Re: backports FAQ, fourth question

2017-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 8:46 AM, davidson wrote: > On this page > > https://backports.debian.org/FAQ/ Please contact the backports team about the issue you found: backports-t...@debian.org -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: encoding of Mirrors.masterlist

2017-03-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:42 AM, Frans Spiesschaert wrote: > So, what action should be taken? The mirrors masterlist should have all of the HTML entities converted to UTF-8. There are a number of them in the Sponsor/Location/Maintainer fields. I've done this just now: https://anonscm.debian.or

backports FAQ, fourth question

2017-03-20 Thread davidson
On this page https://backports.debian.org/FAQ/ I suspect there is an error in the answer to the fourth FAQ. My understanding is that "stable-backports" currently means the same thing as "jessie-backports", and that "oldstable-backports" means "wheezy-backports". If I am wrong, I hope somebod

Re: encoding of Mirrors.masterlist

2017-03-20 Thread Frans Spiesschaert
Peter Palfrader schreef op di 28-02-2017 om 07:04 [+]: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > > > mmm. But we already have escaped & in mirror_list.pl in lines 601, 621 > > and 675: > > > > https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/mirror/mirror_list.pl?view=markup >

Re: Downloading nonfree Installation Firmware

2017-03-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 10:51:28PM +, Leon Traille wrote: >Hi, > >I am concerned about the non-free firmware download >here. > The checksum files do not have corresponding gpg signature files. I see that >you can