Bug#1094000: release-notes: fails to build on trixie (sphinx >= 6.0) due to 'extlinks' config

2025-01-24 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1094000 Control: forwarded -1 https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/215 Control: tags -1 patch

Bug#1094000: release-notes: fails to build on trixie (sphinx >= 6.0) due to 'extlinks' config

2025-01-24 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The release-notes package currently fails to build on Debian trixie, using Sphinx v8.1.3 - and this appears to be due to the 'extlinks' configuration in the conf.py file. It seems that Sphinx v6.0.0 became stricter[1] about pattern-repl

Bug#977358: release-notes: document how to make the rescue mode usable if no root password is set (buster)

2025-01-19 Thread James Addison
On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 at 23:01, James Addison wrote: > [ ... snip ... ] > As a result, I think there does indeed continue to be a gap in the > documentation, and that either Andrei's suggested issue-note[1] - > and/or mentioning the relevant systemd config setting may be requir

Bug#977358: release-notes: document how to make the rescue mode usable if no root password is set (buster)

2024-12-23 Thread James Addison
Hi Richard, On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 at 16:03, Richard Lewis wrote: > > On Sat, 03 Jun 2023 13:10:09 +0100 > > > Although this was documented for bullseye, the underlying cause > > remains, and I think that it could be valuable for users to continue > > to have this documentation available. > > > I've

Bug#932957: 'Official' Debian-style html theme for Sphinx-based docs

2024-04-20 Thread James Addison
Ok, that's reasonable. Re: content-negotation: the www FAQ[1] makes me think that, at least currently, it's not worth attempting anything more advanced than language negotiation. Re: file suffixes: after re-reading the Sphinx code and experimenting with a few builds: I'm convinced that the html_f

Bug#932957: 'Official' Debian-style html theme for Sphinx-based docs

2024-04-18 Thread James Addison
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 21:46, Holger Wansing wrote: > James Addison wrote (Sun, 14 Apr 2024 23:52:03 +0100): > > The _other_ hyperlinks in the static content are replaced as part of the > > cronjob[1] - but that doesn't work for items in the searchindex.js file. > > >

Bug#932957: 'Official' Debian-style html theme for Sphinx-based docs

2024-04-18 Thread James Addison
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 at 19:36, Holger Wansing wrote: > Am 16. April 2024 23:47:05 MESZ schrieb James Addison : > >> I have tried to deal with this by some adaptions in the cronjob - see the > >> first two additions in my patch: change all links to search.html into > &

Bug#932957: 'Official' Debian-style html theme for Sphinx-based docs

2024-04-16 Thread James Addison
On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 at 22:47, James Addison wrote:> > Thanks Holger, > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 at 20:43, Holger Wansing wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > James Addison wrote (Sun, 14 Apr 2024 23:52:03 +0100): > > > From some testing of these: the search res

Bug#932957: 'Official' Debian-style html theme for Sphinx-based docs

2024-04-16 Thread James Addison
Thanks Holger, On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 at 20:43, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Hi, > > James Addison wrote (Sun, 14 Apr 2024 23:52:03 +0100): > > From some testing of these: the search results have a problem that they > > hyperlink to a language-less .html URL, meaning tha

Bug#932957: 'Official' Debian-style html theme for Sphinx-based docs

2024-04-14 Thread James Addison
Hi Holger, On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 22:40:36 +0200, Holger wrote: > I forgot to mention, that I have pushed a release-notes variant with this theme to > https://people.debian.org/~holgerw/new-rtd-sphinx-theme-for-debian/release-notes/release-notes/index.en.html > (English) > > https://people.debian.org

Bug#1053445: Merge request regarding 'Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText'

2023-10-06 Thread James Addison
Package: www.debian.org Followup-For: Bug #1053445 X-Debbugs-Cc: larj...@debian.org, debian-...@lists.debian.org, debian-doc@lists.debian.org > I think we should open an RT ticket to ask DSA to install several packages in > www-master that are needed now. From the info in the README file, these

Re: Review request: publicity microflyer

2023-06-06 Thread James Addison
Thanks, David - some responses inline. On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 02:03, David wrote: ... > I have this feedback: > > I think your text works fine if your reader does know what an "operating > system" > is. But if they don't, then I think your communication might be entirely > unclear > to them. Tw

Re: Review request: publicity microflyer

2023-06-06 Thread James Addison
On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 at 04:12, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 15:59 +0100, James Addison wrote: > > > I'd like to gather feedback on the wording and content of the flyer; > > I would recommend replacing the specific number of packages in the > flyer with a

Review request: publicity microflyer

2023-06-05 Thread James Addison
Hi all, For and after the upcoming release of Debian bookworm, I'd like to (attempt to) promote Debian locally by distributing some small flyers that are intended to be cheap to print and that include a QR-code suitable for use from smartphones (relevant when the flyers are, for example, posted on

