Package: busybox
Version: 1:1.22.0-8
Severity: wishlist
Tags: fixed-upstream
Hi!
GNU find deprecated find -perm +0123 since 2005, and finally dropped it in
findutils 4.5 (-perm /0123 is the replacement). Yet, busybox still doesn't
even support / yet. This has been just fixed upstream, so could y
Hi!
I think the "DebianDesktop requalification" table lacks an important
row: the availability of the desktop environment in question on all
Debian architectures.
This is mainly an argument against gnome3, as it's restricted basically
to just amd64, i386 and armhf (poorly):
* systemd is not avail
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:56:58AM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> On 10/09/14 07:40, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > I think the "DebianDesktop requalification" table lacks an important
> > row: the availability of the desktop environment in question on all
> > Debian a
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 06:11:22PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> On 11/09/14 16:36, Adam Borowski wrote:
> >> What happens otherwise if trying to start GNOME3 (or others)?
> >> * without 3D, with llvmpipe
> >> * without both
> >
> > llvmpipe doesn
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 05:36:18PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> I just re-checked on powerpc in qemu, unlike my other setups it's not a real
> machine, but qemu is at least a reproducible setup without out-of-archive
> bits like all three of my armhf rigs.
> I'd say you&#x
Source: task-desktop
Version: 3.28
Severity: important
Hi!
By dropping gnome-fallback, Gnome3 has effectively dropped support for all
architectures other than amd64 and i386 (possibly armhf on Nvidia Tegra?).
Yet in current debian-installer, gnome3 is installed by default, only to
show:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 01:55:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Borowski wrote:
> > I have tried Gnome3 on:
> > * an armhf laptop, Omega OAN133, with:
> > * framebuffer
> > * proprietary Mali drivers
> > * an armhf "desktop", hardkernel Odroid U2 (
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:37:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Borowski wrote:
> > * powerpc in qemu
> > (using an existing system on real metal, d-i on qemu)
>
> What specific real metal did you use to test gnome on powerpc?
The parenthesis is not indented, it applies
I asked around, and:
arm: Broadcom/VideoCore: not working.
Adreno: unfortunately, Maarten Lankhorst (xserver-xorg-video-freedreno
maintainer) says his only board just broke, and thus he's unable to test.
This is sad as this driver is known to work on Fedora for at least some
version of gnome --
Hi!
In the default desktop environment requalification table, I think gnome's
score for "task quality" should be downgraded -- although it might be better
to axe the whole category.
There are two criteria listed:
* quality: task-gnome has the distinction of being the only desktop task
with a sev
Hi!
I see the field for "KDE/portability" is left as a question mark. In case
you won't get answers from official porters soon, I can confirm KDE does
work at least on:
* real metal: an armhf laptop
* qemu: powerpc
If you wish, I can test on more arms, and on anything qemu offers.
I did notice, t
On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 04:28:05AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> I see the field for "KDE/portability" is left as a question mark. In case
> you won't get answers from official porters soon, I can confirm KDE does
> work at least on:
> * real metal: an armhf laptop
>
2014 at 01:05:11AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > [...]
> > While #766459 fixed debootstrapping with jessie's debootstrap, I'm afraid
> > this doesn't solve most use cases that include upgrading, installation from
> > non-DI or installation in hosting scenar
Hi!
For reasons I explained in #767999, hacking debootstrap to configure
base-passwd and base-files in a specific order is neither sufficient nor
necessary. It does work around the problem for those running debootstrap
from fully upgraded unstable (and if it was uploaded to stable, wheezy)
but do
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 02:06:07PM +, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> At least Santiago's and my opinion diverge on whether base-passwd is presently
> in line with policy on 3.8 Essential packages. Therefore the route from here
> appears to hinge on interpreting policy in one of two ways: my point
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 11:14:10PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
> I've run into a bit of a problem building a root filesystem for an ARM
> system where the kernel shipped by the vendor is 2.6 based. As systemd
> does not work there, I tried installing a sysvinit based system using
> --include and --
On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 10:32:34PM +, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > I tested your patch when debootstrapping from squeeze, it did work. Should
> > I test some more scenarios (cdebootstrap? 2-phase cross-arch debootstrap?
