Bug#929877: installation-reports: Buster installer hangs at hard disk step with arabic language

2019-06-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 02 juin 2019 17:07:04 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault, le dim. 02 juin 2019 16:47:49 +0200, a ecrit: > > But it's translated along the two other pieces "The installer can guide > > you..." and "If you choose guided..." so the issue

Bug#929877: installation-reports: Buster installer hangs at hard disk step with arabic language

2019-06-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
ButterflyOfFire, le dim. 02 juin 2019 15:43:41 +, a ecrit: > >> "لاحقاً" > > This word means "later" and can be replaced by "لاحقا". That avoids the issue here indeed. I however see it used in various places, notably in the grub installer: msgid "" "Warning: If the installer failed to detect

Re: Latest choose-mirror changes

2019-06-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cyril Brulebois, le mer. 05 juin 2019 18:42:46 +0200, a ecrit: > That doesn't seem a reasonable change at this stage? > | commit 0cd4d18d0f67c66ba9d6dc0b6af0a047d5a15e1d > | Author: Samuel Thibault > | Date: Sun Jun 2 15:03:49 2019 +0200 > | > | Use &quo

Re: Bug#917909: [text-based installer] right-to-left writing direction broken

2019-06-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cyril Brulebois, le mer. 02 janv. 2019 06:53:44 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault (2018-12-31): > > (which I could check as fixing the issue in the textual installer, > > without breaking the graphical installer). And we can probably > > backport it to Stretch. >

Bug#595696: Bug#864320: multiple critical problems booting

2019-06-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: block 864320 by 816111 595696 Hello, gofloss gofloss, le mar. 06 juin 2017 13:52:05 -0700, a ecrit: > below i describe multiple bugs in booting in jessie, which > might be relevant to stretch. [...] > rebooted, and discovered that the font was unreadably small, > unlike wheezy. > > bu

Bug#930494: unblock: rootskel/1.131

2019-06-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
ngelog rootskel-1.131/debian/changelog --- rootskel-1.129/debian/changelog 2019-04-20 02:24:53.0 +0200 +++ rootskel-1.131/debian/changelog 2019-06-13 21:28:44.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,24 @@ +rootskel (1.131) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Team upload + * Remove spurious

Re: [debian-installer] Korean installation-guide PDF

2019-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
84a7b04 (HEAD -> master, mine/master) Author: Samuel Thibault Date: Sun Jun 2 11:30:35 2019 +0200 d-i_manual: Update korean dependencies diff --git a/job-cfg/schroot.yaml b/job-cfg/schroot.yaml index 6501f43f..60a05bcf 100644 --- a/job-cfg/schroot.yaml +++ b/job-cfg/schroot.yaml @@ -76,7 +76,7

Re: [debian-installer] Korean installation-guide PDF

2019-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le ven. 14 juin 2019 15:42:33 +, a ecrit: > I however only did > "./buildone_ng.sh amd64 ko pdf" > from the build dir. Did you check dpkg-checkbuilddeps ? Samuel

Re: [debian-installer] Korean installation-guide PDF

2019-06-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le dim. 16 juin 2019 05:37:49 +, a ecrit: > So it seems, the used font is not available in the stretch version > of the package. Ah. > Is this a problem? I don't think it is, exectp for > At least, the PDFs cannot be built on dillon now for the preview > website. We'll wan

Bug#930569: debian-installer: Dark theme installer selects MATE by default

2019-06-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: reassign -1 rootskel Steve McIntyre, le sam. 15 juin 2019 19:30:30 +0100, a ecrit: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 08:12:18PM +0300, Evgen wrote: > >I chosed Dark theme installer menu > Graphical Install > > > >On "Software selection" there were 2 check-boxes: > >1. on the "Debian desktop envir

Bug#930569: debian-installer: Dark theme installer selects MATE by default

2019-06-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Yevgen, le lun. 17 juin 2019 12:05:36 +0300, a ecrit: > 1) Assumption that dark themes were meant mostly for low vision is realy > subjective. > Some people use them at night, some just prefer them... This "dark theme" choice has never been meant for general user theme preferences support, but rea

Bug#929877: installation-reports: Buster installer hangs at hard disk step with arabic language

