Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:45:11AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 01:28 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Then you have no clue about what that means. >What exactly do yo refer to? > >Not providing a default DE? I rather thought about a solution like the >one the EU en

Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-21 Thread Joey Hess
Dude, if you thinkn that posting offtopic stuff to a bug report is the way to convince people of something, you might want to think again. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 01:28 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Then you have no clue about what that means. What exactly do yo refer to? Not providing a default DE? I rather thought about a solution like the one the EU enforced on Microsoft with the browser selector: The interactive debian installa

Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:15:58AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >Hey. > >Shouldn't one change then the default rather to something that's >actually working on ALL our platforms,... and not making special >exceptions for GNOME all the way (or would any other software in Debian >be allowed

Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-21 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. Shouldn't one change then the default rather to something that's actually working on ALL our platforms,... and not making special exceptions for GNOME all the way (or would any other software in Debian be allowed to get that default-status, if it only supports a fraction of systems (exim for

Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:37:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Borowski wrote: > > * powerpc in qemu > > (using an existing system on real metal, d-i on qemu) > > What specific real metal did you use to test gnome on powerpc? The parenthesis is not indented, it applies to both bullet points.

Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-21 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Borowski wrote: > * powerpc in qemu > (using an existing system on real metal, d-i on qemu) What specific real metal did you use to test gnome on powerpc? -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 01:55:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Borowski wrote: > > I have tried Gnome3 on: > > * an armhf laptop, Omega OAN133, with: > > * framebuffer > > * proprietary Mali drivers > > * an armhf "desktop", hardkernel Odroid U2 (also Mali) > > * powerpc in qemu > > (using a

Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-20 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Borowski wrote: > I have tried Gnome3 on: > * an armhf laptop, Omega OAN133, with: > * framebuffer > * proprietary Mali drivers > * an armhf "desktop", hardkernel Odroid U2 (also Mali) > * powerpc in qemu > (using an existing system on real metal, d-i on qemu) What was the result of all t

Bug#765839: task-desktop: installs a non-working dekstop environment on all but 2 archs

2014-10-18 Thread Adam Borowski
Source: task-desktop Version: 3.28 Severity: important Hi! By dropping gnome-fallback, Gnome3 has effectively dropped support for all architectures other than amd64 and i386 (possibly armhf on Nvidia Tegra?). Yet in current debian-installer, gnome3 is installed by default, only to show: