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Re: debian-installer-launcher proposed removal



The problem is Debian-Live doesn't allow to choose the locale at boot
menu, as other distributions do.


El 18/11/16 a les 11:50, Iain R. Learmonth ha escrit:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 11:32:53PM +0300, hakan@bayindir.org wrote:
>> Pardus is also planning to use this package inside their live & installable 
>> hybrid media. While I don't have the time to take full ownership of the 
>> package, I can happily help in planning and implementing the improvements of 
>> required changes. 
>>
>> I've also investigated some if its bugs and fixed #843130, so I'm not 
>> completely inexperienced about d-i launcher.
> 
> This is fine, but bugs like #760992 make it unusable for some. I mean, the
> reporter could not enter his name correctly because the keyboard layout was
> messed up. Debian should not dictate to you what characters can be in your
> name, that's the job of the Unicode consortium.
> 
> The way that this package doesn't get removed is that either it is adopted,
> or all the outstanding bugs (keyboard issues, accessibility and apt-cdrom)
> have at least patches filed in the BTS. If all the outstanding issues have
> patches, I'll do a QA upload and not file an RM bug.
> 
> Thanks,
> Iain.
> 


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