Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 27 juin 2012 07.34:20, Christian PERRIER a écrit : Thanks for the detailed answer. Am I correct concluding that we can safely add browser-plugin-lightspark to the desktop task? My opinion as maintainer is that is is safe to do so _provided_ lightspark gets more bugs filed;

Re: [SCM] d-i netcfg repository branch, people/sorina/show_essids, updated. 1.65-150-ga603dff

2012-06-27 Thread Justin B Rye
Christian PERRIER wrote: Type: select Choices: ${essid_list}, Enter ESSID manually Description: Select wireless network - Select desired network name (ESSID) to attempt to connect. + Select desired network name (ESSID) attempt connecting to. Hmmm, Sorina, I'm not sure this is really an

Re: [SCM] d-i netcfg repository branch, people/sorina/show_essids, updated. 1.65-150-ga603dff

2012-06-27 Thread Sorina - Gabriela Sandu
Hello! On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Justin B Rye j...@edlug.org.uk wrote: Christian PERRIER wrote:  Type: select  Choices: ${essid_list}, Enter ESSID manually  Description: Select wireless network - Select desired network name (ESSID) to attempt to connect. + Select desired network

Please upgrade your chroots: dpkg 1.16.4

2012-06-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello, apparently dpkg had quite some nasty bugs (#675613, #676061, #676062, #676107, #676118, #676122), making it hard to deal with anything sgml-related. This should be fixed in dpkg 1.16.4, so please upgrade your chroots. Please also give back debian-installer if it failed to build on your

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Per Olofsson
2012-06-27 07:34, Christian PERRIER skrev: Am I correct concluding that we can safely add browser-plugin-lightspark to the desktop task? IMHO, no. Gnash plays YouTube videos better than Lightspark. With only Gnash installed, YouTube works better. I belive YT is the most important Flash site.

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Per Olofsson
2012-06-27 13:12, Per Olofsson skrev: I think we should consider removing Flash entirely, instead of shipping a plugin that only works sometimes and stops superior HTML5 players from appearing. I think Flash is a dying technology that will be replaced by HTML5 in time. When wheezy has been

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Per Olofsson] Gnash plays YouTube videos better than Lightspark. With only Gnash installed, YouTube works better. I belive YT is the most important Flash site. Having no Flash plugin forces HTML5 mode, and the HTML5 player works *much* better than either Gnash or Lightspark. Unfortunately,

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Per Olofsson
2012-06-27 13:36, Petter Reinholdtsen skrev: Which browser are you using? Chromium and Iceweasel. Given that HTML5 browsers either support H.264 or (Ogg Theora and WebM), and most of the video sites on the web only provide H.264, I guess it is a matter of browser choice if HTML5 work better

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Per Olofsson] It seemed to me that Firefox/Iceweasel was going to start supporting H.264,[1] but perhaps I was mistaken. I sure hope neither is going to support H.264 as part of HTML5 video. Since Debian already includes H.264 support, surely it would be better if Iceweasel could use it

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Per Olofsson
2012-06-27 14:20, Petter Reinholdtsen skrev: Since Debian already includes H.264 support, surely it would be better if Iceweasel could use it directly instead of relying on a Flash plugin. I am not convinced it is better for Debian to help increase the liability of people publishing video

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Per Olofsson
2012-06-27 15:11, Lennart Sorensen skrev: Debian has H.264 support in anything in main? I can't think of anything. non-free sure, and deb-multimedia.org, but debian main? http://packages.debian.org/sid/x264 http://packages.debian.org/sid/libavcodec53 -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 03:04:23PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: This argument assumes that there are valid patents on H.264 held by the MPEG-LA. According to http://www.debian.org/legal/patent, Debian will not knowingly distribute software encumbered by patents. Since Debian is distributing

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Per Olofsson] This argument assumes that there are valid patents on H.264 held by the MPEG-LA. According to http://www.debian.org/legal/patent, Debian will not knowingly distribute software encumbered by patents. Since Debian is distributing H.264 encoders and decoders, that must mean that

