Re: Debian Installer Bookworm RC 1 release

Charles Curley (2023-04-03): > Hmm. On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer, there are two > news items at the top. Both are dated 19 Feb 2023. Is that correct? > > The RC1 release > (https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2023/20230403) is > also dated February 19th, 2023.

Re: Debian Installer Bookworm RC 1 release

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 23:31:42 +0200 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first release > candidate of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". Hmm. On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer, there are two news items at the top. Both are dated 19 Fe

RE: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

Looks to be fixed now. -Brian  Best regards, Brian Thompson From: Andrew M.A. CaterSent: Friday, April 23, 2021 3:46 AMTo: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.orgCc: debian-b...@lists.debian.orgSubject: Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release Unfortunately, the website links to media still only

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

Unfortunately, the website links to media still only point to the Alpha-3 release :( All best, Andy C

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 3 release

Hi, Karl-Heinz Künzel wrote: > Downloaded alpha 3 from official source and put the iso on an USB stick. > Disconnected all drives on my PC and connected a fresh SSD. > > Ran graphic and standard installer. No fault, no errors. > > After reboot, grub shows up and after count-down I get a black s

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 3 release

Hi. I made several (EFI) installation runs yesterday of alpha 3 here on my Buster PC. Downloaded alpha 3 from official source and put the iso on an USB stick. Disconnected all drives on my PC and connected a fresh SSD. Ran graphic and standard installer. No fault, no errors. After reboot, grub

Re: Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 1 release

Excellent, it works great. Peter Ehlert On December 5, 2019 5:25:58 AM Cyril Brulebois wrote: The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye". It's high time we started doing this: many components were updated, replacing “CD

Re: Debian Installer Stretch RC 5 release

FYI. Thanks! -- Best Regards, Yanhui GOSV | 9F, Raycom, Beijing | +86-10-5984-6673(Office) | +86-10-59946452 (Fax) On 13/06/2017, 4:19 PM, "Cyril Brulebois" wrote: The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the fifth release candidate of the installer for Debian 9 "Stretch".

Re: Debian Installer Stretch RC 1 release

On 15.01.2017 05:21, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first release > candidate of the installer for Debian 9 "Stretch". > > > Important changes in this release of the installer > == > > * [...] > *

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, Guillem Jover wrote: > Oh, and forgot to mention, this issue has been known for over 8 > months, and now there's this need to be pushy and rush things, etc. > I certainly do not appreciate that. I have not been involved in this project so I don't know its history but #843073 i

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 17:09:50 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 16:38:07 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I can offer to upload dpkg 1.18.15.1 to sid with just those patches if > > it relieves you from handling an intermediary upload until you > > release 1.18.16 on your usual s

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

Just a brief reply. On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 16:38:07 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2016, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Just for the record: I can confirm it fixes the problem in dpkg-shlibdeps. > [...] > > Guillem, it would be great if you can upload a fixed dpkg soon. > > A full week w

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

Hello Guillem, On Mon, 14 Nov 2016, Michael Biebl wrote: > Just for the record: I can confirm it fixes the problem in dpkg-shlibdeps. [...] > Guillem, it would be great if you can upload a fixed dpkg soon. A full week went by already. What's your plan? I can offer to upload dpkg 1.18.15.1 to sid

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 07:58:33PM +, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 08:55:43PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 12.11.2016 um 19:17 schrieb Guillem Jover: > > > Control: severity 843073 important > > > > > Ok, Mattia Rizzolo tells me (thanks!) that it's actually twice per >

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

Am 14.11.2016 um 12:22 schrieb Raphael Hertzog: > Please find two patches attached. > > I checked that the command below was failing with the current dpkg-dev > and it did no longer fail with the updated one. > > $ sbuild -d sid --add-depends=usrmerge --chroot-setup-commands="sed -i > 's#^/usr#

