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

2018-12-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: reassign -1 fribidi Control: tags -1 + patch Samuel Thibault, le lun. 31 déc. 2018 17:20:42 +0100, a ecrit: > 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 > > di

Bug#820911: Accessibility for visual impaired is broken,, High-Contrast Theme is no longer activated by shortcut

2019-01-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le mar. 01 janv. 2019 23:40:29 +0100, a ecrit: > I wonder why this shouldn't be possible to solve ... Essentially because it somehow got out of my radar and nobody else seems to have cared about it. > And appending "theme=dark" instead of "speakup.synth=soft" should be all

Bug#820911: Accessibility for visual impaired is broken,, High-Contrast Theme is no longer activated by shortcut

2019-01-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Also, we need to document it in the installation manual and the wiki.debian.org/accessibility page. Samuel

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

2019-01-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le mer. 02 janv. 2019 06:53:44 +0100, a ecrit: > And thanks for debugging this so quickly! I was afraid it might have been due to bogl changes :) > Samuel Thibault (2018-12-31): > > Ah, it's 98fa157c758d ('bidi.patch: Look for libfribidi in multi-arc

Bug#851189: keyboard-configuration: ALT+Cursor-Left switches consoles instead of working on app in focus

2019-01-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Mike McGuire, le sam. 05 janv. 2019 03:25:42 +, a ecrit: > This started happening to me recently, not sure what change could be to blame > but I found a lengthy thread on the ubuntu bug tracker that seems to confirm > things. Copying the relevant post: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ub

Bug#851189: keyboard-configuration: ALT+Cursor-Left switches consoles instead of working on app in focus

2019-01-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mike McGuire, le lun. 07 janv. 2019 18:57:18 +, a ecrit: > I did just try this myself and you're right, this didn't trigger it. Which > got me to think more of what could have and I did recently build wine in an > ubuntu chroot which is a plausible cause, I think? That could have triggered r

Bug#687671: Should detect from ssh's LANG the remote charset and thus supported language level

2019-01-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 - pending Hello, Holger Wansing, le sam. 12 janv. 2019 11:04:54 +0100, a ecrit: > this bug is tagged pending for more than 5 years now, see > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=687671#77 > > Can it be closed? > Or maybe it has to be reassigned to some other packa

Bug#921390: bug found on debian installer for speech install option.

2019-02-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Fran Torres, le mar. 05 févr. 2019 00:56:01 +0100, a ecrit: > because my language (spanish) is not supported on speech installer. ? It is. See the mention at the end of the menu: "Other choices are available with '-' and '+'", so you can press '+' to get the second page of choices. > Also

Bug#921390: bug found on debian installer for speech install option.

2019-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + unreproducible Hello, Samuel Thibault, le mar. 05 févr. 2019 05:43:39 +0100, a ecrit: > Fran Torres, le mar. 05 févr. 2019 00:56:01 +0100, a ecrit: > > Also, the speakup screen reader crash on > > random form during installation (unrecoberable crash) and after &

Bug#921390: bug found on debian installer for speech install option.

2019-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Please keep 921...@bugs.debian.org in Cc so the conversation is archived for everybody to see. > 2019-02-05 18:29 GMT+01:00, Samuel Thibault : > > So I don't know how to reproduce this issue, please provide more details > > on how you proceeded with the installation. Fran Tor

Bug#820911: Accessibility for visual impaired is broken,, High-Contrast Theme is no longer activated by shortcut

2019-02-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le mar. 01 janv. 2019 23:40:29 +0100, a ecrit: > I have played with the syslinux config for legacy BIOS mode, and as far as I > can test, it works for the netboot-gtk image, see the patch attached plus > some > new files that need to be added (for debian-installer/build/bo

Bug#820911: Accessibility for visual impaired is broken,, High-Contrast Theme is no longer activated by shortcut

2019-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le ven. 08 févr. 2019 15:58:10 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Holger Wansing, le mar. 01 janv. 2019 23:40:29 +0100, a ecrit: > > > I have played with the syslinux config for legacy BIOS mode, and as far > > >

Re: default desktop

2019-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Re-opening the question of the default desktop just a bit to provide updated information: the current gnome-with-wayland default is a concern for accessibility. Accessibility on Wayland has a lot of glitches in all kinds of places, and nobody is working on fixing them yet. Also, MATE+Compiz

