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On Fri, 2023-11-24 at 23:53 +0200, Zebediah Beck wrote: > Good day sir/madam I'm a long time debian user but would like that > contribute technical documentation to the community in thanks for > your tireless work on this magnificent ecosystem. There is a lot of work to do on the wiki, please

Re: Attention to the community,

On Sat, 2023-11-25 at 00:40 +0200, Zebediah Beck wrote: > I'm a long time debian user but am a first time user of the mailing > list and bug report systems, I would like that contribute technical > doxygen documentation to libbitcoin in the form of doctests and > comments in thanks for your

Re: Review request: publicity microflyer

On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 15:59 +0100, James Addison wrote: > I'd like to gather feedback on the wording and content of the flyer; I would recommend replacing the specific number of packages in the flyer with a more generic term like "many" or "thousands of" since this represents a maintenance

Re: Any discussion of replacing MoinMoin?

On Sun, 2023-06-04 at 05:45 +, Martin wrote: > To me, the most desperately missing feature is having wiki content in a > VCS, such as git. I like to work on documentation like on code. This is a different kind of wiki to what Franklin and Kamaraju are used to; MediaWiki is backed by a

Re: How do I push a translation to the official Debian documentation?

On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 12:19 +0800, gugudu wrote: > I tried to register an account with WiKi and it tells me that I cannot > register automatically. > > Account creation failed: Automatic account creation disabled to stop spammers > signing up.  > Please contact w...@debian.org and describe

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

On Mon, 2023-03-20 at 12:05 +, James Addison wrote: > That's not a bad idea.  Are there any reasons that that might _not_ be a good > idea before filing a wishlist bug?  (performance, implications of scanning > binary packages, ...) binutils isn't security supported, so using objdump in

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

On Sun, 2023-03-19 at 16:44 +, James Addison wrote: > The 'grep' for the word 'nopl' seems potentially fragile.  If there's a > more-precise and/or less-false-positive-prone way to check whether each file > contains the 'nopl' opcode (and I'd expect that there is), then that'd be a > welcome

Bug#1030189: Let regular users know need to put non-free-firmware in sources.list

On Wed, 2023-02-01 at 21:32 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Somehow, but how exactly?  Good question that was brought up on > debian-devel[2], alas without replies yet. The apt developers have come up with something for this: https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/merge_requests/282 -- bye,

Re: About korean translation of debian history

On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 20:56 +0100, Borden wrote: > 3 Dec 2022, 01:27 by Holger Wansing: > > > Where can I find the latest Korean translator? > > > > In your kitchen, I guess :-p > > > Is there a joke somewhere in there? The latest Korean translator for project-history was sebul. -- bye, pabs

Re: About korean translation of debian history

On Sat, 2022-12-03 at 08:07 +0900, sebul wrote: > Hello. I read > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/index.ko.html > > Where can I find the latest Korean translator? This is the git repository for that project: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/project-history These files are

Re: Why pipeline fail

On Wed, 2022-08-24 at 19:03 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > It seems unlikely that this text has changed, so maybe it's a > regression in codespell - maybe it has somehow lost the ability to > recognise and strings as code that it > shouldn't be spellchecking?  I see there's a new version in

Re: Doc help

On Thu, 2022-07-21 at 12:00 +, Mobius wrote: > Hi there. I was directed to you by Paul Wise who maintains the > website after I submitted a correction. They said I should subscribe > to this email list if I wanted to help contribute. Sorry that no-one has responded to your mail so

Re: debian-faq in NEW - or: remove documentation from the archive at all

On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 20:52 +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > Maybe in a next upload of debian-faq, we could get rid of this by-hand stuff. > Afaik it's only used to get the FAQ content published at > https://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/ I think it would be better to send a dak patch turning the

Re: how to fix typo in Debian doc Korean ?

