Re: packages.debian.org file search not working properly

2014-09-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
Riccardo, On 25/09/14 05:35 AM, Riccardo Magliocchetti wrote: searching this specific file with the web interface does not produce results. https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contentskeywords=ecrm1000.tfmmode=pathsuite=unstablearch=any This is a search specifically against

Re: git repo problem - remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side

2013-11-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 10/11/13 04:37 PM, Mark Schneider wrote: Hi, $ git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/users/eric/gnupg2.git Cloning into 'gnupg2'... remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side. fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed snapshots .tgz files pickuped from web

Re: git repo problem - remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side

2013-11-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 10/11/13 04:57 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: Filesystem corruption perhaps? Ah, silly me, I should've checked the #debian-devel topic first: vasks (git.d.o et al) is having filesystem issues So the problem is known and presumably being worked on as fast as the admins can. Thanks for your report

Re: page http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration

2013-04-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 15/04/13 07:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, As posted in http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/03/msg01247.html Looking at page http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration I see 2 different syntaxes for vlan raw device. One uses dashes, vlan-raw-device, the other underscores,

Re: Debian website ist jumbled

2013-04-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 01/04/13 06:54 AM, Kuros Yalpani wrote: is the jumbled text notation of the home page of debian (http://www.debian.org/) on purpose? Or has someone maliciously modified the home page? Check the date today. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Fwd: debian live usb - What do I download?

2013-02-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 26/02/13 03:04 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: Original Message Subject: debian live usb - What do I download? From: Mark Filipak markfilipak.li...@gmail.com I assume that all this front-loading means that I can't change desktops after installation. No, it simply means

Fwd: debian live usb - What do I download?

2013-02-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
Forwarding this to the web team (of which I also happen to be a member, so I'll likely follow up as soon as I have time). Original Message Subject: debian live usb - What do I download? Resent-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:36:53 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-l...@lists.debian.org

Re: [Debian Wiki] Your wiki account data

2013-01-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
Vikram, On 04/01/13 11:21 AM, Vikram Vincent wrote: Why is the reset option going to the list instead of my personal mail? I'm 99.9% confident isn't***, i.e. only the From: (or Reply-To:) address is set to this mailing list so that if you reply to the email instead of just clicking on the URL

Re: [Debian Wiki] Your wiki account data

2013-01-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/01/13 11:50 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: On 04/01/13 11:21 AM, Vikram Vincent wrote: Why is the reset option going to the list instead of my personal mail? I'm 99.9% confident isn't***, i.e. only the From: (or Reply-To:) address is set to this mailing list so that if you reply to the email

Bug#686819: simpler presentation of iso downloads

2012-12-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 28/12/12 09:06 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: Along the same line, it was suggested on #debian-boot that the main http://www.debian.org/index page should do the same: CD ISO images should be before CD vendors in the Getting Debian list. Also, network install could be more useful to put early.

Bug#686819: simpler presentation of iso downloads

2012-12-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 28/12/12 09:08 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: I forgot another important thing: I had not even *seen* the Download Debian 6.0 image on the top-right corner of http://www.debian.org/index . This is indeed not a place where the eyes would naturally go, so it tends to be completely unnoticed.

Re: Conflict re Debian Testing security updates?

2012-12-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 12/14/2012 10:19 AM, Chris Game wrote: Your information on the Debian Testing wiki page http://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting that: Compared to stable and unstable, next-stable testing has the worst security update speed. Don't prefer testing if security is a concern. - seems in

Bug#686819: simpler presentation of iso downloads

2012-11-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/11/12 05:31 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Hi again Ben, any chance you can review and/or apply this patch? Sorry for bothering again, but I'm about to prepare a related patch to document how to get Debian on public clouds (bug report

Re: dead link / resource

2012-11-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 11/09/2012 10:19 AM, Fabio Ottaviani - Raw-News wrote: the resource: http://eeepc.debian.net/debian/images/debian-eeepc.img present in: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePCItalian/HowTo/Install is off line thanks for your work ;) Unless someone is going to update the whole translation

Re: Presentation of iso downloads - simpler like Fedora?

2012-08-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/21/2012 09:05 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Along the same lines, I suggest to simplify the choices according to the ways of acquiring Debian that are more likely for users. The suggestion is implemented in the attached patch: - it put

Re: Presentation of iso downloads - simpler like Fedora?