Re: default desktop

2019-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le ven. 08 févr. 2019 18:39:39 +0100, a ecrit: > What about Orca? > The last time I checked Mate, it wasn't as usable as 'Debian desktop > environment' (Gnome). When was that time? A lot of things happened on the Mate side :) Samuel

Re: default desktop

2019-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Levsen, le ven. 08 févr. 2019 17:42:42 +, a ecrit: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 06:07:17PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Re-opening the question of the default desktop just a bit to provide > > updated information: the current gnome-with-wayland default is a

Re: default desktop

2019-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le ven. 08 févr. 2019 19:09:39 +0100, a ecrit: > On 2/8/2019 6:47 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Holger Levsen, le ven. 08 févr. 2019 17:42:42 +, a ecrit: > >> On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 06:07:17PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >>> Re-opening the question

Re: default desktop

2019-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le ven. 08 févr. 2019 19:43:22 +0100, a ecrit: > On 2/8/2019 7:25 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > john doe, le ven. 08 févr. 2019 19:09:39 +0100, a ecrit: > >> On 2/8/2019 6:47 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >>> Holger Levsen, le ven. 08 févr. 2019 17:42:42

Re: default desktop

2019-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeremy Bicha, le ven. 08 févr. 2019 18:57:30 -0500, a ecrit: > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 12:07 PM Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Re-opening the question of the default desktop just a bit to provide > > updated information: the current gnome-with-wayland default is a concern > &

Re: default desktop

2019-02-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeremy Bicha, le ven. 08 févr. 2019 20:05:03 -0500, a ecrit: > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 7:37 PM Samuel Thibault wrote: > > As mentioned earlier in the thread, the default desktop for > > accessibility is already MATE. I'm here talking about the choice of > > default deskt

Collecting Wayland issues [Was: default desktop]

2019-02-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Could people raise the issues they have had when trying Wayland? Jeremy Bicha, le sam. 09 févr. 2019 08:38:29 -0500, a ecrit: > On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 8:36 AM Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Ok, then you need to discuss this with the rest of the Debian GNOME > > > team.

Re: Collecting Wayland issues [Was: default desktop]

2019-02-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le dim. 10 févr. 2019 07:39:17 +0100, a ecrit: > On 2/9/2019 3:16 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Could people raise the issues they have had when trying Wayland? > > How do I go about testing wayland? > Should I tested on Mate or on Gnome? Mate doesn't seem to

Re: FTBFS with TeX Live 2018

2019-02-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le dim. 10 févr. 2019 16:37:57 +0100, a ecrit: > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hi Hilmar, > > > > Hilmar Preuße (2018-04-26): > > > This is the patch for installation-howto.po. > > > > Thanks, I've just pushed it: > > | Committed revision 71074. > > > > > Unfortunately the build f

Re: [rb-general] debian-installer: Ensure build is reproducible regardless of the user's umask(2)

2019-02-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cyril Brulebois, le ven. 22 févr. 2019 20:31:52 +0100, a ecrit: > This seems to have broken all daily builds. Yes, noticed that this morning, pushed a fix. Samuel

Re: New language Occitan - console-setup

2020-10-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le lun. 05 oct. 2020 13:44:19 +0200, a ecrit: > Now it comes to keyboard configuration: I am unsure how it exactly needs to be > done in console-setup. > > Default locale for Occitan is oc_FR.UTF-8 and the needed keymap is French. Should it be French for all oc_* locales?

Re: New language Occitan - console-setup

2020-10-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le mar. 06 oct. 2020 11:11:47 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Holger Wansing, le lun. 05 oct. 2020 13:44:19 +0200, a ecrit: > > > Since Occitan is spoken in more than one country, I guess adding it to > > > the list of specific

Re: Bug#971944: buster-pu: package espeak/1.48.04+dfsg-7+deb10u1

2020-10-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam D. Barratt, le ven. 16 oct. 2020 17:44:29 +0100, a ecrit: > On Sat, 2020-10-10 at 12:07 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Espeak cannot drive the mbrola-fr4 speech synthesis voice if the > > mbrola-fr1 package is not installed. This is because some of the mb- > > fr4 espe

Bug#974206: debian-installer: When entering an IPv6 address, fe80::1 should be a valid gateway

2020-11-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ben Hutchings, le mer. 11 nov. 2020 17:02:11 +, a ecrit: > On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 11:25 +0200, Harald Hannelius wrote: > > I needed to enter an IPv6-address in the installer. When entering > > fe80::1 as a gateway the installer stops with an error that the > > address isn't reachable. The addres

Bug#974206: debian-installer: When entering an IPv6 address, fe80::1 should be a valid gateway

2020-11-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le mer. 11 nov. 2020 18:36:21 +0100, a ecrit: > Ben Hutchings, le mer. 11 nov. 2020 17:02:11 +, a ecrit: > > On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 11:25 +0200, Harald Hannelius wrote: > > > I needed to enter an IPv6-address in the installer. When entering > > &g

Bug#974966: debian-installer: please check for libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0 dependencies

2020-11-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Simon McVittie, le mar. 17 nov. 2020 11:11:53 +, a ecrit: > So I think losing libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 from the > udeb would be OK. I had a run on the amd64 .udebs, and could not find a binary whose ldd output contains "libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0". Samuel

Re: Minimun hardware requirements innaccurate as documented

2020-12-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jim, le mar. 01 déc. 2020 17:29:52 -0800, a ecrit: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch03s04.en.html > > it states 512M RAM is the minimum required for gui desktop. However in > installing the 10.6 32bit livecd on a 32bit system with 784M RAM, This link does not document the

Re: Minimun hardware requirements innaccurate as documented

2020-12-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Geert Stappers, le mer. 02 déc. 2020 11:26:10 +0100, a ecrit: > Does it mean that #976255: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976255 > can be closed? I hadn't seen the forward. I added the close in the installation-guide package. Samuel

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Wang Shanker, le mar. 15 déc. 2020 20:17:50 +0800, a ecrit: > The cause of the probem is in the `S70menu` script, where the font file > get deleted when bterm is not used. Ok but this is done on purpose for the lowmem case. We probably need to put that rm back into the lowmem package then, I guess

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Wang Shanker, le mar. 15 déc. 2020 22:59:52 +0800, a ecrit: > Thanks for your response. In `S15lowmem`, I can see the limit for the > memory is around tens or hundreds of megabytes. The font file, however, > is only around 200K. I doubt the necessity of removing it. 200K+200K+200K+... in various

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Wang Shanker, le mer. 16 déc. 2020 00:53:27 +0800, a ecrit: > Then I believe the following patch will remove unnecessary files when the > memory is not enough. Thanks! But "believe" is not enough, we need someone to actually test it :) Samuel

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Wang Shanker, le mer. 16 déc. 2020 01:05:58 +0800, a ecrit: > I carried out a simple test by limiting memory of my qemu machine > and appending `lowmem=2` to the kernel command line. I can confirm > that btrem and its font file get deleted. Ok, good! Thanks for testing, I have uploaded the fix to

Bug#977466: rootskel: bterm cannot start when requesting graphical console and serial console at the same time

2020-12-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Re, Alper Nebi Yasak, le mar. 15 déc. 2020 23:42:16 +0300, a ecrit: > I've tested with this and the patch for rootskel, and in the text-based > installer on the framebuffer the black boxes are replaced with actual > characters (arm64 QEMU, with console=ttyAMA0 console=tty0). > > Can you apply tha

Bug#967123: debian-installer: Unversioned Python removal in sid/bullseye

2021-01-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le mar. 05 janv. 2021 20:28:52 +0100, a ecrit: > Matthias Klose (2020-08-04): > > Your package either build-depends, depends on one of those packages. > > I couldn't find any hit on “python” (that would be relevant) in current > git, current version, or the version you filed this

Re: Bug#981442: apparmor: Please do not install by default or depend on python3

2021-01-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cc-ing the linux package maintainers since that's what recommends apparmor, thus pulling the 30MB. Also Cc-ing d-b for information. Samuel Samuel Thibault, le dim. 31 janv. 2021 12:10:43 +0100, a ecrit: > Package: apparmor > Version: 2.13.6-7 > Severity: important > &g