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Per Olofsson
2012-06-27 15:22, Petter Reinholdtsen skrev: Actually, you are the one claiming Debian distribute programs supporting H.264. I do not know if that is true. I am quite certain that it is true. x264 is in Debian main, and its description reads video encoder for the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard. The

Bug#679171: debian-installer: qwerty is kept after (another) keyboard is selected

2012-06-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Tue 26 Jun 2012 22:19:35 +0200, a écrit : with text-mode netinst mini.iso, even after having chosen a typical French layout (after having picked the French language), qwerty is kept. The ekmap files don't contain the keymaps. I'm having a look, it's probably a bug in the

Bug#679275: debian-installer: Debian installer fails when defining 10 or more partitions

2012-06-27 Thread Carsten Klein
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, the debian installer will fail to install the system with 10 or more partitions defined during the manual partitioning process. This is due to the fact that the hard coded regexp for finding the first partition in the system will fail

Bug#679276: debian-installer: Debian installer fails to prevent the user from defining more than 10 md devices

2012-06-27 Thread Carsten Klein
Package: debian-installer Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, the debian installer will fail to prevent the user from defining more than 10 raid md devices. I reckon that there is a hard limit for the maximum number of md devices, yet the installer will happily continue with letting the user define

Bug#679171: debian-installer: qwerty is kept after (another) keyboard is selected

2012-06-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (27/06/2012): The ekmap files don't contain the keymaps. I'm having a look, it's probably a bug in the ekmap file reduction. Thanks. Haven't been able to look since I filed the bug. Because for the graphical case we simply use setxkbmap, and not ekmaps.

Bug#679171: debian-installer: qwerty is kept after (another) keyboard is selected

2012-06-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
reassign 679171 console-setup-pc-ekmap thanks Samuel Thibault, le Wed 27 Jun 2012 11:28:14 -0300, a écrit : Cyril Brulebois, le Tue 26 Jun 2012 22:19:35 +0200, a écrit : with text-mode netinst mini.iso, even after having chosen a typical French layout (after having picked the French

Processed: Re: Bug#679171: debian-installer: qwerty is kept after (another) keyboard is selected

2012-06-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 679171 console-setup-pc-ekmap Bug #679171 [debian-installer] debian-installer: qwerty is kept after (another) keyboard is selected Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'console-setup-pc-ekmap'. No longer marked as found in

Processed: found 679171 in 1.76

2012-06-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: found 679171 1.76 Bug #679171 [console-setup-pc-ekmap] debian-installer: qwerty is kept after (another) keyboard is selected Marked as found in versions console-setup/1.76. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Processed: notfound 679171 in 1.75, found 679171 in 1.78

2012-06-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: notfound 679171 1.75 Bug #679171 [console-setup-pc-ekmap] debian-installer: qwerty is kept after (another) keyboard is selected Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #679171 to the same values previously set found 679171 1.78 Bug

Bug#667703: Mostly solved (was Re: Filed (Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)))

2012-06-27 Thread Filipus Klutiero
On 2012-04-05 20:20, Filipus Klutiero wrote: This didn't generate as much feedback as I hoped, but I filed a ticket asking task-desktop to install synaptic: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667703 Joey Hess changed tasks to bring Synaptic in KDE, LXDE and Xfce. Only the GNOME

Bug#679171: debian-installer: qwerty is kept after (another) keyboard is selected

2012-06-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
tags 679171 + pending thanks Samuel Thibault, le Wed 27 Jun 2012 12:14:46 -0300, a écrit : Samuel Thibault, le Wed 27 Jun 2012 11:28:14 -0300, a écrit : Cyril Brulebois, le Tue 26 Jun 2012 22:19:35 +0200, a écrit : with text-mode netinst mini.iso, even after having chosen a typical

Processed: Re: Bug#679171: debian-installer: qwerty is kept after (another) keyboard is selected

