[digikam] [Bug 455775] New: Improve workflow by recording accuracy in GPSHPositioningError

2022-06-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455775 Bug ID: 455775 Summary: Improve workflow by recording accuracy in GPSHPositioningError Product: digikam Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS: Other

RE: I can not print with my network printer

2021-06-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
> So I guess the mailing list "General questions regarding Samba" would be > the right one? correct PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

RE: I can not print with my network printer

2021-06-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
Serando, You seem to have misread (or missed entirely) the purpose of this mailing list, which is: General discussion between people interested in using or developing Samba on hp's VMS operating system. You seem to have a problem involving Samba and VMs, not VMS (aka OpenVMS; see http

[digikam] [Bug 394544] New tool to export to inaturalist

2021-04-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394544 --- Comment #18 from Ben Armstrong --- (In reply to caulier.gilles from comment #17) > I don't write this plugin. joergml...@gmail.com do it, i just review the > code. > See comment #13 for details. > > Again, Thanks to Joerg Lohse

[digikam] [Bug 394544] New tool to export to inaturalist

2021-04-17 Thread Ben Armstrong
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394544 --- Comment #16 from Ben Armstrong --- Nice work, Gilles! I tried the 7.3.0 snapshot appimage built yesterday and did an upload using the extension. It worked with only two minor issues: - I tried typing my identification and clicked the matching one

[digikam] [Bug 394544] Export to inaturalist

2018-06-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394544 --- Comment #3 from Ben Armstrong --- Gilles, I appreciate that when building & supporting a plugin ecosystem, having the freedom of language choice through bindings for those languages has a cost, so by limiting it to C++ and Qt5, it is less

[digikam] [Bug 394544] Export to inaturalist

2018-06-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394544 Ben Armstrong changed: What|Removed |Added CC||sy...@debian.org --- Comment #1 from Ben

Re: Action requested: migration of alioth list Cdd-commits

2018-01-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
I'm pretty sure blends (nee cdd) no longer needs this, though it would be a good idea to check with them first that there are no stray references to it before disposing of it. Either way, it shouldn't be mine as I stopped participating in the project some time ago. Thanks, Ben On January 27,

Re: Ben Armstrong: Declaration of intent

2017-10-12 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 12/10/17 06:10 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 07:57:32PM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote: >> Ben Armstrong wrote: >>> Well, after a year emeritus, I think I have enough of my life back >>> together again to un-retire as an uploading DD. >> Exce

Ben Armstrong: Declaration of intent

2017-10-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
thout packages, I'll be contributing in these ways. Thanks, Ben Armstrong -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEWIfI1AEr+EpT5fnaQzAWmVLVVtsFAlneIv4ACgkQQzAWmVLV VttLfw//W5NS1d2tuCRaO27hIAlpnP59/6GkAsj6crKpCT0aD6csPhQU24M04HFG 1f4yldWwV4iJjUvrAAa/6WgTKwb7C5LraCnL10ehAh

Bug#871793: backupninja: excessively long report lines cause mail delivery failure

2017-08-11 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: backupninja Version: 1.0.1-2 Severity: normal The smarthost for my server rejected backupninja's emailed error report because it contained an error line in excess of 3000 characters. The line was an "Error:" line containing a rdiff-backup stack dump due to running out of disk space on th

Bug#868804: xrdp: doesn't show the session after loggin with Xorg

2017-07-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: xrdp Version: 0.9.1-9 Followup-For: Bug #868804 The README.Debian suggests to use xserver-xorg-legacy. The opposite was true for me. After purging this package, and purging & reinstalling xrdp just for good measure (and manually killing xrdp process, since it was wedged), the issue was

Bug#851524: Building armhf image fwith qemu fails at bootstrapping stage if firmware section enabled

2017-01-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On January 15, 2017 6:39:27 PM Jason Heeris wrote: If I change the line: --archive-areas 'main firmware' Firmware is not a valid archive area in the Debian archive. Perhaps you meant non-free, where non-free firmwares are kept? ...to... --archive-areas 'main' It works again. This brok

Bug#851524: Building armhf image fwith qemu fails at bootstrapping stage if firmware section enabled