Re: Bug#981442: apparmor: Please do not install by default or depend on python3

2021-01-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 31 janv. 2021 13:19:28 +0100, a ecrit: > Cc-ing the linux package maintainers since that's what recommends > apparmor, thus pulling the 30MB. Actually, that not only pulls python3 but also perl, libicu, and in the end with dependencies, that amounts to 114

Re: Bug#981442: apparmor: Please do not install by default or depend on python3

2021-02-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, intrigeri, le lun. 01 févr. 2021 09:16:23 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault (2021-01-31): > > As of Debian bullseye alpha3, apparmor is getting installed by default > > even in the base system, > > To be clear, in this context "base system" is d-i terminolog

Re: Bug#981442: apparmor: Please do not install by default or depend on python3

2021-02-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
intrigeri, le lun. 01 févr. 2021 09:16:23 +0100, a ecrit: > I'm asking because AFAICT, the chain of dependencies has not changed > between Buster and Bullseye: > > - the Linux kernel images Recommends: apparmor > - apparmor depends python3:any One thing that changed is that mime-support (which

Bug#982273: libbsd0-udeb: depends on libmd0

2021-02-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Source: libbsd0-udeb Version: 0.11.1-1 Severity: serious Justification: makes debian-installer FTBFS Hello, The "new upstream" upload of libbsd builds a udeb that depends on a non-udeb: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libbsd0-udeb : Depends: libmd0 (>= 1.0.3) but it is not insta

Re: Bug#982273: libbsd0-udeb: depends on libmd0

2021-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Guillem Jover, le lun. 08 févr. 2021 13:58:56 +0100, a ecrit: > I'd rather not revert the switch to use libmd, > but that requires the d-i team to approve (CCed) such package and > ftp-masters to approve such package. :/ ftp-master will probably be an easy step, you can probably ping them to get s

Re: Bug#982273: libbsd0-udeb: depends on libmd0

2021-02-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le lun. 08 févr. 2021 16:16:17 +0100, a ecrit: > Guillem Jover (2021-02-08): > > I've uploaded it now, once it hits NEW I'll poke ftp-masters. The git > > and source+binary packages at: > > > > > >

Bug#982917: nvme-cli: Add a nvme-cli-udeb package?

2021-02-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: nvme-cli Version: 1.12-5 Severity: normal Tags: d-i Hello, I was reinstalling a laptop after a NVME change, and I realized: what if the NVME did not have any namespace set up? The installer would then not recognize the disk. We would need at least the nvme command to be available on the

Bug#879147: debian-ports and unreleased packages

2021-02-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, For information, I submitted a couple of fixes for the unreleased distribution in debian-cd, it now behaves fine when setting UNRELEASED=1 in CONF.sh: it includes packages from the unreleased distribution in the sid distribution of the CD. Also, I switched to using LOCAL=1, LOCALDEBS and UP

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

2021-02-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le sam. 20 févr. 2021 20:45:59 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault wrote (Sat, 7 Dec 2019 22:54:09 +0100): > > 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 &

Bug#983897: installation-reports: Installation in Uyghur hangs

2021-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i i18n Hello, I was trying the debian installer in Uyghur to test lowmem levels, and it seems that it just hangs when asking for user login/password, see the attached screenshot (obtained by just selecting Uyghur then all default answers). Ru

Bug#983897: installation-reports: Installation in Uyghur hangs

2021-03-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le ven. 05 mars 2021 00:12:19 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault wrote (Wed, 3 Mar 2021 00:43:38 > +0100): > > I was trying the debian installer in Uyghur to test lowmem levels, and > > it seems that it just hangs when asking for user login/password, se

Bug#985119: debian-installer: shared-mime-info installed for no apparent reason

2021-03-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Witold Baryluk, le sam. 13 mars 2021 00:36:59 +, a ecrit: > I just used the daily netinst for testing on arm64 in qemu. > what dependss on shared-mime-info that it was installed in the first > place? On qemu, the hwdetect package installs qemu-guest-agent, which depends on libglib2.0-

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-03-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Charles Curley, le sam. 13 mars 2021 19:03:17 -0700, a ecrit: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 03:18:12 +0300 > ValdikSS wrote: > > > 1. eatmydata-udeb should be enabled by default, to speed up the > > installation process. It should not require to be enabled from > > preseed file or bootloader cmd

