Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > But, are you seriously proposing that we leave the issue as-is ??? Of course. The issue is there since partman exists (about 2005, from memory) and has probably never prevented anyone to install Debian since then. So, yes, this issue will still be in w

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ Not answering all occurrences, things got repeated a few times… ] Thomas Goirand (06/04/2013): > I've wrote that we should at least address the issue, in a way or > another, through the next point release if that is safer. It is not. > But, are you seriously proposing that we leave the issue

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/06/2013 12:16 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Le vendredi, 5 avril 2013 17.52:19, Thomas Goirand a écrit : >> On 04/05/2013 07:59 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >>> And all of these features will only land for the next cycle >>> with a release in ~= 2 years time. >> I really hop

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Thomas, Le vendredi, 5 avril 2013 17.52:19, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > On 04/05/2013 07:59 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > And all of these features will only land for the next cycle > > with a release in ~= 2 years time. > > I really hope that it wont be the case. That it doesn't go into > De

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/05/2013 07:59 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > The default to base-10 units, is good as majority of the installer > deals with HDD drives (not SSD) and not RAM. Come on... it's not! Let's be serious 5 minutes here. There isn't even a warning about which units are in use. This fools our users (me

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 4 April 2013 20:47, wrote: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 19:09:04 +0200 > Christian PERRIER wrote: > >> This mail is a very good argument to confirm that overcomplicated >> methods to make your point will just fail. >> >> If you have a point to make it, make ti. Once. With facts. > > I supplied plenty

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting ian_br...@fastmail.net (ian_br...@fastmail.net): > If Debian bug report #684128 proves anything, it is that you will never > convince anyone with technical argument, facts advanced in support of Sorry, but Debian bug #684128 only proves one thing : that we (the D-I team) were mostly tryin

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 19:09:04 +0200 Christian PERRIER wrote: > This mail is a very good argument to confirm that overcomplicated > methods to make your point will just fail. > > If you have a point to make it, make ti. Once. With facts. I supplied plenty of facts. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/