Bug#1029184: NTP server address provided during initial Debian installation is not used by the running system

Package: clock-setup Version: 0.155 Severity: important The user-provided NTP server address (in this case a 10(dot) IP address) provided during the initial Debian installation is not used by systemd-timesyncd in the running system. This has been noted on systems installed from Debian 11

Re: Total removal of floppy support?

Hi Cyril On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 03:28:25PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > While working on extending firmware support, I've stumbled upon floppy > support in various components. Even if the maintenance costs are low, I > suppose this could go away nowadays? It can completely go in the

Re: Total removal of floppy support?

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2023-01-18): > Ah, I forgot about loading firmware from floppy disks. This is actually > a valid use case for alpha and hppa, for example. With non-free-firmware being allowed on installation images, the plan is to drop support for loading firmware from external

Re: Total removal of floppy support?

On 1/18/23 15:56, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Could you give a few more details about that “loading a kernel for network booting” scenario? What I'm looking at is debian-installer searching and finding files (itself, d-i components, firmware packages, etc.) on floppies… Ah, I forgot about loading

Re: Total removal of floppy support?

Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2023-01-18): > On 1/18/23 15:28, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > While working on extending firmware support, I've stumbled upon floppy > > support in various components. Even if the maintenance costs are low, I > > suppose this could go away nowadays? > > Not sure. It

Re: Total removal of floppy support?

Hi Cyril! On 1/18/23 15:28, Cyril Brulebois wrote: While working on extending firmware support, I've stumbled upon floppy support in various components. Even if the maintenance costs are low, I suppose this could go away nowadays? Not sure. It depends on whether it can still be useful for

Total removal of floppy support?

Hi, While working on extending firmware support, I've stumbled upon floppy support in various components. Even if the maintenance costs are low, I suppose this could go away nowadays? Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) D-I release manager -- Release

Re: Moving firmware packages from non-free to non-free-firmware

Hi Ryan, Ryan Finnie (2023-01-17): > This is likely because I am a DM and not a full DD, even though I have > full rights to the atmel-firmware package[0]. Ah, right! > I'd upload it to mentors.debian.net, but that site only accepts > source-only uploads, while paradoxically ftp-master does

Re: Moving firmware packages from non-free to non-free-firmware

On 17/01/2023 21.49, Cyril Brulebois wrote: - firmware-nvidia-gsp, firmware-nvidia-tesla-gsp, and nvidia-tesla-470-kernel-support, from nvidia-graphics-drivers* source packages; it's been a while since my X days, but I don't think firmware packages would be useful on their own, one