Re: Misc Developer News (#35)
On 05/27/2014 03:08 PM, Jose Luis Rivas wrote: > I've seen the issue with people sending me emails using Thunderbird in > Windows, never from another OS I had the issue myself (and I'm not a Windows user, using Debian stable on my laptop...), but switching everything away from html (all options, as it's buried in multiple place which I can't even remember), then everything works perfectly. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53859c5c.1020...@debian.org
Re: Debian running on handhelds (or for terminals)
Dear Wookey, and Dear Colleagues, 2013-08-27 1:29 GMT+02:00 Wookey : > +++ patrick295767 patrick295767 [2013-08-26 12:34 +0200]: >>Hello, >>I wonder what's Debian position in regards to installations on Handhelds. >>Over the years, I have installed/contributed in installing Debian on >>various handheld machines, including�for instance HP Jornadas (Sarge - >>archive), Psion Revo, Psion 5mx, ... armel, and finally the best of best >>the Pandora. (The default OS of the Pandora is Angstrom). >>As shown, Debian can be readily installed on various platforms / machines, >>even with a very limited hardware. > > This is true, although debian installer and kernel supprt for most of > these machines has been poor/missing. > >>My question is as follows: >>�- Have we missed something? Publicity?� >>- How to fix that? A temptative... > > One very useful resource is the Wiki.debian.org/DebianOn > pages. There are loads of things Debian will install on that do not > have a page there, and it would enormously help others. > > Debian-installer support is another really useful thing. For a long > time we were hampered by the fact that parted had no support for > flash-only devices, and D-I depended on parted. These days nearly > everything has something that looks like a block device and parted has > got smarter so this is largely no longer a blocker. > > Making stuff 'just work' in D-I and kernel support would be a great > contribution. > >>I believe that Debian shall also propose more packages that are suited to >>terminals, maybe to show that we can run Debian and have also lightweight >>fast X11 applications. More publicity on lightweight applications? More >>terminal applications in our repos? >>OPIE / GPE (in particular GPE added to our repos) are also a point for >>having Debian for Handelds. > > We've had GPE in debian for may years, but not well-maintained. Taking > care of that would be great if you are interested in it. > >>I believed we might lack of publicity on own easily Debian is installable >>on handhelds. >>Debian can be installed very light. > > This is true but the results are often less than ideal due to missing > bits of UI. We could really use people doing _actual work_ to make > this better. I'd hesitate to recommend it to many users without some > more work to take off some of the rough edges (unless things have > improved greatly since last time I looked about a year ago). > >>And more recently, how manage with ARMs?� >>[1]http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/linus-torvalds-threatens-to-cut-off-arm > > This is old news and has been essentially sorted by linaro (and > others). The new(ish) multi-device support will make our lives as a > distro much easier as we don't have to build loads of different > kernels to get reasonable device coverage. > >>Another example on publicity, is our webpage (wiki) is out-dated (well it >>is difficult to keep all up to date). >>[2]https://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnHandhelds > > It a wiki - please update it. > Wiki updating is too much time consuming, however I can give tipps on how to install on many devices, pda,... html/php is out of current question currently for me. I can tell how I install debian by email, and one could update the page directly. > >>I would say that Handhelds (and also older computers) are the future way >>to go for Debian. > Maintaining OPIE would be too much work, and I haven't the sufficient number of hours for such a large project. > Well, one aspect. Many of us still want to use it on new and > non-mobile hardware too, but I agree it is underappreciated in this > area, and it's an increasingly important area. > > This stuff is co-ordinated on the debian-mobile list. Please join > there if you haven't already. We could really use more people doing > actual work to make things better - much of which isn't actually hard > (updating wiki pages, flash-kernel and D-I support for more devices, > updating handheld-relevant packages). I would be very pleased to help and contribute even more Debian. > > Lots of people are 'interested' in this are, but I'm not aware of much > actual work being done. A bit of action could well generate quite a > lot more interest. If you would like, Wookey, I could give you debs for some of the applications from nframe-os, as a contrib or non-free. You can check the wide array of applications based on ncurses and nframe-os. nframe-os is extremely tiny (lightweight), since it requires only ncurses and almost no libs (just few, e.g. signal,netbase). It does everything itself (which demanded many years of dev). There are really a bunch applications and actually very nice ones. http://ncursespim.scienceontheweb.net/nframe-os.htm If you are interested, I would like also to maintain xlockmore (version 5.37). I would like to have a deb for testing/sid (or stable someday) since in my opinion, xlockmore is
Bug#749546: marked as done (general: No trackpad on Toshiba CB35 Chromebook Debian Jessie)
Your message dated Wed, 28 May 2014 12:00:23 +0200 with message-id <201405281200.29769.hol...@layer-acht.org> and subject line Re: Bug#749546: general: No trackpad on Toshiba CB35 Chromebook Debian Jessie has caused the Debian Bug report #749546, regarding general: No trackpad on Toshiba CB35 Chromebook Debian Jessie to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 749546: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749546 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: general Severity: important Trackpad does not work on a Toshiba Chromebook cb35 on Debian Jessie. Tried the script at: pastebin.com/2GQnyMLT (via: blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/04/20/acer-c720-chromebook-debian-gnu-linux/ ) with no success. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash --- End Message --- --- Begin Message --- Hi, On Mittwoch, 28. Mai 2014, roger wrote: > Trackpad does not work on a Toshiba Chromebook cb35 on Debian Jessie. > > Tried the script at: pastebin.com/2GQnyMLT (via: > blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/04/20/acer-c720-chromebook-debian-g > nu-linux/ ) with no success. sorry, but this is not a general bug in Debian and the BTS is not http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ - thus closing this bug. If you want to try again, please file a bug using "/usr/bin/reportbug" against the src:linux package. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. --- End Message ---
