Re: www.debian.org down?

2002-06-25 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 03:15:08PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:56:41PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > Is this some stupid local error, or is the website down? > > The web server ran out of free space on /tmp (due to sudden expansion of > /var/log) and

www.debian.org down?

2002-06-25 Thread Jules Bean
Is this some stupid local error, or is the website down? (only the main page. other subpages like social_contract work) pear:~ [6] telnet www.debian.org 80 Trying 198.186.203.20... Connected to klecker.debian.org. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.0 Host: www.debian.org HTTP/1.1 200 OK Dat

Re: Intent to package: libgimp-perl [Re: Gimp perl scripts for Debian buttons]

1999-06-11 Thread Jules Bean
Anthony Fok wrote: > Since the script uses Gimp-Perl, has anyone packaged libgimp-perl yet? > If not, I have claimed it. :-) I hereby announce my intention to package > libgimp-perl, and I'll upload it shortly. I hope this package works. :-) I have (as the author will tell you). However, I

Re: Countries and some changes to the vendor page

1999-03-29 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Michael Sobolev wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 12:03:21PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > > I was wondering if there is a restriction on the country name tags in > > that you cannot use them inside containers, like > > would that work ok? > Should it not be > >

Re: Inconsitency

1999-03-15 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, James A. Treacy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:54:39PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > In > > > > http://www.de.debian.org/devel/release_info > > > > the release information for slink is inconsistent with the lines about > > sparc > > at the architecture section.

New Project Leader

1999-02-04 Thread Jules Bean
Should we have a news item on the new DPL? Should we have a press release? Should they be the same text? Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wrong Language Bug?

1999-02-01 Thread Jules Bean
http://www.debian.org/News/ Two items listed for 01 Nov. One is 'Wrong Language Bug'. It sure looks like the wrong language to me.. ;) /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd| | Jules aka

Re: New List Archiver

1999-01-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Darren Benham wrote: > The question: What "features" do we want to look for in a list archive format > and software? I know the ability to break the indices into multiple page is > one. DFSG-free software is another. Reading pgp-signed/mime format email is > another (Wichert

Re: packages.debian.org

1999-01-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, James A. Treacy wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Given that from your description swish++ sounds like a general purpose > > indexer, which has been set up to index 'natural language' is it the best > > one > > for our purposes? > > > Once I removed

Re: non-free web-page compiling?

1998-12-09 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > Hi all, > > we stopped the maintainer database due the non-free part; > boot-floppies has changed to the free part for sgml; > > And the debian www pages? > > wml depends on libgd-perl, and this is non-free: > > ramses:~# apt-get install libgd-perl

Re: maintainers of the ports pages

1998-12-07 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, James A. Treacy wrote: > Here is the updated list: > > armJim Pick > alpha Chris Chimelis > powerpcHartmut Koptein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > sparc Jules Bean > sparc64Nils Lohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: maintainers of the ports pages (fwd)

1998-12-07 Thread Jules Bean
Nils and I are enjoying our linguistic games so much, we somehow lost the list from the header :-) Jules -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 12:07:09 -0500 From: Nils Lohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: maintainers

Re: maintainers of the ports pages

1998-12-07 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Nils Lohner wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "James A. Treacy" writes: > > > > >sparcNils Lohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >sparc64 > >ultrasparc > > Please just put me down for sparc64... I'm not really involved with the > sparc port at all. And sparc64/ultraspa

Re: slink packages not available from www.debian.org/distrib/packages

1998-11-23 Thread Jules Bean
--On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 10:58 am -0500 "Peter S Galbraith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Strange that the web page only lists stable (hamm) and unstable (potato) > packages, and not slink (frozen). Makes them harder for people to get. > > Peter I'm CC'ing to debian-www Jules /--

Re: should the html directories be created automatically?

1998-10-31 Thread Jules Bean
--On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 12:56 pm -0500 "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do other people think? > Personally, it still makes sense to me to build the web-pages into the same directories as the wml source, and then have a 'make install' target which copies them out into HTMLDIR.

Re: Debian CD Web page

1998-10-27 Thread Jules Bean
--On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 11:39 pm -0500 "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Either I'm not reading things correctly or apache is screwing up. > What do other people think. I think apache is screwing up. I'd file a bug against apache upstream - the apache dev team are very responsive, i

Re: bad URLs on the security pages

1998-10-26 Thread Jules Bean
--On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 12:09 PM -0500 "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a list of the bad urls found in the security pages by the > urlchecker. It would be a good idea to avoid using urls in the > future that may go bad. Well all URLs can go bad, but some are a > lot more sta

Re: unclear formulations in license_disc.wml

1998-10-13 Thread Jules Bean
--On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 1:41 pm +0200 "Philipp Frauenfelder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > in the course of tranlating intro/license_disc.wml to german I > found some sentences which were not that clear to me. I know the > document is still under development but perhaps it's only a > mi

Re: layout of web pages

1998-10-12 Thread Jules Bean
--On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 8:11 am +1000 "Craig Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Start tag: required, End tag: optional > > So it's optional. I don't use them myself as it is not recommended > by many of the web designers here or in fact in any of the books I've > read. We already agreed

Re: layout of web pages

1998-10-12 Thread Jules Bean
--On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 10:40 am +0200 "Dirk Niemeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We should also consider using "height=xxx" and "width=xxx" for the IMG > tag > as this makes rendering easier for the browsers. I always sit in front > of > an empty display for a while and the browser tells me i

Re: layout of web pages

1998-10-12 Thread Jules Bean
--On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 2:47 am -0300 "Nicolás Lichtmaier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There's absolutelly no reason for doing so. You aren't >>> following the stamdard more closely with that. >> Oh yes, there is a reason. Using omittags to the fullest extent, >> one may indeed get rid of a lot

Re: layout of web pages

1998-10-11 Thread Jules Bean
--On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 6:59 pm +0200 "Jacob Sparre Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philipp: > > | Summary: no end tag required but discouraged for additional > | white space (empty paragraph). > > The end tag is _not_ discouraged. It is not _necessary_. The extra space > you get in Nets

Re: layout of web pages

1998-10-11 Thread Jules Bean
--On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 10:32 pm +0200 "Philipp Frauenfelder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - 2.0/HOWTO.upgrade.wml: at the end, there is a short faq. It's > enclosed in , so the browser doesn't format the text > nicely. I'd prever it being formatted like this: > > > Question: > Here comes the

Re: Spanish translation of WWW pages

1998-09-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have logged in to the server using the username "spanish" and the > > password Jay gave me, and I have added the files (through 'cvs add'). > > However, when I try to commit the files I receive the following error: > > > > cvs server: failed

Prerelease mirror

1998-09-04 Thread Jules Bean
Hi, You can now browse my personal debian mirror at http://www.deus.net/debian Please don't use this for serious browsing, or publish the URL - but feel free to use it to look at ports/{alpha,arm,powerpc} which I have just converted (as noted in a previous message). The intention here is just

Initial revision of ports pages in CVS

1998-09-04 Thread Jules Bean
Subject says it all.. I've done alpha, arm and powerpc. I'm very busy now (sorry) but check them out when they propagate (by tomorrow, I expect). Jules /+---+-\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd

Re: new Makefile setup modified

1998-08-28 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The new Makefiles for the Debian web have been modified to > use a new include file Make.lang which holds the current > language. This was done as the way it was set up before > only set the LANGUAGE variable if the top Makefile was > run. > > If any

Re: Ports web-pages - progress report

1998-08-18 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Nils Lohner wrote: > > Jules, > Can you do a manual checkout of the ports/index page please? I'd like to > put out a press release I've been holding for a while. Sorry Nils, that can only be done by Jay, or by someone with root access on va. :-( Jules /---

Ports web-pages - progress report

1998-08-17 Thread Jules Bean
Right. Well, today I cleared a 207 email backlog (that *doesn't* include mailing lists...), finally. I also found time to construct an index page for /ports/, and make a few trivial mods to sparc/index and sparc/problems. As soon as I get a change, I will work on moving the ARM page over to wml,

Re: port pages

1998-08-17 Thread Jules Bean
[Marcus: If this message seems utterly irrelevant to you, please keep reading...] On 17 Aug 1998, Jim Pick wrote: > > Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I'll help. (I guess I'll have to do some research so I can figure out > > > how to u

Re: port pages

1998-08-17 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Nils Lohner wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jule > s Bean writes: > >On 16 Aug 1998, Jim Pick wrote: > >> > Other notes: > >> > > >> > I have nothing on the MIPS port. I have no idea what the 'java' port > even > >> > is! And I suspect that the debian-hurd proj

Re: port pages

1998-08-17 Thread Jules Bean
On 16 Aug 1998, Jim Pick wrote: > > Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Port-Page-Authors: I'd like to see your pages moved to debian mirrors and > > converted into the house style. I need you to tell me a) how much of your > > work I may use and

Re: port pages

1998-08-17 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Nils Lohner wrote: > > Jules/Webmasters, could you please create http://www.debian.org/ports/index.h > tml? Nothing complex for now, just an index page having links to all of the > individual port pages that looks somewhat like the standard style we've been > using. I'd l

Re: Translation of licence.wml

1998-08-16 Thread Jules Bean
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Giovanni Bortolozzo wrote: > On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > > > > > > > Why? The ``rules'' in licence allow me to translate only if I don't change > > > the meaning, and anyway they say that the original (english) l

Re: Translation of licence.wml

1998-08-15 Thread Jules Bean
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Giovanni Bortolozzo wrote: > On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Jules Bean wrote: > > > > > I would suggest that you do both of those, yes. > > > Ok...probably is better that I also look at the work of my French > collegues. > > > You might

Re: Translation of licence.wml

1998-08-15 Thread Jules Bean
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Giovanni Bortolozzo wrote: > > In license.wml is stated: > "Translations of the license must be clearly marked as translations," > > When I translate what I have to do, something like > > License > Licenza (traduzione) > > (traduzione means translation) > > or add a

Re: port pages

1998-08-14 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > > Jules/Webmasters, could you please create > > http://www.debian.org/ports/index.h > > tml? Nothing complex for now, just an index page having links to all of > > the > > I've wondered if we oughtn't replace www.debian.org/ports/* with > www.debian.org

Re: port pages

1998-08-14 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Nils Lohner wrote: > > Jules/Webmasters, could you please create http://www.debian.org/ports/index.h > tml? Nothing complex for now, just an index page having links to all of the > individual port pages that looks somewhat like the standard style we've been > using. I'd l

Re: Problem with "/" and language negociation.

1998-08-12 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We on debian-french have discovered a small problem with language > > negociation... It doesn't work with paths that end with a "/". Stuff like > > "http://www.debian.org/social_contract comes up in French, but stuff like > > http://www.debian.org/

Re: More bad links

1998-08-12 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Christophe Le Bars wrote: > **On 11 Aug, DB (Darren Benham) wrote: > DB>on intro/international > DB>Link: > http://www.teaser.fr/~clebars/debian/fdp/docs/markup.fr.html/index.html > DB>Status: 404: Not Found > > Please use this instead: > > http://www.teaser.fr/~clebars/deb

debian-sparc webpages, preliminary

1998-08-11 Thread Jules Bean
Hi all, I have just cvs committed a preliminary release of the debian-sparc webpages. There is currently no link to these pages from the main site, and this is deliberate. I want some feedback before they go fully 'live'. debian-sparc people, please check the pages for information content, and

Re: wml and other stuff we'll need

1998-08-11 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Craig Small wrote: > Will Lowe wrote: > > I'm going to buy a copy of Larry Wall's perl book. > > > > Can someone recommend a good way to learn wml? > > I'm starting to learn it too, the guy's web site has some examples but > it is somewhat confusing. Downloading the wml docu

Re: Debian web pages - what needs to be done

1998-08-11 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jules Bean wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >There should be pages specific to each port of Debian. There are > > >some available which can be linked in for the short term. Ide

Re: Debian web pages - what needs to be done

1998-08-11 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There should be pages specific to each port of Debian. There are >some available which can be linked in for the short term. Ideally >a framework will be created so that there is a similar look to each >ports pages. Once the framework is

Re: debian-sparc webpages

1998-08-11 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Nils Lohner wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc would be the place. according to > discussions I've had with Jay. I've got some ARM and powerpc pages that > need to be added there... are you going to do all of the port pages? If so, > that would be great. > Fu

debian-sparc webpages

1998-08-11 Thread Jules Bean
Since this list is waking up, I'll introduce myself.. Jay has given me CVS commit access because I've volunteered to sort out some web-pages for debian-sparc - this idea resulted from some discussion on the debian-sparc list, as there is something of a paucity of information about the port. I hav

Re: increased use of cgi on the debian web pages

1998-08-06 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 06:41:10PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > It was decided long ago to minimize the use of cgi scripts on the web pages > > due to the reliance on a single machine (remember that the web pages are > > mirrored all over the world