reassign 596572 netcfg retitle 596572 Please allow IPv6 addresses in manual configuration. thanks
Quoting Tanu Kaskinen (ta...@iki.fi): > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i ipv6 Many thanks for your installation report and comments. > > In the graphical installer (I haven't tried the non-graphical version), when > configuring the network manually, the installer first asks the IP address. The > instructions say "the IP address is unique to your computer and consists of > four numbers separated by periods". That sounds like IPv6 addresses aren't > supported, but I tried entering an IPv6 address anyway. > > The result was an error: "Malformed IP address - The IP address you provided > is malformed. It should be in the form x.x.x.x where each 'x' is no larger > than 255. Please try again." > > This obviously isn't very nice if the machine happens to be in an IPv6-only > environment. Sure. Patches welcomed..:-) Please note that I very much doubt this can be enabled for squeeze now, even if someone proposes a patch. Reassigning to the relevant D-I component.
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