Getting upstream to listen (was Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-11-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
). Perhaps they might actually listen to you if *you* requested the removal of dgrs? Since they aren't listening to me. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmare

I guess upstream listened

2007-11-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Forget most of my previous message! Googling again, it looks like someone upstream at Linux picked up the dgrs removal after several weeks (and I simply didn't notice)! I guess the system works. :-) Hooray! -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure your vote will count. http

Outside udebs capability: what are we waiting for?

2007-09-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
of the kernel to non-free where they belong. If this was true, integration of this should help unblock five serious bugs some of which are more than three years old. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's just a goddamned piece of paper. -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http

Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
guess the Social Contract really is a joke. I don't know why new applicants are supposed to agree to it. Old members apparently violate it at will for years with no consequences. It doesn't make me respect Debian very much. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read it and weep. http

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Don Armstrong wrote: To underline, the following clauses in the CDDL are problematic: 9. MISCELLANEOUS [...] This License shall be governed by the law of the jurisdiction specified in a notice contained within the Original Software (except to the extent applicable law, if any,

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Russ Allbery wrote: So, here's a possibly weird proposal. What if we had some mechanism whereby people could indicate interest in maintaining a package should anything happen to the current maintainer? Have it be as non-confrontational as possible by having it not indicate any feeling about

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-03-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I think everyone missed the important part of my message. so I'm soliciting comments on it again. But perhaps the best solution is to document prominently that if you replace your network hardware, you should delete the line associated with the removed hardware from

Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
time (sick family members). -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read it and weep. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
was added and knowning whether the maintainer mentioned the patch; it's easy for a human to tell though. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Theocracy, fascism, or absolute monarchy -- I don't care which it is, I don't like it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Ethernet interface numbering in etch

2007-03-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
), and thankfully I haven't yet had to do it with a machine running udev, because this would have bitten me as I wondered why the CD numbers kept going up and up and up. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.) --Steve Lanagasek

More stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade

2007-03-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
as it is now. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's just a goddamned piece of paper. -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Thanks to ftpmasters!

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
priorities bugs. I'm extremely impressed. Credit where credit is due; nearly all the easy longstanding bugs were fixed in a very short amount of time, and the rest had explanations of the problems added to the bug trail, which is *superb*. Thanks Ryan Murray et al! -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL

Can ftpmasters do ONE SIMPLE THING?

2006-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Namely, fix bug #224469. It's really trivial and it's been waiting for over three years now. This is just STUPID. Next DPL election, I want to see someone running on the platform of adding an extra ftpmaster *whether or not the current ftpmasters like it*. Someone who will get simple stuff

Tempfile best practice vs. man pages

2006-12-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
that the dire warning on tempnam(3) is overblown. Am I right? -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Correct fate for emacs20 bugs?

2006-12-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
So I'm going through the old bugs list. There are 37 bugs against emacs20. emacs20 is only in oldstable-security at this point. What is the correct fate for these bugs? -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Ftpmaster bug reports are not processed nearly fast enough.

2006-11-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
To start with, congratulations to the ftpmasters for keeping up with the NEW queue. Unfortunately, this email is going to be a case of damning with faint praise I'm seeing bugs which were filed as removal requests as early as August 14 which are still waiting for processing. Unfortunately,

Re: Why are all packages getting so much bigger?

2006-09-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I'm guessing translations. They eat up space really fast. Is there a way to compare packages after localepurge runs? -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: (proposed) Mass bug filingĀ for debconf abuse by using low|medium priority debconf notes?

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
, then a high-priority note is reasonable. Upgrades from really-messed-up versions may also require people to do something manually to clean up from the messed-up version. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?...

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
picked up.) I will note that rxvt has 1234 popcon installs, so if anyone's going for brownie points -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: gnome 1 packages up for adoption

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
to removable, but not quite. libglade, gnome-libs, and imlib are definitely hanging around. Adopters welcome for any of the six. :-) -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
gregor herrmann wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:58:31 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: (There are quite a few more -perl and -ruby packages, but I'm not quite sure which ones have been picked up.) The lib*-perl packages are all already in the Debian Perl Group's svn repository

Re: (proposed) Mass bug filingĀ for debconf abuse by using low|medium priority debconf notes?

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Frans Pop wrote: On Monday 18 September 2006 16:36, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Frankly, the kernel's You NEED to restart your computer SOON message is a good example, if it's telling the truth. But that cheats by not using debconf. Oh yes it does! When have you last done a kernel upgrade

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Aug 31, Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco trolled again. FYI, no serious person disagrees with this interpretation. Except every other distribution, which usually retain real lawyers to advise them

Re: The debian boot dependency graph image

2006-09-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
probably the dependency should be specified. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joe Smith wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:27:21AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 30, Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian must decide whether it wants to ship BLOBs with licensing which technically

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
and the other parts of the kernel. Simply putting files side by side is mere aggregation -- what's happening with the drivers and firmware might be mere aggregation, but nobody can be sure until a court case happens. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:48:00PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Debian needs to make a decision on how it will deal with this legal minefield. That is higher priority than the entire discussion going on right now, because it determines whether Debian will distribute

Re: bug rates

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
, because long-standing bugs are substantially more annoying than new bugs. A release where we fixed all the (discovered and undiscovered) RC bugs from the *previous* release would be a very successful release. :-) and finding the relative time-to-fix of each of these. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Toni Mueller wrote: Hello, On Wed, 30.08.2006 at 09:27:21 +0200, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 30, Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian must decide whether it wants to ship BLOBs with licensing which technically does not permit redistribution. At least 53

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:26:56PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: snip Actually, letting an overworked team of four with (to my knowledge) zero legal expertise settle questions of legal liability is pretty absurd too. They are the team responsible for vetting

Re: Bits from the DPL: Freedom and etch

2006-08-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
and no-license-text drivers are serious and separate issues, and affect far more drivers than properly-licensed sourceless firmware affects.) I suggest a d-d-a post adding this link: http://doolittle.icarus.com/~larry/fwinventory/2.6.17.html -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted

The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
the original companies, and then I'd have a real case for a lawsuit. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: cdrtools alternatives

2006-08-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Weimer wrote: * Nathanael Nerode: In reality, as user A, I switched to using cdrdao for making serious audio CDs and CD-RWs, and for burning disks from .iso files: this uses Schilling's scsilib, but not the rest of cdrecord. What

cdrtools alternatives (was Re: cdrtools)

2006-08-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: autotools and programming style (was: Remove cdrtools)

2006-08-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
to make a new standard based on the previous standard. Duh. Very common use case. The problem is not permission to change a standards document but permission to make a modified derivative of a standards document. I don't understand why people have such trouble understanding this. -- Nathanael

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
, if you know how to write a Makefile, don't use it, just write your Makefile -- but most people don't. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

2006-08-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
/ -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
things like this which they've noticed and we could get them into the next release notes, including anything which wasn't covered on previous major upgrades? -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Recursive Dependency Disease reminder and freetype status

2006-08-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
), please fix it. I will file occasional bugs as I spot them, but given the sheer number of cases, I thought a reminder to all Debian Developers was a better move. If you have difficulty fixing this for your package, I believe several people including me are happy to help. -- Nathanael Nerode

Re: small quirks setting up a cross-compile toolchain

2006-07-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's exactly what I did: apt-get install -y \ autoconf2.13 \ toolchain-source toolchain-source-gdb \ toolchain-source-newlib \ dpkg-cross dejagnu expect gperf dpatch gobjc cdbs quilt \ expectk patchutils equivs

Congrats to the ftpmasters

2006-07-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
The NEW queue is down to *22* packages, which is totally unheard of. Only three packages have been waiting longer than a month -- so Javier's package is no longer in the 'endless wait' state. At the same time, the RM bugs are in fairly good shape, and clearly removals are also being processed

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * Kevin Bube [Fri, Jul 07 2006, 11:29:21AM]: Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Adam Borowski [Fri, Jul 07 2006, 10:38:32AM]: * dvdrtools, a fork of the last GPLed version, is in non-free Please look at dvdrtools' files, eg. cdrecord.c before

Re: Non-DDs in debian-legal

2006-06-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
licensing analysis like -- well, the best analogy is debugging. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By whom? A bunch of people with too much time on their hands. Is there an actual lawyer involved? I don't think so. This is a crazy stupid argument. By this argument, Debian should distribute absolutely anything, no matter what the license, unless a lawyer gets

Changing the default syslogd (again...)

