xletters - seeking new maintainer

2015-09-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
me if you would like to take over xletters. Thanks, Ben Forwarded Message Subject:Bug#800238: xletters: Please migrate a supported debhelper compat level Resent-Date:Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:52:44 + Resent-From:ni...@thykier.net Resent-To: Ben Armstrong Date

Re: Bug#798004: xletters: Non-standard charset makes some characters untypeable and wrongly displayed.

2015-09-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 04/09/15 09:19 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Meanwhile, perhaps you could try downloading and building it from source > to see if it works fine for Spanish and report your results on this bug. Btw, my reply to the bug submitter bounced with 'account expired', so I guess we need

Re: Bug#798004: xletters: Non-standard charset makes some characters untypeable and wrongly displayed.

2015-09-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
Thanks for your report, On 04/09/15 08:34 AM, chill3 wrote: > I've installed xletters in Spanish, but, due to an incorrect charset probably > on the translation, the characters on the upper half of the ASCII character > table don't display correctly. > > For each character on that half, the progra

Re: [slx-www-int] Spelling correction, "About Us" page

2012-03-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 22/03/12 12:55 AM, Olivier Vitrat wrote: > Hi > I fixed this typo (2 occurrences), as my Joomla account is still alive :-) > Better late than never... > > regards, > Olivier Great. I don't know what happened to my followup to that message (it's not even in the list archive) but shortly after

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:05:51 +0200 Steffen Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never understood > though why it was nut just called Special Interest Group (SIG), something that > everyone would grasp immediately. If we were trying to describe something that everyone grasped immediately, then us

Re: [proposal] Simplified junior tags & debtags-based replacement for metapackages

2006-02-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:04 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I plan to do this since several month but my time currently does not > permit it (and will not until this summer because). I'm in favour of > > cdd::med:: > > for Debian-Med What kind of did you have in mind for Debian-Med? > while

Re: [proposal] Simplified junior tags & debtags-based replacement for metapackages

2006-02-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
y, arcade games and tools for writing. Debian Jr.'s own classification would then be focused on two basic aspects: 1. what's in the core of Debian Jr. vs. what's extra 2. what ages the software appeals to I had previously proposed: On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 15:43 -0400, Ben Armstrong w

Re: [Help] Re: Bug#310817: tipptrainer: Tipptrainer crashes when selecting a 2nd lesson after finishing the first.

2005-05-30 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 09:02 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Could anybody do a comparison of > > 1. tuxtype > 2. ktouch > 3. tipptrainer > 4. ??? > > regarding: > > a) Features > b) Usability > c) Upstream support Keep in in mind that the goals of each are not necessar

Re: Please (temporarily) remove debian-edu meta packages from testing

2004-05-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:24:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I've only been slowly becoming familiar with debian-edu over the past > two or three weeks and only noticed it was subject to this set of > problems last Tuesday, so I don't have a full proposal for how to > restructure the debian-edu tas

Re: Edu Morphix now available online

2004-04-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:18:51PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Sajith VK] > > Its a GNU/Linux distribution for education institutes. > > It contains a lot of education softwares, along with > > common application needed. > > How do you create it? Is it automatically generated base

Overriding conf file with symlink under /etc considered harmful

2004-04-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
I am CCing debian-custom, as this is an issue for all CDDs. Please followup there. Sorry if this is ground that has been covered already here or in -devel, but the traffic on these two lists is considerable, and I have only just skimmed as I have found time, so quite likely I missed this the f

Re: Which is the new dhcp3 conf.file?

2004-04-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:17:45PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I do not have the answer, but want to raise a red flag here: Do *not* > use symlinks below /etc! Symlinked conffiles are not handled properly in > Debian. That's a new one on me. Please show me in debian-policy where it says you

Re: Heretics: Non-free version of skoleknoppix?

2004-03-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:27:36PM +0100, rgx wrote: > Just a counter-stream though I had on this: If it is true that debian is > mainly reknown for its easy mode of installing or updating (dpkg or > apt-get), and if it is true that almost everything we want is debian > packages, plus providing

Re: Not a discussion list?