2019-06-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le mar. 04 juin 2019 20:59:12 +, a ecrit: > Am Sonntag, 2. Juni 2019 schrieb Holger Wansing: > > Am Sonntag, 2. Juni 2019 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > > > ButterflyOfFire, le dim. 02 juin 2019 15:43:41 +, a ecrit: > > > > >> "

Re: [debian-installer] Korean installation-guide PDF

2019-06-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Changwoo, do you think you can come up with some simple change to let it build on Stretch? We can probably make it conditional, so that it's only the immediate builds which will be using the fonts from Stretch, and further builds will use the fonts you picked up from Buster. Samuel

Bug#930569: debian-installer: Dark theme installer selects MATE by default

2019-06-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve McIntyre, le lun. 17 juin 2019 12:41:40 +0100, a ecrit: > That's all OK, but it would be lovely to have some warning that "dark > theme" is *meant* for the visually-impaired. I'd just seen this as an > apparently arbitrary choice of different colours without that > information... Ok, I have

Re: Bug#929877: installation-reports: Buster installer hangs at hard disk step with arabic language

2019-06-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + buster-ignore Hello, Holger Wansing, le jeu. 20 juin 2019 10:31:39 +0200, a ecrit: > ButterflyOfFire wrote: > > I think it is okay for those diacritics. > > I have uploaded that fix now. Thanks! > Leaving this bug open as a reminder for the "real" problem inside of gtk (?)

Re: [debian-installer] Korean installation-guide PDF

2019-06-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le mar. 18 juin 2019 23:55:29 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Changwoo, do you think you can come up with some simple change to let it > > build on Stretch? We can probably make it conditional, so that it's onl

Re: Debian Installer Buster RC 3 release

2019-07-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Fran Torres, le mer. 03 juil. 2019 08:38:29 +0200, a ecrit: > Why the debian i386 iso images isn't abailable (full iso cd images > fori386 architecture) and onli is available for i386 netinst? ? i386 iso images are available from the CD and DVD sections of https://www.debian.org/devel/deb

Re: Debian Installer Buster RC 3 release

2019-07-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve McIntyre, le mer. 03 juil. 2019 12:12:24 +0100, a ecrit: > We stopped generating CD sets a long time ago. We have a few netinst > varieties, and a separate single CD for a minimal xfce > installation. (the idea is that with package size increase, other desktops can't be installed any more wi

Bug#931368: Can't set hungarian keyboard layout with preseeded installer

2019-07-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Mayer Károly, le mer. 03 juil. 2019 12:04:00 +0200, a ecrit: > How should I set the expected keyboard layout with preseeding? > d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select hu This is the way documented on https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs04.html#preseed-l10n so it's expec

Bug#931502: console-setup: Console-setup configuration during d-i in lowmem mode makes graphical characters bogus

2019-07-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: console-setup Version: 1.191 Severity: normal Hello, While trying to install Debian 10.0 with less than 400M, and thus in lowmem mode, the output gets bogus right after console-setup configuration inside the target system, as can be seen in the attached snapshot. This does not happen in

Bug#931507: kernel-wedge: HDA sound board detection takes 60s in d-i

2019-07-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: kernel-wedge Version: 2.99 Severity: serious Tags: a11y Justification: prevents blind people from using d-i We have had (late, unfortunately) reports that HDA-based audio hardware does not get detected. Actually it does, but only after 60s of delay, which is way too long for the espeakup

Bug#930970: rootskel FTCBFS: hard codes the build architecture compiler

2019-07-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + pending Hello, Helmut Grohne, le dim. 23 juin 2019 20:04:56 +0200, a ecrit: > rootskel fails to cross build from source, because some Makefile hard > codes plain gcc. After making it substitutable, rootskel cross builds > successfully. Please consider applying the attached patc

Re: Is the font package used in debian installer?

2019-07-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Tarun Kumar, le dim. 28 juil. 2019 00:26:03 +0530, a ecrit: > The package is used in debian installer or not? Yes, but apparently it takes it from the bf-utf package, not from the unifont package. Samuel

Re: Download of old CD images not possible?