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 11:35 PM Martin Schauer wrote: > https://sources.debian.org/src/debian-history/2.23/po4a/po/ko.po/ > > If you can grep the wrong string there: bug report with patch. Sebul, in case you prefer working with git, the repo is here:

Bug#928026: security support for golang packages in Buster

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 2:45 PM Paul Gevers wrote: > With respect to binNMU'ing, static linking is not a problem, only > arch:all is. Most haskell (4 vs 1048) and ocaml (21 vs 233) aren't > arch:all. haskell and ocaml have a framework in place to at least know > the status in unstable/testing. See

Debian and the Google Season of Docs?

Hi all, I note Google is attempting to get professional technical writers involved in working on documentation for open source. It might be interesting to have some of them improve Debian's documentation. https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/03/introducing-season-of-docs.html -- bye, pabs

Re: Bug#893397: adapt the cron scripts to use http:// instead of ftp://

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > One negative point of above approach is that it always downloads doc deb > packages even if there are no changes. This will prevent downloading the same package twice: chdist apt old install --download-only emacsen-common > Also unpacking

Re: Bug#893397: adapt the cron scripts to use http:// instead of ftp://

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:55 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > apt-get has -C option to use non-standard /etc/apt/sources.list > listing unstable distribution: This is the wrong way to completely override the system apt configuration. The right way is to set the APT_CONFIG environment variable. See the

Bug#887335: tracker.debian.org: add a link to the manual pages service

Package: tracker.debian.org Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-doc@lists.debian.org, Michael Stapelberg In the links panel of the per-package pages, please add a link to [1] with the text "manual page(s)" for packages that appear in [2]. The tracker service should

Re: volunteers for reading bo...@debian.org (and maintain the page www.debian.org/doc/books)?

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > but I think the mails people send to bo...@debian.org do not arrive any > person, currently: Looks like the default is for the WEBMASTER field from the .mailfilter file. > I think we should add some address in BOOKS="" I wonder if it

Re: Installation guide is not updated in some languages

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > AFAICT, the notable difference is that files are named e.g. .html.en on > the website, while they are named .html in the package. These names make > sense in their respective contexts: we need a .html extension in the > package so that it

Re: Installation guide is not updated in some languages

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > However, seeing the cron.git repository, I think you wanted debian-www? Some folks on debian-doc have debwww access IIRC. > I've poked #debian-www to see whether it might be a good idea to get a > debwww sudo a bit wider than just

Bug#861522: dman: fall back on newer or older suites when requested manual page not in current suite

Package: debian-goodies Version: 0.71 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/dman X-Debbugs-CC: Antoine Beaupré , debian-doc@lists.debian.org dman currently reports an error when I try to use it to read its own manual page, because it defaults to stretch with no fallback. There

Bug#861317: manpages.debian.org: anchors for command-line options

Package: manpages.debian.org Severity: wishlist It would be very very useful to be able to reference individual command-line options or subcommands (for things like git). This needs id attributes on the relevant tags or tags. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc

Re: https://manpages.debian.org/ - PARTIAL breakage

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > It doesn’t unconditionally prefer Spanish pages over English pages. What > you’re seeing is that it picks a section first (1 instead of 8, in this > case) and sticks to it. In section 1, the best match for an English request > is the

Re: https://manpages.debian.org/ - PARTIAL breakage

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: > The redirector tries to find the "best" manpage and forwards you to > that one. Unfortunatley, this seems to be a bug in the > manpages-es-extra manpage, which provides a chroot manpage in section > 1 (instead of section 8, where

Re: Personal Git repositories on Alioth (was: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!)

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Does the resulting repository automatically get published on Alioth, > managed by ‘cgit’ at a ‘anonscm.debian.org’ URL? cgit doesn't do any management, it just publishes existing repos. User repositories are available at URLs like these:

Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!

On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 09:09 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Could you please verify whether the -based fallback works for > you? See https://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/fallback/i3.1.en.html > for a demo. The SVG is downloaded but there is no fallback on high security. I wouldn't worry

Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!

