Bug#218992: Acknowledgement (base-installer: Debconf templates polishing)

2003-11-07 Thread Christian Perrier
The attached patch should be applied *after* applying the initally sended patch. It corrects a typography error in my rewrite. --- base-installer.templates.cp12003-11-07 07:45:14.0 +0100 +++ base-installer.templates2003-11-07 08:00:19.0 +0100 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@

Bug#219471: lvmcfg: Debconf templates rewrite

2003-11-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Thorsten Sauter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): thanks Christian, I will have a look over it this weekend. Great. Maybe should we also wait for Chris Tillman input as the was the one listed in the changelog for Engish usage cleanup. As other of my bug reports show, I sometimes introduce not

Bug#212443: cdebconf: scroll bar is correctly displayed

2003-11-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think this is was fixed 2 days ago, Alastair included a missing character in the font, and this fixed the scroll bar in my tests. You now see the whole scroll bar, not just the thumb, which makes it more clear. Confirmed. Progress bar OK on Sarge

Bug#219632: partconf: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: partconf Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i This is the now usual debconf templates polishing operation for more confirmance with th enew cdebconf templates and more consistency among d-i templates. Detailed rationale: @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ Template: partconf/no-partitions -Type: note

Bug#219633: netcfg: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: netcfg Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i This is the now usual debconf templates polishing process for this package. Here, the most frequent change was to change the question-type short description for string templates into a prompt (w/ ending colon). This will make the templates look

Bug#219633: netcfg: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-08 Thread Christian Perrier
-_Description: What is your dhcp hostname? - You may need to supply a DHCP host name. If you are using - a cable modem, you might need to specify an account number - here. Most other users can just leave this blank. +_Description: DHCP hostname: + Supplying a DHCP host name is

Re: installation report (mainly non-English specific)

2003-11-08 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 3. partitioner shows menu of disk device list and Finish. I think Finish should be translated. I reported this and proposed a patch#218912 4. partconf shows filesystem menu, such as Create ext3 file system. As debconf file, Create %s file

Re: Preparing for the beta : pt_BR translations are ok

2003-11-08 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Andre Luis Lopes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi all, I would like to say that pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese) translations are now 100% done in d-i CVS as of today. Brazilian users will now have the French is also, from time to time.. :-) Be prepared for some rewrite because of the debconf

Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage

2003-11-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Leaving aside the cdebconf progress bar resize bug, if I were doing any number of installs over slow serial (more than 1..), I would switch d-i The redraw problem is, btw, also a problem for VmWare installs. Screen drawing is really slow on some VmWare

Re: Preparing for the beta : pt_BR translations are ok

2003-11-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Be prepared for some rewrite because of the debconf tempaltes I really should do something for autocorrecting my recurrent typos... :-( Fingers fix needed. Severity: important

Debconf Templates Style Guide: round 2

2003-11-10 Thread Christian Perrier
After publishing my first draft of the so-called Debconf Templates Style Guide (DTSGmaybe this acronym is too close from the DFSG) on October 28th, I have received many input and I have completed some parts of the document. Thanks to all people who already commented or encouraged me to

Bug#220030: prebaseconfig: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: prebaseconfig Severity: normal Well, this one is maybe more important than othersAt least, ALL users of d-i will see it So, please, native English speakers, check my suggestions... Detailed rationale: Template: prebaseconfig/reboot_in_progress Type: note -_Description: The

Bug#220026: partitioner: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: partitioner Severity: normal Tags: patch Usual debconf templates general consistency check, now known as polishing. Detailed rationale: Template: partitioner/disc Type: select Choices: ${DISCS} -_Description: Please choose which disc you want to partition - Please choose one of

Re: My experience with d-i

2003-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Then it proceed with the `Configure network via DHCP'. This one is really painful, since it lock the install for a long time since I have no DHCP server, but I was not offered to skip this stage and go directly to 'Configure a static network'. That

Bug#220180: cdrom-detect: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: cdrom-detect Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i Now usual debconf templates polishing bug report. Proofreading by native English speakers needed. Chris, I'm sure you're reading this..:) Detailed rationale: Template: cdrom-detect/manual_config Type: boolean Default: true