> > some other distro?) -- or do you think it should be safe?
>
> Cool,
> The package network-manager and everything form which it is dependent on
> is missing - consequently, there is no tray-icon and it is not possible
> to connect to a network.
network-manager and its ecosystem are a component of Gnome; lxqt uses cmst
instead which is based on connman. They're rou
Package: flash-kernel
Version: 3.99
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Here's an entry needed for Pinebook.
--- all.db~ 2019-05-23 18:54:49.0 +0200
+++ all.db 2019-06-06 17:15:28.236371171 +0200
@@ -1363,6 +1363,13 @@
U-Boot-Script-Name: bootscr.uboot-generic
Required-Packages: u-
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: SD
Image version:
https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/daily/u-boot/pinebook.img.gz
2019-06-06
Date: 2019-06-06
Machine: Pinebook
Partitions: auto: 231MB ext4 /boot, 12.3GB btrfs /, 2GB swap
Base Syste
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.116
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
Ubuntuites don't announce their release names in advance, which means a new
script is required immediately after being known.
This time, the name is "focal".
I've tried to symlink eoan (which links to gutsy) -- seems to work ok.
Meow
On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 11:24:14AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> CCing the maintainer of arch-test who will probably have some input.
>
> On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 11:32 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
>
> > + if [ "$HOST_ARCH" = "amd64" ] && [ "$ARCH" = "i386" ] ; then
> > + # i3
On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 03:27:58PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 11:24:14AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> >
> > > + if [ "$HOST_ARCH" = "amd64" ] && [ "$ARCH" = "i386" ] ;
> > > then
&g
Package: task-desktop
Version: 3.44
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
As much as many of us consider emojis to be a big mistake on part of the
Unicode consortium, it's undeniable that these characters see quite wide
use these days. Thus, at least one font that convers this range should
be installed by defau
> I had several Linux on same PC and after installing aditional debian,
> the other Linux didn't find their swap anymore because UUID has changed.
Sharing swap leads to data loss if any kind of hibernate (incl. hybrid
suspend) is involved. Thus, it really don't want to allow that by default.
If
> Other than uninstalling arch-test, there appears to be no way to tell
> debootstrap to ignore, or at least downgrade arch-test results to a
> warning. I'm not sure if a commandlinne option and/or environment
> variable would be the preferred workaround.
It's a bug in arch-test -- one I don't qui
On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 09:47:34AM +, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Mar 2019 at 17:07:18 -0400, David Bremner wrote:
> > Holger Wansing writes:
> > > Are there still many packages, that don't rely on systemd timer units?
> >
> > Presumably packages that work without systemd, but still ne
Package: partman-jfs
Severity: important
Hi!
The JFS filesystem is deprecated in the kernel: on life support since 2009
and with talks of removal altogether. Thus, we really shouldn't offer to
format new setups with it. There are people who kind-of remember JFS being
the fastest back in the day,
On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 07:35:36AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Adam Borowski (2023-05-20):
> > The JFS filesystem is deprecated in the kernel: on life support since 2009
> > and with talks of removal altogether. Thus, we really shouldn't offer to
> > format new
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.128+nmu3
Severity: grave
bluca's NMU on 2023-07-15 makes debootstrap produce chroots using the
aliased-dirs scheme. While it's currently the default scheme for non-buildd
systems, it is both not supported by dpkg (with no solution in sight), but
is also likely to
Control: severity -1 critical
The current severity, "grave", is a serious understatement.
As all buildd chroots that are created with buggy debootstrap are tainted,
any packages built recently may assume merged usr, and thus needs to be
rebuilt.
Do we have a patch? If not, let's revert, today o
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: kilob...@angband.pl
Boot method: µSD
Image version: daily, pinebookpro + partition.img
Machine: Pinebook Pro
Partitions:
Model: MMC DA4128 (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/mmcblk2: 122138624kiB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Tabl
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>From 00f9fdf27e3407940e1e1130fc9a2dbd191c498a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:54:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add x32 support.
