Re: Possible updates to ncurses, vte and ttf-dejavu packages for d-i

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> Hi Release Team!

Hi Jérémy

> I am working on solving a quite old issue (#339855) in the graphical
> version of the debian-installer: it does not currently provide an easy
> way to get a shell.
> 
> A solution for this issue has been proposed to the debian-installer
> team [1], which would require changes in the ncurses, vte and ttf-dejavu
> packages in order to create new udebs with the needed libraries and
> fonts.
> 
> The d-i team has not settled yet on including the changes for Lenny, but
> as the freeze is coming fast, it makes sense to know if the release team
> would accept these updates before discussing it further.
> 
> So, would you do that? :)

Yes, we would do that. Lets start testing it :-)

Cheers

Luk