Bug#1074176: packages.debian.org: allow seeing files

2024-06-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Thanks. But: The older page needs to mention the newer page, else people who end up on the older page will think that that is all they are allowed to see. In fact the older page should use the links from the newer page, to make its flat list clickable. Also both pages don't have any file dates. T

Bug#207095: closed by Thomas Lange (closing)

2023-10-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
OK, that's great. But nobody visiting the packages page knows about the tracker page, so there ought to be a hyperlink added to it on the packages page.

Bug#1029747: Empty "Categorize using"

2023-01-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package:www.debian.org On https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ there is an empty Categorize using

Bug#207095: so hard to get dates

2023-01-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
On https://github.com/GPSBabel/gpsbabel/issues/981#issuecomment-1385579428 I was racking my brains again to show them the dates.

Bug#983079: Don't captialize package names

2021-02-18 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org https://blends.debian.org/astro/tasks/education , https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/astronomy.fi.html capitalizes package names. However that makes it impossible to paste them into apt, etc.

Bug#933609: How hard it is to find the Date of a package

2019-08-01 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Let's look at a typical "Download" page, https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/couchsurfing-inc/couchsurfing-travel-app/couchsurfing-travel-app-4-26-0-release/#downloads as we see dates are of utmost importance. Wherever we see a version number, we see a date. In fact I'm sure you would be hard pressed t

Bug#933609: How hard it is to find the Date of a package

2019-07-31 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "YW(" == Yao Wei (魏銘廷) writes: YW(> A probably known easier way is to see the standardized changelog of the package. There should be a date in each version. OK, so smart users know that the Date is hiding in the $ w3m -dump https://packages.debian.org/sid/web/webext-ublock-origin | grep

Bug#933609: How hard it is to find the Date of a package

2019-07-31 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Let's examine how extremely hard it is for a user to squeeze update date of a package he is thinking of installing out of the Debian system. First of all update dates are not part of any Package* file. So forget apt, etc. Now we must turn to the web. Case in point: "Sho

Bug#927987: Don't tell users to use ext3

2019-04-25 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/apcs03.html.en says a single / partition (plus swap) is probably the easiest, simplest way to go. However, if your partition is larger than around 6GB, choose ext3 as your partition type. OK, the installer proposed

Bug#924164: Don't say use Jigdo

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org On https://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd : See my comment at the end of bug #639937. Jigdo will not build 100% correct CDs due to the index files often not being in 100% sync. So please don't recommend it as a way to download Debian CDs. Else one will take such CD to some rem

Bug#924120: Say "netinst multi-arch CD images"

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Well all I know is we think they must be in contrast to the other items listed. >>>>> "HW" == Holger Wansing writes: HW> Hi, HW> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: >> Package: www.debian.org >> >> On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ >>

Bug#924122: Users' eyes are drawn to "USB stick"

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ users see: "other images (netboot, USB stick, etc.)" But in fact many of the other places above and below that can also be used for USB sticks. In fact they are the more primary places...

Bug#924120: Say "netinst multi-arch CD images"

2019-03-09 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org On https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ After "Current daily snapshots" say "netinst multi-arch CD images" Not just "multi-arch CD images".

Bug#894707: Bugs for wiki.debconf.org. Please forward

2018-04-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: wiki.debian.org Bugs for wiki.debconf.org. Please forward 1) https://wiki.debconf.org/ should mention where the bug tracker is to file reports about it. 2) Site looks broken as $wgLogo is missing. 3) epiphany browser console says: [Error] Error parsing header X-XSS-Protection: 1; mod

Bug#893798: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2018-03-22 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Bad news for https://www.debian.org/users/com/dreamhost : https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/change-is-in-the-air-dreamhost-upgrades/ So please remove it.

Bug#840899: no NEXT PAGE button for search results

2016-10-15 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
X-debbugs-cc: enr...@debian.org Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist https://debtags.debian.org/search/?q=web%3A%3Abrowser says About 56 results for web::browser: and shows 20 and lacks any NEXT PAGE button.

Bug#809796: make dates of packages more visible

2016-01-05 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "AV" == Alex Vong writes: AV> I don't exactly understand what do you mean by AV> `learn any of the DATES of any of the items listed'. If you are looking AV> for when the package was being last updated, you can look at the news AV> section of

Bug#809796: make dates of packages more visible

2016-01-04 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Starting from https://packages.debian.org/sid/utils/ideviceinstaller it is an extreme challenge to learn any of the DATES of any of the items listed, without being forced to download to find out. One can read all of the details, except one cannot tell if

Bug#207095: last change date not on packages.d.o

2014-11-03 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Probably the least bandwith using way to find the date currently is to just check their directory entry in .../pool/... But OK maybe date isn't important to some people, so I'll just respect that, so you can close it if you like. But even "Google play store" and "Apple app store" all have latest

Bug#761138: bug only fixed in one of the many themes

2014-09-11 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
OK I filed https://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/ClarifyPathMeaning but I don't want to get more involved with wikis other than MediaWiki, which is also why I didn't spend a lot of times comparing themes, but just picked one that seemed better at a quick glance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-r

Bug#761138: bug only fixed in one of the many themes

2014-09-11 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> "PW" == Paul Wise writes: PW> I guess you aren't using the default theme, please change your PW> preferences to switch to it. Holy smokes. OK I now changed it from "Right Sidebar" to "Default" and yuck... I didn't like it and changed it back. Anyway please fix the bug in the other 85% of

Bug#761138: closed by Paul Wise (Re: Bug#761138: pagetrail misleading)

2014-09-11 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Nope. Not showing up. Even logged in with a different browser. Debian Wiki HelpContents PaulWiseRecentChangesHelpContents Anyway yours says Wiki/ mine says Debian Wiki. >>>>> "PW" == Paul Wise writes: PW> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:52 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: B

Bug#761138: closed by Paul Wise (Re: Bug#761138: pagetrail misleading)

2014-09-11 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
B> Added the suggested prefix, thanks for the usability tip. Where did you add it? I still see Debian Wiki FrontPage debconf>>android-sdk>>KVM>>PaulWise>>FrontPage -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Bug#761138: pagetrail misleading

2014-09-10 Thread 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
Package: wiki.debian.org The part of a MoinMoin page looks like it is describing what part of the site we are looking at, where in fact it is showing a web history of what we have browsed. At least prefix it by "Recently viewed pages:". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debi

Bug#421654: packages.debian.org mail jam

2007-04-30 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Severity: minor Just to let you know what packages.debian.org does these days: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to one or more of its recipients after more than 48 hours on the queue on fro

Bug#368157: packages.debian.org/unstable: clarify if non-free etc. is included

2006-05-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Just browsing http://packages.debian.org/unstable/ , one can't tell if non-free etc. are included. There should be some words to that effect added. Same even at the bottom with: All packages (compact compressed textlist) Wait, I see some [non-free]

Bug#352115: Debian wiki should look more like wikipedia

2006-02-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
We are used to wikipedia where there is always some way to HTTP POST a comment, and even one can find an email address... anyway, wikipedia users can't find the familiar comment methods to click on and thus give up. Therefore Debian wiki should look more like wikipedia. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#352115: www.debian.org: no feedback path given

2006-02-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Looking at e.g., http://wiki.debian.org/BashCommands , one sees some lines jumbled together, and wants to tell somebody about the problem. Same with many other pages on that site. However one cannot see any webmaster etc. problem email address on the pag

Bug#350246: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages should mention experimental

2006-01-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages doesn't mention one word about the experimental distribution. $ w3m -dump http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages|grep -i distribution$ View the packages in the stable distribution View the packages in the testing di

Bug#283041: www.debian.org: mention how to get Contents.gz

2004-11-25 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist On http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages at the end of "Search the contents of packages", mention how to get the file listing all their contents (.../Contents.gz?), and warn how big it is. Contents-i386.gz is mentioned in /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference

Bug#271360: www.debian.org: 8710 packages

2004-09-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
Maybe say "the stable release comes with more than 8710 packages", or "it comes with more than 8710 packages (stable release)".

Bug#271360: www.debian.org: 8710 packages

2004-09-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Severity: minor $ lynx -dump http://www.debian.org/ Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with more than 8710 [46]packages Hogwash. It's probably twice that many. Use round figures unless you intend to update weekly. Or say 'tens of thousands'. $ dpkg -

Bug#265388: www.debian.org: don't need so deep pngs

2004-08-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist $ wget http://www.debian.org/logos/openlogo-nd-50.png $ file openlogo-nd-50.png openlogo-nd-50.png: PNG image data, 50 x 61, 8-bit colormap, non-interlaced Perhaps only 1-bit is all that is needed? Well, at least not all 8. Same for some of the other gra

Bug#207095: Done?

2004-01-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> packages.debian.org: should give date of last update T> There is now a link to the Debian changelog, the first T> entry of which gives the date on which the version was T> created (more or less). Does this satisfy wish #207095 T> well enough? I didn't try it yet, but is sounds like one has to

Bug#222820: www.debian.org: mail to @packages.debian.org still broken

2003-12-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal please fix the mail alias.

Bug#177200: expiration times etc. for many of the very static graphics too short

2003-10-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
MJ> I would suggest submitting a patch with your preferred settings, MJ> but I can't find the config file. .htaccess file? The last time I patched one, I brought down my website. You don't want me near your code.

Bug#177200: expiration times etc. for many of the very static graphics too short

2003-10-02 Thread Dan Jacobson
More examples: The HTTP expiration times etc. for many of the very static graphics are too wastefully short. E.g., http://www.debian.org/Pics/red-lowerright.png: Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 22:03:40 GMT Cache-Control: max-age=86400 Expires: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:03:40 GMT Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 2

mention "sid" somewhere on http://packages.debian.org/unstable/

2003-09-19 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ lynx -dump http://packages.debian.org/unstable/|grep -i sid $ Perhaps mention it somewhere on that page even though it is mentioned elsewhere. Perhaps do it for other than sid too.

Bug#210160: www.debian.org: add headers to "You've sent email to debian@debian.org." message

2003-09-09 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-08 Severity: wishlist Please add the complete original headers when you send "You've sent email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]" messages, so we can figure out what happened. Indeed, I did not send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but perhaps "info" t

Bug#207095: www.debian.org: no dates from package search

2003-08-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-25 Severity: wishlist Gentlemen, consider users looking for info on say lynx. http://packages.debian.org/lynx leads to http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/lynx.html leads to "Download Page for lynx_2.8.4.1b-5_i386.deb on Intel x86

Bug#207094: www.debian.org: Mirror Checker page needs explanation

2003-08-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-25 Severity: wishlist http://mirror.debian.org/status.html needs a sentence at top telling what the data means below. For instance, the Legend eventually found way at the bottom of the file doesn't explain what the 1, 2 ... stuff are

Bug#202236: www.debian.org: do @packages messages bounce?

2003-07-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-21 Severity: normal Whenever I send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get no response. I recall these were supposed to be forwarded to the owner of some_package. Maybe they just don't reply, but probably, just like bugs.debian.org, yo

Bug#198854: www.debian.org: predictable link to a package's changelog

2003-06-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-26 Severity: wishlist >It is unfortunate, that there is no easy access to the changelog, I know of, >but all other infos can be seen on the package tracking system: > >http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/adns.html > >This also includes the

Debian a male-dominated organization

2003-05-16 Thread Dan Jacobson
Gentlemen, I just had a look at http://www.debian.org/intro/organization and realized Debian is a male-dominated organization, not that I have any ideas how to fix that or if it should be fixed. Must reflect a general phenomenon. OK, never mind. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780

Bug#193106: bugs.debian.org: what defaults on /Bugs page?

2003-05-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> However, the results produced act like all the "Include severity" >> boxes were checked. So why aren't they initially checked when the >> user encounters them? C> Because it would produce a most vomitously long URL. Not checking any of C> the include/exclude boxes is a useful edge case, and is

Bug#193106: bugs.debian.org: what defaults on /Bugs page?

2003-05-14 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> On http://www.debian.org/Bugs/: >> Additional settings (which you may leave untouched, the defaults will work): >> * Include severity: critical grave serious important normal minor wishlist >> fixed >> * Exclude severity: critical grave serious important normal minor wishlist >> fixed >> Thi

spam not caught

2003-04-03 Thread Dan Jacobson
Maybe this is easy to catch spam? --- Begin Message --- Please Wait While The Email Loads... Remove --- End Message --- -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780

Bug#185835: www.debian.org: mention again reading maillists via usenet and gmane

2003-03-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-03-22 Severity: wishlist Yes, I know you mention reading via usenet and gmane on other pages, but you don't mention it on http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ and you should. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Archite

Re: making mboxes available

2003-03-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
Sorry, I'm not following the conversation, but gmane.org is a nice place to read the debian groups for us modemed. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780

Bug#183585: www.debian.org: logo expires today

2003-03-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-03-06 Severity: minor $ wwwoffle -O http://www.debian.org/Pics/debian.jpg HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:43:07 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2 Cache-Control: max-age=604800 Expires: Mon, 03 Mar 2003

Bug#182659: www.debian.org: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ needs to say how to adopt

2003-02-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
>>>>> "J" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:02:07AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: >> Package: www.debian.org >> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-02-27 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> http://www

Bug#182659: www.debian.org: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ needs to say how to adopt

2003-02-26 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-02-27 Severity: wishlist http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ should have a link Ok, I want to adopt a package. How do I become a developer? etc. near the top. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i3

Bug#177669: www.debian.org: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/allpackages.html too big

2003-01-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-01-21 Severity: wishlist http://packages.debian.org/*/allpackages.html is over 1 meg. please put warnings on their parent pages. BTW, tidy(1) shows tons of: Warning: attribute "color" has invalid value "FF" also there, please mak

Bug#177200: www.debian.org: images expire too fast?

2003-01-17 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-01-18 Severity: minor Isn't expiring static things like this so fast wasteful of bandwidth? $ wwwoffle -O http://www.debian.org/Pics/red-upperright.png|s HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:43:54 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) De

Bug#176396: www.debian.org: add simple explanation to the top of http://incoming.debian.org/

2003-01-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-01-12 Severity: minor Add a simple explanation to the top of http://incoming.debian.org/ please, so us folks who browsed in from other places know what it is all about. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture

Debian current weekly news should use indirect link

2002-11-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html as well. Gentlemen, looking at http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ we see the latest issue can always be found at http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/ However, for us cach

Bug#168629: www.debian.org: pages need a or any header at top, etc.

2002-11-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-11 Severity: minor Please add a H1 header and a little introduction _at the top_ to http://buildd.debian.org/stats/ Same with http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/stable_probs.html http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/testing_probs.html http:

Bug#160589: www.debian.org: put Taiwan on http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl

2002-09-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: www.debian.org Version: N/A; reported 2002-09-10 Severity: minor Namely, elevate ftp://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/ from being only on http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors to also be on http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architect