2019-08-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Kesper, le jeu. 01 août 2019 11:40:59 +0200, a ecrit: > [Sorry if this should be posted on another list] > > There seems to be currently no way to download other > CD images than current and current-live: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/ > > Parent Directory - > [DI

Bug#933953: override: compiz-plugins-extra:x11/optional

2019-08-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hello, (reported for compiz-plugins-main as well) During the compiz development, there was a gathering of plugins into a single repository, compiz-plugins-extra was then made a transitional-only package, thus oldlibs. On migrating to the compiz-reloaded

Bug#933954: override: compiz-plugins-main:x11/optional

2019-08-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Hello, (reported for compiz-plugins-extra as well) During the compiz development, there was a gathering of plugins into a single repository, compiz-plugins-main was then made a transitional-only package, thus oldlibs. On migrating to the compiz-reloaded

Bug#910227: installation-reports: installation on DELL XPS 13 9370

2019-08-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, le dim. 28 oct. 2018 20:30:02 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault, le dim. 28 oct. 2018 20:22:52 +0100, a ecrit: > > Samuel Thibault, le mer. 03 oct. 2018 19:07:38 +0200, a ecrit: > > > samy, le mer. 03 oct. 2018 18:51:32 +0200, a ecrit: > > > >

Re: dhcp-clients in d-i: missleading message

2019-08-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le mer. 14 août 2019 22:33:11 +0200, a ecrit: > I wonder what dhcp-client(s) is/are used in d-i. > > I stumbled over this message in netcfg: > msgid "No DHCP client was found. This package requires pump or dhcp-client." D'oh :) > And the debian/control file does not list any dhcp

Bug#932149: Question about documented Buster ram requirement (#932149)

2019-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Martin Samuelsson, le jeu. 22 août 2019 12:58:41 +0200, a ecrit: > The values seem to come from version 1.47 of lowmem from merely a few months > back. How are they obtained? As described in lowmem's README. But AIUI the Xen case (which I indeed didn't test) requires bigger values. > Since they

Bug#935407: Failure to unpack initrd should be handled better

2019-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Martin Samuelsson, le jeu. 22 août 2019 13:19:58 +0200, a ecrit: > >[0.564101] Unpacking initramfs... > >[0.634972] Initramfs unpacking failed: write error > > Since this error message appears in the log and attempting to continue after > it will guaranteed yield in strange behavio

Bug#935545: debian-installer: high contrast shortcut does not work in 10.0.0 in EFI mode

2019-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: debian-installer Version: 20190702 Severity: important Tags: a11y patch pending Hello, In the grub menu, the 'c' shortcut does not work to trigger the high contrast menu. That is indeed obviously a grub shortcut. That was why 'd' was initially chosen, but then changed again due to #93056

Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium

2019-08-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le dim. 25 août 2019 22:12:57 +0200, a ecrit: > Change "CD" into "installation medium" More generally, our usage of "CD" confuses people, and people tend to think that our ISO images don't work on USB sticks, so I'm all for getting rid of "CD" naming in general :) Samuel

Re: Avoiding low-memory warning in preseed mode

2019-10-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Fred Boiteux, le mar. 01 oct. 2019 16:09:05 +0200, a ecrit: > d-i lowmem/low note > > Does someone can tell me which sentence is supposed to be used in preseed > file to skip this manual validation ? As suggested in the "Creating a preconfiguration file" section of the installation manual

Re: Avoiding low-memory warning in preseed mode

2019-10-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le mer. 02 oct. 2019 13:28:32 +0200, a ecrit: > On 10/2/2019 1:11 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Fred Boiteux, le mar. 01 oct. 2019 16:09:05 +0200, a ecrit: > >> d-i lowmem/low note > >> > >> Does someone can tell me

Re: Avoiding low-memory warning in preseed mode

2019-10-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
David, le mer. 02 oct. 2019 21:53:08 +1000, a ecrit: > On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 21:46, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Which provides the same information as the installation manual > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apbs03.en.html > > Hi Samuel > > Tha

Bug#943795: installation-reports: Does not automatically load firmware from ext4 stick

2019-10-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Hello, While trying to debug something about wifi during d-i, I actually had an issue: I had put the content of my /lib/firmware directory on a USB stick, which happened to be formatted as ext4. d-i was not able to read from it, even if the ext4-modu

Bug#943797: netcfg: surprising behavior on bogus wifi password

2019-10-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: netcfg Version: 1.160 Severity: normal Hello, * start d-i * get wireless board detected * choose an ESSID among the list proposed by netcfg * type a password which is not the proper password Result: netcfg prompts for a manual ESSID without even making the prefilled value the ESSID that

debootstrap: Add a new --extra-suites option

2019-10-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Perhaps this went off-radar? Add a new --extra-suites option to support debootstrapping Debian Ports architectures with essential/required packages in its unreleased suite. https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debootstrap/merge_requests/31 Debian ports will need this to be able to crea

