On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:05:35PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: > > Le dimanche 15 février 2009 à 15:00 -0300, Otavio Salvador a écrit : > >> > * Broken graphical installer, until someone updates our GTK+ > >> > DirectFB patches > >> <...> > >> > Is all of that OK with the release team? > >> > >> - From d-i POV this is a serious issue since we will not allowed to test > >> the graphical installer. I'd much prefer to hold it until the DirectFB > >> patches are ready. > > > > And who will provide these patches? No one has been working on GTK+ > > DirectFB for a long time. > > [ I've added debian-boot ml to CC ] > > I understand that you wish to update GNOME, specially GTK, in unstable > but I think this can't make installer broken as a conseguence. > > Your comment fears me even more since it does look that we can end up > without directfb support for long time... I think you agree with me that > Graphical Installer can't be droped from Debian without a lot of people > being unhappy and tagging it as a really serious regression for user POV > so having it in mind I believe we need to find an alternative for it. > > Who was last people that worked at those patches? Could them help us on > that?
There are some patches that haven't yet been applied upstream that might help. See for example http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554407; IIRC GdkWindowImpl is the main change that the directfb backend hasn't followed. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org