Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Parkes alpha 1

[Sam Geeraerts]

r. siddharth wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 August 2012 01:03 PM, Karl Goetz wrote:
> I am not sure. To connect to the Internet, I just switch ON the modem. 
> In gNewSense 2.3 (which I was using before) the notification icon did 
> show that "the computer is tethered to the Internet", this not true 
> anymore with gNewSense Parkes alpha 1.

Could you make a note to remember to test this again when Parkes is in 
beta stage? I'd like to reserve Parkes related bug reports for things 
like freedom bugs and serious boot problems caused by our changes with 
Debian.

> I think we have, inadvertently, found a bug in here. In the "Software 
> Sources" dialog (accessible from System-->Administration-->Software 
> Sources) when I "check" the 'DSFG-compatible Software with Non-Free 
> Dependencies (contrib)' & 'Non-DSFG-compatible Software (non-free)', 
> they are not "checked". Now, when I open my '/etc/apt/sources.list' 
> file, I see this line:
>
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze contrib non-free
>
> I ran a "apt-get update". I get the error that I previously mentioned 
> before. Now, if I ran "apt-cache search adobe", I get :
>
> > flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound - Adobe Flash Player platform support 
> > library for Esound and OSS
> > flashplugin-nonfree - Adobe Flash Player - browser plugin

Please report a bug for it. I believe we patched software-properties-gtk 
in Deltah for a similar reason. Anyone who wants to investigate this 
further has my full blessing and encouragement. :)