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Re: boot-floppies [Release-critical Bugreport for September 10, 1999]



On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:15:07AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote:
> 
> Bug stamp-out list for Sep 10 00:05 (CST)
> 
> Package: boot-floppies (main)
> Maintainer: Enrique Zanardi <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
>   35729  rootdisk: Installation from 5.25" floppies seems to require resc1440.bin

> [STRATEGY] 5.25" floppy support will probably be dropped in potato.
>   36947  boot-floppies: base.tgz not found - no error message
> [HELP] There is not enough sanity checking during the phase where base.tgz
> is unpacked. Should be fixed for slink, too.

  I have patches for this.  I am going to test them this weekend and also
  plan to work on other bugs and todos related to dbootstrap.  I will send
  CVS diffs to debian-boot next week.  If everyone is comfortable with the
  diffs I can commit them.

>   41866  [potato only and fixed in CVS] please recompile against libpopt0

  Please CC replies to me.  Thanks.

  Cheers,

-- 
Marcel Harkema · marcel@debian.org · Debian GNU/Linux, http://debian.org/

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