2012-06-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tags 679171 + pending Bug #679171 [console-setup-pc-ekmap] debian-installer: qwerty is kept after (another) keyboard is selected Added tag(s) pending. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 679171:

Re: [SCM] d-i netcfg repository branch, people/sorina/show_essids, updated. 1.65-150-ga603dff

2012-06-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Sorina - Gabriela Sandu (sandu.sor...@gmail.com): Hello! On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Justin B Rye j...@edlug.org.uk wrote: Christian PERRIER wrote:  Type: select  Choices: ${essid_list}, Enter ESSID manually  Description: Select wireless network - Select desired network

Processed: notfound 679171 in 1.76

2012-06-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: notfound 679171 1.76 Bug #679171 [console-setup-pc-ekmap] debian-installer: qwerty is kept after (another) keyboard is selected No longer marked as found in versions console-setup/1.76. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you

Re: Bug#645709: www.debian.org: Debian “squeeze” Installation Information , errata outdated?

2012-06-27 Thread Touko Korpela
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 07:31:39PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/debian-installer/ Errata lists some items as This will be fixed on the next Squeeze point release (6.0.1). Now 6.0.3 is released, so maybe those are now fixed? Thanks for your

Re: Preparation for d-i beta 1

2012-06-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 05:07:50PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On 26.06.2012 16:35, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (25/06/2012): - udeb freeze. debian-release, please put that back into place. Thanks already! Done. As discussed, I've enabled all of the

Re: Preparation for d-i beta 1

2012-06-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 17:59 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 05:07:50PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On 26.06.2012 16:35, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (25/06/2012): - udeb freeze. debian-release, please put that back into place. Thanks

Re: Please upgrade your chroots: dpkg 1.16.4

2012-06-27 Thread Touko Korpela
Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hello, apparently dpkg had quite some nasty bugs (#675613, #676061, #676062, #676107, #676118, #676122), making it hard to deal with anything sgml-related. This should be fixed in dpkg 1.16.4, so please upgrade your chroots. Please also give back debian-installer if it

Bug#679303: Can't unmount USB HDD as regular user with LXDE/pcmanfm/lxpolkit

2012-06-27 Thread Bertil
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I can't unmount my 60 GB USB HDD drive with 'pcmanfm. I suspect it has to do with lxpolkit based on the comments in bug pcmanfm #674828. The installation is wheezy alpha-1, with LXDE on Asus eeepc 1001PX. What I did: Login as a

Bug#678883: Further details

2012-06-27 Thread Stephan Schreiber
Some further details. IA64 Wheezy. The problem is the El-Torito header on the Debian netinst CD. The dumpet tool of Fedora shows that the load size is 4 blocks only - what can't be the right value on EFI. The EFI boot image is present on the CD; it is in the boot directory of the CD. I

Bug#667703: Mostly solved (was Re: Filed (Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)))

2012-06-27 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi! How odd that I didn't notice that bug... (I'm the GPK/PK maintainer) Well, I think pulling in Synaptic on KDE might be a bad idea, probably KDE desktop packages should pull in Apper instead, a KDE package manager based on PackageKit and fully integrated into the KDE desktop. It does not

Bug#678795: task-desktop: Flash support should pull in browser-plugin-lightspark

2012-06-27 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:11:48PM +0200, Per Olofsson wrote: Thus, I think we should consider removing browser-plugin-gnash from the desktop task (and the gnome metapackage). I agree with that. I only suggested the inclusion of lightspark because it made more sense than *only* having gnash,

Bug#637684: Confirm Still Prevalent In Debian Sid

2012-06-27 Thread Joseph M. Deming
almost positive i'm seeing the same thing here in Sid with vanilla install in chroot environment. i swear my grub-install script used to work, here's some evidence: grub-install /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD800AAJS-18TDA1_WD-WMAM9RD59819 /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for

Re: Bug#629146: installation-reports: netinst ISO from 6/3/2011 faulty: cdrom-retriever: error: No components listed in /cdrom/dists/stable/Release

