Bug#883867: bookworm for accessibility

2020-03-16 Thread hjenkins
it is the MIT Bookworm v0.1b4 by Musharraf Omer, in Python Thank you, Paul, I had not heard of ebook-speaker! I had come across daisy-player, so I'm not sure why I hadn't. Useful information. On 2020-03-16 12:52, Paul Gevers wrote: Hi hjenkins, On 16-03-2020 19:53, hjenkins wrote:

Bug#883867: bookworm for accessibility

2020-03-16 Thread hjenkins
Packaging the Bookworm e-reader could significantly improve the accessibility of Debian. Bookworm is written by blind developers, according to its website. E-book readers are important if you are vision-impaired. Many e-book programs don't work well with screenreaders. Bookworm has and interfa

Bug#941768: open-vm-tools/10.3.10 does not compile with 4.19.0-6-amd64 on buster kernel upgrade

2019-10-05 Thread hjenkins
ybe more. Otherwise there was no reason to install the package in the first place... For those rare cases I did not want to force the removal on upgrade time, as they will still have the chance to have networking with an old kernel. Bernd On 10/5/19 3:49 AM, hjenkins wrote: Package: open-vm-tool

Bug#941768: open-vm-tools/10.3.10 does not compile with 4.19.0-6-amd64 on buster kernel upgrade

2019-10-04 Thread hjenkins
Package: open-vm-tools Version: 10.3.10 Severity: grave *While upgrading to buster, it is necessary to upgrade open-vm-tools from 10.1.5 to 10.3.10. My install of 10.3.10 seems to have worked, and in retrospect, it seems to work when reinstalled. PROMPT# apt-get install -f --reinstall open-vm

Bug#915412: RFP: LON-CAPA (loncapa): federated online course platform

2018-12-03 Thread hjenkins
Package: loncapa Severity: wishlist Loncapa seems to be a mature (1992-) piece of GPL software, widely used by universities to serve online courses. It delivers course materials, aids communication, does assessment, and federates with other Loncapa servers, so that educational materials can be sha

Bug#739293: update on obstacles

2018-09-13 Thread hjenkins
Johannes Schauer's note of the 21st Dec 2017 said he was waiting for a new Dudle release; 1.3 was released not quite a fortnight later, Jan 3, 2018. The extension packaging discussed here is apparently still to be done: https://github.com/kellerben/dudle/issues/82 I think, subject to correction,

Bug#901824: RFP: Dudle -- server for web polls, AGPLv3

2018-06-18 Thread hjenkins
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: freedombox-disc...@lists.debian.org Dudle is a server for web polls; when-shall-we-meet, event registration, and suchlike. It can do end-to-end encryption and does not require cookies or client-side scripts. A Dudle server package would be useful for

Bug#898237: unable to find IP for freedombox

2018-06-08 Thread hjenkins
Solved. Added workaround instructions for re-instating a fixed-IP network configuration after running freedombox-setup at: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware/Debian Most of the problem was my complete unfamiliarity with NetworkManager, including not knowing that a lot of things can't be

Bug#898237: freedombox-setup breaks static IP configuration

2018-05-08 Thread hjenkins
Package: freedombox-setup Version: 0.10 Summary: I installed Debian with static-IP network configuration, it worked. I then ran freedombox-setup, and my network connection stopped working. There is apparently no way or no simple way to set up static IPs on Freedombox. Ideally, I would like free