > since we have partman now, I'm wondering if it is time to remove some > unused packages from the archive. This will reduce the size of available > packages for d-i and makes my bugs list smaller. :-) > >

Re: Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-03-30 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-30 23:50]: > I have an eye on the following packages: > - lvmcfg > - partconf > - partitioner > All of them are replaced by partman (and most of them are simply to > buggy to keep in the archive). partconf is still used by some archi

Removing unused d-i udebs from archive

2004-03-30 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hello d-i peoples, since we have partman now, I'm wondering if it is time to remove some unused packages from the archive. This will reduce the size of available packages for d-i and makes my bugs list smaller. :-) I have an eye on the following packages: - lvmcfg - partconf