2012-06-27 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Michael Hayes mth@me.com wrote: Is there a fix for this? I am tearing out my hair to find an answer to this seemingly widespread issue. Thank you respectfully This bug was closed about 11 months ago, it was reported to be working correctly. If you are experiencing problems, you

Bug#667703: Apper instead of Synaptic for KDE (was Re: Mostly solved (was Re: Filed (Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy))))

2012-06-27 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Hi Matthias, On 2012-06-27 14:54, Matthias Klumpp wrote: Hi! How odd that I didn't notice that bug... (I'm the GPK/PK maintainer) Well, I think pulling in Synaptic on KDE might be a bad idea, probably KDE desktop packages should pull in Apper instead, a KDE package manager based on PackageKit

Bug#679325: debian-installer: tiny l10n glitch when installing locales

2012-06-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: debian-installer Version: 20120626 Severity: minor Tags: l10n Hi, performing localized installations, most messages are localized, but when the locales package gets configured, messages are displayed in English. Here's an attached screenshot with fr_BE (green boxes = OK, red box = NOK).

Bug#679327: debian-installer: misleading man-db title for grub prompts

2012-06-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: debian-installer Version: 20120626 Severity: important Hi, I thought it was fixed in squeeze's release cycle, but apparently not. Seen with graphical install, on i386, with the above-mentioned image, but also with squeeze's business card. When reaching grub prompts, the title says

Bug#679329: debian-installer: fr_BE installation results in broken Unicode at grub prompt

2012-06-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: debian-installer Version: 20120626 Severity: normal Hi, using the gtk netboot image, picking the fr_BE locale, I ended up with a broken character at the grub prompt (? should be é, aka. eacute;): Debian GNU/Linux, avec Linux 3.2.0-2-486 Debian GNU/Linux, avec Linux 3.2.0-2-486

Bug#679334: debian-installer: at first boot: [warn] about /etc/mtab vs. /proc/mounts

2012-06-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: debian-installer Version: 20120626 Severity: minor Hello, this is a very minor glitch, might be in d-i's way of installing packages, or a package's installation script might be a bit smarter. /lib/init/mount-functions.sh triggers: [warn] Creating compatibility symlink from /etc/mtab to

Bug#679334: debian-installer: at first boot: [warn] about /etc/mtab vs. /proc/mounts

2012-06-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (28/06/2012): this is a very minor glitch, might be in d-i's way of installing packages, or a package's installation script might be a bit smarter. /lib/init/mount-functions.sh triggers: [warn] Creating compatibility symlink from /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts. ...

Bug#679339: debian-installer: ENOSPC on /var after autopartioning with separate partitions

2012-06-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Package: debian-installer Version: 20120626 Severity: normal Hi folks, for a mixed English/French expert install, I picked a 2 GB disc in VirtualBox, selected automated partitioning, with separate partitions, on top of unencrypted LVM, if that matters. This resulted in: | /boot: 230M | /home:

Re: [SCM] d-i netcfg repository branch, people/sorina/show_essids, updated. 1.65-150-ga603dff

2012-06-27 Thread Joey Hess
Justin B Rye wrote: But I suspect the best solution is: Select desired network name (ESSID) for connection attempt. Suggestion: Select the wireless network name (ESSID) to use during this installation process. It's not really relevant that it will attempt to connect to it and has a

Bug#679325: debian-installer: tiny l10n glitch when installing locales

2012-06-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): Package: debian-installer Version: 20120626 Severity: minor Tags: l10n Hi, performing localized installations, most messages are localized, but when the locales package gets configured, messages are displayed in English. Here's an attached

Bug#679329: debian-installer: fr_BE installation results in broken Unicode at grub prompt

2012-06-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): Package: debian-installer Version: 20120626 Severity: normal Hi, using the gtk netboot image, picking the fr_BE locale, I ended up with a broken character at the grub prompt (? should be é, aka. eacute;): Debian GNU/Linux, avec Linux