Bug#932957: release-notes: document how to make the rescue mode usable if no root password is set (buster)

2023-06-03 Thread James Addison
unarchive 977358 reopen 977358 blocks 977358 by 952450 Although this was documented for bullseye, the underlying cause remains, and I think that it could be valuable for users to continue to have this documentation available. I've tested that the previously-added guidance from the bullseye releas

Bug#932957: Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-28 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #932957 X-Debbugs-Cc: hwans...@mailbox.org Oops - there were a couple of problems with my most recent message here: * Forgot to cc you on the details, Holger (in short summary: the ReST 'only' directive[1] may be helpful here, and could be used with

Bug#932957: Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-28 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #932957 > Yes, filtering the content for the different architectures does not work yet. Ah, and I said I would help with that :) Although I don't yet know exactly how it's going to interact with the build process, I _think_ that a feature we could use for

Bug#932957: Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-26 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #932957 X-Debbugs-Cc: hwans...@mailbox.org Hi Holger, I noticed one more problem with the output of the ReST release-notes: Filtering of architecture-specific sections does not seem to be taking place, so the 'Supported Architectures'[1] section for AMD64

Bug#932957: Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-22 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #932957 X-Debbugs-Cc: hwans...@mailbox.org On Mon, 22 May 2023 23:40:46 +0100, James wrote: > On Sun, 21 May 2023 10:16:36 +0200, Holger wrote: > > There is also a problem using entities (or now called substitutions) in > > quoted lines like > > > deb https://deb.debian.org/

Bug#932957: Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-22 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #932957 X-Debbugs-Cc: hwans...@mailbox.org On Sun, 21 May 2023 10:16:36 +0200, Holger wrote: > There is also a problem using entities (or now called substitutions) in > quoted lines like > deb https://deb.debian.org/debian RELEASENAME main contrib Ok, yep - I understand

Bug#932957: Please migrate Release Notes to reStructuredText

2023-05-19 Thread James Addison
Followup-For: Bug #932957 X-Debbugs-Cc: hwans...@mailbox.org Hi Holger, > Please note the &oldreleasename; in the URL! > I could not get this working with sphinx (if someone knows better, please > contact me!) Could the 'extlinks' feature[1] of Sphinx be helpful to migrate those? (it allows def

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-04-02 Thread James Addison
es > > > that only process the packages detected by lintian. On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:05:24 +, James Addison wrote: > > That's not a bad idea. Are there any reasons that that might _not_ be a > > good > > idea before filing a wishlist bug? (performance, implicat

Bug#1033564: pip install changes should be documented

2023-04-01 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1033564 X-Debbugs-Cc: anar...@debian.org Hi Antoine - this seems related to - perhaps an extension of? - some discussion on Salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/142 (I'll admit that I don't tend to use 'pipx' either. I

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-20 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1033065 X-Debbugs-Cc: elb...@debian.org Control: severity -1 serious Increasing this bug's severity to a release-critical, based on mailing list discussion[1]. Paul: bug #1005863 has most of the relevant context for Debian, although I'd recommend the foll

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-20 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1033065 X-Debbugs-Cc: p...@debian.org, ballo...@debian.org Dear Maintainer and Éric-Martin (with Bill on carbon copy), Please find linked below a previous release note from Debian 9.0 (stretch) that we could use to provide relevant user guidance: https:/

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-19 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1033065 X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi I've used the following commands to confirm that the i386 sudo/1.9.9-1 package contains the bugreport-relevant NOPL opcode: # obtain an archived copy of the affected binary package $ wget2 http://snapsh

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-18 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1033065 X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi Hi Martin-Éric - I intended to send my previous comment to you, but forgot to add you to on carbon-copy. Roughly speaking: I'm wondering whether there is a way that we can scan i386 architecture packages in

Bug#1033065: release-notes: i386 notes should specify minimum CPU requirements

2023-03-17 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1033065 X-Debbugs-Cc: 1005...@bugs.debian.org Control: affects 1005863 net-tools Control: tags -1 moreinfo > While a kernel compiled for Geode LX (essentially a basic i686 without the > optional CPU features) still ships in Debian, many packages enforce C

Bug#1002501: release-notes: Quotes (" and ') in commands in PDF release notes are "smart" (”*” / ’hold$’) so don't copy/paste

2023-02-15 Thread James Addison
Package: release-notes Followup-For: Bug #1002501 X-Debbugs-Cc: 1002501-submit...@bugs.debian.org On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:01:49 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote: > The release notes are generated with docbook. I spend about an hour to > find out how to prevent conversion of straight quotes to curly quotes