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 for Linux 3.0
- base-installer
- speed up installation using dpkg --force-unsafe-io (#605384)
- clean up support for Linux 3.0
- busybox/rootskel
- add remote syslog support
- busybox
- enable vconfig, in preparation for VLAN support
- isc-dhcp
- sent patch for remaining piece needed for IPv6 support
- partman-ext3
- show warning about misaligned partitions
- open-iscsi/partman-iscsi/hw-detect
- pushed code to support iSCSI installation; requires open-iscsi upload before this can be uploaded
- 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)
- busybox:
- 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
- Agreed in changes in release management of the installer
- Linux kernel udebs to be build from Linux kernel source package;
- Debian Installer going to use udebs from unstable by default;
- Use of binNMUs to trigger installer rebuild when needed;
- Automatic tracking of source used to build the initrd of installer;
- Use, in future, britney to hangle installer migration to testing as regular packages;