Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Parkes alpha 1

[r. siddharth]

On Wednesday 15 August 2012 10:32 PM, Sam Geeraerts 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.

Sure, I'll do that.

> > 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. :)

I have submitted the bug[1]


[1]: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37124
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