Re: Bug#944011: locales: Other Scandinavian languages should not be fallback language for Norwegian

2019-11-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Reassign: localechooser Hello, Andreas Noteng, le sam. 02 nov. 2019 20:46:12 +0100, a ecrit: > Package: locales > > If installing Debian choosing Norwegian Bokmål as your system language > the other Scandinavian langiages are defined as fallback languages if > translations are missing: > LANGUAG

Re: debian 10 installer

2019-11-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Vlastik Krejčí, le lun. 04 nov. 2019 16:49:38 +, a ecrit: > You guys did not give me as a user ANY option to install the Grub yes or > no, where to install etc. ?? This is one of the few questions that are always asked. It is asked almost at the end of the installation, after installin

Re: debian 10 installer

2019-11-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve McIntyre, le lun. 04 nov. 2019 18:35:32 +, a ecrit: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 06:19:16PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >Vlastik Krejčí, le lun. 04 nov. 2019 16:49:38 +, a ecrit: > >> You guys did not give me as a user ANY option to install the Grub yes or > &g

Bug#879130: choose-mirror: empty mirror list on non released architectures

2019-11-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I have significantly reworked and simplified the patch: - avoid creating several files at the same time - always create usr/lib/choose-mirror/port_architecture to make rules much simpler. - use a single variable $archive that normally contains 'archive' but can be set to 'ports'. so t

Re: Bug#935546: debian-cd: advanced and dark-theme boot have unreadable fonts on hidpi displays

2019-11-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le ven. 23 août 2019 22:03:23 +0200, a ecrit: > Steve McIntyre, le ven. 23 août 2019 21:00:19 +0100, a ecrit: > > Once you've done that, I'll backport it for buster builds too. > > Thanks, I have pushed the fix. FI, I tested the fix in the stretch branc

Bug#879130: choose-mirror: empty mirror list on non released architectures

2019-11-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, le mer. 13 nov. 2019 00:12:50 +0100, a ecrit: > I have significantly reworked and simplified the patch: I have modified it a bit to fix the "directory" value in the manual configuration, which should be /debian-ports/ That is useful for the case when there

Bug#879130: choose-mirror: empty mirror list on non released architectures

2019-11-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + pending Samuel Thibault, le lun. 18 nov. 2019 22:39:48 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault, le mer. 13 nov. 2019 00:12:50 +0100, a ecrit: > > I have significantly reworked and simplified the patch: > > I have modified it a bit to fix the "directory&

Bug#946118: synaptics touchpad does not work in debian installer graphical mode

2019-12-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Thinking of it... IIRC the touchpad is not working on my DELL XPS13 laptop in g-i. What I can see of it on normal boot of installed system is: [6.097298] input: DELL07E6:00 06CB:76AF Mouse as /devices/pci:00/:00:15.1/i2c_designware.1/i2c-8/i2c-DELL07E6:00/0018:06CB:76AF.0002/i

Bug#946118: synaptics touchpad does not work in debian installer graphical mode

2019-12-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le mer. 04 déc. 2019 01:52:36 +0100, a ecrit: > Thinking of it... IIRC the touchpad is not working on my DELL XPS13 > laptop in g-i. Indeed, it doesn't work. > What I can see of it on normal boot of installed system is: > > [6.097298] input: DELL07E6:0

Re: Bug#946118: synaptics touchpad does not work in debian installer graphical mode

2019-12-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le sam. 07 déc. 2019 22:54:09 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault, le mer. 04 déc. 2019 01:52:36 +0100, a ecrit: > > Thinking of it... IIRC the touchpad is not working on my DELL XPS13 > > laptop in g-i. > > Indeed, it doesn't work. > > > Wha

Bug#946118: synaptics touchpad does not work in debian installer graphical mode

2019-12-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, dinar qurbanov, le lun. 09 déc. 2019 21:00:46 +0300, a ecrit: > "Dinar, could you try the image from > http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/mini.iso > to see whether it helps? " > > i have downloaded it but then become afraid , that malware may be > there. You are right to being cautio

Bug#947449: installation-report: No networking on Olimex Lime2 (Allwinner A20)