2006-05-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. I expect that most of what it needs from netbase will turn out to already be available in the installer. Given the state of sysklogd, I hope that it can be removed entirely from a future release of Debian. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Theocracy, fascism, or absolute monarchy -- I

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation toprovide them fall

2006-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: So yes, I believe we need to work on the long-term ignored bugs. :) Those are essentially all I work on. It's a good thing I have a thick skin. Some maintainers are genuinely grateful for the assistance, and they're a pleasure to work with. (This includes the X

Re: GFDL question

2006-03-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
, but there is (a short) front and back cover text. How do we proceed with these documents? They're non-free, per the GR. Cover Texts are unmodifiable material. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet

Re: Regarding the NEW queue (Was: Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?)

2006-03-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
correct thing to do, and I apologize for not doing it in the first place. For some reason my brain didn't come up with that as a possibility. :-/ -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
explain the packages listed up top. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Improving keyring maintenance (was Re: question for all candidates)

2006-03-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
of work is what I'm especially good at. I could start an alioth project for keyring-manangement-scripts if anyone else is interested in working on this. Hmm, this is going off topic for -vote Replies to -devel please. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure your vote will count. http

Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This belongs somewhere else. Directing followups to -project. Glenn Maynard wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:31:43AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Incidentally, if I ever become a DD, I will immediately propose a GR to amend the Social Contract to explicitly allow unmodifiable license

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
a special license exception dual-licensing the Doxygen comments. To date, this has not been done, and it is still technically illegal to generate that portion of the libstdc++ manual unless you're the FSF. Blech. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Theocracy, fascism, or absolute monarchy

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
*. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Theocracy, fascism, or absolute monarchy -- I don't care which it is, I don't like it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
a GR to amend the Social Contract to explicitly allow unmodifiable license texts in Debian, since it technically doesn't, but everyone agrees that it should. I'd welcome someone else beating me to it. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org

Re: Proposal: move /etc/{protocol,services,rpc} to base-files

2006-02-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
netbase-data package. In fact, this would solve in a certain sense the long argument about how many protocols/services to include in the lists: alternate packages could Provides: netbase-data if they included any superset of the most basic list. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Instead

BTS LDAP interface (or something) broken?

2006-02-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
bts.turmzimmer.net just went nuts: Changes at Thu Feb 2 0:10:06 CET 2006: (all but six RC bugs are supposedly solved simultaneously) Obviously something broke. Perhaps the ldap interface to the BTS, since packages.qa.debian.org is giving bogus results too. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: returning emeritus developer, no response from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-01-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
so far not even a response telling me I'm in a queue. Is the procedure described above still the right one? DAM is very slow-moving these days. Probably they haven't looked at your mail yet. Um, just in case anyone was wondering, that wasn't intended as a criticism of DAM -- I think

Re: returning emeritus developer, no response from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-01-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] over a week ago, as described here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/02/msg3.html so far not even a response telling me I'm in a queue. Is the procedure described above still the right one? DAM is very

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Russ Allbery wrote: (Or is imake going away completely?) Yep. Imake is still being shipped for the benefit of third-party packages, but it is not used by anything in Xorg 7.0 IIRC. Doing a quick check, I think very few if any other packages in Debian use imake. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Russ Allbery wrote: Here's a list of packages that install binaries into /usr/X11R6/bin and don't have lintian overrides for it. In spot checks, about a quarter of these packages use imake. And that's just the packages with binaries; there are a number of other packages that don't install

