Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state

2009-11-15 Thread M.-A. DARCHE
Otavio Salvador a écrit : > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:29 PM, M.-A. DARCHE wrote: >> parted behaves very strangely on my Debian "Lenny" stable. It accepts >> only to work on mounted partitions. Is that how it should be? > > No, it should work on devices as well. > That seems logical to me tha

Re: Not sure about recent change in tzsetup

2009-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
(I'll be dropping private CCs from further replies unless you request them) On Friday 13 November 2009, Colin Watson wrote: > > Not anymore. With the version of localechooser in SVN and at medium > > priority you can select: > > - English > > - Germany > > - Additional locale en_GB.UTF-8 > > - Def

Re: Not sure about recent change in tzsetup

2009-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
(I'll be dropping private CCs from further replies unless you request them) On Friday 13 November 2009, Colin Watson wrote: > > Right, and this means that you introduce a significant inconsistency > > in the functionality offered to users installing at default prio who > > happen to select a count

Bug#536614: Provides wrong information about the encoding of the locales

2009-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
clone 536614 -1 reassign 536614 console-setup tags -1 - pending thanks > console-setup (1.47) unstable; urgency=low > > * Separate the keyboard configuration in a new package >keyboard-configuration. No font configuration in console-setup-mini >and console-setup-udeb. Thanks to Celejar,

Bug#546983: console-setup-mini: fails to set the keyboard layout (and falls back to "us" layout)

2009-11-15 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:03:37 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > I will try and perform some more tests tomorrow... Let's *really* restart from scratch: # aptitude -t unstable install console-setup console-setup-mini- This installed console-setup/1.46 and console-terminus/4.28-2, while removi

Processed: Bug#536614: Provides wrong information about the encoding of the locales

2009-11-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > clone 536614 -1 Bug#536614: Provides wrong information about the encoding of the locales Bug 536614 cloned as bug 556289. > reassign 536614 console-setup Bug #536614 [localechooser] Provides wrong information about the encoding of the locales Bu

REMINDER: team meeting tomorrow (Mon Nov 16th) 21:00 UTC

2009-11-15 Thread Christian Perrier
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Re: Not sure about recent change in tzsetup

2009-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 15 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Perhaps we could further improve localechooser in that respect by > reusing the shortlist questions to ask what country they'd prefer for > localization if they selected "other" the first time around. That could > be a relatively cheap solution. I've

Re: r61272 - in tags/packages: compatibility-udebs/sarge-support sarge-support

2009-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 13 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Friday 13 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > This breaks the current git migration script and I see no reason in > > doing that. > > I had not taken that into account. I could also fix the migration > script. I've looked at this and AFAICT r

Re: [RFC] choose-mirror rewrite - please review/test

2009-11-15 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:32:35AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Attached a new version of the most important changes, including > improvements from most of your comments. It even seems to work the same as > the previous version :-) Great. :) > Could you go through it once more and maybe look clos

Avoiding display of console-setup dialogs during base-installation

2009-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
Hi, I've just committed the following patch for kbd-chooser (which is currently responsible for installing console-setup). The patch sets the seen flag for the keyboard variant debconf question to avoid its display during base-installer. The patch already takes into account the split off from

Re: Not sure about recent change in tzsetup

2009-11-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier (bubu...@debian.org): > I'll try to give a full opinion during the upcoming week-end on this > interesting issue. This will probably involve deep reformulation of > the two different point of views. Hard to do. I spent more time that I was initially planning to work on s

Re: Avoiding display of console-setup dialogs during base-installation

2009-11-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop (elen...@planet.nl): > Hi, > > I've just committed the following patch for kbd-chooser (which is currently > responsible for installing console-setup). The patch sets the seen flag > for the keyboard variant debconf question to avoid its display during > base-installer. G R E

Re: Not sure about recent change in tzsetup

2009-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 15 November 2009, Christian Perrier wrote: > Given the detailed rationale he gave all along this discussion and the > possibilities opened by recent changes to localechooser, I tend to > think that what Frans is proposing is the way to go. > > And I didn't even test the very last image wi

[RFC] lenny-support udeb

2009-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
I've cobbled together a first attempt at a lenny-support udeb. The current functionality is (from the README): - Disables support for ext4 in partman as neither the Lenny kernel nor Lenny userland applications support it. Could possibly be re-enabled if there's a lenny-and-a-half which adds ke

Bug#458663: re debootstrap and bz2 etc

2009-11-15 Thread Joey Hess
Another reason to avoid bz2 and other more esoteric compressors in debs uded by debootstrap is that debootstrap is run on systems other than d-i and debian. When debootstrap is used on a busybox based embedded system, bzip2 will likely not be available. When debootstrap is used on some old crufty

Bug#458663: re debootstrap and bz2 etc

2009-11-15 Thread Mark Hymers
On Sun, 15, Nov, 2009 at 02:40:20PM -0500, Joey Hess spoke thus.. > Another reason to avoid bz2 and other more esoteric compressors in debs > uded by debootstrap is that debootstrap is run on systems other than d-i > and debian. > > When debootstrap is used on a busybox based embedded system, bzi

Processing of debian-installer-utils_1.72_i386.changes

2009-11-15 Thread Archive Administrator
debian-installer-utils_1.72_i386.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: debian-installer-utils_1.72.dsc debian-installer-utils_1.72.tar.gz di-utils-shell_1.72_all.udeb di-utils-reboot_1.72_all.udeb di-utils-exit-installer_1.72_all.udeb di-utils_1.72_i386.udeb

Re: [RFC] choose-mirror rewrite - please review/test

2009-11-15 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 15 November 2009, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Here we go: Many thanks again for the review. I think the attached incremental patch addresses all your comments. Could you check one last time if I got the memsets and freeing right now? One question. I now do: memset(&releases, 0, MAXRELE

Bug#509723: marked as done (Support TFTP preseed fetch method)

2009-11-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:02:12 + with message-id and subject line Bug#509723: fixed in debian-installer-utils 1.72 has caused the Debian Bug report #509723, regarding Support TFTP preseed fetch method to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been deal

Bug#556426: install overwrites /etc/default/console-setup without warning

2009-11-15 Thread Shai Berger
Package: console-setup Version: 1.46 Severity: normal Hi, This bug may be a dupe for bug #527641. I tried first to report it as additional information (and reopening) of that bug, but the attempt was rejected. Please note that the original bug was marked "serious" for overwriting the configurat

[D-I Manual] Build log for en (15 Nov 2009)

2009-11-15 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel
A build of the Debian Installer Manual was triggered by an update to SVN. There were no errors during the build process. The new version of the manual has been uploaded successfully. A log of the build is available at: - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/logs/en.log === It is possible to use R