Re: Displaying Instructions for Verifying Installation Media

2017-02-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 3:55 AM, Leon Traille wrote: > I think that suggesting and linking to verification instructions would > further the interests of Internet users. Could you suggest which web pages we should modify and what the new wording on those pages should be? -- bye, pabs https://wik

dehyrated jessie-backports package - "all files" broken link

2017-02-02 Thread Jeremy Davis
Hi, On the jessie-backports package of "dehydrated"[1], when I click the "list of files" link[2] I get an error: "No such package in this suite on this architecture." [1] https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/dehydrated [2] https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/all/dehydrated/fileli

Displaying Instructions for Verifying Installation Media

2017-02-02 Thread Leon Traille
I do not think the web site or installation guide do a good job steering users toward verifying downloaded installation media. Many people do know where the information is: You just remove the filename from any download URL and it brings you to the appropriate page with the appropriate checksum

Re: New derivatives page on Debian website

2017-02-02 Thread Michael .
My gut feeling is the Derivatives page should be the page that lists distros derived from or "children" of Debian. Creating a new page is just more effort when the hard word has been done already. On 2 February 2017 at 19:21, Stéphane Blondon wrote: > Hello everyone, > > we (debian-www) are work

Re: Mailing List page.

2017-02-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu 02 Feb 2017 at 20:31:54 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 5:48 PM, cbannister wrote: > > > This doesn't read well: > ... > > "If you are uncertain as to whether you are subscribed to a mailing > > list of ours, send mail to majord...@lists.debian.org with > > which your.emai

Re: Mailing List page.

2017-02-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 5:48 PM, cbannister wrote: > This doesn't read well: ... > "If you are uncertain as to whether you are subscribed to a mailing > list of ours, send mail to majord...@lists.debian.org with > which your.email@address in the body." Could you suggest an alternate wording? --

Re: Missing Content on debian.org

2017-02-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Stéphane Blondon wrote: > I send an e-mail to these lists + adrian. It would have been better to have separate threads. > I don't know how the feeback will come but if there are several > iterations, perhaps it would be nice to send a message to the translator > t

Re: New derivatives page on Debian website

2017-02-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Stéphane Blondon wrote: > Note: This message is cross-posted because we need several points of > view at the same time. These should have been completely different discussions asking much more specific things. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Mailing List page.

2017-02-02 Thread cbannister
Hi, This doesn't read well: https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#subunsub in particular the following: "If you are uncertain as to whether you are subscribed to a mailing list of ours, send mail to majord...@lists.debian.org with which your.email@address in the body." -- The media's the mos

Re: Missing Content on debian.org

2017-02-02 Thread Stéphane Blondon
Le 30/01/2017 à 08:52, Paul Wise a écrit : > We need a discussion with Debian (on debian-project) about the > criteria for derivatives being listed on the website. I think that > mail should start with the history of the misc/children-distros page > and in doing so indicate that we need a criteria

New derivatives page on Debian website

2017-02-02 Thread Stéphane Blondon
Hello everyone, we (debian-www) are working on a new page about Debian derivatives for www.d.o. Currently, the page https://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros.fr.html provides a list of derivatives but it's not maintained. The wiki provides a list too (https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census