Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-24 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Tuesday 20 July 2010 14:41:49 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The number of submissions to the Debian popularity-contest collector > is falling, and has done so for some time now. This can be easily > seen on http://popcon.debian.org/stat/sub-i386.png >. > > This is mostly caused by a fall in the

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 23:50:36 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:06 -0400, Holger Levsen wrote: > > [...] > > > and b.) IMHO reportbug-ng should be installed by the default > > > desktop task. > > > > Yes, if it supports bug scripts properly now

Bug#590214: support for submitting bug reports via http

2010-07-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: reportbug Version: 4.12.4 Severity: normal On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:50:36PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:06 -0400, Holger Levsen wrote: > > So, to summarize: a.) I still think reportbug should be able to submit bugs > > using port 80 > > Agreed. Ditto. As I

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/24/2010 02:06 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: [snip] And then there is the (nowadays perceived) problem that reportbug needs a working MTA setup or at least outgoing traffic on port 25/587. Both ports are blocked on almost all my machines, so I still have not much bothered with reportbug. (I'd us

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-24 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 23:50:36 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:06 -0400, Holger Levsen wrote: > [...] > > and b.) IMHO reportbug-ng should be installed by the default > > desktop task. > > Yes, if it supports bug scripts properly now. > It doesn't. I'm still tempted to

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:06 -0400, Holger Levsen wrote: [...] > And then there is the (nowadays perceived) problem that reportbug needs a > working MTA setup or at least outgoing traffic on port 25/587. Both ports are > blocked on almost all my machines, so I still have not much bothered with >

Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 06:14:23AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Goswin von Brederlow writes: > > Russ Allbery writes: > >> Maybe with some tagging as to the origin derivative, so that we can > >> handle cases where that data isn't useful? There's no guarantee that > >> the Ubuntu package has mu

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 01:53:22AM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > Hi again, Russ: > On Thursday 22 July 2010 14:21:09 Russ Allbery wrote: > > "Jesús M. Navarro" writes: > [...] > > I don't agree; I think it's very hard to say the same thing about testing. > I already told you that's about per

Bug#590195: ITP: libnet-plesk-perl -- Perl extension for the Plesk XML Remote API

2010-07-24 Thread Ivan Kohler
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ivan Kohler * Package name: libnet-plesk-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Jeff Finucane * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Plesk/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl extension for

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > So, point 2: are we *advertising* reportbug enough to our users? > > Perhaps not, but it's literally the very first thing listed on > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > > which is link

Re: Flag images

2010-07-24 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On onsdagen den 17 februari 2010, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > MH> On the other hand, one application will want 16x10 icons, another one > MH> 24x15, another one may have some effects applied on the flags to better > MH> fit the UI design, etc. > > May be the size must be included into path? > > l

Bug#590182: ITP: fgrun -- FGRun is a graphical frontend for running FlightGear

2010-07-24 Thread Christopher Baines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher Baines * Package name: fgrun Version : 1.5.2 Upstream Author : Frederic Bouvier (Project admin) * URL : http://fgrun.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : FGRun is a g

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-24 Thread vishnu vardhan
Hello DD's and Debian Users, I have installed Debian around an year ago. Recently, I have subscribed to various mailing lists and reading them on daily basis, whether they are relevant to me or not. I am still learning about debian. Prior to the installation of Debian, I don't have any experience

Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users, was: Re: The number of popcon.debian.org-submissions is falling

2010-07-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/22/2010 02:46 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi all, > > and there is another point, I would like to mention. > > The naming of the repository is not well chosen, as it let new and > unexperienced people to debian feel a wrong way. The names "stable" "testing" > and "unstable" let the poe

Re: [pkg-nvidia-devel] Moving diversions between packages

2010-07-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery writes: > Ian Jackson writes: > >> Why not have the new package ship libGL.so.1 to a more specific filename >> and create a symlink named libGL.so.1 by hand in its postinst ? That >> way you can defer doing the diversion until that part of the postinst, >> by which time the old pac