Re: Drop usplash in Squeeze? Move to plymouth?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Holger Levsen]
> I agree.

OK.  This patch should do it.  Not applying it, as it will also drop
usplash from the lenny DVD build, and I guess we are still hoping for
a new release.

> I'm working on it, also getting it through NEW nowish. (0.7 is in
> sid, but is blocked from squeeze. 0.8 is stuck in NEW and should go
> into squeeze.)

Great.  I guess we need to integrate our artwork into that package
too, to get a flickerfree boot. :)

Index: debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- debian/changelog    (revision 64277)
+++ debian/changelog    (working copy)
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@

   [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
   * Update Standards-Version from 3.8.3 to 3.8.4.  No changes needed.
+  * Drop debian-edu-artwork-usplash and usplash from common and
+    thin-client task as it is dead upstream and a replacement is needed.

   [ Holger Levsen ]
   * Provide source/format and set it to 1.0.
Index: tasks/thin-client
===================================================================
--- tasks/thin-client   (revision 64277)
+++ tasks/thin-client   (working copy)
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 NeedConfig:  no

 Depends:     debian-edu-artwork
-Recommends:  usplash, debian-edu-artwork-usplash
 Why:         Packages needed to get our look on the client.
 Responsible: Petter Reinholdtsen
 NeedConfig:  no
Index: tasks/common
===================================================================
--- tasks/common        (revision 64277)
+++ tasks/common        (working copy)
@@ -119,11 +119,6 @@
 Responsible: Petter Reinholdtsen
 NeedConfig:  no

-Recommends:     debian-edu-artwork-usplash, usplash
-Why:         Nice boot splash screen artwork.
-Responsible: Holger Levsen
-Needconfig:  no
-
 Depends:     cpufrequtils
 Why:         Reduce power consumption, useful on laptops and others to
              reduce the power bill.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen