On 28 February 2015 16:19:58 CET, Svante Signell <svante.signell@???> wrote:
>On Sat, 2015-02-28 at 09:45 -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
>>
>> I read the Debian installer mailing list since I upgraded to Jessie
>> early and had huge difficulties. Yes, there are currently many
>> gotchas. There's apparently a bug that prevents them from
>> offering a choice of inits, which they think is too comlex to
>> fix before the Jessie release.
>
>Of course they don't want to offer alternate inits :( And the bug is a
>long-standing one, where the maintainer refuses to include the very
>small patch to debootstrap, see
>https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668001#20
>https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668001#90
>https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668001#100


wow, this thread is pretty much in sync with the development I'm doing

yesterday I was respinning a new iso with loginkit for Dima to test and I
hit this bug, keeping me busy for hours.

cheers, I'll merge the patch.

about the discussion and tones of the maintainer ... oyvey what an attitude!!!


ciao