2017-01-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On January 15, 2017 6:39:27 PM Jason Heeris wrote: If I change the line: --archive-areas 'main firmware' Firmware is not a valid archive area in the Debian archive. Perhaps you meant non-free, where non-free firmwares are kept? ...to... --archive-areas 'main' It works again. This brok

Bug#849342: [xrdp] xrdp-sesman: Fails to start Xorg

2017-01-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
Interesting. Well, the system has a long and complicated history so this is unsurprising, I guess. Thanks for that insight. If it happens to any of my or systems, I'll know where to look. Ben P.S. This system also had a hardware-specific section for the console's monitor in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Bug#849342: [xrdp] xrdp-sesman: Fails to start Xorg

2017-01-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
I do indeed (or did)! Purging it fixes the issue. Thanks for all of your help. I believe you can close this now, though it may be helpful to point users at potential issues with xserver-xorg-legacy in the README.Debian unless you work out a fix for that. I'm happy to report the MS Android client c

Bug#849342: [xrdp] xrdp-sesman: Fails to start Xorg

2017-01-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
ight track with my Xwrapper.config and polkit. I added that config a long time ago. I'll check and see if that option is even valid anymore, and if it is, then look at polkit configuration. Ben On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Dom

Bug#849342: [xrdp] xrdp-sesman: Fails to start Xorg

2017-01-02 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Dominik George wrote: > > I had originally similar thoughts, but after many unsuccessful attempts > > to get the actual Xorg failure logged somewhere, I eventually gave up > > (e.g. param lines in sesman.ini to pass -logfile and its argument). If > > you could help

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2017-01-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On January 1, 2017 4:47:39 PM "Peter.Stein" wrote: I actually had a bunch of comments, but suspected they would not be well received Try us. and thus tried to be diplomatic I must have missed that. ;) and productive by suggesting a step-by-step HOWTO. It's needed, everyone knows what on

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2017-01-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On January 1, 2017 4:47:39 PM "Peter.Stein" wrote: I actually had a bunch of comments, but suspected they would not be well received Try us. and thus tried to be diplomatic I must have missed that. ;) and productive by suggesting a step-by-step HOWTO. It's needed, everyone knows what on

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2017-01-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On January 1, 2017 2:26:58 PM "Peter.Stein" wrote: I eventually figured out by trial and error how to get the iso to build. Not because of the documentation, but in spite of it. The resulting iso won't boot via GRUB2, but that's a GRUB issue not a live-build issue. HOWTOs are commonplace in the

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2017-01-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On January 1, 2017 2:26:58 PM "Peter.Stein" wrote: I eventually figured out by trial and error how to get the iso to build. Not because of the documentation, but in spite of it. The resulting iso won't boot via GRUB2, but that's a GRUB issue not a live-build issue. HOWTOs are commonplace in the

Bug#849342: [xrdp] xrdp-sesman: Fails to start Xorg

2017-01-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On January 1, 2017 12:48:05 PM Dominik George wrote: Hi, Other ideas? Hmm… not right now. I am positive that the only change that could be responsible for this can be the use of xauth that was introduced in this version, so maybe play around with that for a while. I had originally simila

Bug#849342: [xrdp] xrdp-sesman: Fails to start Xorg

2017-01-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
Yes, xauth is installed: $ apt-cache policy xauth xauth: Installed: 1:1.0.9-1 Candidate: 1:1.0.9-1 Version table: *** 1:1.0.9-1 990 990 http://lear.edennet:/debian stretch/main i386 Packages 500 http://lear.edennet:/debian sid/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/s

Bug#849342: [xrdp] xrdp-sesman: Fails to start Xorg

2017-01-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Dominik George wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > Hi Ben, > > > Dec 25 15:49:14 lear xrdp-sesman[15632]: (15632)(-148605184)[INFO ] Xorg > :10 -auth .Xauthority -config xrdp/xorg.conf -noreset -nolisten tcp > > Can you please try running this exact command ma

Bug#849827: Fwd: Re: Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
User error. This bug should be closed. --- Forwarded message --- From: Ben Armstrong Date: December 31, 2016 5:45:12 PM Subject: Re: Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target To: Peter.Stein , sub...@bugs.debian.org You are misusing the --linux-packages option which is only to

