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Bug#476777: marked as done (win32-loader: doesn't restore the original timeout value from boot.ini on uninstall)

Your message dated Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:18:47 +0000
with message-id <E1O7pB9-0001GS-3n@ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#476777: fixed in win32-loader 0.6.15
has caused the Debian Bug report #476777,
regarding win32-loader: doesn't restore the original timeout value from boot.ini on uninstall
to be marked as done.

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Package: win32-loader
Version: 0.6.5
Severity: normal

After uninstalling debian.exe, my system still waits for 30 seconds at
the Windows boot prompt. It didn't do this before I installed debian.exe

Looking at the code it seems that it modifies the timeout in boot.ini
without first saving it elsewhere so it can reset it on uninstall.

One problem is that the timeout might changed by the Windows user
between install and uninstall. In this case the uninstall process would
revert their change to the timeout.

One way to handle this would to put a comment at the end of the line
which you would check for in the uninstall. I've tested both the GUI and
bootcfg.exe methods for changing the timeout and they strip whatever
comment is at the end of the timeout line when changing the timeout.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022

The other method used to change the timeout is opening the file in
notepad and manually changing it. The solution to this would be to make
the comment be really clear that the comment should be removed when
changing the timeout value.

I'm not sure where the appropriate place is to store the timeout between
install and uninstall, but I would guess that the registry is the right
place to do so.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages win32-loader depends on:
ii  base-files                    4.0.3      Debian base system miscellaneous f

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Source: win32-loader
Source-Version: 0.6.15

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
win32-loader, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

win32-loader_0.6.15.dsc
  to main/w/win32-loader/win32-loader_0.6.15.dsc
win32-loader_0.6.15.tar.gz
  to main/w/win32-loader/win32-loader_0.6.15.tar.gz
win32-loader_0.6.15_all.deb
  to main/w/win32-loader/win32-loader_0.6.15_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 476777@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Didier Raboud <didier@raboud.com> (supplier of updated win32-loader package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:00:00 +0200
Source: win32-loader
Binary: win32-loader
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.6.15
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Didier Raboud <didier@raboud.com>
Description: 
 win32-loader - Debian-Installer loader for win32
Closes: 476777
Changes: 
 win32-loader (0.6.15) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Update the daily images URLs.
   * Remove hardcoded release codenames.
   * Remove the getwindowsversion.nsh code duplicate (included in nsis).
     - Take the opportunity to widen Windows version conditions.
   * Separate network (with a http shipped preseed.cfg) from standalone
     functionality (completely lonely executable).
   * Store the old boot.ini timeout value. Closes: #476777
   * Update the grub.cfg generation code to cope with recent grub-pc
     (aka s/vga=/set gfxpayload/g)
   * Update Build-Dependency on cpio-win32 to >= 2.11-4 to fix initramfs
     preseed.cfg embedding which broke the installer boot.
 .
   * Add myself to copyright files.
   * Add the DM-Upload-Allowed field to debian/control.
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