Debian Installer Status Update - August 10th 2007
New stuff
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* volatile support has been added.
* g-i use dejavu for rendering Georgian text. Bug #435970 has been
reported asking for udeb removal.
* weekly builds has been enabled again and are now using sid
installer.
* partman now uses relatime mount option by default.
Resolved breakage in daily builds
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* arm (ads_cf) had a build-failure has been resolved.
* i386 amd m68k build failure due a change on genext2fs commandline.
Currently broken daily builds
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* m68k has a build-failure on the floppy flavours due a full-disk.
* mips and mipsel builds are still broken.
* The installation problem due the missing symbols still exists in
some architectures since the conflict between libc-dev and
linux-libc-dev (IIUC) isn't resolved yet (#434040).
* amd64 CD images are currently problem due a error on boot-amd64
script.
* multiarch (i386, amd64) CD images are currently problem due a error
on boot script.
* sparc lenny CD images are failing due a lack of image on the
mirror.
Other issues
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* Chinese (and Japanese/Korean) texts issue in slang2 (#425835) is
still there.
* Regressions in cleaning old LVM partitions (#425829) unfixed as
well.
* newt has issues with time changing (#436497) which has broken
clock-setup when updating time during installation (#436340).
Kernel status
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* linux-modules-di-m68k-2.6 isn't uploaded due the lack of loop-aes
and squashfs since linux-headers lack modules.lds files (#402061).
* hppa has been switched to 2.6.21 but the kernel is currently
affected by #431773, #427398, #433768 - all marked as pending.
* sparc kernel seems to produces unkillable processes (#433187).
Installation Images
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* netinst images are huge due debian-cd inclusion of excluded packages
dependencies (#410418).
* weekly CD builds for sparc are broken.
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Regards,
on behalf Debian Installer Release Team
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