Bug#849827: Fwd: Re: Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
User error. This bug should be closed. --- Forwarded message --- From: Ben Armstrong Date: December 31, 2016 5:45:12 PM Subject: Re: Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target To: Peter.Stein , sub...@bugs.debian.org You are misusing the --linux-packages option which is only to

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
You are misusing the --linux-packages option which is only to specify kernel and kernel modules. See live-manual and use package lists instead. Ben On December 31, 2016 4:45:26 PM "Peter.Stein" wrote: Package: live-build Version: 1:20161216 I configure with: lb config --debian-installer l

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
You are misusing the --linux-packages option which is only to specify kernel and kernel modules. See live-manual and use package lists instead. Ben On December 31, 2016 4:45:26 PM "Peter.Stein" wrote: Package: live-build Version: 1:20161216 I configure with: lb config --debian-installer l

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
On December 31, 2016 6:10:55 PM "Peter.Stein" wrote: I'm only seeing --linux-packages as a possible option for specifying configuration PACKAGES. Is there another option in this list that's appropriate? No. You use package lists instead. As for what's in that manual - it's nearly incomprehe

Bug#849827: live-build fails to build amd64 target

2016-12-31 Thread Ben Armstrong
On December 31, 2016 6:10:55 PM "Peter.Stein" wrote: I'm only seeing --linux-packages as a possible option for specifying configuration PACKAGES. Is there another option in this list that's appropriate? No. You use package lists instead. As for what's in that manual - it's nearly incomprehe

Bug#849342: [xrdp] xrdp-sesman: Fails to start Xorg

2016-12-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: xrdp Version: 0.9.1-1 Severity: normal --- Please enter the report below this line. --- After upgrading to 0.9.1-1, Xorg is no longer started when xrdp-sesman runs. Downgrading back to xrdp_0.9.1~20161126+git589b29f-1 resolves the issue. Here's what is in journalctl -u xrdp-sesman afte

Bug#817735: xpilot-extra: diff for NMU version 4.7.2+nmu2

2016-12-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
ntrol 2016-12-18 12:57:38.0 +0100 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Section: games Priority: optional Maintainer: Ben Armstrong -Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 4.0.0) +Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 10~) Standards-Version: 3.6.2 Package: xpilot-extra diff -Nru xpilot-extra-4.7.2+nmu1/d

Bug#817735: xpilot-extra: diff for NMU version 4.7.2+nmu2

2016-12-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
ntrol 2016-12-18 12:57:38.0 +0100 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Section: games Priority: optional Maintainer: Ben Armstrong -Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 4.0.0) +Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 10~) Standards-Version: 3.6.2 Package: xpilot-extra diff -Nru xpilot-extra-4.7.2+nmu1/d

Re: Live image and install have different kernels.

2016-10-30 Thread Ben Armstrong
That's what I meant by "latest". Sorry. Couldn't think of the name of the option. On October 30, 2016 5:32:23 PM "Michael ." wrote: I hadn't thought of that Chabro. Thanks. On 30 October 2016 at 22:08, chabro viks wrote: # $LB_DEBIAN_INSTALLER_DISTRIBUTION: set debian-installer suite LB_

Re: Live image and install have different kernels.

2016-10-30 Thread Ben Armstrong
Live-build just installs whatever installer kernel is current in the archive. The installer components are updated into stretch somewhat less frequently than the rest of the archive, leading to this sort of situation. If you want them to match, you need to provide in your config to use the late

Bug#842580: chromium: Crash with: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0xed320dd0

2016-10-30 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: chromium Version: 53.0.2785.143-1 Severity: normal Chromium, with all extensions and plugins disabled, and no apps running, reliably crashes for me on some sites. One example is Facebook (after about 10-20 seconds of interacting with the site). Another is using habitica-chat-extension

Bug#842578: quassel-core: Please inform Postgresql users, qt plugin needs to be upgraded

2016-10-30 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: quassel-core Version: 1:0.12.4-2 Severity: normal I recently upgraded the system hosting my quassel-core from Jessie to Stretch. Upon upgrading, it no longer saw my postgresql database. Instead, it defaulted to sqlite and wanted to guide me through the setup process again when I first

[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#842578: quassel-core: Please inform Postgresql users, qt plugin needs to be upgraded

