Changelog
ubiquity (2.1.18) lucid; urgency=low
* Preliminary version of a new greeter, accessible using the
'maybe-ubiquity' boot option. In this mode, ubiquity-dm displays a
choice between "Try Ubuntu without installing" and "Install Ubuntu"
after starting X, rather than needing to present that choice at the boot
loader. This is not ready for production use yet and (desperately!)
needs artwork, but merging it here will make it easier to test. Thanks
to Cody Russell for the first version of the greeter code.
* Thaw choose_partition choices on partman startup.
* Always use use_as method to get method choices rather than going through
slower partman scripts. (We were already doing this in some fast
paths.)
* Always use default_mountpoint_choices method to get mountpoint choices
rather than going through slower partman scripts. (We were already
doing this in some fast paths.)
* Cache question types in each DebconfFilter instance, saving a debconf
command during widget search for every component using type: or ERROR
matching.
* Install wrapper scripts to cache results of os-prober and
linux-boot-prober. The wrapper approach means that we capture calls to
these scripts from shell as well as Python.
* Cache question descriptions in partman plugin, since these are
frequently fetched and there's no REGISTER funkiness going on in
partman.
* Avoid descending into partman/free_space just to find out whether it's
possible to create a partition there. We can get the same information
by inspecting the data returned by PARTITIONS.
* Install set-date-epoch program from clock-setup (>= 0.101).
* PROGRESS INFO takes a template, not a string (and even if it took a
string, debconf's command parsing wouldn't like passing just a space);
adjust install plugin handling to fix debconf_ui (LP: #521362).
* Switch to source format 3.0 (native) with bzip2 compression, saving a
little over a megabyte.
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:02:16 +0000