Bug#220182: netcfg: Please re-order the TCP/IP configuration questions

2003-11-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: netcfg Severity: wishlist Tags: d-i The current order is not really natural : I suggest using the following order: -IP address -Netmask -Gateway -Machine name -Domain name -DNS servers Bill, feel free to comment as you are the one who motivated me to make this BR..:-) -- System

Re: Second stage console problem

2003-11-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Kenshi Muto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): But I noticed second stage (after reboot) had a problem for non-Latin users (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and other non-Latin people needs special console). Well, I jump into this thread. My remarks are not directly related to Muto-san ones, but they are

Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage

2003-11-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Matt Kraai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): No, it grows and shrinks. I had a patch to make it only get bigger, but I thought the consensus was that it was the wrong approach. If I misunderstood, please let me know and I'll commit it. Well, for a user point of view, this *is* the solution.

Bug#220180: cdrom-detect: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joe Nahmias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): OK, here are my edits: Great work, Joe.I attach the new patch file which includes your edits. This patch should be applied to the original templates. So, it completely replaces the originally attached patch + - woody is the current stable

Bug#220449: main-menu: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: main-menu Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i Usual Debconf templates polishing Detailed rationale: --- templates.ori 2003-11-12 18:26:42.0 +0100 +++ templates 2003-11-12 18:32:42.0 +0100 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Template: debian-installer/main-menu-title Type: text

Templates polishing first round status

2003-11-13 Thread Christian Perrier
This all started like a part time work for helping improve the user interface of the Debian installer. Very quickly, as most people in the d-i team were very responsive and showed interest in this work, I turned this into a systematic work of proofreading all templates for all d-i packages which

Bug#218342: palo-installer: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-13 Thread Christian Perrier
(Adding Uploaders and last Uploader to CCTollef, I'll stop bugging you for other modules.. :-)) Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: palo-installer Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i See #218273 (lilo-installer) for details Are there plans for fixing this bug (thus

Bug#218273: lilo-installer: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-13 Thread Christian Perrier
(Adding people listed as Uploaders to CC field) Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: lilo-installer Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i This bug report is similar to #218208 and #218209 (consistency among boot loaders installers). Do you have plans for fixing this bug

Bug#218701: Change to Bug#218701: (baseconfig-udeb: Debconf templates polishing)

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
I rewrote the patch I formerly proposed for polishing these templates. Rationale: --- baseconfig-udeb.templates.ori 2003-11-02 09:21:13.0 +0100 +++ baseconfig-udeb.templates 2003-11-14 07:44:07.0 +0100 @@ -2,10 +2,11 @@ Type: boolean Default: false _Description: Run

Has aboot-installer been uploaded or is it dead?

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
See #218208. This BR was supposed to be done against aboot-installer, but it seems that...the package doesn't even exist. At least, the BR was assigned to unknown-package, which I missed when receiving the ACK from the BTS. Is this package abandoned or will it be uploaded some day ? -- To

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Gaudenz Steinlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): As the discussion about this seems to be over, I will start to try to implement some of the ideas discussed. I plan to do the following: Looks fine to me and for sure closer from usual way to configure network stuff. I second your plans. Of

Re: Templates polishing first round status

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
is what Denis script sends daily to -l10n-french : -- debian-installer/anna: 16t1f [Christian Perrier] debian-installer/retriever/floppy: 1t3u [Pierre Machard] * debian-installer/tools/cdebconf: 28t5f [Pierre Machard] debian

silo-installer : same as aboot-installer

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Same question than aboot-installer : will this package be uploaded or is it abandoned? Contrary to aboot-installer, it clearly has never been uploaded according to its changelog. So, there is a polishing bug report I made against it (ans also for which I didn't noticed that it was assigned to

Re: Bug#218568: Acknowledgement (elilo-installer: Debconf templates polishing)