Re: software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

2021-03-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Nick Gawronski, le lun. 15 mars 2021 23:11:26 -0500, a ecrit: > I however get no software speech either in the mate desktop or in the > console I don't have vmware player, so I cannot test this myself. When I try it with qemu I do get speech both during installation and in the installed sy

Re: software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

2021-03-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nick Gawronski, le mar. 16 mars 2021 15:47:49 -0500, a ecrit: > If I install the ssh server task along with the rest of the system > during the installation on the host system should I be able to ssh into the > guest with the networking in vmware player set to nat? That's supposed to work yes. >

Re: software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

2021-03-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Nick Gawronski, le mar. 16 mars 2021 21:32:51 -0500, a ecrit: > [?2004hroot@debian641:~# amixer -c 0 contents Could you pass scontents rather than contents? Samuel

Re: software speech works with vmware player 16 but not after installation of Debian testing

2021-03-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nick Gawronski, le mer. 17 mars 2021 19:34:24 -0500, a ecrit: > Hi, Here is that output.  Nick Gawronski Ok, it doesn't seem muted... What does cat /etc/default/espeakup have to say? Samuel

Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation

2021-03-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.2.4-1 Hello, A user reports that although he has sound during installation (using speech synthesis), there is no sound at reboot into the installed system, although it looks like the audio levels seem correct. Any idea? Samuel Nick Gawronski, le mer. 17 mars 2021

Bug#985696: debian-installer: Speech synthesis and Intel SOF firmware

2021-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Arnaud Rebillout, le lun. 22 mars 2021 17:30:30 +0700, a ecrit: > some recent Intel sound cards require a firmware to work. Ah. So these should be getting supported by the firmware-enabled image of Debian: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ > And

Bug#985696: debian-installer: Speech synthesis and Intel SOF firmware

2021-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Raphael Hertzog, le lun. 22 mars 2021 14:27:24 +0100, a ecrit: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Arnaud Rebillout, le lun. 22 mars 2021 17:30:30 +0700, a ecrit: > > > some recent Intel sound cards require a firmware to work. > > > > Ah. So these shou

Re: issue with configuring a debian installation with debconf set to low priority both at the beginning and after the base system is installed

2021-04-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nick Gawronski, le mar. 06 avril 2021 16:22:27 -0500, a ecrit: > How would I be able to submit further information on how to get the > proper information to someone so it could be looked into and get > fixed? You can report a bug against the debian-installer package. Sending what you sent in your

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z, le mar. 06 avril 2021 17:35:19 -0400, a ecrit: > I read this page: https://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/ > > It looks like it is not good idea to use it for critical information. Indeed. But a fresh install is not critical information. If you lost power during i

Bug#986491: fails to fully configure with debconf low priority

2021-04-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Nick Gawronski, le mar. 06 avril 2021 17:01:16 -0500, a ecrit: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: important > Tags: d-i a11y > X-Debbugs-Cc: n...@nickgawronski.com I guess the reportbug tool didn't work out that well. Pasting below the text received previously on debian-boot. Samuel “ Hi, I

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z, le mar. 06 avril 2021 18:16:49 -0400, a ecrit: > What would happen if you were installing Debian to dual-boot > with another OS? That is not a concern, only the partition getting installed is at risk. > What would happen if you were repartitioning the disk > with some other s

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
john doe, le mer. 07 avril 2021 10:51:08 +0200, a ecrit: > This move should be documented somewhere and maybe emit a warning to > that effect before starting the installer: > > "Incase of failure during the installation, it is recommended to restart > from scratch." That has always been so. Even

Re: serial console install issues

2021-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Geert Stappers, le dim. 11 avril 2021 10:55:28 +0200, a ecrit: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 08:57:38AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:51:57AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > > > > > > a serial port and no video hardware. > > > > > > > On how to prevent that more people

Re: serial console install issues

2021-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Richard Hector, le dim. 11 avril 2021 21:18:49 +1200, a ecrit: > On 11/04/21 9:10 pm, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > $ git grep -i "Boot console" . > > en/boot-installer/parameters.xml: Boot console > > po/[...] > > > > That's very most probably i

Bug#985853: debian-installer: Whitespace before a commented line in preseed file causes line to be parsed

2021-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + pending Hello, Holger Wansing, le sam. 10 avril 2021 12:32:57 +0200, a ecrit: > Charles Curley wrote (Thu, 25 Mar 2021 > 12:06:32 -0600): > > On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 10:49:06 -0400 > > lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > > > > > Well none of the examples eve

Bug#986716: installation-guide: Preseeding passwd/root-password-crypted with "!" doesn't work as described

2021-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: reassigne -1 user-setup Hello, David Mandelberg, le ven. 09 avril 2021 23:06:06 -0400, a ecrit: > https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/apbs04.en.html section > B.4.5 talks about using "!" in passwd/root-password-crypted: > > The passwd/root-password-crypted and passwd/user-pass

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Petter Reinholdtsen, le lun. 12 avril 2021 07:34:38 +0200, a ecrit: > Sad to hear the patch has been ignored for several years. Please do not confuse "ignore" with "terribly understaffed". Samuel

Re: Speed up installation: activate eatmydata-udeb by default and include eatmydata package in /pool

2021-04-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
Petter Reinholdtsen, le mer. 14 avril 2021 08:38:00 +0200, a ecrit: > [Samuel Thibault] > > Petter Reinholdtsen, le lun. 12 avril 2021 07:34:38 +0200, a ecrit: > >> Sad to hear the patch has been ignored for several years. > > > > Please do not confuse "

Bug#985956: Merge request submittted to initramfs-tools

2021-04-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Pete Batard, le jeu. 15 avril 2021 16:11:02 +0100, a ecrit: > Quite a few people are negatively affected by this bug, and one can expect a > lot more to be if Debian 11 goes to release without the inclusion of > mdio-bcm-unimac.ko in the netinst ARM64 ISOs. > > I have created an initramfs-

Re: Bug#982917: nvme-cli: Add a nvme-cli-udeb package?

2021-04-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cyril Brulebois, le ven. 23 avril 2021 23:19:08 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault (2021-02-16): > > I was reinstalling a laptop after a NVME change, and I realized: what > > if the NVME did not have any namespace set up? The installer would then > > not recognize th

Re: Bug#982917: nvme-cli: Add a nvme-cli-udeb package?

2021-04-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le ven. 23 avril 2021 23:36:24 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault (2021-04-23): > > I don't have any particular pointer beyond stackoverflow > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/520231/what-are-nvme-namespaces-how-do-they-work > > > > Bas

Bug#987701: installation-reports: installation failed on Linkstation Pro: Out of memory during partitioning

2021-04-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Ryan Tandy, le mar. 27 avril 2021 22:16:00 -0700, a ecrit: > The Linkstation Pro is an orion5x NAS with 128MB RAM. I checked the > Installation Guide; it says that the installer's memory requirement is > 80 MB. https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/armel/ch02s05.en.html I guess we need

Re: Speed up installation: increase priority of eatmydata-udeb to standard

2021-04-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Hands, le mer. 28 avril 2021 11:04:42 +0200, a ecrit: > Could we start out with a baby step having a new experimental-netinst > flavour of ISO, which includes a list of experimental udebs in addition > to the normal ones? As a reminder, one can already use preseeding d-i preseed/early_comm

Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-04-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le jeu. 29 avril 2021 18:54:56 +0200, a ecrit: > Versions 1.44, 1.44.2, and 1.44.3 all fail in a similar way: > > ../pango/pangofc-font.c: In function ‘get_face_metrics’: > ../pango/pangofc-font.c:371:44: error: ‘HB_OT_METRICS_UNDERLINE_SIZE’ > undeclared (first use in th

Bug#987368: Installer fails at first menu "Choose language"

2021-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Vagrant Cascadian, le dim. 02 mai 2021 14:36:46 -0700, a ecrit: > On 2021-04-22, Frédéric Bonnard wrote: > > Machine: Power10 machine but got it on Power8 as well > > > This happens randomly when the installer menu starts, I get to the first > > menu "Choose language", but it is red saying "An ins

Bug#987788: debian-installer: qemu-system-s390x installation fails due to segfault in main-menu

2021-05-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Valentin Vidic, le lun. 03 mai 2021 18:15:22 +0200, a ecrit: > On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:16:03AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Do we have any idea whether that could be something that's only > > triggered within QEMU (maybe try other QEMU versions?), or something > > that affects bare

partman-auto early_command preseeding requiring backslash? (was: Bug#988140: Probably broken code example in installation-guide Appendix B.5 (Running custom commands))

2021-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Boyuan Yang, le jeu. 06 mai 2021 11:10:41 -0400, a ecrit: > I received a user report that > https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/apbs05.en.html#preseed-hooks > provides an incorrect code example: > > # This command is run immediately before the partitioner starts. It may be > # u

Re: Is _Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide_ current?

