Quoting Luk Claes (luk@debian.org): > > Improve udeb migration > > ---------------------- > > The release team is working on a migration script which, among other > > tasks, will implement dedicated features for udeb migration. It is not > > clear yet whether that script (or the udeb part) would need to run > > under the d-i account or not, but that will open perspectives of > > lowering the number of boring tasks to do in release preparation. > > This seems to be mixing two things: the migration script (which is > better known as britney) and the udeb testing summary script. britney > will be extended to support udebs, while the latter script will move > from joeyh's homedir to release.debian.org to have a more up-to-date > (only possible on ries) view as one of the outputs from britney probably. Revamped as: Improve udeb migration ---------------------- The release team is working on improvements to britney, the testing migration script which, among other tasks, will implement dedicated features for udeb migration. Simultaneously, the udeb testing summary script that lives in Joey Hess home directory [4] should be move to release.debian.org. > > > Branching D-I when preparing a release > > -------------------------------------- > > It has been decided that, in order to not slow down the development > > processes, D-I SVN should be branched when the work on preparing a > > release starts. Even if SVN doesn't make the process very easy, > > changing the VCS we use is currently not an option we prefer. > > > > Release goals > > ------------- > > Goals that were confirmed|added are listed below. These release goals are summarized on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SqueezeGoals > > summarised (consistent with the other spelling) > > > Major goals > > ----------- > > > > Persistent device naming > > ----------------------- > > That suggestion besomes more and more supported. We want to get rid of > > becomes > > > devices reordering when rebooting after install, etc. We more or less > > decided to make it the top release goal. Colin Watson volunteered to > > manage this and already has patches to implement partman/mount_style. > > > > Find replacement for the ISC DHCP client in d-i > > ----------------------------------------------- > > That item is also fairly old. We're using ISC DHCP v3, but it has an > > important impact on the size of the initrd. The best option seems to > > be using udhcpc from busybox. > > > > Switch to console-setup > > ----------------------- > > Using console-setup for keymap and console font selection might solve > > a very old weakness of D-I (and overall Debian): different keymap > > system for the console and X. The situation is summarized on > > summarised > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/ConsoleSetupSwitch. Samuel > > Thibault did already a lot of work on this to solve out the main > > blocker: the need to make the keymap names translatable. Colin Watson > > and Anton Zinoviev (who was not attending the meeting) could be of > > great help in this. > > > > Ext4 support > > ------------ > > Colin Watson did already commit some patches and is aleady following > > that issue. Things are essentially waiting on blocking bugs. GRUB > > might be a first target. > > > > Other goals > > ----------- > > > > General cleanup > > --------------- > > This is an old wish. Cruft accumulated here and there in D-I and some > > basic work to clean things out might be good and useful. Frans Pop > > indeed already did some during Etch->Lenny. Luk Claes would be OK to > > help on this but the help and diections from D-I "old timers" such as > > directions > > > Frans or Joey would be great to have. > > > > Improve support for Intel-based Apple MacBook systems > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > Current support is a bit of a kludge and needs restructuring. There > > are pending patches (gptsync patch to parted) developed for Ubuntu > > that Colin Watson could integrate with help of Otavio Salvador. > > > > Allow selecting disks with GRUB with multiple controllers > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Ryan Nebur volunteered for that one. Working with GRUB maintainers > > (Robert Millan and Otavio) > > > > Partman-related goals > > --------------------- > > Partman is missing someone to take care of it in general and there are a few things that would be "nice to have": > > - install partman-ext3 by default: nobody could provide a reason for this > > to not happen so it just needs someone to look at it > > - Try to get some issues in libparted fixed: #406680, #328629, #377263 > > Otavio told he will look at them > > > > > > Wishlist > > -------- > > > > Includes supplemental repository support for udebs > > Include supplementary? > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > That feature would be useful for derived distros. Bastian Blank has > > pending work for this but the dependency resolver is missing on the > > new data structures. > > > > Make os-prober readonly > > ----------------------- > > Bastian Blank agreed to add the patch to support blockdev in busybox > > which will help the team to progress on that issue. > > > > support TFTP to retrieve preseed files > > -------------------------------------- > > Ryan Nebur volunteered to try working on that one. A TFTP client udeb > > is needed for this and, as busybox has one, that could be the way to > > go. There are size constraints that might make this goal hard to fill. > > fulfill > > > Left aside > > ---------- > > (nobody really popped up on these ones which were inherited from Lenny) > > > > This is the "newbies, please pick up your task" section. > > > > Partman-related goals > > --------------------- > > - Implement "resize partition and install to free space" in guided > > partitioning. There are patches from Ubuntu but not entirely > > satisfactory > > > > > > Partman-crypto stuff > > -------------------- > > - partman-crypto: improve entropy handling, add support for > > keys-on-removable-devices, allow devices to be deallocated > > > > - partman-crypto: Allow a user to re-use an existing encrypted filesystem > > without data loss (ex: /home, /srv, etc) > > > > Kill lvmcfg and mdcfg > > --------------------- > > > > Dropped > > ------- > > These tasks have been thrown away. Some because they have already been > > completed and some because no real interest. > > > > - enable relatime/noatime by default > > This is only one, so maybe the above text should be adjusted to read: > > This task has been thrown away because it will almost become void with a > future version of the kernel. > > > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Meetings > > Ah, I guess that's the link which was not linked :-) > > Cheers > > Luk > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > > ** CRM114 Whitelisted by: WHITELIST ** > --
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