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
(CC'ed Chris as you seem to be the last who commited changes to the templates for this package) Are there plans for fixing this bug (thus changing the templates accordingly to my suggestions...ou reject these suggestions)? As you may (or may not) know, this bug report was part of a general

Bug#218884: Acknowledgement (s390-dasd: Debconf templates polishing + jargon removal)

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
(Bart, you seem to be the last listed to the changelog file... :-))...with a rather strange entry, by the way) Are there plans for fixing this bug (thus changing the templates accordingly to my suggestions...ou reject these suggestions)? As you may (or may not) know, this bug report was part of

Re: dhcp idea

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have indeed a running script so that updated PO files are available online (and then translators can grab them, not all translators want to learn CVS and checkout a local copy of the whole debian-installer), but there are no automatic commits. So

Re: [patch]: fdisk-udeb needs reduced .mo files for l10n

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
The fdisk-udeb for debian-installer requires cut-down versions of the .mo files for localisation. The following patch produces these. .../... I wrote up a patch to add the missing l10n to cfdisk. Unfortunately its bloats the udeb a bit: total 4072 68 bsdutils_2.12-4_i386.deb 468

Re: Templates polishing first round status

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting cobaco ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I did the original dutch translation at debcamp in Oslo, took me two complete days. So a week is a bit short if you have to do this in your spare time (and alone). Plus the number of strings has increased since then. Another argument for a delay longer

Bug#220847: installation-reports: Installation successful, but some small problems

2003-11-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Jesus Climent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The keyboard setting is never asked. Is supposed to be associated with yur language/country choice. This, if you've chosen Spanish from Spain, you should then by defautl have a spain/spanish keyboard. This at least work for french/France. The

Bug#221140: autopartkit: One template hard to understand

2003-11-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: autopartkit Severity: normal Tags: patch The new template shown when no disk has been detected has two problems: -it does not follow the now commonly used format (short desc==prompt, thus ends with a colon) -it is hard to understand...:-) The attached patch proposes a rewrite --

Re: Pruning Verbosity

2003-11-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thats exim4-config after the first reboot, right? Has nothing to do with d-i, bug the maintainer about it. I think I have to disagree here As exim4 config is called before the user gets his/her first login prompt, it definitely belongs

Bug#221140: autopartkit: One template hard to understand

2003-11-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: autopartkit Severity: normal Tags: patch The new template shown when no disk has been detected has two problems: Another error in this package templates less then 1 minutes should be less thAn 1 minute -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Debconf templates polishing status

2003-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Folks, You will find below the status of the debconf templates polishing work for d-i. You will notice that I started to work on 2nd stage packages templates, which are mentioned at the end. It seems that some package (mostly the *-installer for exotic platforms) haven't been released at

2nd stage packages and d-i (was: Re: Pruning Verbosity)

2003-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What I ment is that the right package to report this to is exim4 or base-install. Of cause it affects the installability of debian but it just as well affects people updating to exim4 or changing from some other mta to exim4. Of course, I did

Bug#219472: iso-scan: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
tags 219472 d-i thanks Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: iso-scan Severity: normal Tags: patch This bug report is the now usual debconf templates polishing reportmostly intended for getting consistency among all d-i templates. This polishing BR does not seem

Bug#219471: lvmcfg: Debconf templates rewrite

2003-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
tags 219471 d-i thanks Quoting Thorsten Sauter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): thanks Christian, I will have a look over it this weekend. Did you have time to do so? I'm just reviewing all my polishing BR's... :) ...and properly tag them, BTW. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#218992: base-installer: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
tags 218992 d-i thanks Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: base-installer Severity: normal Tags: patch Yet another polishing bug report..:-) I have seen no progress about this BR for debconf templates polishing. May one of the usual package commiters have a look

Bug#219632: partconf: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: partconf Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i This is the now usual debconf templates polishing operation for more confirmance with th enew cdebconf templates and more consistency among d-i templates. Nothing happened 10 days after

Bug#219469: ddetect: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
tags 219469 d-i thanks Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: ddetect Severity: normal Tags: patch As usual, the following changes will make debconf templates more consistent with other modules templates. Will this patch be included? I've seen no news about it since I