2012-08-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/13/2012 05:10 AM, Philip Hands wrote: While contrasting with Ubuntu, there is also the issue of Debian Live CDs which are close to impossible to find, and if you eventually manage to find them, turn out to be too big to fit on a CD. I

Re: Fwd: cannot edit ms/FrontPage

2012-07-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 07/04/2012 09:45 AM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: after logged as on wiki page i edited wiki FrontPage for Malay language (http://wiki.debian.org/ms/FrontPage), it says You can't change ACLs on this page since you have no admin rights on it! before this I can edit it. Curious. You didn't

Re: Broken link

2012-04-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/23/2012 08:46 AM, Tarkan Erimer wrote: Hi, This link seems to be broken : http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/o/openssl/openssl_0.9.8g-15+lenny16/changelog Would you fix it ? I need that changelog, at the moment. Lenny has reached end of life and was removed from the

Re: Lenny release info: wrong release date

2012-04-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 20/04/12 03:48 PM, Pfannenstein Erik wrote: Hi all, while browing the release info pages in the context of [1], I noticed that it says on [2] that Debian Lenny was released on March 10, 201*2* Could somebody please correct this? I've tried to do it myself, but I couldn't find where

Re: Lenny release info: wrong release date

2012-04-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 20/04/12 09:43 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: Debian GNU/Linux *5.0.10* was released March 10th, 2012. That being said, I do see the confusion. Maybe it would be better (for obsolete releases) to say: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.10, the last update to lenny, was released March 10th, 2012

Re: Aufstellung Debian Versionen = Versionsnummern

2012-04-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/19/2012 01:49 PM, Heiko Haase wrote: ich nutze Debian seit vielen Jahren, ist eine feine Sache. Aber es war schon immer ein grausen wenn man mal eben auf den Webseiten herausfinden wollte welche Version hat welche Nummer und welche ist aktuell noch unterstützt. Da fehlt ein Link auf

Accidental public posting of private information (was: My order)

2012-03-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 05/03/12 01:54 PM, hong shao wrote: When finished my order of debian linux, I haven't heard from you about my order information by email. My name is Hong Shao. If it's possible I would like to cancel this order. My visa number is . My email address is shb...@yahoo.ca.

Re: Add an extra item to the CD faq: write image to USB

2011-09-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 12/09/11 05:52 AM, Luca Capello wrote: No flame, please, this is a fair question. On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:15:51 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: +pThe most common way to copy an image to a USB flash drive is to use +the qdd/q command on a Linux machine:/p ^ Are these informations the same

Re: Add an extra item to the CD faq: write image to USB

2011-09-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/12/2011 05:55 AM, Luca Capello wrote: Because the Ubuntu website can change without any (prior) notice and thus we need to update our pages. Including these relevant information (with links to external tools, if needed) in our pages means that the worst scenario will be that the links

Re: Add an extra item to the CD faq: write image to USB

2011-09-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/12/2011 01:23 PM, Luca Capello wrote: You have a point, but then I do not see why we need to restrict our instructions to a single Unix and not refer them to other/all Unix-like OSs, when the same tool is available there (and we even distribute some of them). Hm. I didn't see the

Re: Add an extra item to the CD faq: write image to USB

2011-09-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 10/09/11 07:31 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: Any objections for me to commit this? Looks good to me. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Feedback to Wiki-Article DebianEeePCModel1101HA

2011-09-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 10/09/11 01:32 PM, Matthias Ehmann wrote: I really had a hard time figuring out how to get a xorg.conf... so I would suggest to change this article and to add some information on how to create an xorg.conf. ... Just something like this: - open a terminal as root (type 'su' in a normal

Re: Doesn't Debian work from a live cd?

2011-08-06 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 06/08/11 07:32 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 14:36 -0400, Denny Nebgen wrote: Hi Paul, I downloaded and burned an iso image cd of debian and when I ran the cd, the only options were to install and not run live. My first experience with Debian linux so, I may be

Re: Debian 6.0.0 was initially released on ...

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/13/2011 01:06 PM, Alexander Reshetov wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 02:32:21PM +0200, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: * David Prévot dav...@altern.org [2011-04-13]: Debian 6.0.1 was released March 19th, 2011. Debian 6.0.0 was initially released on February 6th, 2011. --- Squeeze (6.0.0)

Re: Debian 6.0.0 was initially released on ...