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-1 As written above: ENCODING is still an issue and therefore at least one reason is still true. So dont hope too much it will get through. -- bye Joerg Die d??mmsten H??hne haben die dicksten Eier. I read this as remove MPEG encoding and it will go in. Don't you? -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
stated? (And sorry for not giving credit to Joerg there!) -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.) --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Derived distributions and the Maintainer: field

2006-01-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
the same, but use NMU version numbers and add a Changed-By: field which is different, that seems perfectly reasonable as well. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read it and weep. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: binNMU version detection

2006-01-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How did bin-NMU numbers work for the old numbering scheme on native packages? In a Complicated Way. Essentially, the debian revision and NMU revision were filled in with 0s (which were, accordingly, not supposed to be used in normal version numbers). What prohibited

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
aj@azure.humbug.org.au: MJ Ray's already done such a summary; it's rather trivially inadequate, due to the information its summarising being equally inadequate. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00901.html So the summary amounts to patents. Is that right? In other words,

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Apologies to AJ and the ftpmasters. I found the *important* part of the thread, which I'd apparently missed during December, in which the ftpmasters... drumroll explain what would be needed for mplayer to go into Debian now, barring finding additional problems. Congrats Jeroen van

Re: Derived distributions and the Maintainer: field

2006-01-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
In response to your request for replies to http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00260.html: 1. Most of the source packages in Ubuntu are inherited from Debian unchanged (example: tetex-base). Then the *source* packages can legitimately use the same Maintainer: field. If they are

binNMU version detection

2006-01-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: Which would be totally pointless until dpkg itself is fixed to give packagers an alternative to ${Source-Version}. Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: I thought we had a fix-strategy in place for addressing these cases. I'm sorry if we don't; then of course this strategy

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Eric Dorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has probably been covered ad nauseum, but where do we stand in respect to getting mplayer in Debian? IIRC, the copyright issues were carefully worked out and solved after several years, finally reaching the approval of debian-legal. At which point it

Re: Apology for MIA, Retiring, RFA: x-symbol, xmix, oneko

2006-01-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I'd like to offer these three packages for adoption: x-symbol, xmix, and oneko. I'll take oneko if Joey Hess doesn't want it. (But frankly he'll probably do a better job at maintaining it than me.) (On third thought, I'd be happy to be a co-maintainer for it.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: apt-torrent (WAS: Re: apt PARALLELISM)

2006-01-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
It'll take me some time to find a new, and more appropriate home for apt-torrent. The Debian archive (experimental distribution) would be a *very* appropriate home. It won't provide a testbed package seeder or place to download .torrent files, but that can be done later (and by any number

Clogs on packages going into etch cleared!

2006-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Amazing! ghc6 is now the top blocker for packages entering testing, and it's only keeping 15 packages out of testing! Hooray! Now to fix those ~= 400 RC bugs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is mesa actually maintained?

2006-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Hello! This is one of 5 RC bugs, apparently with no maintainer response. Apparently the list which is listed as the maintainer is rejecting messages (336752), which probably contributes to the problem. Hence the Cc: to debian-devel. This bug is trivial to fix, and because it prevents mesa

c2a transition: libraries still needing transition

2005-12-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
to fix FTBFSes, RC bugs, etc.) -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted ksetisaver 0.3.4.dfsg1-1 (source i386)

2005-12-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:03:29 -0500 Source: ksetisaver Binary: ksetisaver Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.3.4.dfsg1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
, then Javier should be told. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.) --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
(it's documented neatly in the ITP bug trail), but you're clearly wrong in the case of Javier. Javier has stated that he's just guessing why his package has been stalled and that he really isn't sure. I don't know about the others. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure your vote

Re: buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
message to debian-devel in one of these threads. Not a great way to find information. :-P -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmare! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

debian-menu vs. .desktop

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
.) -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
debian-devel on the theory that publicizing such a request will prevent duplicate requests. -- Nathanael Nerode neroden at fastmail.fm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Yes, ftpmaster is getting efficient at the routine processing. Congrats! Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: But it is not doing a great job with processing a few old uploads. I consider it a problem that no decision have been taken on the few really old uploads (xvidcap,

