Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Cc-ing debian-accessibility as it becomes less technical. Otavio Salvador, le Tue 31 Mar 2009 02:09:58 -0300, a écrit : On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Samuel Thibault I'm just wondering whether it's really worth spending time on it instead of other things (the waste is probably a

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org writes: That said, activation of accessibility could be done by a special hotkey that the bootloader recognizes for booting a particular image I don't think syslinux has a feature like this... Apart from the ESC a11y Enter combination, of course.

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Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ferenc Wagner, le Tue 31 Mar 2009 10:57:58 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org writes: That said, activation of accessibility could be done by a special hotkey that the bootloader recognizes for booting a particular image I don't think syslinux has a feature

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: I'm starting to think that we could benefit of a specific flavour for it. What others think? IMO sound support is completely outside the normal scope of the installer and substantially increasing the size of the initrd and memory requirements

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Frans Pop, le Tue 31 Mar 2009 11:14:23 +0200, a écrit : On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: I'm starting to think that we could benefit of a specific flavour for it. What others think? IMO sound support is completely outside the normal scope of the installer and

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: Why are we providing framebuffer drivers for a graphical installer? That's insane too. As I reported earlier the added size to the initrd for sound+speech synthesizer is 2MB. Which is an increase by 1/6! The main issue for me is that it makes

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Frans Pop wrote: [1] Just unpack the additional udebs into a different tree while letting library reduction include both trees, as we already do for EXTRAUDEBS. Well, it's probably going to be a bit more complex than that as I suspect mklibs may copy any libraries in

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Tue 31 Mar 2009 12:42:30 +0200, a écrit : BTW, library reduction should be looked at for libs added to support this. As everything that depends on them should be included in the initrd, removing unused symbols could be worthwhile. This can mean .pic files need to be added to

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Tue 31 Mar 2009 12:23:26 +0200, a écrit : On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: Why are we providing framebuffer drivers for a graphical installer? That's insane too. As I reported earlier the added size to the initrd for sound+speech synthesizer is 2MB. Which

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: However, having a 2MB _incremental_ initrd that is chainloaded only if a specific boot option is selected would be acceptable, especially if other accessibility additions were moved there as well. Syslinux can load multiple initramfs images all right.

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org writes: Ferenc Wagner, le Tue 31 Mar 2009 10:57:58 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org writes: That said, activation of accessibility could be done by a special hotkey that the bootloader recognizes for booting a

Bug#522066: discover: Discover docs suggestion

2009-03-31 Thread David
Package: discover Version: 2.1.2-3 Severity: wishlist *** Please type your report below this line *** Hi. discover in Etch used to have a very simple and user-friendly syntax, eg: discover disk discover disk --device discover video --xdriver Newer discover versions have completely changed the

Processing of flash-kernel_2.16_armel.changes

2009-03-31 Thread Archive Administrator
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flash-kernel_2.16_armel.changes ACCEPTED

2009-03-31 Thread Debian Installer
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Bug#521356: marked as done (flash-kernel: Please update the flash-kernel manpage)

2009-03-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#521883: installation-reports: underscore not allowed for initial user account login

2009-03-31 Thread Christian Perrier
reassign 521883 adduser retitle 521883 Should accept underscores in usernames by default thanks Quoting Christophe (christophe.cu...@free.fr): Package: installation-reports Severity: wishlist Hello, When prompted for the login of the first user, a check is performed to ensure it is

Bug#521890: installation-reports: disk partitioning in expert could let user provide a value for blocksize/inode ratio

2009-03-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christophe (christophe.cu...@free.fr): Package: installation-reports Severity: wishlist Hello, During the hard-disk partitioning step in expert mode, when we choose to format a partition we have the possibility to pick the blocksize/inode ratio from a list. In some cases, we

Bug#521888: marked as done (installation-reports: don't ask 3 times about usb-mass-storage + pccard during install)

2009-03-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:37:09 +0200 with message-id 20090331043709.gc5...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org and subject line Re: Bug#521888: installation-reports: don't ask 3 times about usb-mass-storage + pccard during install has caused the Debian Bug report #521888, regarding

Processed: Re: Bug#521883: installation-reports: underscore not allowed for initial user account login

2009-03-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 521883 adduser Bug#521883: installation-reports: underscore not allowed for initial user account login Bug reassigned from package `installation-reports' to `adduser'. retitle 521883 Should accept underscores in usernames by default

First (incomplete) draft of the March 16th (and 30th) meetings minutes

2009-03-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Please find below the current status of the March 16th and 30th meetings minutes. This is *incomplete*. This is what I had time to cook up today while coming back from work, so I was cut by...my bus arriving its stop..:-) Please feel free to amend/correct/etc. I will of course continue the

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Gaijin
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:09:35AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: That said, activation of accessibility could be done by a special hotkey that the bootloader recognizes for booting a particular image Is Alt+PrtScr available for it? Seems like it would be the perfect key combo...an

Re: d-i kernel sound drivers selection in kernel-wedge

2009-03-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Gaijin, le Tue 31 Mar 2009 11:23:41 -0700, a écrit : On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:09:35AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: That said, activation of accessibility could be done by a special hotkey that the bootloader recognizes for booting a particular image Is Alt+PrtScr available for

Processing of oldsys-preseed_3.6_i386.changes

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Processing of flash-kernel_2.17_armel.changes

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Fwd: [pkg-fso-maint] d-i installation on embedded devices

2009-03-31 Thread Per Andersson
Forgot to hit Reply all, sorry for that Luca. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Luca Capello l...@pca.it wrote: In any case, I think that the MTD project should still have an higher priority, because: - its use is wider (e.g. for NAS devices) - it involves more people (not only the pkg-fso

Bug#522107: console-setup: [INTL:de] updated German debconf translation

2009-03-31 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Package: console-setup Version: 1.30 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch l10n Please find the updated German debconf translation for console-setup attached. Please place this file in debian/po/ as de.po for your next upload. If you update your template, please use 'msgfmt --statistics pofile.po' to

[D-I Manual] Build log for en (31 Mar 2009)

2009-03-31 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel
A build of the Debian Installer Manual was triggered by an update to SVN. There were no errors during the build process. The new version of the manual has been uploaded successfully. A log of the build is available at: - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/logs/en.log === It is possible to use

[PATCH,RFC] Fetch c-s translations from xkeyboard-config.

2009-03-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Here is a patch that makes the c-s build fetch translations from xkeyboard-config and put them into config. One issue is that it makes it quite big (900KB), but that's probably not avoidable; it gets compressed easily anyway. To fetch the messages, I tried to use the msg* tools, but it