Bug#97263: package page: Would like to add notes

2001-05-14 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
On Sat, May 12, 2001, Simon Richter wrote: I'd like to have user feedback on a few packaging issues, especially the questions debconf will ask. I can't think of a better place than the package page. How about the README.Debian in your package? That file is there for that purposes. And I

Re: information

2001-05-14 Thread Ciobîcã
French at the end. / Francais a la fin. Alain, you are suppose to send e-mail to this list in English. If you can't do that, you are suppose to look for a list in your own language. For French you can try this page: http://www.debian.org/international/French;. Or send e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: broken mirror registration form

2001-05-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Frank Altpeter wrote: hello ! I just tried to register a new debian mirror, but it seems that the web form at http://www.debian.org/mirror/submit is broken. Please always tell us which language you are using (or which lang is displayed) The html page stops displaying after the line

Re: mirror/submit.wml

2001-05-14 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
On Mon, May 14, 2001, peter karlsson wrote: Martin Schulze: Our definition of tablerow looks weired and assumes that browser actually ignore non-closing tags. Having the ending tag for TD and TR is strictly optional in HTML. Though it's optional it's bad manner to omit it, IMHO. The

Bug#97263: package page: Would like to add notes

2001-05-14 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:54:37PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: On Sat, 12 May 2001, Josip Rodin wrote: [Notes on the package page] Can't you add the notes in the Description: field of the package? Not really, because they are about future versions of the package (upstream is

Re: Testing URLcheck

2001-05-14 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:21:28PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Something strange I noticed while reading urlcheck's output: | Looking into http://www.debian.org/events/2001/0504-linuxtag-braunschweig | http://braunschweiger.linuxtage.de/ : IOError: gave up on site (15 second limit) |

Re: Debian WWW CVS: italian

2001-05-14 Thread Martin Schulze
To our italian translators: Debian WWW CVS wrote: CVSROOT: /cvs/webwml Module name: webwml Changes by: italian 01/05/14 03:53:45 Modified files: italian/events : index.wml Log message: normal update ^ A more descriptive log messages would be appreciated.

Re: mirror/submit.wml

2001-05-14 Thread Martin Schulze
peter karlsson wrote: Martin Schulze: Our definition of tablerow looks weired and assumes that browser actually ignore non-closing tags. Having the ending tag for TD and TR is strictly optional in HTML. Really? I always thought that HTML was strict about those tags, especially since

Re: mirror/submit.wml

2001-05-14 Thread peter karlsson
Martin Schulze: Really? Yes. I have never ever written a single /TD or /TR in a page, and all my pages work perfectly. (Of course I've stopped using tables for layout now, but I still have tables for content). However, even if they're optional, we're trying to provide good HTML, or not? Not

Bug#97263: package page: Would like to add notes

2001-05-14 Thread Carlos Laviola
On Mon, 14 May 2001 08:26:54 -0500, James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:54:37PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: On Sat, 12 May 2001, Josip Rodin wrote: [Notes on the package page] Can't you add the notes in the Description: field of the package?

Bug#97263: package page: Would like to add notes

2001-05-14 Thread Simon Richter
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: I'd like to have user feedback on a few packaging issues, especially the questions debconf will ask. I can't think of a better place than the package page. How about the README.Debian in your package? That file is there for that purposes. And

Bug#97263: package page: Would like to add notes

2001-05-14 Thread Simon Richter
On Mon, 14 May 2001, James A. Treacy wrote: [Notes on the package page] I'd like to have user feedback on a few packaging issues, especially the questions debconf will ask. I can't think of a better place than the package page. Why don't you just include a URL (people.d.o is a good place

Bug#97263: package page: Would like to add notes

2001-05-14 Thread Carlos Laviola
On Tue, 15 May 2001 00:36:32 +0200 (CEST), Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2001, James A. Treacy wrote: [Notes on the package page] I'd like to have user feedback on a few packaging issues, especially the questions debconf will ask. I can't think of a better