Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-07-05 Thread Charles Chambers
My 2ยข would be does it load drivers for everything on the target computer, does the basic desktop operate/navigate, and will it install the same desktop while offline. Any packages to add (such as LibreOffice) can add off of additional media. Basic functionality comes first. System, computer har

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-07-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
metalsm...@rangeweb.net wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >I would like to know what is wanted in testing these images. The >installer itself I am sure. But what else is really desired? > >I am sure that there is a list of test cases somewhere but it would be >nice to know where that is. That's one of the m

Bug#867282: live-wrapper: Lacks dependency on squashfs-tools

2017-07-05 Thread Jeff Epler
Package: live-wrapper Version: 0.6+nmu1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 3.5 Dear Maintainer, Hi. after installing live-wrapper with --no-install-recommends, it does not function properly, eventually issuing an error that /tmp/.../live can not be found. I believe that this is because it

Re: IMPORTANT: Do live Debian images have a future?

2017-07-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/05/2017 07:00 AM, Michael . wrote: > Thomas it is all fine and good to say "(lets not go into details why > this happened)" but the details support the reality of the situation. > Please read (https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2015/11/msg8.html) > and see where Iain says > >>>It is w