Christian PERRIER <bubu...@debian.org> writes: > Quoting lee (l...@yun.yagibdah.de): >> Package: installation-reports >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> this is a feature request: It would be nice if users would have at >> least a web browser like lynx and an irc client available while they >> are using the installer. There has been/currently is a lengthy >> discussion about this on the debian-user mailing list starting with > > > Frankly speaking, I would very much prefer seeing people working on > current issues of the installer (I mean, not only during 3 months > before the release) rather than adding more bells, whistles and shiny > new features. It would be great if existing features were kept working > during the entire release process.
They'll do that or not, and we probably cannot decide for them what to spend their time with. > This is of course not targeted at you who reported this bug (don't > shoot the messenger)but more at all these people who have great ideas > on debian-user but never show up in development teams. Did you show up on a development team to work on the issues you would like to see the developers working on? How do you show up on such a team? Did you ever try to provide a Debian package? I'd have liked to and only found it being ridiculously difficult, so I gave up on it. If you want to try, I probably still have the sources and you can have them --- they'd need fixing though, which I didn't because I don't need it anymore. I had it uploaded to freshmeat or sourceforge, and last time I checked, they seemed to have removed it. Well, not my loss ... > If you want a web browser, an IRC client, games, etc. in D-I, then > please come and first fix issues related to GRUB and encrypted > partitions, partitions sizes, preseeding, documentation, etc. *Then* > we'll see if we add a web browser. Would it really require an excrutiating amount of effort to just add lynx to what's available? It could probably be done with much less effort than fixing the issues you mention and be helpful for users to deal with these issues until they are fixed (at which time there'll be new issues to deal with ...). Anyway, the problem appears to be solved already :) -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y5k8zf9u....@yun.yagibdah.de
