Bug#851541: www.debian.org: CD/verify should include long key IDs

2017-01-15 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Having just talked a user through the gpg verification steps for the CDs, I've got a few suggestions for the web page with the instructions on how to verify the CD contents: 1/ long key IDs: it would be good to include the long key id rather than the short

Re: Python 2 in the default installation -- progress made!

2016-12-30 Thread Stuart Prescott
to change the overrides are ready to be filed. Additionally, changed dependencies are needed in: * logrotate (Recommends: mailx → bsd-mailx | mailx), #849743 Your comments on (and hopefully assent to) these changes would be welcome. cheers Stuart (Please CC me in replies) -- Stuart Pr

Bug#775826: www.debian.org: [CD/faq] discourage use of unetbootin

2015-01-20 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Hi! In #775689 and #775814, there has been discussion about the need to clarify for users that unetbootin is a poor choice of utility for copying an installer image onto a USB stick. In the CD/faq [1], "How do I write a CD image to a USB flash drive?" sug

Bug#775824: www.debian.org: [CD/faq] be consistent with the installation-guide

2015-01-20 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Hi! In the CD/faq page [1], the instructions for copying the image onto the USB stick ("How do I write a CD image to a USB flash drive?") are not consistent with the instructions in the installation guide [2]. While dd certainly does work, it has never bee

Bug#775821: www.debian.org: [devel/debian-installer] mention "USB" in netinst description

2015-01-20 Thread Stuart Prescott
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Hi! A perpetual problem in #debian is convincing people that they want to use the netinst on their USB stick (following §4.3.1 of the installation guide) and not the hd-media approach (§4.3.2). Historically, our download pages have only used "USB" in the d