[MEETINGS] Minutes from the Debian Installer team meeting of June 24th 2006

2006-07-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Please find below the minutes of the Debian Installe rteam meeting of June 24th. As usual, these minutes are linked in the D-I meetings wiki page (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Meetings). Debian Installer team meeting number 12 has been held from 16:00UTC to 17:29UTC on Saturday June 24t

Re: Dropping indirect dependencies from libgnutls-config --libs

2006-07-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Andreas Metzler said: >> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: >> [making foo-config a wrapper around pkg-config] >> > If you started using pkg-config you'd have introduced a >> > build dependancy on a GPL'd program in a BSD licenced p

Re: #195752: Can somebody mark this bug as grave or critical?

2006-07-01 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
severity 195752 important thanks On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:43:57PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> But yeah, I'm not in an official position to say, but if this >> isn't considered a "critical" or at least "grave" bug, then >> I don't know what is. > Agreed. I tried to ping the release team on I

TISR Issue # 12

2006-07-01 Thread TSCF Secretary-General
Dear readers, colleagues, and partners from various institutions, This is to inform you that the 12th issue of The International Scope Review has been published on Saturday 06-10-2006, 23:43 GMT. We as a Review have 8 years of existence now. The new editorial, "Referring Governments to th

Re: Reclaiming automake

2006-07-01 Thread James Westby
On (01/07/06 02:30), Eric Dorland wrote: > > > I'm going to get started on Saturday, and I'll be on IRC > > > (#debian-devel) so if you (or anyone) want to join in the fun, we can > > > coordinate there. I've just filed #376047 too, so any bugs filed > > > should be made to block that one. > > >

Re: Dropping indirect dependencies from libgnutls-config --libs

2006-07-01 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 7/1/06, Vincent Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:42:12PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > It is also used to compile contrib modules that are included in the > distribution. If you started using pkg-config you'd have introduced a > build dependancy on a GPL'd prog

Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience

2006-07-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > Worst case: You have to abuse the firmware update released to facilitate > Boot camp, and have that boot normal lilo. > Perhaps not as nice as having EFI boot a bootload, or running a bootloader > as an EFI application, but > I think that is what most people are currently doing. I've t

Re: #195752: Can somebody mark this bug as grave or critical?

2006-07-01 Thread Joe Smith
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] severity 195752 important thanks On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:43:57PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: But yeah, I'm not in an official position to say, but if this isn't considered a "critical" or at least "grave"

Re: Fwd: Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience

2006-07-01 Thread Davide Viti
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:21:32PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Junichi sent this to d-devel, but I feel it's relevant for d-boot too :-) thanx, I got a Macbook today and I'm trying to install Debian on it First experience ever with an Apple product, so I have no background with tools / problems >

Re: #195752: Can somebody mark this bug as grave or critical?

2006-07-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I really can't get this to be critical in any way; it does not make the > entire system break (unless you count temporary loss of network access on a > laptop critical), Since, as the bug explains and the other comments in the log explain, the

elilo on macbook.

2006-07-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > Code packages s/Code/Core/ > fix elilo (bug: #376002) So far I had zero luck with using elilo for loading kernel. elilo itself starts to be starting up and is doing something, but the kernel does not look like it's booted up at all. Has anyone got it working? regards, junic

Bug#376000: gnu-efi: efilib too old

2006-07-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
retitle 376000 gnu-efi: efilib too old thanks Hi, I'm now trying to build rEFIt against gnu-efi, and I'm having a problem in that what's contained in gnu-efi is too old. From what I can see, it contains efilib from 1998 or so. The current EFI spec is at 1.1, which is released sometime around 200

Bug#376315: ITP: hydrogen-drumkits -- drumkits for Hydrogen

2006-07-01 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Free Ekanayaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hydrogen-drumkits Version : 0.9.3.20060702 Upstream Author : Emiliano Grilli, Artemiy Pavlov, et al. * URL : http://www.hydrogen-music.org/?p=drumkits * License : GPL D

Re: Debian mactel linux support?

2006-07-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > ITP rEFIt (bug: #375999) > (I've filed bugs to track their progress) I've uploaded a package. There is a gptsync command in /sbin/gptsync, which should be a good start. Including calls to gptsync in debian-installer before calling lilo/grub should ease a few parts. I've noticed afte

Re: new tar behavior and --wildcards

2006-07-01 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Bdale Garbee wrote: >The following table summarizes pattern-matching default values: > >MembersDefault settings >-- >Inclusion `--no-wildcards --anchored >--no-w

Re: #195752: Can somebody mark this bug as grave or critical?

2006-07-01 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.01.2110 +0200]: > Actually I agree that critical is too high, grave might be reasonable, as > it causes system downtime. (System downtime is something anybody running > servers would agree is a very big problem). This discussion is about laptops