On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 08:47 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Could you clarify how I can implement a fallback in a way that works > for Tor Browser please? The solution here appears to work: https://css-tricks.com/a-complete-guide-to-svg-fallbacks/#fallback-object In this case, the page

Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!

On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 08:45 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > What would be the best way to trigger on mirror pushes? I'm not sure about that, please ask #debian-mirrors or failing that #debian-admin, and or the lists. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc

Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!

On Thu, 2017-01-19 at 09:35 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > To: Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> I'm subscribed :) > No. Isn’t that a violation of the FHS (see > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA) > and Debian policy? I suppose

Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > As you might expect, I'm uncomfortable about the use of the > proprietary github service for this. I realise that we don't > necessarily have entirely comparable alternatives, but Free Software > needs free tools.[1] Agreed for both bugs and

Re: manpages.debian.org has been modernized!

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 1:23 AM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > https://manpages.debian.org has been modernized! We have just launched > a major update to our manpage repository. What used to be served via a > CGI script is now a statically generated website, and therefore > blazingly fast. My dman

Bug#827436: release-notes: update & comment out new architectures section for stretch

Package: release-notes Severity: wishlist Please update & comment out the new architectures section for stretch: https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2016/06/msg00059.html This is the suggested commit message: Update and comment out the new architectures section The version number there is

Idea: download manual pages when not available

Hi all, When a particular manual page is not available on the system, it might be nice if man were able to download the manual page. To do this we need: A repository of manual pages. Done! http://manpages.debian.org/ http://manpages.ubuntu.com/ A way to download raw manual pages. A patch for

Bug#780076: release-notes: document not using aptitude upgrade for the Minimal system upgrade

Package: release-notes Severity: important In #780028 we discovered that using aptitude upgrade for the Minimal system upgrade results in a jessie system with sysvinit instead of systemd-sysv. Please copy the note about not using aptitude from the Upgrading the system to the Minimal system

manpages.debian.net issues?

Hi Javier, I note that manpages.debian.net is down. I asked DSA on IRC and they said you haven't responded for their calls for help moving it to another machine and that they would not be re-enabling it without responsive maintainers for the service. Are you still interested in maintaining this

Re: manpages.debian.net issues?

On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 01:21 -0500, Robert W. Oliver II wrote: Well, I am an experienced sysadmin who is willing to help in that regard, if needed. Excellent. The code is available in the SVN repository below. If you could familiarise yourself with the code, try setting up a test install on

manpages.debian.net and non-default encodings

Hi Javier, I noticed that the manpages.d.n site doesn't seem to support non-default encodings. The page for wireless(7) says that only Czech is available but the package itself also contains two French translations in different encodings, neither of them in the normal directory for French

Re: manpages.debian.net and non-default encodings

On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 12:56 +0100, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote: Actually, some known bugs are already listed in the 'TODO' file, so you could just add it there. I don't appear to have permission to commit, but here is my bug: $ svn diff Index: TODO

Re: Bug#614233: www.debian.org: patch replacing Debian GNU/Linux where relevant

On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 00:56 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: But I also think this is significant enough change which needs some serious position approval. I do not think this is something we need to do GR but at least general consensus beyond DDP or web team. So, I CCed leader :-) to get some

Re: Fwd: Kicking off the ubuntu-packaging-guide project

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Daniel Holbach daniel.holb...@ubuntu.com wrote: The Ubuntu Packaging Guide (or whatever it might be called in the near future) is not trying to replace any existing documentation, like the Debian Policy or the Debian New Maintainer's Guide. Instead it's very

Bug#523985: developers-reference: add a paragraph about dealing with hostile upstreams

Package: developers-reference Severity: wishlist Please add the attached patch against SVN about dealing with hostile upstreams. See the thread on debian-private I posted the wording to recently for the motivation for this. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise Index: