Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-18 Thread Narcis Garcia
The problem is Debian-Live doesn't allow to choose the locale at boot menu, as other distributions do. El 18/11/16 a les 11:50, Iain R. Learmonth ha escrit: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:32:53PM +0300, ha...@bayindir.org wrote: >> Pardus is also planning to use this package inside their l

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-18 Thread Narcis Garcia
__ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at lists.debian.org archives. El 18/11/16 a les 11:50, Iain R. Learmonth ha escrit: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:32:53PM +0300, ha...@bayindir.org wrote: >> Pardus is also planning to use this pa

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-18 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
Hi, On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:32:53PM +0300, ha...@bayindir.org wrote: > Pardus is also planning to use this package inside their live & installable > hybrid media. While I don't have the time to take full ownership of the > package, I can happily help in planning and implementing the improveme

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-18 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
Hi, On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:57:16AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > This sounds like an annoying loss of functionality for those who use it. Please feel free to adopt this package. Thanks, Iain. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > Note that this is *only* the package that launches the Debian installer from > *within* the running live system. This sounds like an annoying loss of functionality for those who use it. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread hakan
Hi, Pardus is also planning to use this package inside their live & installable hybrid media. While I don't have the time to take full ownership of the package, I can happily help in planning and implementing the improvements of required changes. I've also investigated some if its bugs and fi

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Hakan Bayındır
Hi, Pardus is also planning to use this package inside their live & installable hybrid media. While I don't have the time to take full ownership of the package, I can happily help in planning and implementing the improvements of required changes. I've also investigated some if its bugs and fi

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Michael .
>>It's a native package, there's no need to develop a replacement, just fix up the thing we have (or entirely replace it if you wish). Isn't the part in brackets developing a replacement? If it is broken and no one is working on it, or is willing to work on it, it is effectively orphaned anyway. T

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
Hi, On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 06:49:43PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On the latter I can't really comment, but I would find it very > > unfortunate if this package would get removed from stretch *now*… (where > > there is no time to develop a replace

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Holger Levsen wrote: > On the latter I can't really comment, but I would find it very > unfortunate if this package would get removed from stretch *now*… (where > there is no time to develop a replacement…) Why would anyone develop a replacement instead of taking it over? In

Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 04:02:46PM +, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > I am proposing the removal of debian-installer-launcher from Debian as this > software generally gives bad user experience and does not see the levels of > testing required for us to ensure it is of reasonable quality. fair

debian-installer-launcher proposed removal

2016-11-17 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
(When replying to this mail, please reply *only* to debian-live@lists.debian.org) Hi, I am proposing the removal of debian-installer-launcher from Debian as this software generally gives bad user experience and does not see the levels of testing required for us to ensure it is of reasonable quali