Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

table kernel branches (KAISER) was sufficiently different from that used upstream, that i386 support has not been added to it. As a result, stretch:i386 is still vulnerable when running the default (4.9-based) kernel. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve

Bug#968803: debian-cd : please include base packages from 'unreleased' on debian-ports architectures

Those would then be usable by both X and Wayland servers and should be able to handle suspend and resume gracefully. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The Peter principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed m

Re: Bug#900918: debian-installer: Please make the generated images reproducible

and what's speaking > against > doing that? If it's about CPU time, then maybe it should obey the > parallelization setting of the build process. [...] The general way to communicate this is by wrapping the build in "taskset", and pigz will surely follow that. Ben. -

Re: Status and open questions for debian-installer with backports support

rdware (even on x86). And I think the more often this is done, the easier it will get. Still, I realise that you are likely to end up doing most of the work, and only you can decide how much time to spend on it. > => Question: what to advertise/communicate on? One-shot only is probably >

Re: Planning for d-i Stretch Alpha 9

will be an ABI bump in the next upload to unstable (probably within the next week). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Lowery's Law:  If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Improving firmware reporting

On Sun, 2016-05-22 at 21:43 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ben Hutchings (2016-05-22): > > > > All the binary packages built from firmware-nonfree get it > > automatically, but I forgot there were so many other firmware packages. > > Maybe your way is better for

Re: Improving firmware reporting

On Sun, 2016-05-22 at 21:11 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Cyril Brulebois (2016-05-22): > > > > Ben Hutchings (2016-05-22): > > > > > > That information already exists in DEP-11 metadata that APT will > > > download for us. > > Right, forgo

Re: Improving firmware reporting

since it needs network access), and will need updating > from time to time (ideally once before every release, but I'll probably > add a cron job on d-i.debian.org to get notifications). [...] Please use the existing index which will stay up-to-date. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: Peop

Re: 8.4 and 7.10 planning

this can slip to the next point release. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian images on Oracle Compute Cloud Service

could add a support package that decompresses vmlinuz at kernel installation time? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false.

Re: Bug#808874: debian-installer: FTBFS on i386: 586 vs. 686

On Thu, 2015-12-24 at 03:30 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ben Hutchings (2015-12-24): > > I already updated base-installer for this, and I think the only other > > change needed was in build/config/i386.cfg.  I've pushed a change to > > that. > > Checking my

Bug#808958: Update kernel package selection for i386 in stretch

e1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:32:42 + Subject: [PATCH] Add 686 kernels to replace 586 for i386 CDs --- Makefile | 3 +++ debian/changelog | 3 +++ tools/generate_di+k_list | 4 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff

Re: Preparing d-i Stretch Alpha 4

11 debian gdm3[486]: Unable to kill session worker > > > process > > > > > > I'm about to try other desktops. > > > > XFCE and KDE both seem to work fine. \o/ > > As does Gnome on real hardware. Sigh at YA place where Gnome looks to > be fa

Re: Summary of the Debian CD BoF at DC15

On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 13:52 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] > If users are stuck booting off smaller media, then I'd recommend using > the netinst to boot and then add more package sources later. [...] One of the reasons cited to keep CDs has been computers that can't boot from USB (even though

Bug#783316: Architecture list in README.{html,txt} is long outdated

Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: normal According to README.txt: Debian is available for various kinds of computers ("architectures"), like "IBM-compatible" PCs (i386), Compaq's Alpha, Sun's Sparc, Motorola/IBM's PowerPC, and (Strong)ARM processors. Check the ports page for more

Bug#777712: i386 kernel list out of date

Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.13 Severity: serious As the 486 kernel flavour was renamed to 586, linux-image-586 needs to be included on CD#1 and so should linux-headers-586. There is an option to exclude the 486 flavour, and I wasn't sure whether this should cover 586 as well or whether it sho

Bug#777711: ARM and MIPS kernel lists out of date

Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.13 Severity: important Tags: patch tools/generate_d-i+k_list has outdated lists of kernel packages for armhf, mips and mipsel. - There are new flavours for all of these in jessie, and MIPS kernels now boot using an initramfs - The mipsel/loongson-2f and mips/octe

Re: Bug#763127: UEFI corner case - installer booted in UEFI mode, existing system in BIOS mode - PLEASE REVIEW

an/ignore_uefi", R_OK); > + if (ret == 0) > + return 1; Should be return 0? > + else > + return 1; [...] Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

ing the past year? > Is there any chance we could think of having SB in jessie, or should we > consider it an unreasonable goal for this release and concentrate on > other things? So far as I know, no progress has been made on the above steps or any alternate approach. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

to support installation from a single CD (rather than 2+ CDs or downloads) then Xfce would probably be the right default DE for that single CD. I do not support making it the default in general, though. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings. signa

