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Debian Edu Wheezy

Wheezy has released and so should we!

Blockers for a release

  • KDE applications (at least konqueror and step) do not use the proxy by default, and automatic proxy configuration do not work, making these tools useless on a network where proxy use is required. Looks like KDE do not understand our wpad.dat file?
  • Chromium fail to work when it is set to use automatic proxy configuration and no wpad.dat is found on a network where proxy use is required, making it some times fail to work on standalone and roaming workstations when the machines are moved outside the backbone network.

Known problems

  • The link in www mainpage of tjener gives a URL munin not found
  • d-e-artwork
    • some (minor) aspect ratio problems left
    • syslinux could be made friendlier...
      • edu logo should be moved a few pixles to the left
      • re-do with dithering
      • maybe add individual text for CD/DVD/Source/PXE...
  • manual:
    • three FIXMEs (about Windows clients)
    • not fully translated to Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish
    • lacks localised screenshots for Italian and Danish (and Bokmal and Spanish)
  • still no live-CD again :( could be added later though...

Other stuff which needs to be documented in the manual

  • mention that on first boot after installation it will take some time until the text consoles show up, as they only show up after the testsuite has run. Note that the testsuite will not for production installations (only happen for wheezy-test installs).

Known problems, unlikely to be fixed

We should probably mention them in debian-edu-doc and get over them for wheezy...

  • apt-get update fetches translation updates for several languages despite I just want German / my language

Probably fixed

  • During an Debian Edu installation sometimes (depending on language and moon phase settings) there is a debconf question from dictionaries-common about setting the default dictionary.
    • we still have an open bug about this which should be closed once we are reasonable sure its fixed: 664976

    • this seems to be fixed as of 2013-06-17
    • This is related to 566912. It is also related to the old 277410.

    • The question can be supressed by preseeding like this:

        dictionaries-common dictionaries-common/default-wordlist select Manual symlink setting

Fixed + done

  • we decided: we want to release an amd64/i386 usbstick image (behaving like the old DVD image, just bigger in size) plus the i386 netinst CD. Dropped the DVD image,
    • updated the documentation accordingly
  • Gnome is unstallable (at least Norwegian standalone installation), because installing debian-edu-artwork before gdm3 causes gdm3 to ask a conffile question wich block the installation.
  • LTSP diskless workstation login using ldm (with sshfs) end up without kerberos tickets, and krb5-auth-dialog crash when trying to get one (part of 714825, only the crash problem is fixed in unstable). Might partly be fixable by making our own krb5.conf.

  • All screenshots were redone for wheezy \o/
  • this has been documented: login as user on a freshly installed combi server does not work if the password entered is too short. (what exactly *is* too short?) - this is especially confusing as these passwords work in standalone... they also worked on a combi server for root logins on the text console.
  • mass import feature (ldif and csv) is missing in gosa-plugin-ldapmanager. (698840)

  • this has been documented: if install (dvd or netinst) happens on a box containing more than one NIC, after reboot network interfaces may have a different order. This won't happen if pxe installation is used (once tjener is up and running).
  • note that the wheezy build uses the debian-edu package source in svn for squeeze. ie the packages added for wheezy do not make it to the dvd when we start to build dvds. this should be fixed (so that the wheezy build uses the packages from the svn wheezy branch and this needs to happen in build/CD-administrator/ somewhere
  • KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (502192). The menu-xdg maintainer do not want to fix it. An alternative is to not install menu-xdg at all, removing the Debian submenu from KDE.

  • grub logo is the new Joy theme logo. we should try to get Joy+edu theme.
  • Netinst CD missing etckeeper, causing error during installation. The package is installed from the net instead, so the error is not fatal.
  • slbackup.php login failure needs to be fixed (700257)

    • main-server used to show problems connecting to sitesummary, because the installer tried to submit to sitesummary even if it was going to become its own sitesummary collector, and thus lacked the receiver end before the installation was done. This no longer happen.
  • there was still some squeeze in sources.lists...
  • make it easier to use a different IP network - (done for Squeeze already)
  • no mandatory login (into KDE) as root) - (done for Squeeze already)
  • selecting profile standalone results in an error free install, but the education-standalone package is not installed (nor any other education* package
  • same with workstation profile
    • maybe this is because recommends are not installed?
  • #695726 archive key will expire during wheezy's lifetime

Further ideas

Mostly stuff for Jessie (the release after Wheezy)

  • make it easier to use another, already existing, directory server, be it LDAP or AD.
  • Include FAI to easily install customized machines (Skolelinux RLP and Musterösung BW use Images (why?), can we do something comparable with FAI?
  • Make the installer more flexible. Make it possible to choose KDE/GNOME/all educational packages/Debian default. (Waiting several hours installing Tjener+LTSP seems to scare away testers and developers).
  • Continue cleanup. What is left back in our d-e-packages that's not needed anymore? Strip down things to the necessary, we are not able to maintain more. What can and should be addressed in Debian?
  • Preconfigured LXDE by default as Thin-Client?
  • Preconfigured educational desktop (if chosen in the installer).
  • Make it possible to choose LTSP chroot arch (i386/amd64)