[Lubuntu-qa] replacing the Startup Disk Creator in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS

2015-09-17 Thread Nio Wiklund
Hi Lubuntu users and Lubuntu quality people, Please consider replacing the Startup Disk Creator in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS I posted the following comment about the Startup Disk Creator after a reminder today, that bug #1325801 is still alive. --- The poor Startup Disk Creator has been suffering from m

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] replacing the Startup Disk Creator in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS

2015-09-17 Thread Aere Greenway
On 09/17/2015 08:33 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Please consider replacing the Startup Disk Creator in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS +1 -- Sincerely, Aere -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] replacing the Startup Disk Creator in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS

2015-09-17 Thread Phill. Whiteside
Hi Nio, for that to be considered, it would have to be in the debian repository[1], which would require a sponsor and it being packaged up as a .deb etc. Regards, Phill. 1. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/distribute-deb/distribute-deb.html#adding-packages-to-debian On 17 September 2015 at

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] replacing the Startup Disk Creator in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS

2015-09-17 Thread Nio Wiklund
Yes, I know, Phill, I think the period of intense development of features is ending now. So there will be a period of fine-tuning and finding bugs by testing special cases (particularly in the new module for persistence). It is time to think about packaging into the debian repo. I did read the in

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] replacing the Startup Disk Creator in Lubuntu 16.04 LTS

2015-09-17 Thread Aere Greenway
On 09/17/2015 01:19 PM, Phill. Whiteside wrote: for that to be considered, it would have to be in the debian repository[1], which would require a sponsor and it being packaged up as a .deb etc. And beyond that, the main Ubuntu distribution is/was planning to switch to a new packaging system (