2011-04-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/12/2011 06:44 AM, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: I guess it's just me, but I think the statement Debian 6.0.0 was initially released on February 6th, 2011 is a little bit strange. See http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/index.en.html Debian 6.0.0 was released February 6th, 2011 and only

Re: live install links broken

2011-03-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/21/2011 12:38 PM, Tim Williams wrote: All of the Debian live install links on the following URL return a 404 error. http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ I'm particularly interested in your live cd after using ubuntu for years only to discover that it will not boot on my new computer

Re: Missing link to Debian distro Lenny

2011-03-16 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/16/2011 03:37 PM, David Prévot wrote: Le 16/03/2011 08:50, Odd Simen Mossik a écrit : Hi Hi, This page: http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive Is missing a refrence to Lenny: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/ Thanks for your input, but this page is about archived version of

Re: Problem/suggestion realting to the Debian web site

2011-03-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/03/11 04:18 AM, Bret Busby wrote: The only way that I could find reference to Live CD's for Debian 6, on the Debian web site, was to use the web site search engine. I suggest that the web page at http://www.debian.org/distrib/ should include reference to the existence of the Live CD's

Re: Why don't you direct people to the LIVE DVD website?

2011-02-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 24/02/11 11:49 PM, S Ariyaratna wrote: I lost a lot of time downloading the CD1, netinstall, etc, but when I was told that there is Livd DVd section and those Live DVDs also installs, I downloaded the Debian 6 to check. Why don't you direct people to the LIVE DVD website? Your

Bug#613594: planet.debian.org: Folding only applies to first article by an author

2011-02-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal When you click - by an author's name to fold their articles, only the first article by that author is folded. Any others remain unfolded. (Hard one to find, as most others post at most one article per day.) Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#613598: planet.debian.org: large images can overflow into the sidebar, obscuring its content

2011-02-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal This is particularly problematic on smaller displays (e.g. netbook 1024x600). If an image is too large, it will overflow into the sidebar, obscuring the sidebar content (sidebar text is printed on top of the image). The image should be constrained to the

Re: Links on http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ are wrong

2011-02-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 02/07/2011 08:18 AM, Alexander Kurtz wrote: Hi, http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ links to http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0-live/amd64/bt-cd/ http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0-live/i386/bt-cd/ http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0-live/amd64/iso-cd/

Bug#611830: [www.debian.org] please update /ports/ WRT to amd64 (EM64T) and ppc64

2011-02-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 02/04/2011 01:36 PM, Filipus Klutiero wrote: I actually filed this report when reviewing the release notes. I found these PC descriptions vague/ambiguous. For example, a 32-bit PowerPC is not i386. I think we should stick to x86 and x86-64, possibly mentioning AMD64 and Intel 64. If not,

Bug#607193: document various download options/locations for Squeeze CD images

2011-02-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 02/02/11 08:52 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: On 02/02/2011 01:35 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Fair enough, but my question remains. Have you (or the -www team) looked into mentioning the live installer images on the web site, as an option to install Squeeze? Given your comment above, that

Re: Elírás az oldalon

2010-10-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
2010. október 15. 18:02 Hajós Attila írta, linux.aluc...@gmail.com: I thought so! :) (netisnst) sorry but i don't speak english On 10/15/2010 01:09 PM, Hajós Attila wrote: 'eldünteni' correctly 'eldönteni' :) http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ Thanks. I have also made this

Re: Please help review and announce mini-DebConf Taiwan on www.d.o

2009-09-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:15:33 +0800 Andrew Lee ajq...@debian.org wrote: I am updating the webwml file to these below and SynrG is helping to commit it. \o/ Done. Also, Andrew noticed the August events are past now, so I changed them to #use wml::debian::past_event. Ben -- ,-. nSLUG

Clarify squeak status on http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package ?

2008-07-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
I see squeak on: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package * squeak -- license issues. Maybe this should be clarified, now that squeak-vm is in Debian? (There are still license issues with the squeak images, but the avg. user might not make the distinction between squeak-vm and

Re: Broken web link

2006-11-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 15:34:20 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 12:09:40AM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:29:07AM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:46:00AM -, Paul Cager wrote: On page

Re: Broken web link

2006-11-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 15:34:20 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree. I've been lurking on the list for a while in anticipation of having the time to set one of my boxen up for the kids and it generates essentially no useful mail about debian jr. Of course, there may not be

Re: Update woody/sarge info in debian-jr webpages

2006-02-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 17:09 -0200, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: While reviewing a translation for a Debian Jr. [1]page, I fount out that there are some information about Woody/Sarge that is not up-to-date. :) [1]http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/index.html I

Bug#251218: /devel/people gives recognition for quantity of packages, not quality

2004-05-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
than quantity. Thanks, Ben Armstrong -- syrng at debian dot org

Re: Lack of non-profit partners/memberships listed on web site

2002-02-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 07:09:38PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:43PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: I notice a conspicuous lack of listings for non-profit organizations Debian is allied with, a member of, or in some other way formally recognizes as a partner

Lack of non-profit partners/memberships listed on web site

2001-11-29 Thread Ben Armstrong
Please CC me in replies. I notice a conspicuous lack of listings for non-profit organizations Debian is allied with, a member of, or in some other way formally recognizes as a partner. The partners page is great, but that only lists corporate partners who act in a supportive capacity towards