Bug#221216: partconf: Invalid character in german debconf translation

2003-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: partconf Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i There seems to be an invalid character in one string of the de.po file for this package. The attached patch puts the (I guess) correct character. (found by running debconf-updatepo on the package) -- System Information: Debian Release:

Re: 2nd stage packages and d-i (was: Re: Pruning Verbosity)

2003-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Actually thats 4th or 5th stage. Or at least 3rd stage when starting with stage -1 (debix boot), stage 0 (bootfloppy) or stage 1 (cdrom/net/hd boot). Well, in my mind, 2nd stage was stuff that occurs after rebooting.. :-) Another

NMU proposal for discover (i18n issues)

2003-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Well, nothing really happened on these bugs since I opened themseveral weeks ago. This maybe comes from the Maintainer being the Debian Progeny Packaging Team..dunno. However, discoiver is used by the debian-installer, so I guess we should have it use gettext for debconf templates...and have

Bug#219632: partconf: Debconf templates polishing

2003-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Geert Stappers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): In an other E-mail did I read that bubulle asked for help on CVS commits. Hmm, well, no. I'm not confident enough in my skills for asking the possibility for committing. But, in the meantime, it seems that several d-i package were modified

Bug#221203: debian-installer: Minor error in debconf template netcfg-no_interfaces

2003-11-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Good catch, it is now fixed in CVS. Thanks. This was the only place where such error occurred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#221203: debian-installer: Minor error in debconf template netcfg-no_interfaces

2003-11-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): tag 221203 pending thanks On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:23:44AM +0100, Axel Noetzold wrote: [...] please refer to my enclosed diff -c output. The paragraf seperator in debconf templates consists of a space followed by a dot. Any additional

Discover in d-i

2003-11-18 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): This sounds very good. When will this result in replies regarding the patches we have been working on in the d-i team to get it to work with d-i. As far as I know, we are now waiting for Progeny to get back to us with comments on the patches

Re: Discover in d-i

2003-11-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [Christian Perrier] As discover 1 currently has a FTBFS bug (221302, opened yesterday when I tried to build a NMU for it), this is definitely likely.. :-) Oh. Nto good. NMU required imidiately, I suspect. :) Sure. But I'm perfectly unable

Re: use of release names in d-i

2003-12-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Please can't we change this to use symbolic release names? Seconded. I went to this topic while working on the templates. I wanted supposed to raise this subject last weekbut the compromise of Debian servers (and for myself, the creation of a new GPG

Re: plans for d-i string freeze

2003-12-05 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I think that the debconf template polishing effort is nearly complete, Status as of 11/19, including 2nd stage packages Critical work to do: discover (221302, FTBFS found while trying to NMU, I'm unable to correct this alone and I can't upload anymore due

Re: plans for d-i string freeze

2003-12-05 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I meant the latter, and I do not have a full up-to-date checkout. I have a checkout from 11/18 at 18h55 GMT. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: plans for d-i string freeze

2003-12-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting David Nusinow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi Joey and everyone, thanks for the cc. I'm willing to maintain discover in maintainance mode, but if Progeny plans to focus on discover2, I don't really see the point in keeping discover1 alive beyond the sarge release. The fix from Thomas

Re: plans for d-i string freeze

2003-12-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Looks like David Nusinow's mail server doesn't like mine : This is the Postfix program at host kheops.homeunix.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster If you

Re: d-i calender

2003-12-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 12/14 string freeze begins 12/21 string freeze ends 12/28 beta 2 release Does this mean that strings may be modified again between 12/21 and 12/28? IMHO, this is unlikely as this will potentially break again translation work done between 12/14 and

Bug#223491: s390-dasd: Debconf templates final(?) polishing

2003-12-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: s390-dasd Severity: normal Tags: patch d-i The main menu entry should use the infinitive form like all other d-i main menu entries. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux mykerinos 2.4.22 #3 ven nov 28 17:12:53 CET 2003 i686 Locale:

Re: Hungarian l10n of d-i

2003-12-10 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting VEROK Istvan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi! Attached is a full complement of Hungarian localizations of d-i PO files, based on a debian-installer.tar.bz2 snapshot someone floated on this list a few days ago. AIUI, this is not the full set of files necessary to enjoy a finished d-i in

Packages with debconf polishing pending

2003-12-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Below is the list of the d-i packages for which the debconf templates rewrite has been commited to the CVS, but the corersponding bug not closed (often marked as pending of course). I think it would be Good to release them before the beta-2 (and maybe even before the string freeze--working on

lvmcfg is the last package without debconf templates polishing

2003-12-11 Thread Christian Perrier
As far as I can tell from my records, lvmcfg is the one and only package in d-i for which the bug report for debconf templates polishing hasn't been either resolved by an upload or pending (fixed in CVS and waiting for an upload). May someone have a look at it and at #219471 (I sent a patch, so

Re: Packages with debconf polishing pending

2003-12-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Christian Perrier wrote: tools/lilo-installer tools/baseconfig-udeb tools/base-installer tools/partconf tools/prebaseconfig di-utils (utils directory) tools/cdrom-detect AFAIK I uploaded all of these on Tuesday. OK. I missed this as the bug

Please ignore my former mail about base-config

2003-12-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Subject says it all...:-) I should sleep more, I guess, I mixed up work on base-config and shadow packages...:-) So, forget it all. I go to bed...:-) -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#223731: base-config: French debconf translation update

2003-12-11 Thread Christian Perrier
-Creation-Date: 2003-12-11 22:49+0100\n PO-Revision-Date: 2003-12-09 08:46+0100\n Last-Translator: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n Language-Team: French [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n MIME-Version: 1.0\n Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15\n Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n #. Type: title

Bug#223762: netcfg: Debconf templates polishing - 2nd round

2003-12-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: netcfg Severity: normal Tags: patch The recent modifications for handling DHCP network configuration have introduced new templates in the package. Some of these have minor inconsistencies with the existing templates, mostly formulation (use DHCP network configuration instead or easier

Re: Language choser is also keyboard choser ??

2003-12-12 Thread Christian Perrier
I dont' like also the way to select language, is not clear. I like more a solution like: Well, I was about making a proposal for languagechooser, by the way. The language sorting issue is not solved yet. Moreover, I think that having four choices at the top, for french language variant is

Bug#223762: netcfg: Debconf templates polishing - 2nd round

2003-12-12 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Gaudenz Steinlin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): tags 223762 pending Thanks Thanks for your polishing work. May you also correct the s/Server/server mentioned by Patrick Cameron. On the same line : s/on you network/on your network -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-14 Thread Christian Perrier
First of all, sorry for just putting ideas in this mail and not propose any implementation. I'm afraid my skills are too low for proposing anything but really bad code. Not speaking of time lacking..:-) The current language list (which is the very first prompt a user sees when installing Debian)

Re: German translation for d-i

2003-12-14 Thread Christian Perrier
(added CC to debian-l10n-german) * Jan Lübbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-14 11:45]: I read in another mail on this list that Anonymous CVS is disabled. How would i access the current sources? You can access http://cvs.debian.org/debian-installer Not ideal, I know, but at least it works.

Re: Getting the Debain installer

2003-12-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Damon L. Chesser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi list! I have been trying unscessfully to get the Debian installer. The links on the Debain page are broken, cvs as of today will not let me anonymously log in. I did get a copy prior from Sebastions web page dated 22 Nov. It did not write

Re: d-i CD images unavailable?

