Re: [bug-womb] [gnu.org #881181] Package synopses and blurbs translation

2014-02-14 Thread Karl Berry via RT
So, are we to change the source format of blurb items to HTML? It seems ugly to me in principle, but if the consensus is that that is the most useful approach, ok, I won't object (i.e., will install the patch :). I don't have strong feelings about it. karl

Re: [bug-womb] [gnu.org #881181] Package synopses and blurbs translation

2014-02-14 Thread Karl Berry
So, are we to change the source format of blurb items to HTML? It seems ugly to me in principle, but if the consensus is that that is the most useful approach, ok, I won't object (i.e., will install the patch :). I don't have strong feelings about it. karl

Re: [PATCH] gnu: xterm: Accept $SHELL even if not in /etc/shells

2014-02-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington skribis: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:59:32AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > However, we???re just packaging an existing application. IMO, when we > find such limitations (it???s really a limitation, and not something that > makes it completely unusable), we shou

Re: [PATCH] gnu: xterm: Accept $SHELL even if not in /etc/shells

2014-02-14 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Not the most experienced "upstream maintainer", but … John Darrington writes: > This being the case, would it not be a good idea, to have some kind of web > interface to these patch files to make it easy for upstream maintainers to > fetch them. (perhaps there is sucha page already) Th

Re: [PATCH] gnu: xterm: Accept $SHELL even if not in /etc/shells

2014-02-14 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:59:32AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: However, we???re just packaging an existing application. IMO, when we find such limitations (it???s really a limitation, and not something that makes it completely unusable), we should submit the improvement upst

Re: [gnu.org #881181] Package synopses and blurbs translation

2014-02-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès via RT
"Ineiev via RT" skribis: >> [karl - Sat Jan 11 18:34:38 2014]: >> >> > What would you prefer? >> >> I prefer plain text, but I don't feel that strongly about it, as such. >> >> > about not introducing HTML markup in the translated text? >> >> If the "translation" you're referring to is the ho

Re: [gnu.org #881181] Package synopses and blurbs translation

2014-02-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"Ineiev via RT" skribis: >> [karl - Sat Jan 11 18:34:38 2014]: >> >> > What would you prefer? >> >> I prefer plain text, but I don't feel that strongly about it, as such. >> >> > about not introducing HTML markup in the translated text? >> >> If the "translation" you're referring to is the ho

Re: [PATCH] gnu: xterm: Accept $SHELL even if not in /etc/shells

2014-02-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Mark H Weaver skribis: >> >>> IMO, it's not reasonable to have to add >>> /home///bin/ for every combination of , >>> , and to /etc/shells, in order to prevent 'xterm' from >>> overriding your $SHELL setting. >> >> On NixOS, /