# Devuan meet Apr. 23, 2020 @20:30 UTC

Present: golinux, plasma41, LeePen, fsmithred, bgstack15, mason, rrq

## Old Business
* Discussion of mirror selection in installer.

## Old Actions
* (mason) TWiki still in progress. The config becomes less simple when
one wants to run several discrete instances in parallel. But, in
progress, and only suffering from a modicum of preperatory
rathole-dives.

## New Business
* (gl) Would like someone to take over posting the pad for each week's
  meet.
  * (mason) Sure, although pointers to setting up the new pad would be
    useful.
    * (gl) there is a template
    * (mason) I'll spin up accounts as needed (for cryptdrive) and ping
      you with any questions that arise

### plasma41
* The current draft of the release notes contains instructions for
  fixing bad default config settings for pulseaudio and lightdm. Would
  it not be better to just fork those two packages to have the correct
  default settings? If we can avoid having to  repeatedly tell people
  "go read the release notes" by changing a single line in a config file
  of each of the two packages, I think we should.
  * (gl) Are you willing to take that on and maintain the fork over
    future releases?
    * (plasma41) For a small change like this, it should be possible to
      set up some automated script that automatically applies the same
      patch to successive versions from Debian and pushes the result to
      ceres
    * (mason) Rather than forking packages, we could also offer packages
      that set up diverts and offer the corrected files laid atop the
      base package(s).
    * (leepen) Yes, I had wondered about that approach too.
    * (fsr) - first we should figure out why only some people need to
      edit that file. I haven't had to do it on any installs. Maybe it
      happens with upgrades or migrations. <-wrong. I found one.
      * (mason) This approach might be correct for more than just PA -
        cryptdisks, for instance.

### LeePen
* Updated base-files/beowulf to remove ceres from /etc/devuan-version
* Built pcsc-lite anddnscrypt-proxy for ceres
* Updated choose-mirror to reinstate manual mirror choice option (expert
only)

## New Actions

-- 
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