Proposals for a string freeze and some kind of release preparation...

2010-06-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
Hello, Otavio and I had a short discussion on IRC about a possible string freeze in order to "officially" ask to translators for completing their work (see [1] for last status report). I estimate the needed time for this to about 3-4 weeks. That may sound as a (too) long time, but I really need t

Re: Proposals for a string freeze and some kind of release preparation...

2010-06-06 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Christian PERRIER] > I propose Sunday July 4th 32:59 as deadline for the string > freeze. That leaves time during ealy July for a mass l10n upload and > thus sets the first foundations of a beta release that could indeed be > the Squeeze first release candidate. > > Does this sound like a reasona

Bug#584752: debian-installer: "GO BACK" not working if harddisk mounted

2010-06-06 Thread yellow
Package: debian-installer Version: "GO BACK" not working if harddisk mounted Severity: minor Dear Sir, I mounted the usb pendrive for the ip2100 fw that it asked during installation of hte debian testing i386. OK I get to the harddisk setup, and make my disks as I desired. But the pendrive i

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze / new lilo upstream

2010-06-06 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Russell Coker wrote on 2010-06-05 22:30: > On Wed, 26 May 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > > You're missing the point. The main selling point to management > > is that Linux is free. If they have to buy new backup software > > in order to accommodate Linux' backup requirements, that will > > kill

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze / new lilo upstream

2010-06-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:39:59 -0400 (EDT), Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > > I see that more people than thought still want to have or need LiLO. Now > I have decided to start and reanimate the upstream development. Everyone > is invited to join in this development. I'm working on LiLO version 23. > >

Re: Proposals for a string freeze and some kind of release preparation...

2010-06-06 Thread Stefano Canepa
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 09:10:56AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Hello, > > Otavio and I had a short discussion on IRC about a possible string > freeze in order to "officially" ask to translators for completing > their work (see [1] for last status report). %<--- > I propose Sunday July 4th

Re: Re (2): lilo removal in squeeze / new lilo upstream

2010-06-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:44:05 -0400 (EDT), William Pitcock wrote: > "Joachim Wiedorn" wrote: >> I see that more people than thought still want to have or need LiLO. >> Now I have decided to start and reanimate the upstream development. >> Everyone is invited to join in this development. I'm worki

Localization status for Debian Installer (June 7th update)

2010-06-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
In very short: 45 languages are in good shape (+0) 20 languages are in danger of being deactivated (+0) Progress: - 21 languages back to 100% after hw-detect changes - several batches of mail sent on June 6th by /me The safe side - 21 languages are complete (+21): ar bg de es fr ga gu