2003-12-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Harald Dunkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanx for the pointer, but I hoped to find a more recent image. More recent images are not necessarily better...:-). At least for ISOs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Proposal for languagechooser and language list

2003-12-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Suppose we order the items acording the numbers of people speaking the languages. Very good -- in order to find the place of my language I have to remember my geography lessons from the school. I will find much interesting and even surprising in the order. Undoubtedly the Debian installer

Re: German translation for d-i

2003-12-15 Thread Christian Perrier
Well, this does *not* work. I (and others) did some translations for d.i. Since there is no interface for translaters like DDTP, I filed bugs. Now those bugs are wandering through BTS and it seems to be a random walk. My translation is now a year old and still not considered -- quite the

Bug#224131: netcfg: Changes to templates for clearer choices offered

2003-12-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: netcfg Severity: normal Tags: patch I propose the attached changes to debconf tempaltes for netcfg. Basically, this means changing the Dynamic addressing choice by Automatic network configuration choice, which is probably easier to understand (and closer to reality). The wording for

Re: New d-i translation scheme, who is a D-i i18n coordinator?

2004-08-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Please look at the i18n/coordination.txt file to get information about the current D-I i18n coordinators. However I don't find that file (i18n/coordination.txt) in my SVN copy (maybe my copy is not complete, I'm having issues with my system at home). If the file is missing people

Re: New d-i translation scheme, who is a D-i i18n coordinator?

2004-08-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Denis Barbier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 08:39:54AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: [...] The single file system for translations is currently mostly used by translators who work alone (except French, which is currently often used as a test lab for new work

Re: New d-i translation scheme, who is a D-i i18n coordinator?

2004-08-29 Thread Christian Perrier
As already mentioned, the work on French updates will be used as a validation lab for problems induced by this model.which may benefit other teams. Norwegian teams already work with only one file for D-I for months (they used Petter's gettext-helper)...It does not seem to have induced

SVN repository down again

2004-08-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Bad news:-( repository seems locked and haydn seems again in a bad shape... -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SVN repository down again

2004-08-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Bad news:-( repository seems locked and haydn seems again in a bad shape... Seems to be working again after a few magic incantations from wiggy wiggy ok, what did you guys do with d-i wiggy db_recover: Logging region

Bug#268815: Second stage in debian-installer starts up in english when swithcing languages during first stage

2004-08-30 Thread Christian Perrier
merge 268815 265085 thanks Quoting Recai Oktas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Håvard Korsvoll [2004-08-29 12:19:41+0200] I have tried a installation in norwegian bokmaal on a i386 system. Started installation in export mode and looked around in different menus to check translation. I changed

Bug#269154: Installation report: i386 businesscard iso from 20040825 on Dell Dimension XPS T450

2004-08-31 Thread Christian Perrier
reassign 269154 base-config severity 269154 wishlist retitle 269154 apt-setup should add a deb-src line for security updates tags 269154 d-i thanks I do have one question, though I'm not sure if this is the proper place to ask or not: The installer has me add locations to

[ITT] po-debconf://localization-config/fr.po

2004-08-31 Thread Christian Perrier
I have also added 2 localized entries to base-config, one for pre-install and one for post-install locale configuration. I attach the templates.pot file so that you can translate it to your language and send it to me (or if you prefer added in debian-edu CVS, under

Re: Preseed file not working

2004-08-31 Thread Christian Perrier
I first tried the debian-installer RC1 and it seemed to completely ignore the Preseed was added after RC1. Is the preseed option functional at all? Any tips/ideas on what I might be doing wrong? It is currently very experimental and has not been widely tested. I bet that Joey wil answer

Bug#261671: Missing entries for languagechooser

2004-08-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Elyan, Kestutis, Jean-Christophe, Jure Bug 261671 mentions that your language names are not yet translated, or improperly translated in languagechooser. Can you please send me the name of your respective languages as you write it in each language ? Please put it in an attached file, UTF-8

Bug#261671: Missing entries for languagechooser

2004-09-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Elyan, Kestutis, Jean-Christophe, Jure Elyan , forget about my request : Albanian is translated Kestutis, the bug reporter seemed to mention the translation of Lithuanian is wrong. Can you check ? Jean-Christophe : we need Vietnamese in Vietnamese

Bug#261671: Missing entries for languagechooser

2004-09-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Jure uhalev ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:05:22 +0200, Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you please send me the name of your respective languages as you write it in each language ? attached. Tt's ... Slovens^c^ina - s and c with an accent. OK, thanks