2016-10-30 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: quassel-core Version: 1:0.12.4-2 Severity: normal I recently upgraded the system hosting my quassel-core from Jessie to Stretch. Upon upgrading, it no longer saw my postgresql database. Instead, it defaulted to sqlite and wanted to guide me through the setup process again when I first

Bug#842070: libgtk-3-0: Upgrade breaks gvim: Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed

2016-10-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
Simon, Here is the info you requested ... On 25/10/16 03:14 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: What 'guiopts' do you use in gvim? (type ":set guiopts?" into gvim) Do you mean ":set guioptions?" If so: guioptions=aegimrLtTf Which Gtk theme are you using? I ask because I use vim.gtk3 myself, and I

Bug#842070: libgtk-3-0: Upgrade breaks gvim: Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed

2016-10-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: libgtk-3-0 Version: 3.22.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I upgraded from libgtk-3-0 3.22.1-1 to 3.22.2-1. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I attempted to open gvim (vim.gtk3 -g), with or without

Bug#606337: po4a: [text] Add support for SiSU markup

2016-09-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On September 14, 2016 1:47:00 PM Ralph Amissah wrote: Please close bug (and do not apply patch). As far as I understand it the patch was not needed, and ended up being forgotten about. Ben please feel free to chime in. I take your word for it. Your memory about this is probably better than

Re: P: Symlinking hooks... ./auto/config: 17: ./auto/config: --hdd-label: not found ./auto/config: 28: ./auto/config: --distribution: not found ./auto/config: 38: ./auto/config: --chroot-filesystem: n

2016-08-30 Thread Ben Armstrong
On August 30, 2016 9:27:43 PM "Michael ." wrote: my old config script (please find attached) which worked earlier this year I doubt it. See my comments below. with all the same things as before I am unable to get anything working now. Without the config script I get a 300 MB iso. With the c

Re: [DRE-maint] Please remove me from uploaders (re. my retirement)

2016-08-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 01/08/16 09:43 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Hi, > > There are several ruby packages listed here where I'm still listed in > Uploaders. Please remove me from those: > > http://syn.theti.ca/2016/08/01/retiring-as-a-debian-developer/ > > 6. My ruby packages. A gro

[DRE-maint] Please remove me from uploaders (re. my retirement)

2016-08-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
Hi, There are several ruby packages listed here where I'm still listed in Uploaders. Please remove me from those: http://syn.theti.ca/2016/08/01/retiring-as-a-debian-developer/ 6. My ruby packages. A group of packages that I brought into Debian as dependencies of taskwarrior-web, which I

Re: My retirement, status of live-manual, debian-installer-launcher

2016-08-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
Thanks. I'll be around, just no longer as a DD. Ben On August 1, 2016 6:55:28 PM "Michael ." wrote: Thanks for all your hard work Ben, good luck in your future endeavours Cheers. Michael.. On 1 August 2016 at 23:21, Ben Armstrong wrote: On 01/08/16 09:20 AM, Ben Armstr

Re: My retirement, status of live-manual, debian-installer-launcher

2016-08-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
Thanks. I'll be around, just no longer as a DD. Ben On August 1, 2016 6:55:28 PM "Michael ." wrote: Thanks for all your hard work Ben, good luck in your future endeavours Cheers. Michael.. On 1 August 2016 at 23:21, Ben Armstrong wrote: On 01/08/16 09:20 AM, Ben Armstr

Bug#833173: O: eeepc-acpi-scripts -- 00cfc39420956e29eab8942cc6c0b1a4

2016-08-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the eeepc-acpi-scripts package. I have retired, and nobody remains from the original debian-eeepc team to look after it, since the project officially ended years ago. Thanks, Ben Armstrong The package description is: role::plugin, works-with

Bug#833173: O: eeepc-acpi-scripts -- 00cfc39420956e29eab8942cc6c0b1a4

2016-08-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the eeepc-acpi-scripts package. I have retired, and nobody remains from the original debian-eeepc team to look after it, since the project officially ended years ago. Thanks, Ben Armstrong The package description is: role::plugin, works-with

Re: My retirement, status of live-manual, debian-installer-launcher

2016-08-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 01/08/16 12:15 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Armstrong (2016-08-01): >> I've just done this for live-manual. However, debian-installer-launcher >> is maintained by debian-boot, and apparently I don't have permission to >> remove myself, so I nee