2021-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Yes, the guide is current. Richard Owlett, le ven. 07 mai 2021 09:46:47 -0500, a ecrit: > I wish to install Debian 10 on a laptop with no internet connectivity > following instructions at > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.en.html#usb-copy-flexible > > The system I'

Bug#987701: installation-reports: installation failed on Linkstation Pro: Out of memory during partitioning

2021-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: tags -1 + pending Ryan Tandy, le mar. 04 mai 2021 22:00:06 -0700, a ecrit: > lowmem=2 worked nicely. I completed an installation successfully with that > setting. Thanks! Ok. > Is there anything I can do to help improve the default experience on this > target, besides documenting for ot

Re: Bug#987587: libpango1.0-udeb: hangs the installer in various situations

2021-05-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le lun. 17 mai 2021 18:12:35 +0200, a ecrit: > Additionally, even with all 3 cdebconf-gtk-* packages converted, we > still get libgtk2.0-0-udeb pulled into a netboot-gtk build, because this > package pulls it: > > build/pkg-lists/gtk-common:libgail18-udeb > > Adding debian-ac

Re: moving graphical installer to GTK 3

2021-05-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve McIntyre, le mer. 19 mai 2021 23:54:06 +0100, a ecrit: > We could quite readily improve some of the more difficult areas of > today's d-i by adding support for (say) Python 3 That would also open the path for the Orca screen reader, that some blind people would like to have :) Samuel

Bug#989467: add dead_breve to English (Dvorak, alt. intl.)

2021-06-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Joshua J. Cogliati, le ven. 04 juin 2021 07:35:08 -0600, a ecrit: > diff -ur console-setup-1.200/Keyboard/ckb/symbols/us > console-setup-1.200m/Keyboard/ckb/symbols/us > --- console-setup-1.200/Keyboard/ckb/symbols/us 2020-05-10 > 05:02:58.0 -0600 > +++ console-setup-1.200m/

Bug#989467: add dead_breve to English (Dvorak, alt. intl.)

2021-06-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/merge_requests/230 Joshua J. Cogliati, le ven. 04 juin 2021 08:29:56 -0600, a ecrit: > Done: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/merge_requests/230 Thanks! Samuel

Bug#991951: debian-installer: Text installer sporadically hangs when using 512 - 1024 MB of memory.

2021-08-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: Tags -1 + unreproducible Hello, Witold Baryluk, le ven. 06 août 2021 16:29:50 +0200, a ecrit: > https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye//amd64/ch03s04.en.html says this > should be supported. Yes, that should be working, and does work in my tests. > Using multi-arch image for testing

Bug#992034: installation-guide: Include a note on how to change init system during install

2021-08-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthew Vernon, le lun. 09 août 2021 16:19:03 +0100, a ecrit: > I don't think adding a subsection at the bottom of "Using Individual > Components" is really burdening the casual systemd user! We wouldn't say > that a subsection on serial braille displays should be left out because it's > a niche us

Re: Bug#992034: installation-guide: Include a note on how to change init system during install

2021-08-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthew Vernon, le lun. 09 août 2021 17:35:46 +0100, a ecrit: > On 09/08/2021 16:35, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Matthew Vernon, le lun. 09 août 2021 16:19:03 +0100, a ecrit: > > > I don't think adding a subsection at the bottom of "Using Individual > > > Compo

Bug#757882: pkgsel: [text frontend] No feedback right after selecting the software tasks

2021-08-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Control: reassign -1 cdebconf Control: done -1 0.255 Samuel Thibault, le lun. 11 août 2014 23:53:02 +0200, a ecrit: > Right after answering the "Software selection" tasksel question, one > does not get any feedback, so the user is wondering whether it's > installing anythi

d-i & sound boards that need firmwares: errata?

