Bug#595463: including debian-live stuff in release notes

2010-09-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
Package: release-notes Owner: debian-live@lists.debian.org the release notes should more prominently state the existence of live images than it was the case with lenny. also, some notes about dropping usb-hdd images in the future and more should be included as well. -- Address:Daniel Bau

Bug#595463: including debian-live stuff in release notes

2010-09-04 Thread richard newton
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Package: release-notes > Owner: debian-live@lists.debian.org > > the release notes should more prominently state the existence of live > images than it was the case with lenny. also, some notes about dropping > usb-hdd images in the future

Bug#595463: including debian-live stuff in release notes

2010-09-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/04/2010 03:41 PM, richard newton wrote: > Please don't drop usb-hdd images until you can use persistence with the > hybrid image. usb-hdd images are *deprecated*, not dropped. we still have them for squeeze but inted to drop them for wheezy (and hope to fix the iso-hybrid issues by then).

Re: Upcoming lenny point release

2010-09-04 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 21:04 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > The next Lenny point release (5.0.6) is scheduled for Saturday, > September 4th. The archive side of the point release has now finished. An extra mirror push is currently running, so the updates should start appearing on mirrors within t

Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-04 Thread Thomas Vazhappilly
Hi..! I am a migrant from MS Windoz to Gnu/Linux. Only one problem where I stuck is, I cannot key in some characters in UTF-8 such as "CURRENCY SIGN" as in typing MS Windoz. In MSW I can get the character by holding the alt key and type 0164 and on release the alt key I get the "CURRENCY SIGN" in

Re: Upcoming lenny point release

2010-09-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/04/2010 08:04 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > The archive side of the point release has now finished. An extra mirror > push is currently running, so the updates should start appearing on > mirrors within the next couple of hours. will start building 5.0.6 soon then, thanks. -- Address:

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/04/2010 08:30 PM, Thomas Vazhappilly wrote: > Is there a ditto input method in Debian Gnu/Linux? personally, i have no idea. however, since this this is not live related, you better ask on debian-u...@lists.debian.org which is a generic user support list. Regards, Daniel -- Address:

Hot to Specify Squeeze?

2010-09-04 Thread James Van Scoy
OK, my first attempt to create a live cd was successful. I ended up with a basic Lenny live cd that boots to a command line. BUT, I just can't find out how to make the live cd for Squeeze (or Sid). What file do I edit to specify the dist that I want to use? I know that for my existing Debian

Re: Hot to Specify Squeeze?

2010-09-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:36:24PM -0600, James Van Scoy wrote: > OK, my first attempt to create a live cd was successful. I ended up with > a basic Lenny live cd that boots to a command line. > > BUT, I just can't find out how to make the live cd for Squeeze (or Sid). > What file do I edit to

Re: Hot to Specify Squeeze?

2010-09-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/04/2010 10:12 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > When you run lh config, use the switch: --distribution squeeze be warned that 'lh config -d lenny && lh config -d squeeze' and 'lh config -d squeeze' are not the same, there are some distribution dependent defaults, so always, when you switch the distrib

Upcoming Leny release question

2010-09-04 Thread Mgr. Janusz Chmiel
Dear core developers, Please, would somebody of us write me, which version of Gnome desktop environment will be included in Debian Lenny latest version? Can i use live-magic for building latest Debian leny myself by specifiing other mirrors in The right live-magic dialog window? Or this is

Re: Upcoming Leny release question

2010-09-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/04/2010 11:48 PM, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote: > Please, would somebody of us write me, which version of Gnome > desktop environment will be included in Debian Lenny latest version? the same as the lenny release always had, the upcoming lenny release is just a point release. -- Address:

Valuable pleasment for C language developers

2010-09-04 Thread Mgr. Janusz Chmiel
Dear core developers of Debian live, I would like to very valuably please somebody of us, if there is some experienced C language developer among us. My pleasment is related to one screen reader written in C language. It is old screen reader, named Gnopernicus. I know, that The source code o

Re: Valuable pleasment for C language developers

2010-09-04 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 09/04/2010 11:59 PM, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel wrote: > if there is some experienced C language developer among us [...] related > to [...] Gnopernicus. this is not even remotely related to -live, please ask on another list, e.g. debian-u...@lists.debian.org. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgu

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 08:49:06PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 09/04/2010 08:30 PM, Thomas Vazhappilly wrote: > > Is there a ditto input method in Debian Gnu/Linux? > > personally, i have no idea. Granted it's off-topic for this list, but since