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Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 3 release



Hi,

Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> (2015-05-25):
> Quoting Hideki Yamane (henrich@debian.or.jp):
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sun Apr 19, 2015 at 16:25:30 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > > Improvements in this release of the installer
> > > =============================================
> > > 
> > >  * apt-setup:
> > >     - Stop enabling backports by default (#764982).
> > 
> >  I've sent a patch to re-enabled it but comment out by default.
> >  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785614
> > 
> >  I'd be no harm for sane install and handy for users, IMO.
> >  Can we adopt it for point release?

I'm not sure why dd@ and dr@ would be a better place to discuss this
than the bug report itself. If that's for the lack of a reply, surely
a week isn't that much a delay…

> I noticed that and first thought "hey, that could be a good compromise
> between the pros and the cons". Still, I think we should also add a
> warning to users pointing them to the potential issues of enabling
> backports (see arguments developed in the relevant bug reports).
> 
> Adding -boot in the loop so that Cyril gets better chances to see
> this....and then we decide what to do with Yamane-san's patch.

I'll follow up to the bug report.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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