Quoting Charles Plessy (plessy@debian.org):
> in #592550, I and others are proposing to add a functionality
> to network-console, and the proposed patch would introduce the
> following templates:
>
> diff -pruN 1.29/debian/network-console.templates 1.29ubuntu1/debian/network-console.templates
> --- 1.29/debian/network-console.templates 2011-06-19 02:40:08.000000000 +0000
> +++ 1.29ubuntu1/debian/network-console.templates 2011-10-18 17:23:42.000000000 +0000
> @@ -75,3 +75,19 @@ _Description: Start SSH
> .
> Please check this carefully against the fingerprint reported by
> your SSH client.
> +
> +Template: network-console/authorized_keys_url
> +Type: string
> +Description: for internal use; can be preseeded
> + What URL contains a list of authorized SSH public keys?
> + .
> + The file at the given URL should be of the same form as a standard OpenSSH
> + authorized_keys file.
> +
> +Template: network-console/authorized_keys_fetch_failure
> +Type: error
> +# should be translated when committed upstream
> +Description: Could not fetch OpenSSH authorized keys
> + An error occurred while fetching OpenSSH authorized keys from ${LOCATION}.
> + .
> + Check /var/log/syslog or see virtual console 4 for the details.
>
> How are considered the templates that are purposed for preseeding ? Do you
They shouldn't be marked as translatable. Indeed the long description
will never be used.
The 2nd template should be translatable and is a good candidate for my
proposed "sublevel 6" that wouldn't be counted in statistics (at least
those that I track)
> think that, from an i18n point of view, it would still be possible to get that
> patch in D-I for Wheezy ? To be fair, this function is not essential; but it
> is neat, as it allows to log in D-I with the same procedure as on some
> high-profile machine images (like http://alestic.com/).
>
> Reading the explanation about sublevels that you posted in 2007 (
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/12/msg00480.html ), it looks like the
> propose patch is actually missing an indication of sublevel. Would sublevel 5
> be relevant ? I would like to update the patch and propose a NMU (depending on
> your answer about string freeze).
I propose you use sublevel 6.
Then update the patch...then propose a patch to the D-I documentation
(the part about preseeding as any preseedable value should be
documented there).
I don't think an NMU for a -boot maintained package is the best
solution. Once the patch is OK for the D-I team, then we can commit it
and upload the package.
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