Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-18 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:59:09PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > ok, given the replies, let's settle on this: > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > * Sep 29/30: ok from RT side > > We still need a pre

Re: Using xz compression for initrd udebs?

2012-09-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 06:48:57AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > One of my co-maintainers for fonts changed the fonts-sil-abyssinica > package to use xz compression for *deb packages. > > Is it OK to upload the package with such change, d-i wise? This is the > only change along with the drop

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:25:06AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > For example: > > bjorn@canardo:~$ grep localhost /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost > ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback > > bjorn@canardo:~$ host localhost > localhost has address 127.0.0.1 > localhost has

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Bjørn Mork
Philipp Kern writes: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:30:58PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Sep 17, Philipp Kern wrote: >> > True, but somehow I feel that freeze time is not the time to change this. >> I disagree, netcfg should be fixed. There is plenty of time to look at >> any fallback, and eve

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Bjørn Mork
Philipp Kern writes: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:25:06AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: >> For example: >> >> bjorn@canardo:~$ grep localhost /etc/hosts >> 127.0.0.1 localhost >> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback >> >> bjorn@canardo:~$ host localhost >> localhost has addres

Bug#686970: Inconsistent ipv6 handling of localhost in netbase and netcfg

2012-09-18 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:59:04AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > No, I didn't get any wiser. Except that I now am pretty convinced that > no service should listen to "localhost". They should explictly choose > 127.0.0.1 and/or ::1 AIUI the point is to listen to both and hence the (or a?) record shou

lowmem_1.36_i386.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

2012-09-18 Thread Debian FTP Masters
Accepted: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:52:37 +0200 Source: lowmem Binary: lowmemcheck lowmem Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.36 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team Changed-By: Christian Perrier

Debian installer and 4kB sector drives

2012-09-18 Thread Grześ Andruszkiewicz
Hi, Probably this was already raised, but anyway I would like to suggest that the partitions created by the installer should be aligned to the 4kB sectors by default. This is a minor issue for people with older drives, yet can be a massive bottleneck with some of the modern drives. Kind regards,

Re: Debian installer and 4kB sector drives

2012-09-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Grześ Andruszkiewicz, le Tue 18 Sep 2012 11:58:32 +0100, a écrit : > Probably this was already raised, but anyway I would like to suggest > that the partitions created by the installer should be aligned to the > 4kB sectors by default. This is already the case. If not, please tell us in which case

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-18 Thread Francesca Ciceri
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:13:53AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > > That should be read as "let's settle for Sep 29". > > > > I'm around with a press hat if needed. > Me too. Cheers, Francesca -- "You're scared of mice and

Bug#688045: Installation report for Wheezy beta 2 installer

2012-09-18 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: installation-reports Boot method: DVD Image version: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta2/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-wheezy-DI-b2-amd64-DVD-1.iso Date: 2012-09-17 10:00 AM DST Machine: VirtualBox 4.1.12 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)

Bug#688045: Installation report for Wheezy beta 2 installer

2012-09-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Thanks for the report! Fabian Rodriguez, le Tue 18 Sep 2012 12:24:45 -0400, a écrit : > - - The option to have speech synthesis should be closer to the top, or > be available in a way that will be consistent in upcoming versions. > Having it at the end of the list may mean it will move pos

Bug#688045: Installation report for Wheezy beta 2 installer

2012-09-18 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 12-09-18 12:33 PM, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Hello, > > Thanks for the report! > > Fabian Rodriguez, le Tue 18 Sep 2012 12:24:45 -0400, a écrit : >> - - The option to have speech synthesis should be closer to the top, or >> be available in a way

Bug#687687: Installation was mostly successfully on Acer Aspire One D150

2012-09-18 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Brian Potkin writes: > says for "select": > >> Holds one of a finite number of possible values. These >> values must be specified in a field named Choices:. >> Separate the possible values with commas and spaces, like >> this: Choices: yes, no, maybe > > The values in the te

Re: Installation-guide cleanup

2012-09-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Karsten Merker (mer...@debian.org): > What is the current official procedure for updating the po-based > translations in the repository when there are changes (like > adding conditionals) in the english text? As of now, this is a matter of "just do it"..:-) signature.asc Description:

Re: Using xz compression for initrd udebs?

2012-09-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org): > udebs are already compressed with xz by default without further intervention > when a current debhelper is installed. arch:all packages cannot be binNMUed, > however. So if you did check the udeb in the archive and it's not > xz-compressed, a no change up

Re: Squeeze point release (6.0.6)

2012-09-18 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 03:58:13PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Hi, > > ok, given the replies, let's settle on this: > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > * Sep 29/30: ok from RT side > > We still need a press officer for somewhen in the evening to send out the >

Bug#688064: installation-reports: Successful classical install but wrong keyboard layout in GRUB

2012-09-18 Thread Marc-Aurèle DARCHE
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Boot method: USB stick + netinst Image version: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz + http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b2-am

Bug#688045: Installation report for Wheezy beta 2 installer

2012-09-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Fabian Rodriguez, le Tue 18 Sep 2012 12:51:09 -0400, a écrit : > >> - - While installing the base system more optional detail (when > >> downloading updates for example) could be useful . > > > > Most people do not care about such details, that is why we don't show > > them. If you really care, see

Bug#650819: Worked around

2012-09-18 Thread Filipus Klutiero
severity 650819 normal close 684265 3.2.29-1 forcemerge 650819 686314 thanks This is no longer RC. A workaround has finally been applied, namely the first one, adding fuse. It will take some time before the fix makes it to install media. Note that I did not verify that the current symptom is g

Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Richard Owlett writes: > Should one not be able to switch out of the installation process and > into a browser (2 are already included) to search out answers? One should be able to. Since I haven't tried the life-installer yet, I don't know what's possible. It would be nice if one could switch

Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-18 Thread lee
Jon Dowland writes: > The installer (in expert mode) supports an ssh client on an alternative > VT, afaik. One can connect to another machine with stuff already > installed via this if necessary. Surely this is sufficient to address > the request. This requires you to have the other machine you

Dropping loop-aes-utils from d-i-meta-faux?

2012-09-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, loop-aes-utils was removed from unstable a while ago (see #680748). It's still in testing, because britney won't remove it due to a dependency from the "faux package" d-i-meta-faux. d-i-m-f ensures that a number of packages important to d-i are not accidentally removed from testing. I'm not