Re: Bug#872867: is ISO-3166 really the optimal list for our users?

2017-08-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
Fun to see this discussion going round with people having no idea of what we went through back in 2004 and later and the real circumstances around the choice of ISO-3166 and the very few minor concessions we made back then (mostly Taiwan and Macedonia), to accomodate at best what would be good for

Bug#872867: is ISO-3166 really the optimal list for our users?

2017-08-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 19:31 -0600, Ben Hildred wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 13:13 -0600, Ben Hildred wrote: > > > Lets Throw out this crazy idea for consideration: Drop support for all > > > countries. > > > > > > To start off this

Bug#872867: is ISO-3166 really the optimal list for our users?

2017-08-25 Thread Ben Hildred
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 13:13 -0600, Ben Hildred wrote: > > Lets Throw out this crazy idea for consideration: Drop support for all > > countries. > > > > To start off this will not actually be completely possible because of > > broadcast regul

Bug#872867: is ISO-3166 really the optimal list for our users?

2017-08-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2017-08-25 at 13:13 -0600, Ben Hildred wrote: > Lets Throw out this crazy idea for consideration: Drop support for all > countries. > > To start off this will not actually be completely possible because of > broadcast regulations, but if you limit it to wireless networking (and > other rad

Re: Busybox in Debian

2017-08-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2017-08-23 at 14:36 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: [...] > I take you also will need ipconfig, as it seems to be the tool developed > to handle IP autoconfiguration thingy: > ip=:: > I'm looking at it right now. > Can you point me to scripts / other places where it is used in Debian?

Bug#872577: debootstrap: Handle existing /dev

2017-08-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > That certainly helps, but it doesn't cover everything since the > mkdir's and ln's could fail. Those are easier to handle by adding -p > and -f, respectively, but that's a subtle change in behavior for ln > relative to the mknod change. In

Bug#872867: is ISO-3166 really the optimal list for our users?

2017-08-25 Thread Ben Hildred
Lets Throw out this crazy idea for consideration: Drop support for all countries. To start off this will not actually be completely possible because of broadcast regulations, but if you limit it to wireless networking (and other radio application) configuration, we can then define a country as a b

Re: Bug#690763: installation-guide: sudo and no password for root user situation

2017-08-25 Thread Holger Wansing
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/11/2017 06:11 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Baptiste Jammet wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I don't know the implementation detail of this (no root password > >> installs sudo and allow user to use it), but I suspect that only the > >> first user (creat

Bug#860304: Aw: Re: Bug#860304: [BUG 860304] flash-kernel: Incorrect installation path for dtbs

2017-08-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2017-08-24, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > is there really any need to keep /boot/dtbs/VERSION/ if we have > /boot/dtbs/VERSION/VENDOR/? Yes, if the u-boot version on the board sets fdtfile to BOARD.dtb. We have no way of knowing from flash-kernel what the u-boot on the board will set for fdtfil

Re: Bug#690763: installation-guide: sudo and no password for root user situation

2017-08-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/11/2017 06:11 PM, Holger Wansing wrote: Hi, Baptiste Jammet wrote: Hello, I don't know the implementation detail of this (no root password installs sudo and allow user to use it), but I suspect that only the first user (created in the next step) will be allowed to use sudo. Maybe add s

Bug#872410: AHCI module not loaded when using preseed

2017-08-25 Thread Gilles MOREL
Hello, Is there any news about this bug? Must I try something to help debug? -- Gilles Émilien MOREL Afin d'espérer une réponse de ma part, pensez à mettre votre numéro de carte bancaire dans votre couriel. - Message original Cyril Brulebois à Gilles MOREL , 872...