Bug#269336: Installation report Sarge RC1

2004-09-01 Thread Christian Perrier
clone 269336 -1 reassign 269336 lilo-installer reassign -1 tasksel severity 269336 wishlist severity -1 wishlist retitle 269336 Should install a working /etc/lilo.conf file even when LILO installation is cancelled by the user retitle -1 Should offer a way (special task?) to install Standard

Bug#261671: Missing entries for languagechooser

2004-09-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Jean Christophe ANDR ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Le mercredi 01 septembre 2004 06h32 (+0200), Christian Perrier crivait : Jean-Christophe: we need Vietnamese in Vietnamese Le mercredi 01 septembre 2004 14h21 (+0700), Jean Christophe ANDR crivait : Vietnamese language *is* Ting Vit

Bug#268815: Second stage in debian-installer starts up in english when swithcing languages during first stage

2004-09-01 Thread Christian Perrier
I've tested them here and seems fine to me. Christian, could you also give it a try? As I stated in the code (FIXME comment) I couldn't manage to find a better solution, maybe Joey suggests a more legal solution for the problem. Recai, thanks a lot for working on this. I use this occasion

SUCCESS: 20040830 sid_d-i netinst 2.4 fr_FR VmWare

2004-09-02 Thread Christian Perrier
A default install with the 20040830 sid_d-i ISO image, using 2.4 kernel and fr_FR locale went successful on my system yesterday. PS : I'll try to revive these systematic tests. As before, they're not meant at testing everything, they're just meant for revealing nasty problems related to

Localechooser (was: Re: Bug#268815: Second stage in debian-installer starts up in english when swithcing languages during first stage)

2004-09-02 Thread Christian Perrier
In the more long future, we probably have to consider merging again languagechooser and countrychooser together : both are working too closely and making countrychooser a separate package may have been a bad design choice (this was mine..:-)). I imagine this to happen only after

Bug#269336: Installation report Sarge RC1

2004-09-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Going back drops debconf priority (successful menu items after the back-up gradually raise it again); this could easily have led to confusion. Damn, you teach me somehting here, Colin. Successful menu items are supposed to raise again the debconf priority ? I never noticed this so I somewhat

Bug#269559: installation-reports: Multiple problems

2004-09-02 Thread Christian Perrier
First boot hanged the machine at hotplug time. Some USB module apparently got automatically blacklisted, second boot worked, but rivafb module fucked up the console. After manual blacklisting, could reach baseconfig. May someone looks at this ? More info probably needed. This is maybe (the

Bug#269559: installation-reports: Multiple problems

2004-09-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Nope. We chose Portugal as country, US keymap and install procedure in English. No locale _at_ _all_ was generated (i.e. listed in /etc/locales.gen), and the default was POSIX. This is because there is no en_PT locale. However, the fallback system should have fallen back to en_US...but I

Re: How to contribute

2004-09-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [Jaonary Rabarisoa] Especially, I'm very exiting to get Debian in my native language which is the malagasy - from Madagascar. So what I have to do for that? Well, first you will probably have to get a locale made available for that

Bug#268815: Second stage in debian-installer starts up in english when swithcing languages during first stage

2004-09-02 Thread Christian Perrier
IMO, the change is not so invasive as it appears. The patch for the countrychooser does only a simple code move and it is perfectly possible to ignore it at all, at the expense of using a somewhat ugly call as A first test shows the patch works and does not seem to break any of lang/country

[l10n] Re: please do not commit to base-config sarge branch

2004-09-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): without warning. If you've committed any po file changes to base-config's sarge branch without also committing them to trunk, expect all your translations to be lost post-sarge. Investigation was run yesteday evening around 19:00-20:00 UTC. As in both

Re: How to contribute

2004-09-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Jaonary Rabarisoa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hi all, I use Debian for 4 years now and there's no worth to say to you that I find this system GREAT. I thank all Debian developpers for that. I want Jaonary, please be aware you sent this three times already..:-) I answered your mail,

FAILED: 20040831 sid_d-i netinst 2.4 fr_FR VmWare

2004-09-03 Thread Christian Perrier
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