Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 4 April 2013 20:47, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote: On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 19:09:04 +0200 Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: This mail is a very good argument to confirm that overcomplicated methods to make your point will just fail. If you have a point to make it, make ti. Once.

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/05/2013 07:59 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: The default to base-10 units, is good as majority of the installer deals with HDD drives (not SSD) and not RAM. Come on... it's not! Let's be serious 5 minutes here. There isn't even a warning about which units are in use. This fools our users (me

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Thomas, Le vendredi, 5 avril 2013 17.52:19, Thomas Goirand a écrit : On 04/05/2013 07:59 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: And all of these features will only land for the next cycle with a release in ~= 2 years time. I really hope that it wont be the case. That it doesn't go into Debian

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/06/2013 12:16 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Hi Thomas, Le vendredi, 5 avril 2013 17.52:19, Thomas Goirand a écrit : On 04/05/2013 07:59 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: And all of these features will only land for the next cycle with a release in ~= 2 years time. I really hope that it

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
[ Not answering all occurrences, things got repeated a few times… ] Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org (06/04/2013): I've wrote that we should at least address the issue, in a way or another, through the next point release if that is safer. It is not. But, are you seriously proposing that we

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): But, are you seriously proposing that we leave the issue as-is ??? Of course. The issue is there since partman exists (about 2005, from memory) and has probably never prevented anyone to install Debian since then. So, yes, this issue will still be in

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-04 Thread ian_bruce
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 19:09:04 +0200 Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: This mail is a very good argument to confirm that overcomplicated methods to make your point will just fail. If you have a point to make it, make ti. Once. With facts. I supplied plenty of facts.

Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting ian_br...@fastmail.net (ian_br...@fastmail.net): If Debian bug report #684128 proves anything, it is that you will never convince anyone with technical argument, facts advanced in support of Sorry, but Debian bug #684128 only proves one thing : that we (the D-I team) were mostly trying