Bug#749579: ITP: virtualjaguar -- Cross-platform Atari Jaguar emulator
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz * Package name: virtualjaguar Version : 2.1.0 Upstream Author : James Hammons * URL : http://icculus.org/virtualjaguar/ * License : GPL-3, Public Domain Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Cross-platform Atari Jaguar emulator Virtual Jaguar is a cross-platform emulator for Atari's infamous Jaguar console, the last video game system to ever released by the now defunct company. The Jaguar was marketed as the first 64-bit video game system despite the fact that it was actually a 32-bit system at heart, just the blitter operated in 64-bit mode. The system was a commercial failure and eventually lead to Atari leaving the market for video game systems. This emulator features an intuitive user interface and emulation of all of the major subsystems of the Atari Jaguar console. This includes full GPU and DSP emulation as well as emulation of the Atari Jaguar CD. Most of the commercial Atari games are supported, albeit some of them have some minor glitches when running in the emulator. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140528100811.16221.9800.report...@z6.physik.fu-berlin.de
Bug#749594: ITP: python-wrapt -- decorators, wrappers and monkey patching
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-wrapt Version : 1.8.0 Upstream Author : Graham Dumpleton * URL : https://github.com/GrahamDumpleton/wrapt * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: Python Description : decorators, wrappers and monkey patching The aim of the wrapt module is to provide a transparent object proxy for Python, which can be used as the basis for the construction of function wrappers and decorator functions. . The wrapt module focuses very much on correctness. It therefore goes way beyond existing mechanisms such as functools.wraps() to ensure that decorators preserve introspectability, signatures, type checking abilities etc. The decorators that can be constructed using this module will work in far more scenarios than typical decorators and provide more predictable and consistent behaviour. . To ensure that the overhead is as minimal as possible, a C extension module is used for performance critical components. An automatic fallback to a pure Python implementation is also provided where a target system does not have a compiler to allow the C extension to be compiled. This is yet-another-dependency for OpenStack (for next release: Juno). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140528135850.27989.20710.report...@buzig.gplhost.com
Re: Misc Developer News (#35)
Quoting Thomas Goirand (2014-05-28 10:20:44) > On 05/27/2014 03:08 PM, Jose Luis Rivas wrote: > > I've seen the issue with people sending me emails using Thunderbird in > > Windows, never from another OS > > I had the issue myself (and I'm not a Windows user, using Debian > stable on my laptop...), but switching everything away from html (all > options, as it's buried in multiple place which I can't even > remember), then everything works perfectly. On Debian stable, running the wizard and accepting the recommended settings does that. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: signature
Bug#748556: SOLVED - System will now SHUTDOWN when asked
OK - no input on this thread but after a couple of days of intermittent searching and fiddling we got there - we shouldn't have had to but there we go. Problems shown above with gdm3 and lightdm were actually fixed with 2 or 3 more switches between gdm3 and lightdm with reboots - that was all it needed but why 1 didn't do it I know not!! I am now running gdm3 The shutdown issue has been discussed for YEARS and I tried one of the solutions:- Install systemd and systemd-sysvcompat (on my system systemd was already there but that wasn't enough) During grub boot - select the system you want to boot up Press "e" to edit the startup details Add init=/bin/systemd to the GRUB DEFAULT line Bingo - until someone breaks that -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53862947@priorycomputers.com
Bug#748556: marked as done (general: Power Off does not work)
Your message dated Wed, 28 May 2014 21:11:02 +0200 with message-id <201405282111.03801.hol...@layer-acht.org> and subject line Re: Bug#748556: SOLVED - System will now SHUTDOWN when asked has caused the Debian Bug report #748556, regarding general: Power Off does not work to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 748556: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748556 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Since update/upgrade of Jessie on or about 14th May:- Select menu "Power Off" - dialogue Cancel/Restart/PowerOff appears. Select "Power Off" very little appears to happen all tasks continue to run and new tasks can be started. Enter "shutdown now" command - system closes down and stops - shows "INIT_ no more processes left in this runlevel". Does not power down Running uGet to download files overnight with option to "Shutdown when complete" appears to do the right thing and the system is powered off in the morning. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash --- End Message --- --- Begin Message --- Hi, as indicated per subject of last mail from the submitter, I'm closing this bug. cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. --- End Message ---
patch-tracker down?
Hi, Recent this 2 or 3 days patch-tracker.d.o seems to be down. Is it intended one? -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp/org http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140529063911.218e8b54962a488562f6b...@debian.or.jp
Re: patch-tracker down?
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Recent this 2 or 3 days patch-tracker.d.o seems to be down. > Is it intended one? The maintainer of this service is MIA and didn't respond to the Debian sysadmins' requests to move it to another host running wheezy. Consequently it is down until someone volunteers to be the new maintainer. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6HDfSG9_-VdJewGzBJ=7fry_mt9tjsku1qdzjqmw-5...@mail.gmail.com
