Where was the discussion of GNOME 3 shipping as the default desktop?

2018-10-16 Thread Austin LaBerta
Apologies for the baity title but its very literal. where was it? Google is giving me very poor results, I assume it was done over mailing list but I'm not even sure where to start lookin. All I can figure was that it was sometime around Jessie and that XFCE was the previous desktop. I'm not SUPER

Ettiquite/Required readings on contacting Maintainers/Packagers

2018-10-05 Thread Austin LaBerta
I had recently updated to sid and found myself a little confundled when i noticed the ranger package was still 9 releases out of date and running on python2. What are some things I should check prior to telling the maintainer to "please update this"?

Re: A Different Naive Question [Re: Naive newbie question]

2018-07-17 Thread Austin LaBerta
i can neither find the source on salsa (since as far as what i've found lsb-base is a stripped down version compared to the actual lsb specs?), nor a man entry. It has something to do with logging? I guess thats not very essential, although a breakage could be very annoying for locating other prob