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CIA-3wubi: Agostino Russo * r77 trunk/ (8 files in 6 dirs):00:13
CIA-3wubi: * No need to use a second temp directory00:13
CIA-3wubi: * Display controls with transparent background without artifacts00:13
CIA-3wubi: Agostino Russo * r78 trunk/ (15 files in 7 dirs): Preliminary gettext support (to be completed)01:41
CIA-3wubi: Agostino Russo * r79 trunk/data/preseed.mythbuntu: Merged Mario Limonciello's changes01:45
CIA-3casper: TheMuso * r579 trunk/ (3 files in 3 dirs): (log message trimmed)04:48
CIA-3casper: * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:04:48
CIA-3casper:  - Remove the fast user switch applet from the top panel, to re-enable04:48
CIA-3casper:  the logout/shutdown menu options in the system menu. This is done for04:48
CIA-3casper:  the speech and braille accessibility profiles. Requiring several04:48
CIA-3casper:  keyboard shortcuts to access something that is not entirely accessible04:48
CIA-3casper:  yet only makes things difficult for blind/vision impaired users, and is04:48
CIA-3casper: TheMuso * r580 trunk/debian/changelog: releasing version 1.15704:49
StevenKTheMuso: Will that upload of casper include persia's changes too?05:46
TheMusoStevenK: yes05:47
StevenKTheMuso: Excellent! :-)05:47
persiaStevenK, And thanks to your adding the bug to the changelog, it even produced appropriate LP notifications :)05:49
=== tjaalton_ is now known as tjaalton
evandJust a heads up to anyone interested.  The deadline for sponsorship applications for UDS Karmic, where will be planning the installer related work for the 9.10 cycle, is tomorrow:09:16
evandhttp://www.jonobacon.org/2009/02/19/announcing-the-karmic-koala-ubuntu-developer-summit/09:16
evandwhere we*09:16
evandCanonical pays for your travel to and from Barcelona, accommodation, and meals.09:34
CIA-3partman-basicfilesystems: cjwatson * r574 ubuntu/ (commit.d/format_swap debian/changelog):11:54
CIA-3partman-basicfilesystems: When formatting swap partitions, save the old UUID in a file rather than11:54
CIA-3partman-basicfilesystems: in a shell variable, as the latter approach eats NULs (LP: #336992).11:54
CIA-3partman-basicfilesystems: cjwatson * r575 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 62ubuntu212:55
CIA-3ubiquity: evand * r3072 ubiquity/ (debian/changelog ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py):14:06
CIA-3ubiquity: Properly update the step number when pressing back to get to the language14:06
CIA-3ubiquity: selection page (LP: #336740).14:06
* evand inserts weekly complaint about GTK not doing what he expects.14:22
* davmor2 hands evand his big hammer to persuade GTK to do what it is told :)14:47
evand:)14:48
CIA-3oem-config: cjwatson * r620 trunk/ (debian/changelog lib/frontend/debconf_ui.py):15:02
CIA-3oem-config: Fix typo: "oem-config/text/task_heading_label" should have been15:02
CIA-3oem-config: "oem-config/text/tasks_heading_label".15:02
_rubenbugger .. /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz is empty on all my server installs .. was looking for a list of initially installed packages to use as a starting point for detecting changes15:25
cjwatson_ruben: sounds like a bug on installation-report15:36
cjwatson_ruben: you sure it's empty and not just not-world-readable?15:37
_rubencjwatson: checked on multiple systems, both hardy and intrepid : -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-03-02 12:02 /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz15:37
cjwatsonfun15:37
cjwatsondefinitely a bug then ...15:37
_rubenguess i'll be heading off to lp then :)15:38
_rubenwhich sends me on to the debian bugtracker :)15:39
cjwatsonwrong place then15:40
cjwatsonhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/installation-report/+filebug15:40
cjwatsonalways file Ubuntu bugs on /ubuntu/+source/<package>15:40
cjwatson(or /ubuntu and enter the package name)15:40
_rubendone15:44
cjwatsonthanks, I notice that the install I happened to be working on here has the same bug15:45
_ruben"nice" :)15:45
_rubenatleast its not "just me"15:46
cjwatsonah, heh, I see the bug15:47
cjwatsonthe installer environment doesn't actually have gzip ...15:48
_rubenhaha15:48
CIA-3installation-report: cjwatson * r65 ubuntu/ (debian/changelog finish-install.d/94save-logs):15:50
CIA-3installation-report: Run gzip chrooted to /target rather than in the installer environment,15:50
CIA-3installation-report: since busybox-udeb isn't configured with gzip support, only gunzip15:50
