Worklist for the weekend

[Finn-Arne Johansen <faj@bzz.no>]

Or maybe more my wishlist ?

We(I?) just released pr03 of Sarge-based Debian-edu. While this CD
mostly work, There are a lot of things missing on the CD.
Here is a list of things that I do not know if is fixed:
- Configure Firefox for proxy, local cache, printers and so on
  I guess we could use almost the same code as we used with Mozilla
- Make autofs_ldap work again (#295606)
  The maitainer of autofs-ldap wants to close this bug as no-one was
  able to fix this before Sarge was released. The question then is if we
  should make autofs-ldap work like upstream debian (and since the
  upstream is based on the RH-work - like RH)
- Fix MTA setup (#276769)
  We have 4 choices (or more)
  * We might continue to use Exim3 - no longer maintained upstream,
    depreceated in debian
  * SOmeone fixes exim4 to work with ldap
  * Do we really need exim4 to work with LDAP ? I have set up postfix on
    one installation without the use of ldap, even if all the users
    exists in ldap
  * Switch to something else (like postfix)
- Add backup of slapd to the slbackup routine
- Create Education-barebone (#275028)
  This should be hidden as an advanced option, making it easier to set
  up file-server, mailserver, DNS-server, Firewalls and so on for the
  network
- kdm is not localized propperly. Check for possibly others
- The debian-part of the menu in kde is not localized properly
- fix dhcpd and lts.conf (XFS and etherboot kernels)

The last 2 issues is more complicated.
- Make sure every package that existed on Venus is replaced with
  something else
- Make sure it is possible to upgrade from venus to Sarge

It is possible to upgrade from Venus to Sarge - I do this for a living,
but doing an upgrade, you will find some trouble, and the need to fetch
~320 MB of packages that are not on the CD. This is a combined server.
Some of the packages that are missing is
- gimp
- kdeedu
- opera (do we really want this ?)

If I should choose, I would have dropped at least these:
- koffice (and keep OpenOffice)
- Emacs, and maybe some more, and only keep a vi clone and maybe nano
- Keep only one Multimedia-player (kaffeine?)

Well - keep up the good work - I will be together with my kids,
disconnected for the weekend (almost)


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Finn-Arne Johansen
faj@bzz.no http://bzz.no/
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