[mdz@ubuntu.com: Re: [dapper-updates] ubiquity megapatch for many outstanding issues]

[Colin Watson]

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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:24:37 -0700
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com>
To: Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [dapper-updates] ubiquity megapatch for many outstanding issues
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 04:39:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> The attached patch fixes most of the frequently reported ubiquity issues
> since Dapper. There are still a few outstanding, as follows:
> 
>   * RAID and LVM still have to be turned off by hand;
> 
>   * I've only slightly improved the powerpc boot partition situation,
>     not entirely fixed it;
> 
>   * the translation problems reported in #47742 are probably a bit too
>     hard to tackle in dapper;
> 
>   * I haven't dealt with the problem reported in #48355 that the
>     autopartitioner doesn't warn you if your disk is too small;
> 
>   * qtparted is still apparently pretty crashy, and I doubt I have the
>     cycles to tackle this, although I would like to make sure it offers
>     reiserfs support in dapper.1 if possible since that's a frequent
>     cause of complaints from German Kubuntu users;
> 
> However, there's a significant catalogue of fixes here, plus the
> traceback handling change which will reduce my turnaround on new bug
> reports, so I'd like to get started on testing what I've got. Everything
> here is a reasonably straightforward merge from the Edgy mainline, with
> the obvious exception of the sources.list change.
> 
> OK to upload to dapper-updates?

Yes, go for it.


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 - mdz

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]