Bug#893798: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2018-03-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Bad news for https://www.debian.org/users/com/dreamhost : https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/change-is-in-the-air-dreamhost-upgrades/ So please remove it.

Bug#894707: Bugs for wiki.debconf.org. Please forward

2018-04-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: wiki.debian.org Bugs for wiki.debconf.org. Please forward 1) https://wiki.debconf.org/ should mention where the bug tracker is to file reports about it. 2) Site looks broken as $wgLogo is missing. 3) epiphany browser console says: [Error] Error parsing header X-XSS-Protection: 1; mod

Bug#924120: Say "netinst multi-arch CD images"

2019-03-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ After "Current daily snapshots" say "netinst multi-arch CD images" Not just "multi-arch CD images".

Bug#924122: Users' eyes are drawn to "USB stick"

2019-03-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ users see: "other images (netboot, USB stick, etc.)" But in fact many of the other places above and below that can also be used for USB sticks. In fact they are the more primary places...

Bug#924120: Say "netinst multi-arch CD images"

2019-03-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
Well all I know is we think they must be in contrast to the other items listed. >>>>> "HW" == Holger Wansing writes: HW> Hi, HW> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: >> Package: www.debian.org >> >> On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ >>

Bug#924164: Don't say use Jigdo

2019-03-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org On https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd : See my comment at the end of bug #639937. Jigdo will not build 100% correct CDs due to the index files often not being in 100% sync. So please don't recommend it as a way to download Debian CDs. Else one will take such CD to some rem

Bug#927987: Don't tell users to use ext3

2019-04-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/apcs03.html.en says a single / partition (plus swap) is probably the easiest, simplest way to go. However, if your partition is larger than around 6GB, choose ext3 as your partition type. OK, the installer proposed

Bug#933609: How hard it is to find the Date of a package

2019-07-31 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Let's examine how extremely hard it is for a user to squeeze update date of a package he is thinking of installing out of the Debian system. First of all update dates are not part of any Package* file. So forget apt, etc. Now we must turn to the web. Case in point: "Sho

Bug#933609: How hard it is to find the Date of a package

2019-07-31 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "YW(" == Yao Wei (魏銘廷) writes: YW(> A probably known easier way is to see the standardized changelog of the package. There should be a date in each version. OK, so smart users know that the Date is hiding in the $ w3m -dump https://packages.debian.org/sid/web/webext-ublock-origin | grep

Bug#933609: How hard it is to find the Date of a package

2019-08-01 Thread Dan Jacobson
Let's look at a typical "Download" page, https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/couchsurfing-inc/couchsurfing-travel-app/couchsurfing-travel-app-4-26-0-release/#downloads as we see dates are of utmost importance. Wherever we see a version number, we see a date. In fact I'm sure you would be hard pressed t

Bug#983079: Don't captialize package names

2021-02-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org https://blends.debian.org/astro/tasks/education , https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/astronomy.fi.html capitalizes package names. However that makes it impossible to paste them into apt, etc.

Bug#761138: pagetrail misleading

2014-09-10 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: wiki.debian.org The part of a MoinMoin page looks like it is describing what part of the site we are looking at, where in fact it is showing a web history of what we have browsed. At least prefix it by "Recently viewed pages:". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debi

Bug#761138: closed by Paul Wise (Re: Bug#761138: pagetrail misleading)

2014-09-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
B> Added the suggested prefix, thanks for the usability tip. Where did you add it? I still see Debian Wiki FrontPage debconf>>android-sdk>>KVM>>PaulWise>>FrontPage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Bug#761138: closed by Paul Wise (Re: Bug#761138: pagetrail misleading)

2014-09-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Nope. Not showing up. Even logged in with a different browser. Debian Wiki HelpContents PaulWiseRecentChangesHelpContents Anyway yours says Wiki/ mine says Debian Wiki. >>>>> "PW" == Paul Wise writes: PW> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:52 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: B

Bug#761138: bug only fixed in one of the many themes

2014-09-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "PW" == Paul Wise writes: PW> I guess you aren't using the default theme, please change your PW> preferences to switch to it. Holy smokes. OK I now changed it from "Right Sidebar" to "Default" and yuck... I didn't like it and changed it back. Anyway please fix the bug in the other 85% of

Bug#761138: bug only fixed in one of the many themes

2014-09-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
OK I filed https://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/ClarifyPathMeaning but I don't want to get more involved with wikis other than MediaWiki, which is also why I didn't spend a lot of times comparing themes, but just picked one that seemed better at a quick glance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-r

Bug#207095: last change date not on packages.d.o

2014-11-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Probably the least bandwith using way to find the date currently is to just check their directory entry in .../pool/... But OK maybe date isn't important to some people, so I'll just respect that, so you can close it if you like. But even "Google play store" and "Apple app store" all have latest

Bug#809796: make dates of packages more visible

2016-01-04 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Starting from https://packages.debian.org/sid/utils/ideviceinstaller it is an extreme challenge to learn any of the DATES of any of the items listed, without being forced to download to find out. One can read all of the details, except one cannot tell if

Bug#809796: make dates of packages more visible

2016-01-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
> "AV" == Alex Vong writes: AV> I don't exactly understand what do you mean by AV> `learn any of the DATES of any of the items listed'. If you are looking AV> for when the package was being last updated, you can look at the news AV> section of

Bug#840899: no NEXT PAGE button for search results

2016-10-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
X-debbugs-cc: enr...@debian.org Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist https://debtags.debian.org/search/?q=web%3A%3Abrowser says About 56 results for web::browser: and shows 20 and lacks any NEXT PAGE button.