[RFC] Preparations for website and announcement
Hello,
We're very close of Debian Installer Lenny Beta2 release and it's time
to work on the website and announcement for that.
I'm attaching the errata intended changes and would be nice if people
could take a look at the proposed release announcement at
wiki[1]. Please comment in whatever you think is necessary.
1. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/ReleaseAnnounce
Index: errata.wml
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RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/devel/debian-installer/errata.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.112
diff -u -r1.112 errata.wml
--- errata.wml 24 Mar 2008 15:57:28 -0000 1.112
+++ errata.wml 5 Jun 2008 13:01:31 -0000
@@ -1,16 +1,23 @@
#use wml::debian::template title="Debian-Installer errata"
#use wml::debian::recent_list
-<h1 id="lenny-beta1">Errata for lenny release beta1</h1>
+<h1 id="lenny-beta2">Errata for lenny release beta 2</h1>
<p>
-This is a list of known problems in the lenny Beta1 release of
+This is a list of known problems in the lenny beta 2 release of
Debian Installer. If you do not see your problem listed here,
please send us an <a href="report-template">installation report</a>
describing the problem.
</p>
<dl class="gloss">
+ <dt>"uninitialized value" warnings from Perl during install</dt>
+ <dd>
+ While installing packages Perl outputs warnings. Those warnings are
+ harmless but work is being done to fix it for the next release of
+ Debian installer (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/480533>#480533</a>).
+ </dd>
+
<dt>Disk devices may change on reboot</dt>
<dd>
On systems with multiple disk controllers, the kernel/udev may assign
@@ -23,14 +30,6 @@
Fixing this issue has priority for the next release of Debian installer.
</dd>
- <dt>Use of <q>relatime</q> mount option not yet possible</dt>
- <dd>
- Support for the <q>relatime</q> mount option was added, but is not
- yet usable because busybox' mount command lacks support for it
- (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/460824";>#460824</a>). This has been
- fixed in daily and weekly built images.
- </dd>
-
<dt>Buggy routers may cause network problems</dt>
<dd>
If you experience network problems during the installation, this may be
@@ -65,22 +64,21 @@
<ul>
<li>some non-US keymaps are not fully supported (deadkeys and
combining characters do not work)</li>
+ <li>some keys on German keymap are broken
+ (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/482335";>#482335</a>)</li>
<li>touchpads should work, but support may not be optimal; if you
experience problems, you should use an external mouse instead</li>
- <li>limited support for creating encrypted partitions</li>
<li>should work on almost all PowerPC systems that have an ATI
graphics card, but is unlikely to work on other PowerPC
systems</li>
</ul>
</dd>
- <dt>KDE and Xfce CDs also install GNOME</dt>
+ <dt>i386: No floppy installation method available</dt>
<dd>
- This is due to a change in tasksel for which we've neglected to
- update the tools used to build CD images. It is possible to work
- around this issue by booting the installer with an extra option:
- <tt>install desktop=kde</tt>, or <tt>install desktop=xfce</tt>.<br />
- The problem has already been fixed for weekly built CD images.
+ The 2.6.24 kernel is too big to fit on a floppy and we've disabled the
+ floppy images for beta 2 release. We expect to be able to enable floppy
+ images again for the next release.
</dd>
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