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

I suppose GRUB's Linux configuration generator will also need to prefer a signed vmlinuz (whatever name it gets) to the unsigned version. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Plan of action for Secure Boot support

On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 22:54 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Colin Watson and Stefano Rivera talked about how Ubuntu had implemented > Secure Boot and what they believed were the requirements. [...] Sorry, I'm having name confusion here. Who do I really mean? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Ex

Plan of action for Secure Boot support

d to upload kernel images for signing and add linux-image-signed packages with the Debian-signed kernel images. This is because some quirks in the kernel should be run before calling ExitBootServices(). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of o

Secure Boot meeting at DebConf

talk room 2 https://penta.debconf.org/penta/schedule/dc13/event/1039.en.html Colin Watson will be present and can talk about how Ubuntu has implemented this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. signature.asc Description: This is

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

ers to install from non-free if it's avoidable, so I want to get a clear picture of which chips this needs to be done for. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Preparation for d-i beta 1

-i beta 1? I'm just wondering whether it's worth uploading right now to fix the sparc FTBFS or whether this should be left until we have other substantial changes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

Bug#622622: Priority of i386 kernel flavours

On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 05:31 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Please can this be fixed in a stable point release, not just in wheezy? Sorry, I see this was supposed to be fixed in 6.0.2 (and cdimage-search confirms that). I've been misled by <http://bugs.debian.org/678236#37> where

Re: Upcoming stable point release

tant changes pending, including a fix for a regression in 2.6.32-40 (currently in stable-proposed-updates). I can probably make an upload this weekend, but cannot promise that a further upload will not be needed. We need some testing of the isci driver (added in 2.6.32-40) and more generally regres

Bug#648690: Package lists include removed and transitional Linux kernel packages

Package: debian-cd Version: 3.1.7 Severity: important Tags: patch Please make the following changes to tools/generate_di+k_list and tasks/wheezy/interesting-fromcd23: 1. Remove linux-image-686; this is a transitional metapackage not needed in new installations. 2. Remove *-modules-*; these pac

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#646019: general: torrent on USB-HDD cause disk disconnect

On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 17:39 +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > > reassign 646019 cdimage.debian.org WTF? Isn't this a kernel driver bug? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Unix is many things to many people, but it's ne

Bug#622622: closed by Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> (Bug#622622: fixed in debian-cd 3.1.7)

an open a separate bug for required changes for wheezy, if you prefer. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#622622: Priority of i386 kernel flavours

ed the fix back to the squeeze branch of > debian-cd so that 6.0.2 should be correct. Thanks. You'll also want to put linux-image-686-pae on CD 1 (in place of linux-image-686) in future releases. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. s

[PATCH] Specify policy for use of revision IDs in version numbers

result in very long version + numbers and filenames. This information may be recorded + in the changelog instead. + + + -- 1.7.4.4 -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc

Re: limits for package name and version (MBF alert: ... .deb filenames)

en repositories (they really were a stupid idea in a distributed VCS). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Question about the version of debian

On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 09:19 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 13 avril 2011 à 14:02 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 20:47 +0800, YANG,Chao wrote: > > > dpkg --print-architecture shows > > > i386. > > > > &

Bug#622622: Priority of i386 kernel flavours

e amd64 flavour, and should ideally be on CD 1 or 2 (but I realise that there is tough competition for CD 1). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Question about the version of debian

allers). But I think this is a bug in the configuration of the CD/DVD creation: the amd64 flavour is on DVD 1 but the 686-bigmem flavour is on DVD 2. The latter definitely should be on DVD 1 (and CD 1 or 2, rather than CD 10!). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to impr

Bug#619691: Provide lists of CD etc. contents

Package: cdimage.debian.org Severity: wishlist Richard Atterer no longer maintains Jigdo or the search engine for files on Debian CDs. Please provide content lists in some form that can be linked from (now deleted; all links were dead) and

Bug#614583: debian-cd: Boot prompt for powerpc does not make install64 sufficiently prominent

;. - +Press the Tab key for a full list of options, or enter +'help' for help. --- END --- -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

an appendable > format. > > So what am I missing? This sounds technically plausible, but presumably requires some changes in the debian-cd package. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Meeting(s) at FOSDEM

;> > >>I'm guessing that quite a number of people may be interested in these, > >>and in other topics. Is there anything else I'm missing that you would > >>like to discuss? > >> > >>Then: when and where would be a good time to meet up? > >