Bug#1035569: installation-reports: failed to detect Realtek RTL8852BE WiFi 6 802.11ax PCIe adapter

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Boot method: USB Image version: debian-bookworm-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso from 2023-05-05 Date: 2023-05-05 12:00 Machine: Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14IAL7 Partitions: Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] =

Bug#1035824: installation-reports: unable to detect Realtek RTL8188EUS 802.11n USB WiFi adapter

Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Boot method: USB Image version: debian-bookworm-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso (downloaded 2023-05-05) Machine: Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot:

Bug#1050000: installation-reports: please install libpam-fprintd on a laptop with fingerprint reader

Package: installation-reports Severity: wishlist Boot method: USB Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso Date: 20230808 Machine: Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14IAL7 Partitions: Base System Installation Checklist: [O]

Bug#996955: task-desktop silently pulls in task-desktop-gnome via Recommends

Package: task-desktop Version: 3.68 Severity: normal Tags: d-i X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org Hi, I just installed Debian stable in a virtual machine. When I was asked during the installation process which "meta-packages" to install I left "Desktop Environment" selected but explicitly

Bug#996955: task-desktop silently pulls in task-desktop-gnome via Recommends

Hi Holger, thanks for your reply! Am 21.10.2021 16:31, schrieb Holger Wansing: Selecting "Desktop Environment", but not choose one of the displayed possiblities (like "GNOME", "KDE" and so on) is not the way, how this dialog was designed, I guess. Yes, apparently. :/ I could imagine a soluti

Bug#996955: task-desktop silently pulls in task-desktop-gnome via Recommends

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am Donnerstag, dem 21.10.2021 um 18:33 +0100 schrieb Brian Potkin: > I think this is exactly the way it was designed. Whether the design > is the best is what has been brought up in this report. The results are pretty surprising and unpredictable, t

Bug#996955: task-desktop silently pulls in task-desktop-gnome via Recommends

Am 21.10.2021 21:05, schrieb Brian Potkin: Fortunately, not selecting it isn't of any consequence. A user gets what else is chosen. I don't consider it "fortunate", it is inconsistent that having that choice selected or not does not make a difference as long as any other choice is selected. A

Bug#762054: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#762054: d-i.debian.org: investigate ttf-* vs. fonts-* for udebs?

Hi Cyril, Am Freitag, den 10.07.2015, 04:07 +0200 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > fonts-dejavu and fonts-freefont maintainers, do you concur? > This would post-alpha 1. speaking as an Uplaoder for both fonts-freefont and fonts-dejavu, I'd concur that it should be safe and even recommended to s

Bug#762054: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#762054: d-i.debian.org: investigate ttf-* vs. fonts-* for udebs?

Hi Christian, sorry for the late reply! Am Sonntag, den 26.07.2015, 09:19 +0200 schrieb Christian PERRIER: > Guys, do you think we want to manage a transition for, say > ttf-freefont-udeb->fonts-freefont-udeb (with transitional package, > etc. as we did for the ttf->fonts transitions)or will

Re: Bug#847567: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#847567: ttf-dejavu: Probably removal needed

Cyril Brulebois wrote: > It would be great to check with debian-boot@ before handling such RM > requests (removal of udeb-producing packages). We would have had a > chance to switch to the “new” package. Oh, I am sorry for this. I hope the actual switch is as easy as I imagine (s/ttf/fonts/)?

Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

the software of choice for most people using a Windows system. -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E

Bug#490205: please add ttf-liberation to the desktop task

Package: tasksel Version: 2.74.2 Severity: wishlist Hello Joey, please add the ttf-liberation font package to the desktop task. I believe that nearly everybody out there installing a desktop system would like to have the free variants of the three infamous MS fonts installed by default. Thank yo

Bug#490810: please include brasero in the gnome-desktop task

, brasero can also burn data CDs and DVDs. Additionally it has a more common look if compared with NERO, which is the software of choice for most people using a Windows system. Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und

Bug#390139: maybe german should install hunspell

la still uses myspell as their engine, this doesn't work AFAIUI, both OOo and Iceweasel use hunspell these days, so maybe it is appropriate now to switch the dependency to hunspell-de*. -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesst

Bug#476349: please provide a '--quiet' option (or similar)

o have the console flooded ech time by kernel messages regarding os-prober's attempt to mount this or that partition. Will it be possible to introduce a '--quiet' option or similar to os-prober which will suppress these kernel messages? Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian G

Bug#476349: please provide a '--quiet' option (or similar)

Joey Hess schrieb: The only way to supress kernel printks to the console is to write to /proc/sys/kernel/printk. It is out of scope for os-proper to do that. Allright? I wish that the grub people had talked to us before deciding to use os-prober by default. This looks like an increasingly bad

Bug#388247: tasksel: strange entries in gnome-desktop

eed for the libtheora0 package ("allow totem to play theora files" two lines above), as this is automatically installed via totem-gstreamer's dependencies on gstreamer0.10-base. For totem-xine it is not needed at all. Thanks for your efford! Nice Greetings, Fabian -- Fabian Gre

Bug#390139: tasksel: some tasks have odd entries

because "epiphany integrates with liferea". However I guess that installing specialized software like 'gnome-btdownload', 'grdesktop' or 'hardinfo' etc. does somehow give the impression of an already-tweaked-and-modified-by-someone desktop to the newly insta

Bug#390139: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Bug#390139: tasksel: some tasks have odd entries]

I just forwarded this mail to my private mail account. Am Samstag, den 30.09.2006, 16:26 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > Maybe in the german-desktop task since the package's description says > that hunspell is used in OOo. I'd need confirmation that hunspell is > really u

Bug#418526: Can't open file `${prefix}/share/discover/pci.lst' for reading!

Package: discover1 Version: 1.7.19 Severity: important --- Please enter the report below this line. --- Hi! When I run `discover -d' as root I get the following messages: # discover -d Reading PCI hardware database... Can't open file `/etc/discover/pci.lst' for reading!

Bug#419537: Video hardware (ATI Radeon 9500 Pro) not recognized during installation

Package: installation-reports Boot method: netinst Machine: Targa Desktop 02/2003 Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Memory: 758M Hi! Sorry, this will be no detailed installation-report, because apart from this minor issue everything went smooth. But: My video hardware has not been detected pr

Bug#419537: Video hardware (ATI Radeon 9500 Pro) not recognized during installation

Am Montag, den 16.04.2007, 15:24 +0200 schrieb Frans Pop: > We need the output of 'lspci -nn' for the video controller for this. Can > you provide that please? Sure! $ lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) [10de:01e0] (rev a2) 00:00.1 RAM memor

Bug#490205: closed by Joey Hess (closing)

found 490205 2.88 thanks As I suggested, it seems that packages that use ttf-liberation do depend on it, so I see no reason to explicitly list it. 1) That's still not true for openoffice.org as of version 1:3.2.1-10, which only recommends the ttf-liberation package. 2) I don't quite get you

Bug#563825: os-prober: /u/l/os-probes/mounted/20microsoft spits an error if partition name contains a blank character

Package: os-prober Version: 1.35 Severity: normal Hi, i have an external HDD connected to my USB port. the manufacturer has chosen the name "MY PASSPORT" for its primary partition. When I run os-prober, it spits the following error message ls: cannot access /media/MY: No such file or director

Bug#571201: tasksel: The desktop task still depends on swfdec-mozilla

Package: tasksel Version: 2.81 Severity: normal Hi, the desktop task still installs swfdec-mozilla, which has been thrown out of the meta-gnome2 (1:2.28+2) package "since it’s incompatible with webkit currently :(". In current SVN a dependency on mozilla-plugin-gnash has been added instead. C

Bug#571204: tasksel: Does not install network management software for LXDE

Package: tasksel Version: 2.81 Severity: normal Hi, AFAICT of the four desktop environments that Debian offers to install from installations CDs, LXDE is currenly the only one that does not ship with network management software. In GNOME, network-manager-gnome is pulled in via recommends of th

Bug#560696: tasksel: The mail-server task should install dovecot instead of qpopper and uw-imapd

at makes a good consensus (roundcube?). Instead of roundcube I'd recommend squirrelmail, which I have running nicely on a server that has nothing more than 50MB of RAM. - Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (L

Bug#519079: installation-report: please provide an option to skip the attempt to set the system clock via NTP

harmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash installation-report depends on no packages. Versions of packages installation-report recommends: ii pciutils 1:3.0.3-2 Linux PCI Utilities ii reportbug 3.48 reports bugs in the Debian distrib

Bug#532852: Please run console-setup during initrd phase

, but if the font and keymap setting was moved to the initrd-phase, the whole boot process would appear in the improved font and it would not be interrupted by visible flickering and font changing anymore. Best Regards, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuh

Bug#532852: Please run console-setup during initrd phase

fs if possible.". The phrase "if possible" sounds like this feature will simply be unavailable if the appropriate initrd tool package isn't found, so console-setup wouldn't have to depend on this package (but maybe suggest it instead). -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Un

Bug#636209: tasksel: In debian/control, fix the Vcs-Git field to point to the right location and add a Vcs-Browser field

Official tasks used for installati tasksel recommends no packages. tasksel suggests no packages. -- debconf information: tasksel/title: tasksel/desktop: gnome tasksel/first: tasksel/tasks: >From 9fab2b07a9738e88791aa6b90b10311ff32c5c88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabian Gref

Bug#636209: tasksel: In debian/control, fix the Vcs-Git field to point to the right location and add a Vcs-Browser field

Am 04.08.2011 18:56, schrieb Joey Hess: IIRC there was quite a long thread about this during the alioth transition, and it's not clear to me that it makes sense to use anonscm.debian.org when git.debian.org still works (and it used by more than 10 thousand packages). I won't be making this change

Bug#649575: task-german: I doubt the usefulness of dict in task-german

Package: task-german Version: 3.07 Severity: minor Hi, I doubt that the dict and trans-de-en packages should still be part of a default German Debian install, e.g. recommended by task-german. For the desktop there is gnome-dictionary installed by default and other users probably don't need a dict

Bug#658089: cracklib2: Please add a udeb for early password quality checking in d-i

Package: cracklib2 Severity: wishlist Hi, it would be nice if there was a cracklib udeb which could be integrated into d-i to allow for password quality checking for the root and first user password entered during installation. It wouldn't necessarily block installation if the chosen password is

Bug#611951: Default GNOME desktop installation has both xsane *and* simple-scan

> Would be awesome if this could be integrated into the next squeeze point > release. This would indeed be awesome. Having two scanning applications installed by default sucks! - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Bug#612656: installation-report: ext3, c'mon it's 2011

Package: installation-reports Version: 2.44 Severity: normal Hi, installation worked liike a charm. However, I selected automatic partitioning and formatting and ended up with a single ext3 partition. Come on, it's 2011 and ext4 is considered stable since at least two years now. Please choose ext

Bug#612656: installation-report: ext3, c'mon it's 2011

Am 10.02.2011 06:01, schrieb Christian PERRIER: ext4 has been activated for the first time in squeeze. As we're not crazy, nobody in the team imagined a single second to make it the default. This may change for wheezy. Ahem, . I don't expect

Bug#612656: installation-report: ext3, c'mon it's 2011

Am 10.02.2011 09:27, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: Ahem, <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SqueezeGoals>. Sorry, please forget about it. I've read it three more times and realized I must have misinterpreted "ext4 support" as "ext4 by default". - Fabian

Bug#613966: tasksel: desktop task should maybe install xserver-xorg instead of xorg

Package: tasksel Version: 2.89 Severity: wishlist Hi, the changelog of xorg-server (2:1.9.4-2) reveals the following: In a nutshell, one may want to choose between installing: - xserver-xorg-core: the server itself, with no strings attached. - xserver-xorg: pulls the server and drivers

Bug#613966: tasksel: desktop task should maybe install xserver-xorg instead of xorg

Am Freitag, den 18.02.2011, 18:01 +0100 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > You'll admit that the weight of twm, xcalc etc. is not very high. Sure, but I consider them obsolete on a system that has Gnome or Kde installed. And please remember that the release notes had to get deleted from CD1 for some reaso

Bug#613966: tasksel: desktop task should maybe install xserver-xorg instead of xorg

