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 * busybix:
   * resume proper maintenance of the package, convert it to git-bp
   * review and close tons of old bugs which were fixed long ago
   * fix a ton of easy bugs, making different flavours to be more alike
   * enable lots of additional applets
   * update to last upstream (1.18.5)
   * drop many local patches to reduce debian-specific changes

Debian Installer Team Debconf11 Summary

  • debootstrap
    • fixes for kFreeBSD and Hurd using foreign mode;
    • improve fakechroot support;
    • improve error messages in case of download failures;
  • kernel-wedge
    • add vmware paravirtualized hardware support;
    • add brcmsmac wireless support;
    • add xts crypto support;
    • add iscsi-tcp and iscsi-ibft support;
  • choose-mirror
    • fix preseeding support for mirror/suite and mirror/codename
  • iso-scan
    • fix scanning of ISOs that has only the suite symlink
  • os-prober
    • fix Windows Vista detection in case there're more the one directory named as boot;
    • add ?MeeGo support;

  • partman-base
    • add ZFS description support;
  • partman-target
    • fix installation from isohybrid USB media (#597223)
  • partman-nbd
    • dependencies uploaded into debian proper
  • libdebian-installer
    • fix wrong reference to /dev/scd instead of /dev/sr (#635400)
  • massbuild
    • add support to linux-3.0
  • busybox/rootskel
    • add remote syslog support
  • Linux kernel updated to 2.6.39-3;
  • Braille
    • fix race with framebuffer use;
  • i18n/l10n:
    • new language integration prepared: Ossetian
    • fixed l10n-stats script for debconf (svn->git migration)

  • CUT/rolling:
  • m68k port made compilable again (tests to follow)
  • busybix:
    • resume proper maintenance of the package, convert it to git-bp
    • review and close tons of old bugs which were fixed long ago
    • fix a ton of easy bugs, making different flavours to be more alike
    • enable lots of additional applets
    • update to last upstream (1.18.5)
    • drop many local patches to reduce debian-specific changes