Re: 2.2.17 i386 boot-floppies uploading
There are still some errors in French doc' but my access to cvs.d.o is rejected these last days, so I'm powerless.
About translation of release-notes in French, helas, I'm afraid it won't be immediately since I'm moving abroad.
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:33:33PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> Sorry for the serious cross-post but no one seems to be reading
> debian-release right now, and I want this to propogate widely.
>
> Boot-floppies 2.2.17, a major bugfix point release for Potato, is
> being uploaded to samosa now. I shall put it up on
> auric.debian.org/~aph/ this evening.
>
> I don't read debian-devel or debian-testing, so please either CC
> debian-boot or file bugs against boot-floppies.
>
> Changelog is below -- aside from the numerous bug fixes, significant
> in this release is update packages from potato-proposed-updates, much
> better i18n documentation, and means to make i18n'd rescue disks.
>
> This release does *not* include the new 2.2.17 kernels because a full
> set (that is, idepci and compact) were not yet available. Sorry, but
> nothing I can do.
>
> We fixed the af_packet error so 'pump' works again. I've run thru
> complete installation on i386 laptop with pcmcia and it works fine.
>
> Many thanks to all the hackers (esp Martin Schulze, closing 21 BTS
> entries and numerous unfiled bugs), translators, and interested users
> who file bug reports.
>
> On my todo next is i18n integration of the root disk with dbootstrap
> messages (at least on i386) and of course, documentation updates.
>
> --
> .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
>
> boot-floppies (2.2.17) stable; urgency=low
>
> * Adam Di Carlo:
> - release-notes: fix typo (closes: Bug#68630)
> - fix bugs preventing some l10n'd documentation from building
> - temporarily disable Russian documentation, unless you have woody
> debiandoc-sgml
> - config: re-organize a bit
> - fix .cvsignore file (closes: Bug#68911)
> - fix URLs in documentation based on link checking
> - documentation improvements (closes: Bug#67900); change the wording
> of the "in progress" warning in Chapter 1 (closes: Bug#69620);
> correct workaround for volume manager, patch from Jim Crumley
> (closes: Bug#69141); fix documentation on how mkofboot is invoked;
> rework the 'dbootstrap' chapter, removing plenty of slink'isms;
> fix some make-kpkg bugs (closes: Bug#71080)
> - dbootstrap: fix a condition where /target/lib/modules was being made
> a link to itself (closes: Bug#68021); run 'depmod -a' after
> manipulating the /lib/modules symlink after extracting the kernel
> and modules which fixes a problem with PCMCIA
> - fix a minor libfdisk Makefile / depends problem
> * Guillaume Morin:
> - more dbootstrap i18n
> - dbootstrap floppy module pre-load support
> * Vincent Renardias: French updates (thank to Eric VanBuggenhaut)
> * Jiøí Ma¹ík <masik@debian.cz>: Czech updates
> * Gleydson Mazioli da Silva: Portuguese updates
> * novdv: Russian translations
> * Yoshizumi Endo <y-endo@ceres.dti.ne.jp>: Japanese updates
> * Risko Gergely <risko@njszki.hu>: Hungarian updates
> * Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>: Polish updates
> * Peter Karlsson: Swedish updates
> * Vilem Vychodil: Czech update
> * Tapio Lehtonen: Finnish translation thanks to Markku Verkkoniemi
> * Enrique Zanardi: Spanish updates
> * Michael Bramer: German updates
> * C.M. Connelly: English documentation corrections and improvements
> * Josip Rodin:
> - release notes updates: APT::Force-LoopBreak, kernel 2.2.x upgrade
> issues; remove sis6326 note; add info about i810; fixed X upgrade
> pointer; notes about CD sets; notes about ssh
> - some documentation and doc build fixes; move documenation build
> rules to documentation/ dir
> - fix index.LANG.html broken links (closes: Bug#67898)
> * Daniel Jacobowitz:
> - some powerpc-specific boot stuff fixed
> - update PowerPC kernel version
> * Martin Schulze:
> - Added little documentation to some routines
> - dbootstrap.h: Added prototype of get_kver()
> - getFloppies() and affected routines return DLG_CANCEL (aka 10) when
> Cancel is pressed, no need to spit an error message (closes:
> Bug#68900)
> - boxes.h: DLG_CANCEL is now 10 instead of 1, in order to avoid
> problems with 'return 1' stuff
> - Added calls to get_kver() to every _test target. Thanks tausq for
> the quick investigation
> - basedisk.sh: Added workarounds for missing device files and added
> others to MAKEDEV call
> - rootdisk.sh: Added optcd sjcd to list of i386 devices, still
> missing: gscd, cm206cd and proper support for mcdx (partially
> fixes: Bug#68665)
> - rootdisk.sh: Added ida.1 creation (closes: Bug#68517)
> - rootdisk.sh: Added -O none to mke2fs call to gain 2.0 compatibility
> (closes: Bug#68659)
> - basedisk.sh: Added /dev/sg* to list of created devices in the base
> system (closes: Bug#67378)
> - Corrected error messages when rescue.bin wasn't found (but is
> there..), added " + drivers.tgz" (closes: Bug#66326, Bug#64349)
> - Added padding code to pad the last drivers disk with zeroes (closes:
> Bug#66030)
> - Corrected behavior when user has to type in the path relative to
> /instmnt, he won't be able to leave that dir anymore and don't has
> to type in /instmnt anymore (closes: Bug#67082, Bug#61693)
> - Filling /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep properly so the tools won't
> spread warnings all over the freshly started console
> - Added more sanity checks to floppy install, inserting base disks
> when the drivers are requested will result in an error (partially
> close: Bug#64428)
> - Choosing an archive dir that is a link indeed will not result in
> 'not found' messages anymore, a '/' will be appended automatically
> (closes: Bug#61373)
> - When selecting a directory that does not exist, an error box is
> opened (closes: Bug#57733)
> - Added a call to eject() after writing the boot floppy on powerpc
> failed (closes: Bug#69158)
> - Added support for kernel boot parameters (lilo, syslinux, m68k,
> aboot) (closes: Bug#11000, Bug#25848)
> - Moved Preload of essential modules around in the main install cycle
> - Moved nfs:server mount into a condition (if network isup)
> - German update
> - Added support for new french keyboard layout fr-latin0 (closes:
> Bug#57609)
> - Added sanity checks before installing the base system and
> configuring the device driver modules (closes: Bug#31449)
> - Added a conditional message warning Netwinder people about ignoring
> ext2 2.0 compatibility (close: Bug#67888)
> - Corrected rescue.sh to create usable 1200 root floppies (closes:
> Bug#69959, Bug#69970)
> * Akira YOSHIYAMA:
> - add 'termwrap' script to the base system; this is invoked by init
> and allows us to set i18n env var settings for base-config and other
> chores
> * Othmar Pasteka:
> - Substitution of Linux with GNU/Linux when appropriate (i.e. when
> a GNU/Linux distribution is meant)
> * Risko Gergely: A big Hungarian update
> * Peter Naulls: add support for ARM Linux partition support
>
> -- Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> Sat, 30 Sep 2000 02:58:37 -0400
>
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