Re: Status of Debian Installer for Alpha 1

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> [2009-11-23 19:44]:
> Currently installer itself is more or less in a good shape however we
> have two bugs that are blockers for this release. They are:
> 
>  #557387 - Graphical installer is brokeness (cjwatson and/or lunar)
>  #556635 - udev: blanks inserted RW media (fixed in GIT already)

Is g-i really a blocker for alpha1?  I'd much prefer the fixed udev to
be uploaded and an alpha1 release made now without g-i, followed by an
alpha 2 that updates the kernel to 2.6.31 and adds g-i.

> Since we have a window until the graphical installer and udev issues are
> solved I'm thinking about we move to 2.6.31 in d-i. I see following pros
> in doing it:
...
> The plan is to start working locally in the transition and if udev
> and/or gtk+ is not ready when kernel is done then we start moving to new
> kernel otherwise we go with 2.6.30 as is now.

I'm not convinced that going to 2.6.31 now is such a good idea (since
it always takes forever to get all arches updated), but since we have
good 2.6.30 udebs in testing I guess putting 2.6.31 into unstable
might not be such a big deal.

In any case, 2.6.31 works fine on ARM and I can update 2.6.31 on ARM
and MIPS quickly if we decide to go this way.

Actually, 2.6.31 (-1 and -2) failed to build on powerpc (*sigh*), so
going to 2.6.31 might not be an option anyway... Or can we keep the
2.6.30 udebs on powerpc and update all other architectures to 2.6.31?

>  21 Dec 2009: release

So we're over 6 months late.  This is really frustrating.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/