Re: My retirement, status of live-manual, debian-installer-launcher

2016-08-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 01/08/16 09:20 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Hi, > > Many of you may have already heard, but I retired last month. For > details, see: > > http://syn.theti.ca/2016/08/01/retiring-as-a-debian-developer/ > > In particular, please note that live-manual and > debian-installe

Re: My retirement, status of live-manual, debian-installer-launcher

2016-08-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 01/08/16 09:20 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Hi, > > Many of you may have already heard, but I retired last month. For > details, see: > > http://syn.theti.ca/2016/08/01/retiring-as-a-debian-developer/ > > In particular, please note that live-manual and > debian-installe

[Debian-eeepc-devel] My retirement, imminent closure of this list

2016-08-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
Hi, Since nobody has responded to QA's recent inquiries about eeepc-acpi-scripts on this list, I have recently retired*, and this team has been defunct for several years since I gave up the project, I will soon formally orphan eeepc-acpi-scripts and ask the Alioth admins to close this list. Ben

My retirement, status of junior-doc

2016-08-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
Hi, Since I gave up this project many years ago, and finally retired last month*, and junior-doc has not been given any attention since several years ago, the package should be orphaned if nobody else has an interest in it. Please speak up if you'd like to take it on. :) It has been fun and rewar

My retirement, status of live-manual, debian-installer-launcher

2016-08-01 Thread Ben Armstrong
Hi, Many of you may have already heard, but I retired last month. For details, see: http://syn.theti.ca/2016/08/01/retiring-as-a-debian-developer/ In particular, please note that live-manual and debian-installer-launcher need maintainers, and I should be removed from Uploaders on all live-* pack

Re: gem fails to build on Win 7 32 bit, DevKit 3.7.2 (rubyinstaller.org)

2016-07-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 26/07/16 06:35 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: However, after my successful build of the patched gem, when I re-enabled clogger in my rails 3 app in config/application.rb like this, it resulted in an empty log/access.log: config.middleware.use 'Clogger', :format => Cl

Re: gem fails to build on Win 7 32 bit, DevKit 3.7.2 (rubyinstaller.org)

2016-07-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 25/07/16 06:04 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > Is the pure-Ruby version acceptable for you? > > I wonder if extconf.rb should just bail out with > > if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /win32/i > raise "C ext not supported on RUBY_PLATFORM=#{RUBY_PLATFORM}" > end That might work for me, except there

gem fails to build on Win 7 32 bit, DevKit 3.7.2 (rubyinstaller.org)

2016-07-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
Hi, I want to use clogger on Windows with the rubyinstaller.org version of Ruby 2.2.4. However, the native gem will not build. I have attached the gem_make.out from my failed attempt. Please resolve or let me know if there's anything else I can try to help solve this. Thanks, Ben current di

Re: Can't boot jessie images with non-jessie kernel

2016-07-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
On July 14, 2016 8:04:42 PM Csordás Csaba wrote: I'm trying to build Debian Live Jessie (XFCE + nonfree) with the kernel from jessie-backports. Or some other kernel from experimental, which are newer than 3.16. The build succeeds, but the resulting hybrid iso image does not boot. If you use a

Bug#819369: linux-image-4.4.0-1-amd64: kernel oops in DRM/Intel switching VTs triggered by light-locker

2016-03-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
nyway. Thanks, Ben Armstrong -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 4.4.0-1-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 5.3.1 20160307 (Debian 5.3.1-11) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.4.6-1 (2016-03-17) ** Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-1-amd64 root=UUID=b7d082d8-c134-477f

Bug#819369: linux-image-4.4.0-1-amd64: kernel oops in DRM/Intel switching VTs triggered by light-locker

2016-03-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
nyway. Thanks, Ben Armstrong -- Package-specific info: ** Version: Linux version 4.4.0-1-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 5.3.1 20160307 (Debian 5.3.1-11) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.4.6-1 (2016-03-17) ** Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-1-amd64 root=UUID=b7d082d8-c134-477f

Bug#819350: bugs.debian.org: 500 on attempt to view bug #819083

2016-03-27 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal I believe my system is affected by: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819083 However, I cannot view this bug because it returns an HTTP status 500. I can view some other bugs successfully, just not this one. Meanwhile, I'll see if I can

Re: problem creating binary disk

2016-03-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/03/16 06:19 PM, rootsical wrote: > hi. i'm having the following problem when trying to build: > [2016-03-03 19:46:25] lb binary_disk > P: Begin installing disk information... > cp: cannot stat > '/usr/share/live/build/data/debian-cd/testing/amd64_netinst_udeb_include': > No such file or direc

Re: migrate to live-wrapper

2016-02-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
Fernando, I have put a lot of energy into answering these questions today. Please read from the list archives what I have said, particularly in the sub-thread "Brief summary of live-build and live-wrapper development status" and if that leaves you with any lingering questions, don't hesitate to as

Re: Brief summary of live-build and live-wrapper development status

2016-02-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
Boström, On 25/02/16 11:30 AM, Boström Kacper wrote: > > Thanks Ben again for clarifying. > > > > I would further comment that it is orphaned not because the Debian > Live team wished it so, but because the former live-build upstream > maintainer gave up the package, making it no longer possible

Brief summary of live-build and live-wrapper development status

2016-02-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
Hi Boström, I'm copying this personal assessment of where we stand with respect to live-build and live-wrapper development back to the mailing list, as I think it's generally of interest to all readers. On 25/02/16 08:11 AM, Boström Kacper wrote: > > First I would like to thank you for taking the

Re: What's the prefererad way of updating live-config, live-boot and live-build?

2016-02-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 25/02/16 07:23 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > All of that being said, some people have reported success with at > least the Stretch live-boot (and possibly also live-config?) being > used directly in Jessie builds, provided that a jessie-backports > kernel is also used. If that use

Re: What's the prefererad way of updating live-config, live-boot and live-build?

2016-02-25 Thread Ben Armstrong
Boström, On 25/02/16 05:52 AM, Boström Kacper wrote: > What's the preferred way of updating live-config, live-boot and > live-build, since the debian packages in Jessie are out of date? Do I > just clone the repositories and copy the files to /lib/live? As covered in live-manual, no, you clone th

Re: Various options in Debian Live

2016-01-29 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 28/01/16 10:24 PM, Michael . wrote: > I have saved a copy of Debian Live to my own github account to take a > look at and have found some things that I never knew existed so I > thought I'd ask about them and if they are usable. I also have some > other questions relating to config settings. > >

Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted

2016-01-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 28/01/16 03:34 AM, Christian Brunotte wrote: > An official "Debian Rescue CD" would seem an unnecessary waste of > storage and buildd resources if it were 99% identical with the "Live > CD". If it contained the Live CD and additional tools, on the other > hand, who would still be downloading th

Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted

2016-01-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 28/01/16 03:34 AM, Christian Brunotte wrote: > An official "Debian Rescue CD" would seem an unnecessary waste of > storage and buildd resources if it were 99% identical with the "Live > CD". If it contained the Live CD and additional tools, on the other > hand, who would still be downloading th

Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted

2016-01-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Jan 26, 2016 5:21 PM, Don Raikes wrote: > When I do > $ apt-get live-images > > From within jesse, I see a /usr/share/live/images/rescue folder and except > for about 4 packages it seems to build fine. > > Couldn't we just fixup those few packages and/or remove them from the > package-lis

Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted

2016-01-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Jan 26, 2016 5:21 PM, Don Raikes wrote: > When I do > $ apt-get live-images > > From within jesse, I see a /usr/share/live/images/rescue folder and except > for about 4 packages it seems to build fine. > > Couldn't we just fixup those few packages and/or remove them from the > package-lis

Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted

2016-01-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 23/01/16 07:59 AM, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > Ben - blends packaging needs to happen within the blends project, and a > mailing list could also be created in that project. If there is a packaging > project alongside, then it would make sense to create a seperate Alioth > project, but the blends

Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted

2016-01-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 23/01/16 07:59 AM, Iain R. Learmonth wrote: > Ben - blends packaging needs to happen within the blends project, and a > mailing list could also be created in that project. If there is a packaging > project alongside, then it would make sense to create a seperate Alioth > project, but the blends

Re: Debian 8.2 x64 netinst telepítési hiba virtualboxban

2016-01-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 23/01/16 05:02 AM, Fekete Zoltán László wrote: > Sziasztok! > > Windows 7 x64 SP1 HUN alatt használom a Debiant az 5.0.12-es Virtualboxban. A > debian-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso-t telepíteném fel, de a csatolt képernyőképen > látszódik, hogy 22%-on windows-os vírust jelez a Nod32 x64 4.2-es verzi

Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted

2016-01-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
in blends for their specific stuff.) > > What I mean is that my article begins with me trying to make a > tasksel-rescue package and it turns out that this package name not > even exists. > > 2) Ben Armstrong wanted to reuse some of the packages I used on > Rescatux. I warned

Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted

2016-01-23 Thread Ben Armstrong
in blends for their specific stuff.) > > What I mean is that my article begins with me trying to make a > tasksel-rescue package and it turns out that this package name not > even exists. > > 2) Ben Armstrong wanted to reuse some of the packages I used on > Rescatux. I warned

Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted

2016-01-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 22/01/16 12:46 PM, Christian Hammers wrote: > Package: debian-live > Version: 8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop > Severity: wishlist > > Hello > > Please add "gparted" to the Debian Live CD. > > Live CDs are greate to rescue broken systems or to shrink/enlarge > root file systems etc. In such cases the g

Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted

2016-01-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 22/01/16 12:46 PM, Christian Hammers wrote: > Package: debian-live > Version: 8.2.0-amd64-xfce-desktop > Severity: wishlist > > Hello > > Please add "gparted" to the Debian Live CD. > > Live CDs are greate to rescue broken systems or to shrink/enlarge > root file systems etc. In such cases the g

Bug#808413: xpilot-extra: Depends on virtual package "perl5" which is gone with perl/5.22

2015-12-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 19/12/15 05:00 PM, gregor herrmann wrote: > Package: xpilot-extra > Version: 4.7.2 > Severity: serious > Tags: sid patch > > Justification: package uninstallable > User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: perl-5.22-transition > > The perl 5.22 transition just started (see > https://lists.

Bug#808413: xpilot-extra: Depends on virtual package "perl5" which is gone with perl/5.22

2015-12-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 19/12/15 05:00 PM, gregor herrmann wrote: > Package: xpilot-extra > Version: 4.7.2 > Severity: serious > Tags: sid patch > > Justification: package uninstallable > User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: perl-5.22-transition > > The perl 5.22 transition just started (see > https://lists.

Re: Debian Live Update

2015-12-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 15/12/15 07:07 AM, Alexandre Abbes wrote: > Hi > I received the last email with great interest. I am currently no > debian developper, but I could be interested to participate to > maintain or improve debian-live , although I do not know how much time > it would take. > > It is possible that s

Re: Debian Live Update

2015-12-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 15/12/15 06:44 AM, Harshad Joshi wrote: > > What's Daniel upto?! > Ask him. > Should we use the official debian tools to build live cd? > Who is "we" in this question? The Debian Live team has chosen which tools it is going to use. That is not an open question anymore. > Or go with Daniels

Bug#807972: live-build: For i386 no longer include 586 kernel flavour

2015-12-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: live-build Version: 5.0~a11-2 Severity: normal With the upload of linux 4.3.1-1 on Dec. 13, the 586 kernel flavour for i386 architecture has been removed. Please remove this flavour from the default flavours for i386, the flavours included with the installer, and also the doc (see lb_conf

Bug#807972: live-build: For i386 no longer include 586 kernel flavour

2015-12-14 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: live-build Version: 5.0~a11-2 Severity: normal With the upload of linux 4.3.1-1 on Dec. 13, the 586 kernel flavour for i386 architecture has been removed. Please remove this flavour from the default flavours for i386, the flavours included with the installer, and also the doc (see lb_conf

Re: Where is the web-frontend to build a live iso?

2015-12-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 10/12/15 05:32 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > There was always a web frontend to build a personalized live iso. > There was a link to it on http://live.debian.net/ > > But I cannot find it anymore. Is it still there? For the time being it is down. It is likely a replacement service will be set

Fwd: Uploading linux (4.3.1-1)

2015-12-08 Thread Ben Armstrong
Just FYI. This will mean a change in live image kernel flavours, ultimately requiring a change to live-build's defaults for the i386 architecture. Forwarded Message Subject:Uploading linux (4.3.1-1) Resent-Date:Mon, 7 Dec 2015 19:43:16 + (UTC) Resent-From:deb

Re: Bug#804315:Namespace issue

2015-12-04 Thread Ben Armstrong
Olivier, On 03/12/15 03:44 PM, humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: > I do agree and that's a part of my concern. > > As a consequence : [http://live.debian.net/] is down now, so : > - is there any replacement ? The project is now hosted on Debian's project hosting infrastructure, Alioth. For now, pl

Progress, useful test build/boot notes & TODO

2015-11-24 Thread Ben Armstrong
I wrote on my blog today about getting re-involved, what we've been doing lately, some notes about test building and booting official live images, and a pointer to the TODO on the wiki Iain wrote and I've added some items to. I hope this is useful/inspiring to users and developers alike. http://sy

Re: Live Systems, live-build web-frontend - Build 20151122.122228.751115959

2015-11-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 22/11/15 08:41 AM, Peter Gervai wrote: > Yes, this one used apt but missing losetup: > > ... > Setting up syslinux (3:6.03+dfsg-5+deb8u1) ... > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u1) ... > 0+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 2.1513e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s > losetup: Could

Re: Live Systems, live-build web-frontend - Build 20151122.115648.597122610

2015-11-22 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 22/11/15 08:08 AM, Peter Gervai wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Live Systems live-build web-frontend > wrote: > >> Your build 20151122.115648.597122610 was started Sun, 22 Nov 2015 11:57:04 >> + and ended Sun, 22 Nov 2015 12:03:42 + with status 'maybe-failed'. > And the log s

Re: live-wrapper - RFE - Arch boot automatic detection

2015-11-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Nov 19, 2015 3:18 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Usually I spend more time trying to detect time problems, Argh. Tone* problems (speaking of things slipping by proofing, like tablet keyboard autopredict failures :)

Re: live-wrapper - RFE - Arch boot automatic detection

2015-11-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Nov 19, 2015 2:56 PM, "Michael ." wrote: > > I wasn't going to say anything else on this matter until you said this > > >Now you're twisting my words. > > and then said this > > >Yes. At the beginning of this thread you said that live-wrapper > >discussions were unwelcome here and they should

Re: live-wrapper - RFE - Arch boot automatic detection

2015-11-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 19/11/15 07:13 AM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 18/11/15 11:04 PM, Michael . wrote: >> I must have misunderstood the importance to Debian of having a "Live" >> system. > I didn't say it wasn't important for Debian to have one. I only spoke to > the relati

Re: live-wrapper - RFE - Arch boot automatic detection

2015-11-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 18/11/15 11:04 PM, Michael . wrote: > It is highly unlikely Debian will move alpha software into Stretch > when it becomes stable. Jessie is 6 moths old so Testing freeze is > possibly 12 months away with Stretech's release approximately 6 months > after that. I can only hope Live Wrapper is mat

Re: live-wrapper - RFE - Arch boot automatic detection

2015-11-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
These opinions are my own and do not represent an official statement by Debian or any of its subprojects. On 18/11/15 08:52 PM, Michael . wrote: > With regards to a couple of points you have made in this, and your > previous, post nothing about Live Build is clear anymore. Actually > that is incor

Re: live-wrapper - RFE - Arch boot automatic detection

2015-11-18 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 18/11/15 07:15 PM, Michael . wrote: > Correct me if I am wrong but I'm not sure this is the right list for > this. Live Wrapper and Live build are 2 separate projects run by, or > at least they were until Live Build has been discontinued, 2 differnt > groups. First of all, to clarify, "Live Bui

I'm not dead yet! (with apologies to Monty Python)

2015-11-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 13/11/15 06:35 AM, Nick Bailey wrote: > I only used debian-live once, and it worked perfectly for the purpose I > needed. It's a shame when working code disappears to be replaced by an > officially improved, unreliable, little-tested alternative. I've seen a lot of misinformation swirling aro

On continuing to provide support, including filing bugs

2015-11-13 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Nov 12, 2015 2:12 PM, Richard Nelson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Radovan Makovsky wrote: >> i tried several times to build netinst package through the web, but i >> only get hybrid-iso packages. I'm not sure if it is bug or im doing >> something wrong. When i build packages on my

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