CIA-3installation-report: (LP: #337276).15:50
_rubencjwatson: where does it go from here btw .. as in: as of when would one "benefit" from this change?15:51
CIA-3installation-report: cjwatson * r66 ubuntu/debian/changelog: releasing version 2.38ubuntu215:52
cjwatson_ruben: jaunty installs as of the next daily build15:52
_rubencjwatson: ok .. any chances of getting this into older releases as well?15:52
cjwatson_ruben: not realistically for intrepid, since no point release is planned, but I've put it on the list for 8.04.315:53
_rubencjwatson: fair enough .. i could always backport this change and put it on our internal repo :)15:55
_rubenthanks for the quick fix though .. im out, have a nice day15:55
CIA-3oem-config: cjwatson * r621 trunk/debian/changelog: minor changelog adjustment16:17
CIA-3oem-config: cjwatson * r622 trunk/ (debian/changelog lib/frontend/debconf_ui.py oem-config):16:17
CIA-3oem-config: Explicitly stop our debconf frontend just before exiting, to avoid16:17
CIA-3oem-config: leaving a zombie if tasksel installs some package that starts a daemon16:17
CIA-3oem-config: that doesn't disconnect from fd 3.16:17
CIA-3oem-config: cjwatson * r623 trunk/ (lib/debconfcommunicator.py debian/changelog):16:26
CIA-3oem-config: Remove obsolete local copy of DebconfCommunicator. We just rely on a new16:26
CIA-3oem-config: enough debconf now.16:26
CIA-3oem-config: cjwatson * r624 trunk/oem-config: owner TODO comment only applies to cdebconf now16:29
* mpt giggles in delight at the "This computer has no operating systems on it" text16:43
davmor2mpt: I build my own normally I rarely see it :)16:45
davmor2mpt: It's much nicer once there is a OS on it though it tends to do stuff then :D16:46
mptdavmor2, sure, sure, but having the installer explain the status in an English sentence is quite refreshing16:47
mpthm16:48
davmor2:) Fair enough16:48
davmor2spoke too soon16:48
mptevand, in <http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23359915/advanced-336755.png>, why is "Install them side by side" available?16:48
evand....interesting16:49
evandthat would be a bug, most likely my fault16:49
mptevand, would it help if I reported it?16:51
evandsure, by all means16:52
mptok16:53
mptevand, I think bug 268513 can be marked fixed now16:53
ubottuLaunchpad bug 268513 in ubiquity ""Guided" isn't" [Low,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/26851316:53
* mpt marks bug 296009 is a duplicate16:55
ubottuLaunchpad bug 296009 in ubiquity "Prepare disk space: guided - use entire disk misleading (dup-of: 268513)" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29600916:55
ubottuLaunchpad bug 268513 in ubiquity ""Guided" isn't" [Low,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/26851316:55
evandthanks for the catch, I've marked it as fixed16:59
mptreported bug 337305 and bug 33730717:06
ubottuLaunchpad bug 337305 in ubiquity ""Install them side by side" is available even when there's no other OS" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/33730517:06
ubottuLaunchpad bug 337307 in ubiquity ""Use the entire disk" offers a choice of one disk" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/33730717:06
evandnoted, thanks!17:08
cjwatsonevand: any objection to me deleting the templates ubiquity/text/timezone_country_label and ubiquity/text/timezone_time_label? they don't seem to be used any more17:10
evandnot at all17:22
evandIIRC, when I went through before they were still used by KDE, but as you say they don't appear to be anymore.17:23
CIA-3ubiquity: cjwatson * r3073 ubiquity/debian/ (changelog ubiquity.templates):17:24
CIA-3ubiquity: Remove obsolete ubiquity/text/timezone_country_label and17:24
CIA-3ubiquity: ubiquity/text/timezone_time_label templates.17:24
* mpt wonders why usb-creator needs to be run with administrator privileges18:40
superm1loop mounting the ISO18:41
mptevand, sorry, I can't test that alert-maximizing bug on a daily because the current dailies don't fit on a CD, and starting up from a USB key doesn't work for some reason18:46
evandmpt: no worries19:17
CIA-3ubiquity: superm1 * r3074 ubiquity/ (bin/ubiquity-dm debian/changelog):19:51
CIA-3ubiquity: * bin/ubiquity-dm:19:51
CIA-3ubiquity:  - Lower the timeout to declare the X server failed to start to 10 seconds.19:51
CIA-3ubiquity:  Realistically it should still be starting up a lot faster than this, but19:51
CIA-3ubiquity:  this still allows for cases such as slow media.19:51

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