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

2017-07-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 04:25:48AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > >On Jul 3, 2017, at 8:53 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> arm64 >> live images are on my todo list already for the buster cycle. > >Great! Will they work with RaspberryPi-3? I honestly have no idea. :-) Let's find that out when we get

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

2017-07-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 3, 2017, at 8:53 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > arm64 > live images are on my todo list already for the buster cycle. Great! Will they work with RaspberryPi-3? Rick

Re: Scheduling 9.1, maybe 8.9

2017-07-04 Thread Charles Chambers
Might a lowly user propose taking an extra month so that more of the bugs installing 9.0 can be worked out? It is summer, after all. On Jun 25, 2017 12:10 PM, "Jonathan Wiltshire" wrote: > Hi, > > A month or so from 9.0 bring us to about 15th July. How would any of these > suit? Is 8.9 at the

Re: Scheduling 9.1, maybe 8.9

2017-07-04 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 04/07/17 16:34, Charles Chambers wrote: > Might a lowly user propose taking an extra month so that more of the bugs > installing 9.0 can be worked out? > > It is summer, after all. There will be a 9.2 release. Whatever doesn't get included in 9.1 can be fixed in 9.2. If we applied that argume

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

2017-07-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/27/2017 11:53 PM, Michael . wrote: > Charles, let me clear up a couple of misconceptions for you. Debian Live > (made with Live Wrapper) is an official Debian project. Live Build (the > old Debian Live) apparently wasn't official but was recognised by Debian > for its official images. Live Bu

Re: Use of '--sudo' in vmdebootstrap; live-wrapper package

2017-07-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Phil wrote: > >In a previous mail I mentioned removal of '--lock-root-password'. > >On the same line (36) of 'vm.py' is the argument passed to >'vmdebootstrap' of '--sudo'. Ok, according to the manual pages this >will force the install of the 'sudo' package. Also if a user is >created, it will add

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

2017-07-04 Thread Michael .
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 worth noting that live-build is not a Debian project,

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

2017-07-04 Thread Tom & Karen Pino
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. --