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 07:49:54PM +0800, David Palmer wrote: > Who exactly do we have on this list, and what potential do you see, or > hope to realise from Debian-edu? I am the project leader for Debian Jr. I need to be here to keep tabs on what is happening so that I don't unnecessarily dupl

Re: Tux Paint 0.9.12 released

2003-08-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:35:39AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > A new version Tux Paint, an open source drawing program for young children, > has been released. (Source only, so far... new Debian packages should be > available soon!) Sid/unstable packages have been uploaded, so just get them fr

Re: Tux Paint 0.9.12 released

2003-08-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 09:29:12AM +1000, Matt Black wrote: > About the best feedback I can give is that I can't find any problems with the > packages. I just had to upgrade to libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-4. Many thanks! Thanks for letting me know. I have finished my own testing and have uploaded to un

Re: Tux Paint 0.9.12 released

2003-08-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
Hi, For anyone who is chomping at the bit to try the new tuxpaint, prerelease sid/unstable packages are available at: http://people.debian.org/~synrg/tuxpaint/tmp/ If all you want is the latest tuxpaint and are not interested in testing the prereleases and giving me feedback, please do

Re: PTS News & DebianEdu's future

2003-01-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:40:59PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I'm ccing Ben Armstrong who setup the wiki. What's happening Ben ? I see there are DNS problems with wiki.debian.net, (which hosts both your DebianEdu site and my DebianJr site,) mentioned later in this thread.

Re: Debian-Edu news

2002-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:37:31PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > - We need WikiMasters: many data has been collected in the various > Edu entries ... but they should really be formatted in > an uniform way. Those pages can be considered as model : > http://wiki.debian.net/EduXpovchem > ht

Re: Debian projects

2002-09-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
ntained in Debian Jr. and will let our debian-jr list know if there are packages that don't have subscribers. I would like to see complete coverage. [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-resources.en.html#s-pkg-tracking-system [1] http://qa.debian.org/developer

Re: Tux Paint debian packages

2002-09-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 11:15:14AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > You'll need the 'tuxpaint' and 'tuxpaint-data' packages, at the very least. > I also recommend the 'tuxpaint-stamps-default' package (although I believe > Ben consider those 'required,' since stamps are such a core part of the > progr

Re: debian-edu listproc suggestion

2002-09-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 12:38:40PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > I might just need to watch from afar. Any chance there'll be a kind of > one-way moderated 'announcement' list when interesting things happen? The debian-devel-announce list carries Debian development related announcements, not all

Re: What do you want to do

2002-09-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 02:45:15PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 1. Are you a debian developer ? Yes. > 2. If no, would you like to become a developer in order to >maintain some packages ? N/A > 3. Do you have packaging skills/experience ? Yes. > 4. If you're a Debian developer, are you

Re: About metapackages

2002-09-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 03:56:37PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 02:39:15PM +0100, Daniel Andersson écrivait: > > domain-XX-LLEVEL > > It's not worth it. The software are the same ... so we don't need > different metapackages. We already have more than a dozen of domains,

Re: Terminal server under Debian-Edu

2002-09-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
Stefan, First of all, let me say that this is Raphael's project, so I'm really looking to him to clarify where the project is heading in his own words. What follows is my opinion, based on my experience with Debian Jr. On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 07:20:58PM +0200, Stefan Padberg wrote: > Dear Ben! >

Re: Terminal server under Debian-Edu

2002-09-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 03:29:30PM +0200, Stefan Padberg wrote: > I think the DebianEdu project should divide in two branches: one > concentrating in developing good application software, and the other should > concentrate on good installation and server software. A small clarification here on poi

Re: introducing myself

2002-09-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:57:17PM +0100, John O'Sullivan wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to develop a debian-based system targetted at the needs of > Irish schools. So far I have only been working off the packages already > in the main distro. I'd like to continue the work in the debian-edu > fra

Re: evaluate software.

2002-09-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 06:06:00PM +0200, Jérôme Signouret wrote: > I'm thinking all educationnal software need to be see by some teacher to > tell what children can use it. > I'm thinking the level of children are very different in all country. > In france in physics and chemistry we have a strict