This is a tracking page for issues that need to be dealt with before we can release RC2 of DebianInstaller for Etch.
- For day-to-day issues, see ["DebianInstaller/Today"].
Release goals overview
To Do
Main Goals
- Kernel 2.6.18 - waiting for next kernel upload
Other Goals
- Graphical installer
- cleaning up and debugging
- still some keymap issues
- Check d-i memory usage (all arches!) and update lowmem limits
- done for i386
Test free memory check in partman-(auto-)crypto - works?BRShould be implemented for partman-lvm, and possibly partman-md, as well
- Various
Switch from dhcp to dhcp3 in d-i and for installed system?BRNote: done for installed system; post-Etch for d-i
Recognize netinst/full CD installs so we can lower priority on the "use mirror" question in apt-setup -- [http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/11/msg00583.html discussion]
- Make "expert" install default to "priority=medium"?
Done
- Both newt and gtk frontends have "dark" theme for visually handicapped
- Graphical installer
- some keyboard/keymap issues solved
- touchpads now work (though not yet optimal)
- automatic switching of default font on language selection
- console switching problem on AMD64 solved
- Language support
- Added: Belarusian, Georgian, Malayalam, Kurdish
- No longer supported: ...
- Various
- Support for ftp protocol re-enabled (though without selection from country/mirror lists)
- Option to blacklist modules
- Reduced time-out for scanning security mirror
- ...
Issues
- Blocking
- Issues bringing up network devices on booting the installed system
Joey proposed a workaround in the network configuration ([http://bugs.debian.org/403706 #403706]). Question is if this is still needed as reported issues look to be solved in udev (0.103-2).
netbase (4.28) breaks installs using static network configuration ([http://bugs.debian.org/407538 #407538])
- Issues bringing up network devices on booting the installed system
- Maybe blocking
libparted does not support ext3 partitions that have dir_index or resize_inode set (complains about "incompatible feature enabled"); this means that in partman resizing such partitions or copying data to (from?) them ([http://bugs.debian.org/405098 #405098]) is not supported; also reported in [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/59620 ubuntu]
- CD-ROM support on sparc32 (esp) broken in kernel; see e.g. #393786
NTFS resize corruption for Vista partitions (NTFS 3.1) ([http://bugs.debian.org/379835 #379835])
- Patch committed for partman-partitioning that disables partitioning for Vista partitions
- Issue in ntfsresize has been resolved
- Issue in libparted is slowly being worked on
- "Device switching" after reboot on systems with multiple HD controllers; is really an old issue but occurs more frequently after switch to udev
- Graphical installer
Usability: <enter> does not activate <Continue> button for some template types
- Not possible to generate random keys (often used for swap) for crypto setup due to missing entropy plugin
- Some issues for ppc:
- floppy installations broken because device node for swim3 module is not generated by udev (probably kernel issue)
Software raid not supported on systems using mac partition tables ([http://bugs.debian.org/397973 #397973])
Some very recent CD/DVD devices seem not supported ([http://bugs.debian.org/407759 #407759])
On mips a disk device may be detected as a partition ([http://bugs.debian.org/404950 #404950]). This is really a kernel problem in the driver; it has been worked around in partman-base (definitions.sh).
Should we do something in D-I about the TCP window scaling issue ([http://bugs.debian.org/401435 #401435])? Probably not, but get it mentioned in the Release Notes.
- Non-blocking
Some display problems using UTF-8 locales ([http://bugs.debian.org/348032 #348032] and ["UTF8BrokenApps"])
To Do before release
- Wanted packages
- busybox (1:1.1.3-4)
- module-init-tools (3.3-pre4-1)
- ...
- Check status/issues/migration for non-d-i udebs
Check what happened to development packages due to [http://bugs.debian.org/301138 #301138] possibly getting solved
- Update debian-cd
Post-RC2 development
Hopefully there won't be an RC3.