Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Samuel On 18/11/2017 02:15, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Put another way: I *don't* think we want to change this set of > questions, we'd just lose users. Thus the other proposal, proposed right > from the start of the thread: have *another* panel of questions really > meant for beginner, and that

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Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 01:15:22AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Thomas Lange, on ven. 17 nov. 2017 19:20:09 +0100, wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 01:17:47PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > In Debian, using netinst, we have > > . > > . > > > and that's it. > > > > > > That's a bit more it

Re: Bug#880123: jessie-pu: package syslinux/3:6.03+dfsg-5+deb8u1

2017-11-18 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Control: tags -1 + confirmed On Sun, 2017-10-29 at 19:48 +0100, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: > I hereby ask for permission to update the syslinux package in jessie > as > well.  The update fixes a bug in the isolinux isohybrid MBR causing > boot > failures with some old BIOS [1]. > Please go ahead.

Bug#882089: libdebian-installer FTBFS since glibc 2.25

2017-11-18 Thread Helmut Grohne
Source: libdebian-installer Version: 0.111 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap | make[5]: Entering directory '/<>/build/src/system' | /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 13:50 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 01:15:22AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: [...] > > Among the ones I mentioned, > > > > - language/country/keyboard: we can't afford to omit them. > > If you _really_ want to do this (and I don't think it's possi

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-18 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:20:36 +, Ben Hutchings > said: > Implementing locale selection using a map also runs the risk of getting > your software banned in countries that disagree with where you put the > borders. Is this risk theoretical or real? Did this already happene

Re: Easier installer?

2017-11-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 22:55 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:20:36 +, Ben Hutchings > > > > > > said: > > > Implementing locale selection using a map also runs the risk of getting > > your software banned in countries that disagree with where you put the