Bug#775527: live-images: upgrade splash to Jessie theme
On 12/02/2015 04:27, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 02/11/15 20:19, jnqnfe wrote:
>> Why are we now using the simple black syslinux theme instead of the
>> official install disc theme?
> it's the one Juliette provided in her tarball.
Right, but Juliette is only going by the stated requirements at [1] to
determine what images to create and supply in her archive. These
requirements simply list, under the boot screen heading:
- GRUB 2: 640x480, 24bit, file PNG.
- Isolinux: 640x300px, 4bit color depth (means: 16 colors). View Make
Sys Image.
- Syslinux: 640x300px, 16bit color depth (means: 65,536 colors), in PNG
format.
- Plymouth: a SVG file (or at the very least a collection of PNGs for
the different elements of scene and background).
There is no implication anywhere that Juliette means for any of the
images she has produced for the above to be used for install/live boot
menus, nor by the Debian artwork proposal outlines that any of these
would be used for that, and no-one so far has properly communicated to
her than an image for such use is needed.
If we look at the Wheezy 'joy' theme archive [2] this also only contains
boot images per the above requirements. It does not contain a copy of
the image actually used by the debian d-i/cd teams as a boot menu splash
for the official install media. I would assume that they took the base
theme assets and produced that image themselves.
Furthermore at [3] and [4] you'll see that again with Jessie they are
doing the very same thing.
I am supportive of a notion that this image should actually be being
produced by the theme artist as part of the artwork proposal, thus
allowing correct and proper copyright attribution (perhaps we can have
the requirements amended to list it).
I am against use of the syslinux image currently selected for
live-images though, I think it's completely the wrong one to be using.
If the issue with the image I supplied myself was down to copyright
attribution, I am perfectly happy to give up any claim of
ownership/copyright I may have on it to Juliette, and for Juliette to
adopt it as her own, or equally happy for her to produce her own copy. I
had no intention of wanting any credit/claim over this, after all, all I
did was take her individual asset components and place them on top of
each other in a particular layout, then add the text 'GNU/Linux', hardly
something I can or would want to claim as mine. :)
I'm writing a separate email to Juliette at the same time as this to
explain things.
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktop/Artwork/Requirements
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy
[3]
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/tree/build/boot/x86/pics/
[4]
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-amd64/current/images/cdrom/debian-cd_info.tar.gz
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