2019-12-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Marek Nečada, le ven. 27 déc. 2019 02:41:17 +0200, a ecrit: > The same problem persists after installation and boot – the > eth0 interface shows up, ethernet connect/disconnect events > show up in dmesg, but the networking does not work in reality. Possible the board needs some non-free fi

Re: Bug#930846: partman-auto-lvm: debconf show guided_size during auto install

2019-12-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le dim. 29 déc. 2019 21:59:02 +0100, a ecrit: > do you it would be possible for you to do another upload for the > installation-guide some day? Ah, sure, I'm on it, then. Samuel

Re: Bug#930846: partman-auto-lvm: debconf show guided_size during auto install

2019-12-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 29 déc. 2019 22:15:59 +0100, a ecrit: > Holger Wansing, le dim. 29 déc. 2019 21:59:02 +0100, a ecrit: > > do you it would be possible for you to do another upload for the > > installation-guide some day? > > Ah, sure, I'm on it, then. Done! Samuel

Re: Debian / Python

2020-01-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Karim Bourahla, le jeu. 09 janv. 2020 00:13:54 +0100, a ecrit: > How long till  py 2.7 is removed from debian 10. Debian 10 is released, so no package will be removed from it. Only Debian 11 will hopefully not ship python 2.7. Samuel

Re: broken link at https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/apbs04.en.html

2020-01-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Geert Stappers, le dim. 12 janv. 2020 11:58:34 +0100, a ecrit: > At top of https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/apbs04.en.html > is a link to https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/example-preseed.txt > But that link is broken. > > Either has .../buster/amd64/apbs04.en.html wrong c

Re: [installation-guide] Corrrect filename format for the website?

2020-01-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le lun. 13 janv. 2020 00:04:35 +0100, a ecrit: > while working on the lessoften cron script for building the installation-guide > for the website, I noticed that we have files named "..html" > for the HTML variants, which is correct, but ".pdf." and > ".txt." for the PDF an

Re: [installation-guide] Corrrect filename format for the website?

2020-01-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le lun. 13 janv. 2020 21:38:56 +0100, a ecrit: > The debian website has cn working globally, and it does that with > ..html format. > So that should do for the installation-guide too, since we have that format > for html. > And indeed it works: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stab

Re: [installation-guide] Corrrect filename format for the website?

2020-01-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le sam. 18 janv. 2020 00:07:19 +0100, a ecrit: > Hmm, is there really a need for c-n for PDF files? > All the other docs under www.debian.org/doc don't have that ... That might be less a desire for PDF files indeed. I give URLs to some sections of html installation manual from time

Re: [installation-guide] Corrrect filename format for the website?

2020-01-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le sam. 18 janv. 2020 11:12:58 +, a ecrit: > Am Samstag, 18. Januar 2020 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > > Holger Wansing, le sam. 18 janv. 2020 00:07:19 +0100, a ecrit: > > > Hmm, is there really a need for c-n for PDF files? > > > All the other docs und

Bug#949572: debian-installer: Do not install Python2 by default.

2020-01-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -1 python-defaults Control: retitle -1 please set python and python-minimal's priority to optional so it's not installed in the standard task Control: reassign -2 python2.7 Control: retitle -2 please set python2.7's priority to optional so it's not installed

Bug#950935: console-setup: Adding support for custom XKB rules?

2020-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: console-setup Version: 1.194 Severity: wishlist Hello, As detailed on https://who-t.blogspot.com/2020/02/user-specific-xkb-configuration-part-1.html libxkbcommon now allows users to have custom XKB configurations. It would be useful for console-setup to provide a similar support, so as

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cyril Brulebois, le dim. 01 mars 2020 18:15:58 +0100, a ecrit: > Rich Morin (2020-02-29): > > As I understand it, Orca is generally installed as a dependency of a > > desktop. This makes me wonder whether a server system would (or > > should) have it. This isn't an idle question: Ubuntu

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Rich Morin, le lun. 02 mars 2020 07:40:42 -0800, a ecrit: > In another forum, I've been told that Orca is a rather heavyweight solution > for providing boot-time speech generation. It was recommended that I > consider Fenrir, instead. Fenrir is also quite heavy-weight, since it brings python. B