---
bu
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:42:25AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2015-11-12):
> > Since I am also a porter for x32, I would be rather thrilled to see
> > x32 support in Debian Installer. Do you think there is a realistic
> > chance to have Adam's patch merged?
>
> I ha
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20160106
Severity: normal
All currently available images of hurd d-i (20151215-02:36 up to
20160113-01:54) hang on boot. The last message given is:
start ext2fs: Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs[gunzip:device:rd0] exec_
Machine is Virtualbox on amd64, with BIOS.
The proposal here, downgrading Depends: to Recommends:, indeed doesn't work
that well because of reasons mentioned in the discussion.
However, this would be better: "Depends: light-locker | xscreensaver".
It will install light-locker by default where available, make task-xfce
installable on kfreeb
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Hi!
I'm afraid that regular arm64 d-i images fail to detect qemu's CD-ROM, and
there's apparently no way to direct it to load udebs from a network mirror
like mini.iso does. On the other hand, installation with mini.iso works
well.
The failing step
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:12:53AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 10:34:18PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> >I'm afraid that regular arm64 d-i images fail to detect qemu's CD-ROM, and
> >there's apparently no way to direct it to load udebs
Package: task-xfce-desktop
Version: 3.39
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
Currently, the XFCE task pulls in evince, whose interface is really out of
place outside of Gnome. It'd be far better to install atril instead (from
Mate) -- it blends in with XFCE seamlessly. It also doesn't suffer from a
number of
Package: busybox
Version: 1:1.22.0-19+b1
Severity: important
busybox sed -i -e 's/foo/bar/' foo
-- 1 root 2689302520 0 Feb 12 01:13 foo
Impact includes for example breaking upgrading from systemd to sysvinit
after installing via stretch's d-i.
-- System Information:
Debian R
Package: clock-setup
Version: 0.131
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 10.7.3
Upon installation with current d-i (stretch RC 2), clock-setup produces an
empty /etc/default/rcS with 000 permissions. This breaks subsequent
upgrades from systemd to sysvinit, unless the user knows how to fix th
Here's the obvious but untested patch.
--
Autotools hint: to do a zx-spectrum build on a pdp11 host, type:
./configure --host=zx-spectrum --build=pdp11
--- clock-setup-0.131/finish-install.d/10clock-setup~ 2016-01-21 05:00:53.0 +0100
+++ clock-setup-0.131/finish-install.d/10clock-setup
d idea for a patch attached.
>From 227e1812e381be61b40330e372d62348a9e8dd75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 05:43:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Reverse the order of arguments to sfdisk -A, add a space.
During a massive overhaul in util-linux 2.26, sfdisk -A
Package: flash-kernel
Version: 3.76
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi!
Please include the attached file in /usr/share/doc of either flash-kernel or
perhaps u-boot-exynos. It documents how to upgrade a system using the
vendor image to Debian's u-boot, flash-kernel and modern kernels.
There alread
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 06:45:30AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:31:46AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > If you're booting from a SD card, skip until running sd-fusing.sh
> > Edit sd_fusing.sh, change sector numbers to those listed in
> s/sd
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 09:45:01AM +, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 00:31 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > Package: flash-kernel
>
> Not sure that this (or u-boot) is really the best place for it, it
> certainly wouldn't occur to look under either of th
> The HOME environment variable does not have to be present, programs
> must fall back to the value in the passwd file. $SHELL does not do this
> in the following two places.
>
> * When running cd without any argument
> * When expanding tilde (~) characters
Nope, there's nothing that says they "
Package: task-xfce-desktop
Version: 3.35
Severity: important
Hi!
I'm afraid that the xfce task can't be currently installed on kfreebsd.
This is especially nasty as xfce is the default DE on that arch.
The reason is that it depends on light-locker, which is Linux only.
A possible solution is to
Package: installation-reports
Severity: grave
Justification: fails installation with default settings on popular machines
(probably all)
-- Package-specific info:
Boot method: CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-ne
> hang in netcfg on IPv6-only
At that time, if you switch to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and kill udhcp, the
installer happily continues. Not even an error message is given (about
udhcp's demise), and the installed system is configured for IPv6-only, as
expected.
--
// If you believe in so-called "
harmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>From ae118c2291de0eb8a5ccb783c87c00783756c514 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 07:11:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for x32.
This is identical to amd64, as x32 uses amd64
TF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>From 8d71debe874d8878600a57b1ee7033b0b9c4a2fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 07:17:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add support for x32.
---
debian/control | 2 +-
debian/isinstallable
S.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>From bb723d009d35a5a3048c13129d88a688825c6b70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 07:29:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add x32 to the list of architectures.
---
debian/contr
Linux 3.19.0-x32 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>From 4ae9c282d11f364a6b1b92207807a76a08d1bedd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 07:33:04 +010
ecture: x32 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.19.0-x32 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>From cbc96e8dcffdbf5b8b6fb8280efda97de17ed5d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski
Date: T
perimental')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.19.0-x32 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>From 60dd1261da6c21033b13ed7670d245f7f09640cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From:
Package: partman-auto
Version: 124
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i patch
User: debian-...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: port-x32 di-x32
Hi!
Please apply the attached git patch (via git am). It adds support for the
x32 architecture, by linking recipes-x32-efi to recipes-amd64-efi. The
patch can be appl
gt;From d9ace554fa6716e8ecb5647475ced4475ea741aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 08:10:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add x32 support.
---
build/config/x32.cfg | 25 ++
build/config/x32/cdrom-xen.cfg | 14 ++
Oif, the patch wasn't actually attached. Sending it now.
>From 75a5da43aef805be81c08a69bd8986d9dbe60a4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Borowski
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 03:12:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add x32/efi recipe, as a symlink to amd64/efi.
---
recipes-x32-efi | 1 +
1 file ch
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>From 1ec12e462282b5f031cd28aaaef5ded7ffeb039d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: A
Package: flash-kernel
Version: 3.87
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
It would be nice if you could echo kernel cmdline before passing control.
Currently there's:
echo "Booting Debian from ${devtype} ${devnum}:${partition}..."
I can edit the bootscript myself, but having this by default would help
anyone
Package: flash-kernel
Version: 3.88
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
If for whatever reason you want or need to build your own kernels, the
preferred way these days is "make bindeb-pkg". It is also a good idea
to use CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y, which marks the exact tree used to
build the kernel.
However,
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 03:08:08PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> I think the following patch should work for this, by setting:
>
> Kernel-Flavor: any
> The patch significantly refactors the use of the check_kflavor function,
> I haven't done extensive testing yet, but I could go ahead any pu
On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 04:04:34AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 03:08:08PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > I think the following patch should work for this, by setting:
> >
> > Kernel-Flavor: any
>
> > The patch significantly refactor
Whee?!
I tested d-i (2006.07.02 daily netinst) on a real 80486 with 24MB
memory, and here's the story. Just note that d-i is completely
outside of my area of expertise, so this is quite a newbish report.
1. The BIOS was too old to support booting from CD. Someone
suggested using SBM, but, too
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:56:54AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> Next time please file an installation report instead of sending an
> email to the list.
m'kay.
> > On the other hand, if you insist on keeping loadlin, please provide a
> > .bat file. A beginner user won't know to look in isolinux.cfg t
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
(daily build from July 22)
First, the documentation for installing from USB is unclear whether you're
supposed to copy the contents of the CD to the FAT filesystem (ignoring
symlink problems), or just dump the .iso image to the root of the
filesystem. I
What if we looked at the size of available swap rather than RAM?
People don't really expect to have their actual memory eaten by something
that appears to be a disk filesystem (and used to be one). I'd say that
eating some of swap space would be less surprising.
In other words: a machine with 64
Same for the keymap selection screen: if you select a wrong one, the
button doesn't work.
(Also, it's strange that typing "po" selects "Persian" instead of "Polish"
-- one would expect that if a prefix search doesn't work, it'd go to "O"
instead).
--
âThis is gonna be as easy as cheating on a
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:17:19PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 13-05-2012 13:26, Adam Borowski wrote:
> >Same for the keymap selection screen: if you select a wrong one, the
> > button doesn't work.
>
> Can you give more information in which i
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