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installation-guide (2007xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low |
installation-guide (2009xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low |
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* Switch over from Lenny to Squeeze. Current kernel is 2.6.29. |
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* Change the Debian designation for the ARM architecture from arm to armel. |
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The internal 'arch-spec' and file naming convention remains "arm" in order |
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to avoid unnecessary changes and work for translators. |
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* Mention that TERM= can be passed as boot parameter to set the terminal type |
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for serial console installs. Based on a patch suggested by Samuel Thibault. |
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Closes: #524666. |
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* Update copyright for 2009. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:13:46 +0200 |
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installation-guide (20090427) unstable; urgency=low |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Document partman/early_command (added in partman-base 129). |
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* Add note about preseeding ownership to preseed-seenflag section, since I |
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had a user confused by this who hadn't found the note elsewhere |
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explaining owners. |
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* Use /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in the RAID preseeding example rather than |
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/dev/discs/disc0/disc and /dev/discs/disc1/disc, since the latter |
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devices no longer exist. |
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* Document noshell boot parameter. See #504381. |
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* Clarify behaviour of "auto" preseed alias. |
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* Clarify that preseeding aliases are only aliases for question names, and |
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that a value is always needed as well. |
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* Apparently you can pass extra boot parameters to OpenBoot at the end of |
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the 'boot' command. Document this as it has been known to cause some |
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confusion. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Document preseeding of network-console now that its postinst can be |
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relied on to be executed. |
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* Update info on passing boot parameter for PPPoE. |
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* Explain Standard system task. |
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* Add LXDE desktop environment. |
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* Mention option to select desktop environment from boot menu for x86 CDs. |
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* Add task sizes for alternative desktop environments. |
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* chroot install: 'tzconfig' is deprecated for 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata'. |
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Closes: #520582. |
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* Booting using LILO or GRUB: minor improvements. Closes: #519508. |
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* Fix example how to generate md5-encoded password. Closes: #518018. |
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* Fix missing tags in Japanese translation. Closes: #509372. |
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* Improve script that extracts preconfiguration example file from appendix. |
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[ Samuel Thibault ] |
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* Document accessibility support. Closes: #509371. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* (Re-)enable Vietnamese translation (not fully up-to-date). |
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* Convert PO translations for Finnish, Korean and Vietnamese to XML using |
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their last fully translated version. |
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* Release update of the manual for Lenny. Six translations have not been |
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updated: Brazilian, Catalan, Finnish, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:23:30 +0200 |
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installation-guide (20081208) unstable; urgency=low |
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* Move documentation files to separate subdirectory doc. |
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* Document how the manual is built for the Debian website. |
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* Correct error spotted by Osamu Aoki: text web browser is w3m, not w3c. |
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* Correct two minor errors in preconfiguration examples. With thanks to |
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Andreas Beckmann for reporting them. Closes: #507544. |
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* Add new script check-preseed to help translators check if their |
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translation of the appendix about preseeding is complete/correct. |
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* Re-enable Spanish translation. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:50:48 +0100 |
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installation-guide (20081113) unstable; urgency=medium |
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[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
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* Remove everything about DECstation since these machines are |
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no longer supported. |
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* Provide information about all iop32x and orion5x installation media. |
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* Describe Orion and Versatile as supported platforms. |
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* Fix the NSLU2 download link. |
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* Describe MIPS Malta. |
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* Document netcfg/get_gateway=none |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Update copyright to 2008. |
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* Update description of country selection in line with recent changes in |
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localechooser. |
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* Request output of lspci -knn in installation reports. |
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* Apply patch from Frank Lichtenheld to improve netboot instructions for |
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PowerPC. Closes: #275565. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Comment out partman-auto/disk setting in preseed since lenny d-i will |
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automatically work w/o it if there's just 1 disk. Closes: #490287 |
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* Document hw-detect/load_firmware. Closes: #493845 |
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[ Ryan Niebur ] |
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* Added documentation for RAID 6 and 10. |
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[ Jérémy Bobbio ] |
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* Explicitly mention that preseeded keymaps must be known to d-i. |
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Closes: #493720 |
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* Mention parman-md/device_remove_md in preseeding appendix. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Restructure supported hardware section. |
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* Update of supported subarches/flavors for powerpc. |
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* hardware-supported: |
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- suppress m68k from arches table, unless building for m68k |
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- show which subarches are supported by arm/armel |
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- various minor updates and improvements |
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* Remove section on X.Org preseeding as all descibed options are obsolete. |
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* Document support in the installer for loading missing firmware. |
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* Update partman preseeding: use Choices-C values instead of descriptions. |
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* Correct short description of iso-scan. Closes: #501175. |
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* PowerPC currently doesn't have hd-media images, so is not "bootable-usb". |
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* There are no floppy images for i386 for Lenny; disable relevant sections. |
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* Major rewrite of section about preparing a USB stick for booting the |
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installer. Closes: #500206, #500283. |
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* Update preconfiguration section for latest changes in the preseed udebs |
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and clarify preseeding of language/country. |
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* Remove duplicated text about using tasksel. Closes: #502773. |
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* Update task sizes and nr. of packages per arch and current nr. of Debian |
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Developers for Lenny. |
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* (Re-)enable Catalan, Greek, Finnish, Japanese and Korean translations. |
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* Disable Vietnamese translations as it is incomplete. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:15:38 +0100 |
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installation-guide (20080520) unstable; urgency=medium |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Clarify console switching for the graphical installer. |
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Thanks to Tim Richardson for the suggestion. |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Spell "multiselect" correctly in apt-setup/services-select preseeding |
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example. |
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* Note that an empty preseed file is equivalent to a normal manual |
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installation (thanks, Nathan Sutton). |
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[ Robert Millan ] |
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* Document how to start the installer from Windows. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Document installation using multiple CD/DVDs; update text about using a |
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mirror in line with that. |
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* Lenny will be version 5.0. |
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* Warn about boot issues when using RAID on the root file system. |
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* Update task selection section for changes in desktop task preseeding. |
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* Fix double / in links, spotted by Stanislav Gromov. Closes: #472813. |
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* Document new boot parameters to define mouse protocol and device (port) |
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for the graphical installer. |
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* Correct command to use to allow preseeding of netcfg when using a |
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preconfiguration file downloaded from a server (preseed/url). |
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Thanks to Durk Strooisma for the report and analysis. Closes: #476524. |
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* Specify for which release the example preseed file is valid. |
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* Document preseeding of grub password. |
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* Update how to suppress the removal of existing LVM data using preseeding. |
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* Update version of X11 used in Lenny. |
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* Update kernel versions. |
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* Update memory requirements for i386 and amd64. Elaborate on installing |
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systems with less memory than the listed minimum. |
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* Update known issues for graphical installer: entropy gathering for |
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encrypted partitioning is now supported; localechooser now has nice |
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columns but other components still need to be done. |
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* Document finish-install/keep-consoles boot parameter and preseeding. |
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* Define two new translatable entities: escapekey and tabkey. |
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* Update task sizes, and number of packages and developers. |
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* x86: update description of the boot screen for the new syslinux vesamenu. |
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[ Joey Hess ] |
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* Remove autopartkit from the module list. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Disable Catalan, Korean and Japanese translations as they are incomplete. |
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* Upload with priority medium because of D-I Beta 2 release. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2008 17:59:43 +0200 |
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installation-guide (20080211) unstable; urgency=low |
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[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
[ Martin Michlmayr ] |
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* Remove all information about RiscPC because these machines are |
* Remove all information about RiscPC because these machines are |
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the selected location can be set (as that is a FAQ) |
the selected location can be set (as that is a FAQ) |
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- improve readability of partman section by using separate subsections for |
- improve readability of partman section by using separate subsections for |
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guided and manual partitioning |
guided and manual partitioning |
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- network-console: add information about dropped connections and how to |
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avoid that (closes: #458154); add footnote with command to remove a host |
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from the known_hosts file |
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* howto, preseed: update for reordering of the installation procedure. |
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* Change build dependency on gs-common to ghostscript. |
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* Use --previous when updating PO files so translators can see the changes |
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in a string. |
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[ Colin Watson ] |
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* Use &releasename; rather than hardcoding etch in sources.list |
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recommendation for chroot installs. Closes: #458459. |
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[ Frans Pop ] |
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* Make UTF-8 the default encoding for the text version for all languages |
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that still used ISO-8859-1. |
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* Korean text version changed to UTF-8 on request of Changwoo Ryu. |
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* Japanese text version changed to UTF-8 on request of KURASAWA Nozomu. |
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* Enable PDF for Korean for website builds. |
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* Disable Finnish, Hungarian and Spanish for this release as they have not |
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been updated. |
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-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:21:55 +0100 |
-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:35:22 +0100 |
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installation-guide (20070319) unstable; urgency=low |
installation-guide (20070319) unstable; urgency=low |
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