[fcampor@tin.it: a new entry from Italy]

2000-11-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
Hi, I would like to take Francesca up on her offer. How shall we coordinate this? I have cvs write, so I can put up the pages as she submits them to me, or she could work with you directly. Please advise. Ben - Forwarded message from Francesca [EMAIL PROTECTED] - X-Envelope-Sender:

help with meta-html and making my own templates

2000-02-29 Thread Ben Armstrong
Hi, You'll see my latest efforts in CVS at /webwml/english/devel/debian-jr/ In particular, I'm wondering how I should name/structure my own template files. I have used meta-HTML for structuring the data in a couple of lists, named the data files foo.data (cf. /webwml/english/y2k) but couldn't

Re: help with meta-html and making my own templates

2000-02-29 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, James A. Treacy wrote: All the templates for the main pages are in english/template/debian. If you don't put them there, then the translations won't see them. Note that you only need to create your own template file if you don't want to use one of the existing ones. Can

Re: help with meta-html and making my own templates

2000-02-29 Thread Ben Armstrong
Ah yes ... I just noticed that in the y2k files I was following as an example and wondering why. Makes perfect sense now. OK, fixed. Ben On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, James A. Treacy wrote: When using #include, please use the following form so translators don't need to edit lines relating only to

w.d.o udates not happening?

2000-02-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
Since Feb 25, my update to w.d.o/debian/debian-jr/index.wml has been in cvs ... $ who am i va!synrgttyp0Feb 27 07:51 (u42n111.hfx.eastlink.ca) $ head index.wml,v head1.3; access; symbols; locks; strict; comment @# @; 1.3 date2000.02.25.04.28.18;author synrg; state Exp;

Re: w.d.o udates not happening?

2000-02-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Darren O. Benham wrote: Are updates to w.d.o broken? I thought they happened nightly. The two have nothing in common... the Lists-Archives scripts (run by the Lists-Archives maintainer(s)) create the index for the List-Archives... no ... look carefully at what i

I have just announced the Debian-Jr list, please update

2000-02-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
Please update the mailing list pages (if that isn't automatic) with the Debian-Jr list. Thanks, Ben -- nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ pgp key fingerprint = 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39

Re: I have just announced the Debian-Jr list, please update

2000-02-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
OK ... I'll wait and see. If I have any trouble, do I contact you or Hanno? I assume it'll be there in 24 hrs? Ben On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Martin Schulze wrote: Ben Armstrong wrote: Please update the mailing list pages (if that isn't automatic) with the Debian-Jr list. That goes

Re: debian-kids list

2000-02-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, James A. Treacy wrote: See http://www.debian.org/devel/HOWTO_start_list for info on getting a new list set up. I have submitted a wishlist bug as documented to create the list. I haven't received confirmation yet. It seems it is lagging somewhat. We have found that it

Re: debian-kids list

2000-02-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
Yeah ... I just discussed that on irc last night. Will make cvs and wml maintenance a hell of a lot easier. I have moved it now. Ben On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, James A. Treacy wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 01:38:29AM +, Ben Armstrong wrote: I have a page now at http://master.debian.org

Re: debian-kids list

2000-02-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Ben Armstrong wrote: I don't know what happend to my wishlist :( I submitted it last night and haven't received confirmation yet. Oh well, it's probably just as well, as we are discussing a change in name from debian-kids to debian-jr (provided nobody has objections

debian-kids list

2000-02-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
I'm scritching together some notes from the Debian for kids discussion on debian-devel and will be posting them shortly to debian-devel for review -- or maybe it's better just to get *something* up there, from my notes and have the discussion/revision afterwards? After all, we've already done a

Debian-kids goals (draft) (fwd)

2000-02-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
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Re: debian-kids list

2000-02-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, James A. Treacy wrote: See http://www.debian.org/devel/HOWTO_start_list for info on getting a new list set up. We have found that it is easier if sub-projects use the personal web space in w.d.o (w.d.o/~synrg in your case). We will put a link to that under the 'Internal

Re: debian-kids list

2000-02-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, James A. Treacy wrote: We'll worry about that when the time comes. Yup. OK, I'll see what my draft produces. Got anything in the way of templates I can use for a default layout for the page so it meshes well with the main w.d.o site? We use wml to take care of

Re: death of the gif format

1999-12-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: BTW, I asked another upstream author to consider switching. He emailed back saying that he noticed Debian still used GIFs in our webd page and we knew best. So he wasn't changing. I understand the reason, but perhaps switching to non-compressed