Bug#766388: RFP: gnome-initial-setup -- bootstrapping after

[Hideki Yamane]

Hi,

On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:41:01 +0200 Jordi Mallach <jordi at debian.org> wrote:
> > This wouldn't be very useful since all/most of the setup is done by d-i. Some 
> > integration would be needed, so that the installer defers the setup so that 
> > gnome-initial-setup can do it. I believe Laurent has investigated this.
> 
> Indeed, I think this specifically kicks in if no user has been created,
> which is not the common case in Debian as d-i does create a user by
> default.

 I tried to use Fedora 23 beta, it also uses g-i-s and doesn't feel
 any bad, and good for initial setup especially social service account
 connection setup.


> Also please not g-i-s is already packaged (not uploaded) in pkg-gnome.
> We've discussed a few times that it might be ok to upload it to Debian
> as it might be useful for downstreams or special installers of Debian,
> even if it's not part of the GNOME metapackage install.

 Anyway let's upload it to repo once and consider how to manage it
 later. It's no harm.

 Ready to put into NEW.
 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-gnome/gnome-initial-setup.git/

-- 
Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
 http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane