Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 16, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Mathew Binkley wrote: As I said earlier, there shouldn't be an arbitrary line between the installer and the packages. People aren't installing "Etch the installer" or "Etch the packages", they're installing "Etch the release". Test both parts simultaneously, a

powerbook wakeup/boot display issue

2007-01-16 Thread Joseph Sanger
Hi there, Forgive me if this has been covered before, there were some messages in the archive which I couldn't seem to open. I am new to Linux and have installed Debian Testing on a dual boot with OSX. I have a powerbook5,8 (one of the last ones, with the high-res screen). The powerbook sle

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-16 Thread Mathew Binkley
From: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > and certainly can't expect to have everything run like a charm, > especially with very special hardware like the one you described in > the mail that started this thread. It's not "very special hardware". It's a bunch of IBM JS20 blades configured

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:35:52AM -0500, Joey Hess a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > How about releasing a RC1.5, then, with a 2.6.18 as similar as possible > > as the one forecasted in testing ? > > > There are of course all kinds of ways to hack around this, but all of > them are suboptima

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
Charles Plessy wrote: > How about releasing a RC1.5, then, with a 2.6.18 as similar as possible > as the one forecasted in testing ? Etch d-i installs etch; without forcing such a release to install unstable, it would not be possible to use the 2.6.18 kernel currently in unstable. If we point d-i

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Thomas wrote: > The result is that now there's a very subtle release critical bug > (#404876) and no time to fix it. Well, the release of etch is currently delayed due to the currently 95 open release critical bugs, of which #404876 is one. I don't see any indication that the bug's not being

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-16 Thread Joey Hess
Mathew Binkley wrote: > I have been downloading cd images from: > >http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/ > > because that's where the Debian website says to get them. None of the > images have worked for me because the installer has not been fixed. As I have already said

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 07:14:22AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Actually, it's equally frustrating for all of us that we *can't* > release a new D-I despite the team plan to release RC2 a few weeks > after RC1. > We can't do this because the 2.6.18 kernel is not in testing. To be precise, 2

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 07:14:22AM +0100, Christian Perrier a écrit : > > Actually, it's equally frustrating for all of us that we *can't* > release a new D-I despite the team plan to release RC2 a few weeks > after RC1. > > We can't do this because the 2.6.18 kernel is not in testing. Hi all,