Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-15 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
I wonder whether the POV in this discussion is right. I have the impression that the discussion is about the removal of "old" packages. Squeeze had 91 standard packages, now there are 108. The latest one: doc-debian. When libsqlcipher0 (1) hit standard I also had doubts that its functionality jus

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-15 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
The problem (insane pulseaudio defaults disabling audio output) has not been debugged yet because there is an easy workaround: deinstall pulseaudio. There seems to be little interest in investigating the issue. Why not document the status quo somewhere (known issues in the release notes or the

OT: New RC handling policy (was: xpdf removed from testing)

2014-01-13 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
>> I like that program very >> much. For which reasons, in addition to the 7 RC bugs, a dead >> upstream? > That's 7 entirely sufficient reasons and one problem that arguably makes > fixing the other seven harder. So 7.5 reasons to remove it from testing. I just want to say that I like the approa

Re: Default desktop for jessie

2013-06-06 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
udev sucks! Debian should hire a developer to replace all uses of CDBS with dh! Perl should be replaced with Python in essential! All packages need to switch to 3.0 (quilt)! Native packages should be banned! No one should ever be allowed to NMU anything ever if the maintainer says no! Did

Bug#703946: general: OS freezes, but mouse and ping keeps working

2013-03-25 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
> Package: general > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > Hi everyone. > > When using Google Chrome (I cannot assure you that it only occurs with Hi Felipe, as far as I googled, Chrome is not packaged by Debian, but Chromium is. So better complain at Google. And provi

Re: Graphic card installation problem

2013-02-19 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
> Hi. I've just bought a new notebook. It has an external graphic card: AMD > Radeon HD 7670M 2GB. I installed Ubuntu 12.10. I've been trying to install > the driver for more than 2 hours. However, I couldn't do it yet. When I try > to install the drivers that Ubuntu indicates, I reboot my PC,

Re: [cut-team] Time to merge back ubuntu improvements!

2013-01-14 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
[0] http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseProposals Nice page, will study it in more detail in due time. I did not see my proposal there, is it possible to add new information to that page? It's a wiki. Just create an account an log in. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Re: Bug#675959: ITP: wnpp -- Internet Low Bitrate Codec (iLBC) library

2012-06-04 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
Hi Tzafrir, the name is a bad idea, as it is already in use: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages Cheers, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debia

DDTSS broken (was: Description-less Packages indices)

2012-02-21 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Davide Prina (davide.pr...@gmail.com): the DDTSS is totally broken :-( When this change happened, I somehow secretly expected someone to step up and try fixing the DDT* things. ... So, as many, I discovered the problem when it happened. not immediately as

Re: PHP 5.4 transition in unstable

2012-02-05 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
Ondřej Surý (05/02/2012): http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2012/02/msg6.html Please don't top-post. Also, can you link to the reply of the release team? Mraw, KiBi. There is no response in (1) yet. And there is bug report (2) - also without response until now. Cheers, Marti

Re: Description-less Packages indices

2012-02-03 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
The changes have ill side-effects: - DDTP/DDTSS is partially broken (1). The Database has $(nr_of_packages) new entrys since 01-22 containing just the short description. - These (untranslated) one-liners is what one gets visiting (2), e.g. (3). - There are no new Translation-xx files (4). -

Improving package descriptions (I)

2011-07-15 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
Hi, some time ago I read a post of the DPL regarding enhancing package description quality. Bug reports from translators should be a means for achieving this goal. (quoting from the developer's reference, section 8.4:) Best current practice concerning l10n ... As a tra

Re: TeX packages - side topic make and sleep

2011-07-07 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
Dear John, dear Sara, thank you for contributing the manual pages. Having translated several manpages last year I am used to some licence statement at the very beginning of the manual, e.g.: .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Michael Chastain (m...@shell.portal.com), 15 April 1995. .\" .\" This is free

Re: How to become a contributor?

2011-05-19 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
Hi, I would like to contribute more than just being a passive reader of the email lists and submitting bugs. there is also always to little manpower in the translations teams. Cheers, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Bug#622341: Missing package descriptions on http://packages.debian.org/

2011-04-12 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
Package: general Severity: normal Dear maintainers, yesterday I found that some libreoffice package descriptions are not accessible at http://packages.debian.org/. The last item of the libreoffice search result is libreoffice-l10n-ne which is in Sid since sid 2011-02-08. The behavior is the s