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

Control: tag -1 + patch Control: severity -1 serious Hi Guillem, On Sun, 13 Nov 2016, Guillem Jover wrote: > > The /usr merge violates core assumptions in dpkg-shlibdeps. The reason > > that amd64 isn't broken is sheer luck. > > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu.conf lists /lib before /usr/lib,

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

Control: clone 843073 -1 Control: reassign -1 debootstrap 1.0.85 Control: retitle -1 debootstrap: Please revert merged-/usr by default as it breaks builds Control: severity -1 serious Control: affects -1 dpkg-dev Control: severity 843073 wishlist Control: block 810499 by 843073 Control: severity 8

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

Marco d'Itri, on Sun 13 Nov 2016 12:04:07 +0100, wrote: > On Nov 13, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Thus I think that debootstrap should revert to unmerged /usr until > > dpkg-shlibdeps has been fixed. Fixing is non-trivial and likely requires > > an archive rebuild on several architectures. > Not reall

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

On Nov 13, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Thus I think that debootstrap should revert to unmerged /usr until > dpkg-shlibdeps has been fixed. Fixing is non-trivial and likely requires > an archive rebuild on several architectures. Not really: dpkg-shlibdeps just needs to be fixed to search for libraries

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 08:55:43PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Is this really so for all buildds? > See #843433, the sparc64 buildds apparently do use a merged-usr chroot. The issue depends on the loader path of the architecture. Although I do not understand why, it seems that /lib64 is less pro

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 08:55:43PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 12.11.2016 um 19:17 schrieb Guillem Jover: > > Control: severity 843073 important > > > Ok, Mattia Rizzolo tells me (thanks!) that it's actually twice per > > week, and that the debootstrap used is from jessie > > Is this really

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

Am 12.11.2016 um 19:17 schrieb Guillem Jover: > Control: severity 843073 important > Ok, Mattia Rizzolo tells me (thanks!) that it's actually twice per > week, and that the debootstrap used is from jessie Is this really so for all buildds? See #843433, the sparc64 buildds apparently do use a mer

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

Control: severity 843073 important On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 18:37:52 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 16:24:32 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Important change in this release of the installer > > = > > > > * debootstrap now defau

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 8 release

Hi, On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 16:24:32 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Important change in this release of the installer > = > > * debootstrap now defaults to merged-/usr, that is with /bin, /sbin, >/lib* being symlinks to their counterpart in /usr

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release

Unless some compeling reason exists not to do it, could wireless-tools and iw get added to the isos? I don't know why iwconfig continues to be on this type of debian when iw was supposed to have replaced it and is supposedly more harmonious with modern kernels. I tried configuring my wifi con

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 6 release

Hi, One thing that would be nice to add in the next version of the debian-installer is brief descriptions of what tasks do for example in the alpha 6 screen select and install software lots of selections exists and as some are very good by their names like DebianMultimedia other ones are not so

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 5 release

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 07:41:10AM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:39:35 +0100 > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the fifth alpha > > release of the installer for Debian 9 "Stretch". > > > > > > Important change in this release of

Re: Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 5 release

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:39:35 +0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the fifth alpha > release of the installer for Debian 9 "Stretch". > > > Important change in this release of the installer > = > > *

Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 3 release

Hi, Christian PERRIER (2015-05-25): > Quoting Hideki Yamane (henr...@debian.or.jp): > > Hi, > > > > On Sun Apr 19, 2015 at 16:25:30 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Improvements in this release of the installer > > > = > > > > > > * apt-setup: > >

Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 3 release

Quoting Hideki Yamane (henr...@debian.or.jp): > Hi, > > On Sun Apr 19, 2015 at 16:25:30 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Improvements in this release of the installer > > = > > > > * apt-setup: > > - Stop enabling backports by default (#764982). >

Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 3 release

Hi, On Sun Apr 19, 2015 at 16:25:30 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Improvements in this release of the installer > = > > * apt-setup: > - Stop enabling backports by default (#764982). I've sent a patch to re-enabled it but comment out by default

Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 3 release

Martin Zobel-Helas writes ("Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 3 release"): > Can you please explain why you are doing thins now instead of earlier > releases? This BR has been open since October! Also i expect mininal > changes in an RC3, not such massive functional changes. Th

Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 3 release

Hi, On Sun Apr 19, 2015 at 16:25:30 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Improvements in this release of the installer > = > > * apt-setup: > - Stop enabling backports by default (#764982). (i have read the BR) I consider this this 'last minute' chan

Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 2 release

>> > 3. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer Cheers, Fabrice 2015-03-29 16:30 GMT+02:00 Paul E Condon : > Where do I find check-sums to verify my download? > > Where do I find the .iso so that I can use wget, as recommended for years and > years at www.debian.org? > > Thanks. -- To UN

Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 2 release

Where do I find check-sums to verify my download? Where do I find the .iso so that I can use wget, as recommended for years and years at www.debian.org? Thanks. On 20150327_1913-0500, kongo sec wrote: > This may sound completely n00b. But this is my first time trying out Debian > RC release...

Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 2 release

This is really a question for -user, but... On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 07:13:49PM -0500, kongo sec wrote: > This may sound completely n00b. But this is my first time trying out Debian > RC  > release...how do I update from RC1? This is an RC of the _installer_, not Debian as a whole, so unless you'

Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 2 release

This may sound completely n00b. But this is my first time trying out Debian RC release...how do I update from RC1? Thanks On Mar 27, 2015 7:01 PM, "Cyril Brulebois" wrote: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second release > candidate of the installer for Debian 8 "Jessie"

Re: debian installer, install listofpackages.txt in CD root dir after end install?

Hi Michael Ole, Quoting Michael Ole Olsen (2014-11-14 00:19:36) > It would be very cool if the debian installer had a listofpackages.txt > > and that listofpackages.txt could be edited by the user > > then we would be getting customized debian installs A list of _all_ packages would be too inflex

Re: debian installer, install listofpackages.txt in CD root dir after end install?

You can do this using a preseed file: https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/apb.html.en in particular: d-i pkgsel/include string htop vim tree zsh Cheers, Fabrice 2014-11-14 0:19 GMT+01:00 Michael Ole Olsen : > It would be very cool if the debian installer had a listofpackages.txt > > a

Re: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 1 release

Hi, Le 15/08/2014 13:59, Stephen Allen a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 06:15:05PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta >> release of the installer for Debian 8 "Jessie". > > Thanks. +1 > Any changes between alpha errata to beta?

Re: Debian Installer Jessie Beta 1 release

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 06:15:05PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta > release of the installer for Debian 8 "Jessie". Thanks. [ ...] > > Known bugs in this release > == > > * Firmware handling: udev no

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC3 release

Neil Williams, le Fri 03 May 2013 15:32:46 +0100, a écrit : > On Fri, 3 May 2013 23:45:57 +1000 > "Robert Thomas Hayes Link" wrote: > > > Why doesn't the home page at debian dot org reflect a second and third > > release candidate? > > It does: > > To install Debian testing, we recommend you us

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC3 release

On Fri, 3 May 2013 23:45:57 +1000 "Robert Thomas Hayes Link" wrote: > Why doesn't the home page at debian dot org reflect a second and third > release candidate? It does: To install Debian testing, we recommend you use the wheezy Release Candidate 3 release of the installer, after checking its

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC3 release

Greetings. Why doesn't the home page at debian dot org reflect a second and third release candidate? rl > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the third (and > hopefully last) release candidate of the installer for Debian 7.0 > "Wheezy". > > > Improvements in this release of the i

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 12:36 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:45:31 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > > > IIRC I built mesa with 3.0. I'll take a look at the patches. I also just > > realised that I didn't run the X server with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set... is > > that a problem, or is i

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:45:31 +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > IIRC I built mesa with 3.0. I'll take a look at the patches. I also just > realised that I didn't run the X server with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set... is > that a problem, or is it just the clients that need the llvmpipe > libGL.so.1? Sorry for t