Am Freitag, den 18.02.2011, 19:54 +0100 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > Err, you mean installing xfs+fonts instead of mere fonts?! No, sorry. As already answered to Cyril, I was talking about the X Task Force (xtf) but ended up typing xfs. :/ - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-req

Bug#613966: tasksel: desktop task should maybe install xserver-xorg instead of xorg

Am Freitag, den 18.02.2011, 19:34 +0100 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > (X Font Server? No.) Argh, sorry! I meant to reassign this request to the X Task Force, i.e. xtf, but mixed up the letters... > If xorg is “too much”, then pick xserver-xorg and add packages… Alright, would this be feasable for t

Bug#613966: tasksel: desktop task should maybe install xserver-xorg instead of xorg

Am 19.02.2011 22:00, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: Argh, sorry! I meant to reassign this request to the X Task Force, i.e. xtf, but mixed up the letters... X Strike Force (xsf), gosh! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Bug#579155: tasksel: installs *two* entire office suites

Package: tasksel Version: 2.81 Severity: minor Tags: squeeze Hi, tasksel installs two entire office suites on a freshly installed Debian desktop system, namely openoffice.org and gnome-office. So there are two word processing and two spreadsheet applications (plus the IMHO rather useless planner

Bug#579167: tasksel: is it really necessary to install gnome-accessibility on each and every system?

Package: tasksel Version: 2.81 Severity: minor Tags: squeeze Hi, one of the first things that I do on each freshly installed Debian desktop system is deinstalling the gnome-accessibility packages, i.e. dasher, gok and gnome-orca plus all of their dependencies. The reason is, I am lucky enough to

Bug#579155: tasksel: installs *two* entire office suites

Am 26.04.2010 09:33, schrieb Josselin Mouette: I agree it is a problem, but there is no perfect solution. * The OOo integration with GNOME is a joke. * Gnumeric and Abiword both have features that OOo has not. So you suggest to drop OOo altogether? Well, that would be rigorous bu

Bug#579155: tasksel: installs *two* entire office suites

Am 26.04.2010 11:02, schrieb Josselin Mouette: This is how we end up with two office suites and two navigators. By navigators you mean web browsers? Yeah, you’re probably right. Let’s demote it to suggests. xsane does not integrate well with GNOME either. How about simple-scan or gnome-sca

Bug#579155: tasksel: installs *two* entire office suites

No joke, it has been yesterday that somebody told me "Debian is weird, because it installs two word processors by default." Am Montag, den 26.04.2010, 11:02 +0200 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > That’s not a good solution either, since there are lots of features OOo > has that abiword/gnumeric don’t.

Bug#579155: tasksel: installs *two* entire office suites

Am 27.09.2010 09:04, schrieb Josselin Mouette: I’ve seen that (with both abiword and gnumeric), and I’ve seen the opposite too: documents that display fine in OOo but have everything messed up in abiword. Right, but is this really a good reason to keep both of them (i.e. that they fail *differ

Bug#579155: tasksel: installs *two* entire office suites

Am 27.09.2010 12:19, schrieb Josselin Mouette: As I already explained a the beginning of the bug report, OOo integration with GNOME is a bad joke. The question is more: do we want Yes, sorry, I forgot this part of the issue. an office suite that can open this or that document, or an office su

Bug#579155: tasksel: installs *two* entire office suites

Am 27.09.2010 12:29, schrieb Julien Cristau: As far as I'm concerned, the former (for what that's worth, which is probably not much). Should this discussion be escalated to -devel? I mean, it affects every single Debian desktop install. - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-re

Re: Bug#680084: memtest86+.postinst script gets stuck

reassign 680084 os-prober found 680084 1.54 thanks Am 19.07.2012 09:42, schrieb Harald Dunkel: Looking at the grub-install: It seems that os-prober (run by update-grub) starts a "grub-mount" tool that keeps on running, even though the update-grub already did an exit. ps -ef showed me a few of th

xfce as default desktop?

Hi all, I have just seen that as per commit 2a962cc6 tasksel now install xfce as default desktop instead of gnome. has this been discussed somewhere? The commit text suggests that it has not... :/ - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "