packages search pages

2003-11-07 Thread Alexis Orssich
Seems to be a problem with the package directory search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages I was trying to find a gd package for php. Searching for gd returns no results for php, however after a search on google I found there is a packaged called php4-gd. If you search for this you find the

Scribing Dates

2003-11-07 Thread Alexander Winston
It seems that the de facto "debian-www style guide" stipulates that dates be written in the following form: "January 1st, 2004." However, almost all professionally written works follow this style: "January 1, 2004." Are there objections to the latter? signature.asc Description: This is a digitall

Re: Scribing Dates

2003-11-07 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-11-07 19:27:18 + Alexander Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: almost all professionally written works follow this style: "January 1, 2004." Are there objections to the latter? Yes. I think it should be "1st January 2004" or "2004, January 1". Having month-day-year order really ma

Re: packages search pages

2003-11-07 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Alexis Orssich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-07 18:15]: > Seems to be a problem with the package directory search on > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > I was trying to find a gd package for php. Searching for gd returns no > results for php, That is correct, because of this part cited

Re: Scribing Dates

2003-11-07 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Alexander Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-07 14:27]: > It seems that the de facto "debian-www style guide" stipulates that > dates be written in the following form: "January 1st, 2004." However, > almost all professionally written works follow this style: "January 1, > 2004." Are there objec

Re: Scribing Dates

2003-11-07 Thread MJ Ray
On 2003-11-07 20:03:45 + Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Might it be that one is the british style of writing the date, and the other one is american style? No. "British" style is "1st January 2004" according to me and \usepackage[british]{babel} ;-)

Processed: Re: Bug#219591: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#219591: apt repository for potato is broken.)

2003-11-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reopen 219591 Bug#219591: apt repository for potato is broken. Bug reopened, originator not changed. > reassign 219591 www.debian.org Bug#219591: apt repository for potato is broken. Bug reassigned from package `ftp.debian.org' to `www.debian.org'. >

Re: Scribing Dates

2003-11-07 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-07 20:00]: > Having month-day-year order really makes no sense. I have not heard of > this "debian-www style guide" before. Where is it? in webwml cvs in english/template/debian/ctime.wml HTH & HAND, Alfie -- "Wer sich die Netiquette ansieht, wird festste

Re: Scribing Dates

2003-11-07 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:00, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2003-11-07 19:27:18 + Alexander Winston > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > almost all professionally written works follow this style: "January 1, > > 2004." Are there objections to the latter? > > Yes. I think it should be "1st January 2004" or

Bug#219653: packages.d.o/experimental/ table formatting bug

2003-11-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Package: www.debian.org Severity: minor Compare http://packages.debian.org/unstable/ with http://packages.debian.org/experimental/ You'll see an extra "" line, which breaks formatting. -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0