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:26 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:54:16 +, Sam Morris wrote: > > > I figured it out. The instructions at > llvmpipe.html> seem to work. I had some difficulty getting > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH to stick, however... setting

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:54:16 +, Sam Morris wrote: > I figured it out. The instructions at llvmpipe.html> seem to work. I had some difficulty getting > LD_LIBRARY_PATH to stick, however... setting it from a script in /etc/X11/ > Xsession.d doesn't work as it's res

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On 08/06/2012 01:59 AM, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 20:41:31 +0200 > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > >> A virtualbox host environment would be detected automatically, and the >> following packages would get installed in that case: >> virtualbox-guest-dkms >> virtualbox-guest-utils

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 20:41:31 +0200 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > A virtualbox host environment would be detected automatically, and the > following packages would get installed in that case: > virtualbox-guest-dkms > virtualbox-guest-utils > virtualbox-guest-x11 > virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 $ dp

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:58:24 +, Sam Morris wrote: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:16:32 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 18:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : >>> This is expected in the absence of 3D acceleration, which is not yet >>> supported in qemu so far as I know.

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 20:16:32 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 18:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : >> This is expected in the absence of 3D acceleration, which is not yet >> supported in qemu so far as I know. VirtualBox is supposed to support >> it, but a standard instal

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

Josselin Mouette (05/08/2012): > Le dimanche 05 août 2012 à 10:37 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > > BTW if you think llvmpipe is ready in squeeze, we can add it to the > > whitelist too. > > I mean in wheezy of course. From a one-minute test within virtualbox w/o 3D acceleration, and with ll

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

Ben Hutchings (05/08/2012): > On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 23:45 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > So we require 3d acceleration for a default install? > > I think what you'll see without it is a one-time warning. I could be > wrong since I haven't done a fresh installation yet. That is correct: one-tim

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

Le dimanche 05 août 2012 à 10:37 +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > BTW if you think llvmpipe is ready in squeeze, we can add it to the > whitelist too. I mean in wheezy of course. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 20:41 +0200, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > If one enabled “3D acceleration” in the VM config, Gnome 3 shows up in > normal mode; if one didn't, it shows up in fallback mode (one can see > Gallium llvmpipe as graphic driver in the gnome system properties, > instead of Chromium

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

[ mail-followup-to: -publicity ] On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 12:03:49PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first beta > release of the installer for Debian 7.0 "Wheezy". Great! > Feedback for this release > = > > We need your

tasksel is everybody's business (was: Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release)

Quoting Ben Hutchings (b...@decadent.org.uk): > I believe joeysel now selects Xfce as the default desktop. ^^^ I think this is a bit unfair. OK, Joey's change from GNOME to XFCE hasn't really been discussed, admitedly, and there is room for some debate. But, please notice that 99

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On 08/05/2012 05:45 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > So we require 3d acceleration for a default install? I think that is > even more > insane than what recent windows versions require. Can we please have a > sane > default desktop for people with older hardware? Maybe just chosen in d-i, > depending on

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 23:45 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 08/04/2012 07:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 17:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > >> That's going to make testing Wheezy CD images annoying. Anyone else see > >> this problem? I tried logging in under GNOME and GNOM

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > So we require 3d acceleration for a default install? I think that is even more > insane than what recent windows versions require. Can we please have a sane > default desktop for people with older hardware? Maybe just chosen in d-i, > dependin

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/04/2012 07:28 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 17:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: >> That's going to make testing Wheezy CD images annoying. Anyone else see >> this problem? I tried logging in under GNOME and GNOME Classic - the

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 20:16 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 18:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > This is expected in the absence of 3D acceleration, which is not yet > > supported in qemu so far as I know. VirtualBox is supposed to support > > it, but a standard insta

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

Ben Hutchings (04/08/2012): > On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 17:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > [...] > > I tried in a standard VM (Debian package from sid) with a complete > > default netinst i386 install. The installer worked flawlessly but > > GNOME3 had a problem: > > > > "GNOME3 Failed to Load > > U

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

Le samedi 04 août 2012 à 18:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > This is expected in the absence of 3D acceleration, which is not yet > supported in qemu so far as I know. VirtualBox is supposed to support > it, but a standard installation presumably won't pull in the necessary > paravirtual driver

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 17:15 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: [...] > I tried in a standard VM (Debian package from sid) with a complete > default netinst i386 install. The installer worked flawlessly but > GNOME3 had a problem: > > "GNOME3 Failed to Load > Unfortunately GNOME3 failed to start properly

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 12:03:49 +0200 Cyril Brulebois wrote: > The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first beta > release of the installer for Debian 7.0 "Wheezy". It always makes the release seem closer when there's a beta of d-i to play with. :-) Thanks for getting this working.

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

Excelent work!!! 2012/5/13 Cyril Brulebois > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha > release of the installer for Debian Wheezy. > > > Improvements in this release of the installer > = > > Network configuration > -

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012/5/13 Cyril Brulebois : > kFreeBSD Specific > - >  * Kernel updated to version 8.3. >  * Option to use new 9.0 kernel during install. >  * Detect LVM devices. LVM detection is still not complete, we still need to figure out where to put the command to load LVM support in runtim

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Release Candidate 1 release

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 07:59:29PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > We do need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so > please try it. Installer CDs, other media and everything you else you > will need are available at our web site[3]. Just did. VirtIO devices appear to be mis

RE: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

> -Original Message- > From: Christian PERRIER [mailto:bubu...@debian.org] > Sent: 07 November 2010 06:44 > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support) > > Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > > >

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

Hi, On Sonntag, 7. November 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote: > We're not even able to process installation reports properly as of now > (if not convinced, read -boot), so before even thinking about adding > new stuff (and breakage paths), let's first fix the current one. Adding new cool stuff might

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > I also expressed my regret to not have enough time to work on it myself > (I'm currently trying to get this patch to work though...). That is definitely useful. I'd suggest however to coordinate this in -boot as there seem to be other people working on

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

Quoting Michael Banck (mba...@debian.org): > > > Do you consider that WPA support is a "fancy new thing" ??? > > > > You're free to do a play on his words, of course. From the point of d-i > > development it would be a new feature, yes. > > Sure, but Christian's words were quite dismissive as w

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

On 11/06/2010 06:03 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > Whining on a mailinglist isn't overly helpful. I agree 100%. But my purpose wasn't at all to be whining, just to express my sadness about this missing feature. Sorry if you took it the wrong way. I also expressed my regret to not have enough time to

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 10:03:12AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2010-11-05, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 11/03/2010 01:57 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > >> then, a few > >> months before the release, we start getting suggestions to add this or > >> that fancy new thingy > > Do you consider

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

On 2010-11-06, Carsten Hey wrote: > * Philipp Kern [2010-11-06 10:03 +]: >> Ubuntu's alternate installer doesn't support it neither. It only applies >> to the netinst case, too, which Ubuntu doesn't offer as prominently. > If one of Ubuntu's installers does support WPA, I guess they also > tr

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

* Philipp Kern [2010-11-06 10:03 +]: > Ubuntu's alternate installer doesn't support it neither. It only applies > to the netinst case, too, which Ubuntu doesn't offer as prominently. If one of Ubuntu's installers does support WPA, I guess they also translated their WPA related strings. Would

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

On 2010-11-05, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 11/03/2010 01:57 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: >> then, a few >> months before the release, we start getting suggestions to add this or >> that fancy new thingy > Do you consider that WPA support is a "fancy new thing" ??? You're free to do a play on h

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

On 11/03/2010 01:57 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > then, a few > months before the release, we start getting suggestions to add this or > that fancy new thingy Do you consider that WPA support is a "fancy new thing" ??? With all due respect, I believe that my favorite distribution not having

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release

On Monday 01 November 2010 22:51:36 Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > > On 10/31/2010 03:00 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta > > > release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze. > > > >

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 12:14:27AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:53:23PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Since most of the system is not translated, having a yet another > > untranslated line is not the end of the world. And I'm afraid that typical > > translations make

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:53:23PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > [1]. Since most of the system is not translated, having a yet another > untranslated line is not the end of the world. And I'm afraid that typical > translations make it hard for even native users of a language to understand > what a

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 04:47:19PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 06:57:52AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at): > > > > > Well the patch is dated in 2008, so yes, people should have been quicker > > > voting and working f

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at): > level of maturity which I expect from something having the brand Debian. My > current idea would be to develop the WPA functionality as far as I can without > the help of others, encourage testing by willing victims ah I mean subjects > ;-) >

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

Quoting Javier Fernandez-Sanguino (j...@computer.org): > not just translating d-i, but translating the manual, the Release > Notes (which are far from complete) and some other things. Two or > three new strings are peanuts and should not deter a new feature. Thank you for volunteering doing my jo

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

Christian, On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 06:57:52AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at): > > > Well the patch is dated in 2008, so yes, people should have been quicker > > voting and working for this feature. > > > And this is a growing problem with D

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

Mark Goldshtein, le Wed 03 Nov 2010 17:58:45 +0300, a écrit : > Sorry, if something like that looks stupid and obvious. It is because > WPA absence for the year 2010 A.D. makes me feeling sad. The quasi-absence of developers in the debian-boot and debian-x teams makes be feeling _very_ sad. Samue

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at): >> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:15:01AM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> > Am 01.11.2010 13:51, schrieb Christian PERRIER: >> > >> > >>> The Debian Installer team[1

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:58:04 +0100, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: > Remember: "Our priorities are our users and free software". Having a > 100% translation target of d-i shouldn't be the main priority. > Congratulations, you just won today's SC#4 quoting contest! Also congratulations for

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

> Please note that this patch is quite likely to add new localized > strings to D-I and I know about an l10n coordinator which will be very > unhappy if new material is bringed in at the very last minute while we > had *months* for bringing it in on time beforehand. Although the effect on translat

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 06:57:52AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at): > > > Well the patch is dated in 2008, so yes, people should have been quicker > > voting and working for this feature. > > > And this is a growing problem with D-I: the proj

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at): > Well the patch is dated in 2008, so yes, people should have been quicker > voting and working for this feature. And this is a growing problem with D-I: the project's life is nearly zero for months at times where the development could happen

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 05:49:43PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at): > > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:15:01AM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Am 01.11.2010 13:51, schrieb Christian PERRIER: > > > > > > >>> The Debian

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release (WPA support)

Quoting Harald Jenny (har...@a-little-linux-box.at): > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:15:01AM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Am 01.11.2010 13:51, schrieb Christian PERRIER: > > > > >>> The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta > > >>> release of the i

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:15:01AM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > Hi! > > Am 01.11.2010 13:51, schrieb Christian PERRIER: > > >>> The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta > >>> release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze. > [..] > >> I was wondering

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release

Hi! Am 01.11.2010 13:51, schrieb Christian PERRIER: >>> The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta >>> release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze. [..] >> I was wondering if there will be WPA support in D-I for squeeze, as this > No. Nobody did the needed tests

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release

Hi, A Segunda 01 Novembro 2010 16:45:19 Mark Goldshtein você escreveu: ... > There will be an IRC meeting this Wednesday, dedicated to the > installer. Any chance that WPA issue will be discussed and resolved at > last? Actually it was discussed in the last meeting [1] (again?). It was agreed t

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 19:45:19 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > >> On 10/31/2010 03:00 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > >> > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta > >

Re: Debian Installer 6.0 Beta1 release

[Mark Goldshtein] > There will be an IRC meeting this Wednesday, dedicated to the > installer. Any chance that WPA issue will be discussed and resolved at > last? > > Thanks in advance to all participants! If someone show up to discuss it and do the work, the chances rises. If no-one does, they s

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