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le lun. 02 mars 2020 11:03:28 -0500, a ecrit: > Apple solved this problem back in 2006. On the desktop, yes. Here we are talking about an embedded device. > That was when Mac OS Tiger 10.4 > became available. What Apple did was to put a message asking for > language to be used on

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:02:49 +0100, a ecrit: > Prompting the user with a question asking if accessibility is desired > would go a lon way. But we don't necessarily want to ask the question on all Debian systems at all boot. I'm not saying that there is no solution. I'm saying that it's

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:24:48 +0100, a ecrit: > On 3/2/2020 5:13 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 17:02:49 +0100, a ecrit: > >> Prompting the user with a question asking if accessibility is desired > >> would go a lon way. >

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mewtamer, le lun. 02 mars 2020 16:36:02 +, a ecrit: > 1. At present, Raspbian enables ssh by creating a blank file called > ssh in the boot partition and then booting the card. Could a similar > method be used for enabling accessibility? Probably. The details are probably to be seen with them

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le lun. 02 mars 2020 19:33:22 +0100, a ecrit: > Actually, creating a new cd iso that would have accessibility in mind > could be one option. > > EG: > > debian-10.3-accessibility-netinst.iso Yes, but I don't think it is a good option. For most impact, it's better to make the standard

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Rich Morin, le jeu. 05 mars 2020 02:53:30 -0600, a ecrit: > I don't know all the ins and outs of preseeding, etc. So, I'll talk about > use cases. I'm mostly looking for a way to make freshly installed systems > (e.g., PC, RasPi) accessible in two situations: One thing I am missing in

Re: Fault in manual install buster 10

2020-03-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, ripspin...@yahoo.com.au, le ven. 06 mars 2020 16:06:54 +, a ecrit: > This page: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/reportingbugs > > said: > If you have a problem with the installation system, please report bugs > against the installation-reports package. Fill out the report templ

Re: boot-time accessibility issues

2020-03-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Rich Morin, le jeu. 12 mars 2020 09:28:49 -0700, a ecrit: > The idea of detecting the presence (or absence) of a blind-related device > seems worth pursuing, even if there are some issues to be resolved. The Debian Installer detects the presence of a braille device and then enables access

Bug#899979: keyboard-configuration: the caron dead-key of the czech keyboard on the console does not work as expected

2018-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Anton Zinoviev, le sam. 26 mai 2018 12:20:59 +0300, a ecrit: > I have some doubts that the dead keys are > usable with non-Latin1 symbols on the console. Keymaps do have e.g. ./keymaps/i386/qwerty/et.kmap:compose '^' 'S' to Scaron I don't remember whether console-setup generates compose

Bug#899979: keyboard-configuration: the caron dead-key of the czech keyboard on the console does not work as expected

2018-05-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Anton Zinoviev, le dim. 27 mai 2018 20:05:30 +0300, a ecrit: > Ah, I didn't know that the compose sequences are used for the dead keys. Dead keys simply produce compose + '`' or '\'' or '^' or '~' or '"' or ',' yes. > Compose sequences in console-setup are encoding-based. See for example > /etc

Bug#899979: keyboard-configuration: the caron dead-key of the czech keyboard on the console does not work as expected

2018-05-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Anton Zinoviev, le ven. 01 juin 2018 00:48:18 +0300, a ecrit: > If a bug makes a package totally unusable, but otherwise harmless, > then this bug is (usually) not going to be fixed in the stable > release. Mmm, I believe that sentence enters the "important" area, or even more: 4 important

Bug#899979: keyboard-configuration: the caron dead-key of the czech keyboard on the console does not work as expected

2018-06-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jan Rafaj, le ven. 01 juin 2018 16:06:34 +0200, a ecrit: > the following ones still do not produce the > corresponding caron-ified characters as they should - I have no idea why: > > compose '^' 'S' to U+0160 # instead produces U+015A (0xC59A) U+015A would be what you'd expect for a la

Bug#899979: keyboard-configuration: the caron dead-key of the czech keyboard on the console does not work as expected

2018-06-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Anton Zinoviev, le ven. 01 juin 2018 17:22:06 +0300, a ecrit: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > U+015A would be what you'd expect for a latin1 language (^ + S), and I > > guess due to rule ordering, the existing rule doesn't get overr

Re: installation-guide is marked for autoremoval from testing

2018-06-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le dim. 13 mai 2018 19:51:50 +, a ecrit: > So let's go for an upload. > Samuel, maybe? Uploaded now. Samuel

Bug#594052: debootstrap: create example /etc/hosts and /etc/fstab?