2021-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, As reported by a few users, some sound boards nowadays need firmwares to be able to emit sound. So it's the same situation as the amdgpu etc. video cards. Except that the BIOS doesn't provide a fallback interface that espeakup would be able to use, so we need to load the firmware before esp

Re: d-i & sound boards that need firmwares: errata?

2021-08-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le mer. 18 août 2021 21:25:08 +0200, a ecrit: > Yes, that's all there's to do to get the errata updated. Ok, thanks! Done so. > Of course, it might take a few hours until that's noticed by the cron > job Sure! As well as translations etc. Samuel

Bug#992699: debian-installer: Firmwares required for some sound cards

2021-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: debian-installer Version: 20210731 Severity: normal Tags: a11y d-i Hello, As mentioned in the Bullseye errata, there seems to be a number of sound cards that require loading a firmware to be able to emit sound (e.g. Intel SOF). Unfortunately currently the installer loads firmware after l

Re: d-i & sound boards that need firmwares: errata?

2021-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Holger Wansing, le mer. 18 août 2021 21:34:24 +0200, a ecrit: > Am 18. August 2021 21:17:57 MESZ schrieb Samuel Thibault > : > > > >I'm thinking that we should add the problem to the errata list, > >so that people know about the issue? I have commit access to &

Re: Bug#1031289: linux: Missing sound drivers (and speakup) in d-i on arm64

2023-02-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Diederik de Haas, le lun. 20 févr. 2023 00:14:19 +0100, a ecrit: > On Tuesday, 14 February 2023 18:10:11 CET Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Some people on debian-accessibility wanted to install debian in arm64 > > under the utm wrapped qemu on Macos. The current installation images >

Re: Bug#1031289: linux: Missing sound drivers (and speakup) in d-i on arm64

2023-02-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Diederik de Haas, le lun. 20 févr. 2023 00:38:28 +0100, a ecrit: > On Monday, 20 February 2023 00:27:57 CET Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Diederik de Haas, le lun. 20 févr. 2023 00:14:19 +0100, a ecrit: > > > On Tuesday, 14 February 2023 18:10:11 CET Samuel Thibault wrote: >

Re: Upload for installation-guide?

2023-04-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le ven. 28 avril 2023 22:43:17 +0200, a ecrit: > what do you think about a last upload of installation-guide for bookworm? > Maybe in one or two weeks, or similar? > > Could you take the time? Yes, sure we can do that! Samuel

Re: Upload for installation-guide?

2023-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Holger Wansing, le ven. 28 avril 2023 22:43:17 +0200, a ecrit: > what do you think about a last upload of installation-guide for bookworm? > Maybe in one or two weeks, or similar? I have uploaded it. Samuel

Bug#1035854: Bookworm netboot image fails in VM

2023-05-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le mer. 10 mai 2023 17:34:53 +0200, a ecrit: > Moritz Muehlenhoff (2023-05-10): > > This turned out to be redux of #932149: Bumping the memory of the > > netboot-installed VM to 1536M RAM fixed it. There was anectotal > > evidence of non-netboot installations still succeeding with

Bug#1036952: rootskel: text installs on aarch64 lack glyphs for many languages

2023-05-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cyril Brulebois, le mar. 30 mai 2023 21:08:45 +0200, a ecrit: > Philip Hands (2023-05-30): > > Apparently, this MR fixes the problem: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/rootskel/-/merge_requests/8 > > > > Although this does prompt the question of why aarch64 has TERM set t

Bug#1036952: rootskel: text installs on aarch64 lack glyphs for many languages

2023-05-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le mar. 30 mai 2023 21:16:46 +0200, a ecrit: > I'm wondering what kind of console aarch64 is using: is that the Linux > virtual Terminal on an fbdev, or a ttyS console? Something else? The > kernel boot logs could be useful to determine that. Ah, https://openqa.de

Bug#1036952: rootskel: text installs on aarch64 lack glyphs for many languages

2023-05-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le mar. 30 mai 2023 21:21:51 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault, le mar. 30 mai 2023 21:16:46 +0200, a ecrit: > > I'm wondering what kind of console aarch64 is using: is that the Linux > > virtual Terminal on an fbdev, or a ttyS console? Something else? The

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