Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2021-01-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:24 PM Lou Poppler wrote: > I would like to help. ... > Please suggest any debian lists or IRC channels or webpages I should look at, > or other steps to make myself useful. Thanks. The general page for how to help Debian is here: https://www.debian.org/intro/help

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 11:36 PM Adrian Bunk wrote: > A bigger worry for i386 would be the availability of microcode updates This is also a big problem for amd64, since only the newest generations of Intel processors get BIOS/UEFI and or microcode updates, so lots of amd64 users (including

[PATCH] Switch from /org to /srv in directory configuration

2017-06-17 Thread Paul Wise
/org has been obsoleted by /srv for many years on debian.org hosts. --- contrib/jigdo-watcher | 10 +- contrib/report_build_error | 2 +- update-cd | 8 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/jigdo-watcher

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Looking at the various proposals, those caught my attention: - get.debian.org - download.debian.org - install.debian.org - installer.debian.org I kind-of like the idea of pointing all of these to the relevant service. -- bye,

Re: 8.1 (and maybe 7.9) planning

2015-05-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 16:27 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: press@ - ping? :-) ... Based on received responses and the current date, I'm proposing June 6th for 8.1 (and then looking at other dates for 7.9). Does that still work for people? I can be available as a backup for Neil if needed.

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there? (reloaded)

2014-09-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: sum-up It's looking like some of the options are confusing for both advanced users and newbies. The technologies behind the tasks are hidden, and there's no obvious way to know what will happen (other than looking at the package source

Bug#729222: debian-cd: please add HTTP/web seeds to the torrents

2013-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
Package: debian-cd Severity: wishlist Inspired by [1] I went to check if Debian's torrent files have web seeds in them but it doesn't look like they do. I'm guessing that debian-cd uses the bittorrent package to create .torrent files, unfortunately this does not seem to support web seeds. There

HTTP/web seeds for the torrents

2013-10-21 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, Inspired by [1] I went to check if Debian's torrent files have web seeds in them but it doesn't look like they do. I'm guessing that debian-cd uses the bittorrent package to create .torrent files, unfortunately this does not seem to support web seeds. There is, however, a fork of

Re: EFI BoF at DebConf

2012-07-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: Here's a summary of what we discussed in the EFI BoF [1] last week (9th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case you missed it. I've also attached the Gobby

Re: debian-cd BoF at DebConf

2012-07-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com wrote: Here's a summary of what we discussed in the debian-cd BoF [1] last week (9th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case you missed it. I've

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Wookey wrote: And the USB-stick process is not as simple as it might be because you have to find the HD-media files and then _also_ find an iso image to put on. It's no wonder newbs are still downloading CD/DVD images. I thought HD-media was a thing of the