Re: Default font: Transition from DejaVu to Noto

Hi Gunnar, > Basically I'm asking if this move towards Noto is desirable and, if > so, I plea for relevant input for the completion of the transition. as has already been stated elsewhere, fontconfig upstream's move to Noto as the default font has most probably not been done for aesthetical reaso

Re: Re: Default font: Transition from DejaVu to Noto

Hi Wanderer, > Rather than discussing only Noto vs. DejaVu, is there any possibility > of > reintroducing Bitstream Vera as a default-font option (even if with a > low priority), for systems which have that installed? can you even see a difference between Bitstream Vera and DejaVu? The latter s

Re: bookworm+½ needed (Arc GPUs, ...)

Hi Adam, > Before we go and bother the relevant folks (or maybe even do part of > the > work ourselves...), could someone name other pieces of hardware that > would > be wanted for Bookworm+½? not sure of that's what you mean, but the Realtek RTL8852BE Wi-Fi adapter is only properly supported by

Bug#1051748: RFP: pdf2htmlex -- convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pdf2htmlex Version : 0.18.8rc1 Upstream Author : Lu Wang and other contributors * URL or Web page : https://github.com/pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX * License : GPL-3+ Description : convert PDF to HTML without losing text or f

Re: /usr/-only image

Simon Richter writes: > This would not work for a package like postfix, which absolutely > requires system-specific configuration, and we'd have to be careful with > packages like postgresql where there is a default configuration that > works fine for hobbyists that we do not make life too diffic

Re: /usr/-only image

Hi, On 9/11/23 23:08, Simon McVittie wrote: Some packages rely on their own configuration existing in /etc. For these packages, ideally they'd try loading from /etc as highest priority, but fall back to /usr as a lower-priority location. This is a package-by-package change, and probably best ac

Bug#1051733: ITP: ayatana-indicator-a11y -- Ayatana Indicator for Accessibility Settings

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: ayatana-indicator-a11y Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Contact: Robert Tari * URL : https://github.com/AyatanaIndicators/ayatana-indicator-a11y * License

Re: /usr/-only image

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 at 08:58:09 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > An even bigger prerequisite is that many upstream projects does not yet > support working without /etc or (orthogonally) reading their default > configuration from /usr. I agree that an "upstream first" approach is good here - even i

Re: /usr/-only image

On 2023-09-10 22:42, Russ Allbery wrote: So far as I know, no one has ever made a detailed, concrete proposal for what the implications of this would be for Debian, what the transition plan would look like, and how to address the various issues that will arise. Moving configuration files out of

Bug#1051705: ITP: node-vega-embed -- Node.js library to easily embed vega views

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yadd X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-vega-embed Version : 6.22.2 Upstream Contact: University of Washington Interactive Data Lab * URL : https://githu

Bug#1051694: ITP: node-vega-themes -- Themes for stylized Vega and Vega-Lite visualizations

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yadd X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-vega-themes Version : 2.14.0 Upstream Contact: University of Washington Interactive Data Lab * URL : https://git

bookworm+½ needed (Arc GPUs, ...)

So... If you've watched our Dear Leader's talk, a prominent problem listed was problems with new graphics cards. While he didn't elaborate, I assume it was about Intel Arc -- ie, new DG2 discrete GPUs. And the problem is, proper support didn't hit the kernel until after 6.1. You can kinda-sorta

Re: /usr/-only image

On Sep 10, Russ Allbery wrote: > So far as I know, no one has ever made a detailed, concrete proposal for > what the implications of this would be for Debian, what the transition > plan would look like, and how to address the various issues that will > arise. Moving configuration files out of /e

Bug#1051676: ITP: kylin-virtual-keyboard -- Kylin Virtual Keyboard

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: pengfeiguo X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: kylin-virtual-keyboard Version : 2.0.1.0-1 Upstream Contact: pengfeiguo * URL : https://gitee.com/openkylin/community/tree/master/sig/InputMethod * License

Bug#1051675: ITP: rust-bindgen-cli -- automatically generate rust bindings for C/C++ source code

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthias Geiger X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-rust-maintain...@alioth-lists.debian.net, werdah...@riseup.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: rust-bindgen-cli Version : 0.66.1 Upstream Cont

Re: /usr/-only image

On 10/09/23 22:42, Russ Allbery wrote: Luca Boccassi writes: It is being slowly worked towards, but we are still at the prerequisites at this time. Hopefully we'll have some usable experiments for the Trixie timeline, but nothing definite yet. Just to make this explicit, one of the prerequisi