2018-06-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hideki Yamane, le mar. 05 juin 2018 11:42:30 +0900, a ecrit: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:18:45 +0200 Samuel Thibault > wrote: > > Colin Watson, le Mon 23 Aug 2010 12:45:12 +0100, a écrit : > > > Does anyone have any thoughts on this? > > > > Mmm, aren't you

Bug#594052: debootstrap: create example /etc/hosts and /etc/fstab?

2018-06-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hideki Yamane, le mar. 05 juin 2018 16:29:26 +0900, a ecrit: > debootstrap is used to create just not simple chroot but for containers, > like lxc, systemd-nspawn, etc., so adding sample /etc/fstab and hosts is > better for them, IMO. Ok, then it'd be good to pick up what is already in crosshur

Bug#899979: keyboard-configuration: the caron dead-key of the czech keyboard on the console does not work as expected

2018-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le ven. 01 juin 2018 16:28:23 +0200, a ecrit: > Anton Zinoviev, le ven. 01 juin 2018 17:22:06 +0300, a ecrit: > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > U+015A would be what you'd expect for a latin1 language (^ + S), and I

Bug#901255: netcfg-static: Unable to configure fe80::1 as a gateway

2018-06-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Igor Scheller, le dim. 10 juin 2018 18:57:50 +0200, a ecrit: > When I try to configure fe80::1 (next router) as a gateway in an IPv6 only > network the installer stops with an "Unreachable gateway" error. > > Looking at netcfg-common.c:netcfg_gateway_reachable its checked by comparing > bytes. Imh

Re: Bug#901255: netcfg-static: Unable to configure fe80::1 as a gateway

2018-06-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bjørn Mork, le mar. 12 juin 2018 10:52:30 +0200, a ecrit: > Huh? What is this? There is no "gateway must be in subnet" requirement > in IPv6. The gateway must only be reachable, which means that you must > be able to resolve the L2 address using ND. Before that, you need a route, which is the p

Re: Bug#901255: netcfg-static: Unable to configure fe80::1 as a gateway

2018-06-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Igor Scheller, le mar. 12 juin 2018 11:28:58 +0200, a ecrit: > Imho it could be a better option to just configure the interface and > test if something is reachable? "something" is the problem. We do test for reachability of the mirror anyway. But again, checking that there actually is a route do

Re: Bug#901255: netcfg-static: Unable to configure fe80::1 as a gateway

2018-06-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bjørn Mork, le mar. 12 juin 2018 13:30:39 +0200, a ecrit: > But this will: > > frtest3:~# ip route add 2001:db8:f00::1/128 dev eth1 So this is a route, which can be checked for. > > which is the point of the test AIUI. > > The test is pointless. There is absolutely no requirement that the > ga

Re: Bug#901255: netcfg-static: Unable to configure fe80::1 as a gateway

2018-06-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bjørn Mork, le mar. 12 juin 2018 14:12:28 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > Bjørn Mork, le mar. 12 juin 2018 13:30:39 +0200, a ecrit: > >> But this will: > >> > >> frtest3:~# ip route add 2001:db8:f00::1/128 dev eth1 > > > > So this i

Re: Bug#901255: netcfg-static: Unable to configure fe80::1 as a gateway

2018-06-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bjørn Mork, le mar. 12 juin 2018 15:19:25 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > > It's a matter of someone fixing the code. It seems Igor Scheller is > > happy to work on it, he just needs a way forward, not being only told > > that what is currently there

Bug#901722: debian-installer: unable to use custom or local mirror

2018-06-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, tom, le dim. 17 juin 2018 08:57:28 -0400, a ecrit: > But the installer doesn't > provide an easy way to use it for installation. ? The selectmirror screen has an "enter information manually" choice. Samuel

Bug#901722: debian-installer: unable to use custom or local mirror

2018-06-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Geert Stappers, le dim. 17 juin 2018 15:45:31 +0200, a ecrit: > * use expert mode, it will ask everthing, including which mirror to use The mirror question is asked even in non-expert mode. Samuel

Re: [installer l10n statistics] l10nstats re-activated

2018-06-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le dim. 24 juin 2018 10:36:21 +0200, a ecrit: > Holger Wansing wrote: > > Yesterday I pushed my final changings. > > Last night the cron job broke, because I forgot two changes, which I added > > just now. > > But now, l10nstat should be back online. > > when performing a

Bug#905965: debian-installer: preseeding language fails

2018-08-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josua Mayer, le lun. 13 août 2018 17:08:35 +0200, a ecrit: > That piece is actually magic. Changing from plain auto to auto=true > makes these first two questions go away as expected! > Thank you very much for this pointer. > > I couldn't find any mention of this on the wiki, Well, the documentat

Re: Towards Debian Buster Alpha 4 -- installation-guide

2018-09-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le dim. 23 sept. 2018 14:16:21 +0200, a ecrit: > Holger Wansing wrote: > > Ah, maybe upload installation-guide? > > Would be a good time for that. Also, to get installation-guide back into > > testing (has been removed two months ago). > > I would like to have an upload fo

Re: installation-guide is marked for autoremoval from testing

2018-09-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Biebl, le mer. 26 sept. 2018 19:53:22 +0200, a ecrit: > Am 26.09.2018 um 19:50 schrieb Holger Wansing: > > Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote: > >> installation-guide 20180603 is marked for autoremoval from testing on > >> 2018-10-11 > >> > >> It is affected by these RC bugs: > >> 898

Bug#606287: d-i manual: should add a "what is the Debian Installer" section

2018-09-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le dim. 30 sept. 2018 20:18:32 +0200, a ecrit: > > Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > > on 1.x add What is the Debian Installer (purpose and scope of the > > installer) > > I would like to apply the below patch from Miguel, if noone objects: > > What is the Debian Installer? No objecti

Bug#816111: Larger font variants for HiDPI displays

2018-10-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Yuri D'Elia, le sam. 27 févr. 2016 17:11:47 +0100, a ecrit: > With a display close to 300dpi and the proper KMS driver, the framebuffer > effectively becomes HiDPI as well. > > The largest font currently available in console-setup is 16x32 pixels, which > might not be big enough to be read confort

Bug#899979: keyboard-configuration: the caron dead-key of the czech keyboard on the console does not work as expected

2018-10-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le mer. 06 juin 2018 15:19:07 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault, le ven. 01 juin 2018 16:28:23 +0200, a ecrit: > > Anton Zinoviev, le ven. 01 juin 2018 17:22:06 +0300, a ecrit: > > > On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >

Bug#910227: installation-reports: installation on DELL XPS 13 9370

2018-10-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: retitle -1 unreadably tiny fonts in installer Control: reassign -1 debian-installer Samuel Thibault, le mer. 03 oct. 2018 19:07:38 +0200, a ecrit: > samy, le mer. 03 oct. 2018 18:51:32 +0200, a ecrit: > > One problem, however, is that since laptop has a HiDPI screen. The font

Bug#910227: installation-reports: installation on DELL XPS 13 9370

2018-10-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, le dim. 28 oct. 2018 20:22:52 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault, le mer. 03 oct. 2018 19:07:38 +0200, a ecrit: > > samy, le mer. 03 oct. 2018 18:51:32 +0200, a ecrit: > > > One problem, however, is that since laptop has a HiDPI screen. The font > >

Bug#762222: Support multiple mirrors

2018-11-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Another example is for ports. Unstable is quite often undebootstrapable for ports for various reasons in essential packages, and being able to add debian-ports in addition to the main archive would allow to fix debootstrapability by just uploading a fixed package there. Samuel

Bug#910227: installation-reports: installation on DELL XPS 13 9370

2018-12-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Just to confirm that alpha4 does not have the tiny font issue any more. Samuel

Re: [debian-installer packages] upload of pending changings?

2018-12-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, > cdebconf > Commits: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/commits/master > by: Colin, Samuel > rootskel-gtk > Commits: https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/rootskel-gtk/commits/master > by: Samuel These should be alright to upload. Thanks, Samuel

Bug#917909: [text-based installer] right-to-left writing direction broken

2018-12-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: reassign -1 newt Control: fixed -1 0.52.17-1 Control: found -1 0.52.19-1 Hello, Holger Wansing, le lun. 31 déc. 2018 16:15:12 +0100, a ecrit: > While investigating an old bugreport regarding Hebrew, I found that RTL > writing > direction is completely broken in the text-based installer

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