Re: Solving recursive dependency disease in KDE-based packages

2005-12-13 Thread Nathanael Nerode
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Regenerating acinclude.m4, aclocal.m4, configure.in, and finally configure, can be a pain in the neck. In some packages, it's done by Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: autoreconf ? NO NO NO. That does not work for these KDE-based packages, which

Solving recursive dependency disease in KDE-based packages

2005-12-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
it anywhere it might help and edit it as needed. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nightmare! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: question towards freetype transition; improved library handlingneeded for all C/C++ packages

2005-12-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe my package is affected by the issues stated by Steve, depending on libraries which I do not directly use. Most of them are probably pulled in through the QT library I am depending on. My package, packagesearch, uses qmake as a build tool. The linking command

Re: ldd -u (Re: Solving recursive dependency disease in KDE-based packages)

2005-12-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Nathanael Nerode [Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:35:41 -0500]: To work out which libraries you're linked to which you don't actually need, ldd -u executable or library is invaluable. This seems like not the case _at all_ to me (the invaluable bit): Yes

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This is an omnibus reply. Sorry about the thread-breaking, but I'm on yet *another* computer, and I can't seem to find a mailer which respects the In-Reply-To headers from the web pages or lets me add my own. == I would like to note that I have made a practical and *new* suggestion for

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
James' opinion on this, but why do you not trust our beloved Release Manager, either, who said he knew of no serious issues with buildd maintenance right now? Why should either of them know, to be perfectly frank? This is argument by authority, not an actual argument. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
outside observer would come to. If that's an inaccurate conclusion, it indicates that there's something seriously wrong in the transparency of the processes. -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
. Apologies for the thread-breaking, I'm reading on the web pages again. :-/ -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SDL producing bogus dependencies or packages misusing SDL?

2005-12-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
possibility is of course that each of these packages generated the bad recursive list on its own, which is just as likely. I'm wondering where to file the bugs. :-) -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Blrgh! OK. So I was working on the problem of fixing dpkg-dev so that foo Depends: foo-data {SourceVersion}, foo-libs {BinaryVersion} or something similar actually works. By parsing the version numbers. Now it's apparently been changed under our noses, in such a way that my proposed

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Jay Berkenbilt wrote: From time to time, someone announces an intention to package some tiny script or program, and people suggest including it in some other package instead to avoid pollution of the archive with lots of tiny packages. Although I understand the reasoning and the issues here

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Chip Salzenberg wrote: Who does a developer have to fuck around here to get his key deleted? Same one he has to fuck to get a new key added, presumably. It's a pity the DPL hasn't anointed a less-busy person with authority to alter the keyring. -- ksig --random| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
to do these jobs. Branden? -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Bastian Venthur wrote: Maybe renaming Debians i386 into something more accurate like x86 or even IA32 (in consistency with IA64) would suppress discussions like this in the future? Good idea :-) -- ksig --random| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Erast Benson wrote: There are things like forums, mailing list, blogs, web-based Debian repository browser, etc. which need ^ Trademark point. Are you referring to a browser for *Debian's* FTP archive? If you are not, you must not call this a Debian

Re: Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
melanied, right? That much is trivial, and should just involve making britney stupider by making it do less. The hard part there is working out how to hang on to the old source package (which is needed for licensing reasons), I guess? -- Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Insert famous quote

Re: is the Debian mail server healthy?

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:34:49 +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2005, at 10:52, Marc Haber wrote: I can confirm that master sits on some messages for days, such as this one, for example: |Received: from master.debian.org ([146.82.138.7]) |

Re: Sorting source packages to reduce build effort

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Peter Samuelson wrote: [Daniel Ruoso] The question is: Is there a way (I mean, already implemented) to sort the packages putting the most used and less dependencies on the front and showing wich packages needs to be installed before the build can start? [Goswin von Brederlow] No.

Re: Help: Bug#336469: pure-ftpd uninstallable : no pure-ftpd-common

2005-11-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:27:06AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, it's a bug in dpkg-dev, which should know how to set ${Source-Version} correctly for binNMUs. I'm not clear which file actually puts this substitution in

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