Hi,
I'm pleased to announce the permanent availability of an archive in which
Debian
can preserve materials (video, audio, slides, example code used, etc.)
gathered, used at or derived from real life meetings.
It is located at http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/
and
Hi,
On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:06, A Mennucc wrote:
In my opinion, considering that the release of etch is 15 months away,
Please don't consider this :)
No matter whether it's a lack of knowledge or disbelieving in the etch release
plan (a la it's scheduled for december so it will become
Hi,
no, this is not really about the GFDL issue currently discussed, but about
using the unmodified GFDL template in debian/copyright. Besides not being
able to tell who has the copyright, it makes it also impossible to tell if
there are invariant sections and/or cover texts.
Lots of packages
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Hi,
Peter 'p2' De Schrijver has made some new updates to the quik - you can get it
(.deb and source) at the http://www.ulyssis.org/~p2/debjes/
changes include:
- manpage tells about initrd
- compiles with gcc3
- sprintf bug fixed
- ANS raid
quik_2.0e-12.deb (or 2.0f?) ?
This is still needed (ASAP) for the d-i/release people to review the changes
and to be able to decide wether to allow it into sarge or not...
On Friday 03 December 2004 23:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ce jour Fri, 03 Dec 2004, Holger Levsen a dit:
i'd appreciate
Hi,
first I'd like to thank Kevin for his nice diagram!
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 20:38, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Very nice! I expect to use it at some conferences (BTW: Looks like a
nice addition to Debian Eyecatcher[1], I'll add it :) )
but then I also got one concern, especially if this
Hi,
On Saturday 08 January 2005 07:45, Christian Perrier wrote:
So, if we imagine we release sarge at February 1st (ahah), just
immediately announce that etch will enter the first freeze stages
(base packages frozen, testing-security checked, d-i frozen) on August
1st.
This will give all
Hi,
On Monday 31 January 2005 20:36, Martin Schulze wrote:
Anything but a non-public list/forum/whatever would be fine and better.
In fact I have had already informed the admin after a user informed me.
Since http://www.debian.org/security/ is about the security in Debian
packages
Hi,
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 10:21, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
Warning: The signature is bad.
Something's broken somewhere...
Can anybody confirm so I can stop worrying about my set up?
I cannot confirm this, the signature is valid here. I have no valid trust path
to the key, but
Hi Raphael,
you had a typo in Jonas' email address, maybe that's why he didn't answer ? :)
regards,
Holger
On Sunday 13 February 2005 14:04, Raphael Bossek wrote:
Hi Jonas,
I'm writing you again after my last email was not answered.
I would like to help you out packaging moin 1.3.x. Could
Hi,
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 01:08, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
The current ITP is not frozen :-)
I have a package ready at the moment. However, it only cleanly builds
with the version of gcc in Sarge. I have been assured by upstream that
a new release is forthcoming which fixes the build
Hi,
On Monday 10 July 2006 10:20, Frans Pop wrote:
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/
But most are still missing there :-(
I am painfully aware of this. And I am doing and have been doing what I can
do, which is not much (*). There is some light on the horizon now, so
Hi,
On Saturday 29 July 2006 08:43, Christian Perrier wrote:
And get a very nice random theme for gdm, making the system different
each time it's booted up. Very user friendly.
I agree with Christian. Quite some people will be confused by this, and it's
completly unnecessary to have a random
Hi,
the mighty video team, in boring alphabetical order (but you who where there
know who they are), Andrew McMillan, Chris Halls, Erik Johansson, Henning
Sprang, Herman Robak, Holger Levsen, Javier Candeira, John Lightsey,
Kalle Boess, Martin Langhoff, Noel Koethe, Peter de Schrijver, Tore S
Hi,
On Friday 02 September 2005 08:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.
Something is wrong with this list:
The following packages have been
Hi,
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:13, Jon Dowland wrote:
I would like to make a desperate plee that some attempt is made to
incorporate a clear indication of the licence under which material on
this wiki is available under, either with a user-readable prompt or
machine-readable metadata
Hi,
On Monday 26 September 2005 23:39, Peter Samuelson wrote:
Don't know why, but the content is supposed to be moving to
wiki.debian.org real soon now.
For moving the contents help is still needed (perl skills prefered), please
see http://wiki.debian.org/MigrationStatus
regards,
situation. Have those
issues been addressed ? (Yes, i'm too lazy to check this myself now. Thats why
I'm asking the people who should know whether they did that work ;)
Are you in touch with Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]? We
talked about Cinelerra at the QA miniconf and I sent him a list
Package: www.debian.org
Hi,
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:46, Steve Langasek posted a fine mail about a fine
change (thanks for both to whom it may apply).
Whohoo! :-)
Regarding testing upgrades from woody, I would like to propose mentioning
more visible that the suggested upgrade tool is
Hi Javier,
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 13:49, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
This might be related to the fact the they're somewhat hidden, at least
to ./google sarge releasenotes -
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes isn't helpful atm
either.
Why not? Isn't
Hi,
On Thursday 19 May 2005 18:43, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
What do other people think of this? Do you want a shorter WNPP
posting with only new entries on -devel?
less frequent, maybe every four weeks ? i've got wnpp-alert in my cron for
weekly mails - if people reaaally care, they can put
Hi,
On Thursday 02 June 2005 07:13, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
If Ian were to approach Ubuntu (rather than, say, Slashdot) with clear and
genuine concerns, I would be more than willing to discuss the situation
with him to explain what we're doing and why.
Ian posted this to his blog, not to
Hi,
On Friday 10 June 2005 04:02, Adam Majer wrote:
woody's kernels are vulnerable to CAN-2004-1235, a uselib() race
condition.
Will this be fixed for Woody?
I thought the plan was to provide security support for Woody for
another year?
AFAIK, there is no security support for Woody
Hi,
On Freitag, 20. März 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote:
The kernel team seems to have a full waiver for listing copyright
holders.
AFAIK linux-kbuild-2.6.28 was rejected from NEW for this very reason.
regards,
Holger
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Hi Luk,
On Freitag, 20. März 2009, Luk Claes wrote:
Below a list of packages/maintainers that use ifconfig/route/netstat:
How did you create that list? You seem to be missing a few..
ifconfig + route
sitesummary
netstat
---
munin
ifconfig
fai
Hi Luk,
On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Luk Claes wrote:
Below a list of packages/maintainers that use ifconfig/route/netstat:
How did you create that list? You seem to be missing a few..
By looking at dependency relations with the net-tools package. I guess
some packages use net-tools if
Hi Jonas,
On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
plugin. We dont want to suggest asterisk just because there is a plugin
to monitor it :)
Why not?
The purpose of Suggests: is exactly to declare non-important
relationship. From Policy 7.2:
True, but IMO it's the other way
On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Sandro Tosi wrote:
Sadly, we are all losing here.
yes. *sigh*
/me still has to understand what's the point in shooting on
ourselves... we are losing!
I think it's following binary logic to the end. Which we got trained by using
computers but what is very wrong in
Hi,
On Samstag, 21. März 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Err, isn't munin a hugely complex beasty, that has to be
configured for the network, and usually lives on a signle machine and
polls others? and does alerting and graphing and is a pain to
configure?
actually you just do
Hi,
On Sonntag, 22. März 2009, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
What I did the other day was to download the files from the package web
page. For lvm2 it's http://snapshot.debian.net/package/lvm2
Well, that works, but there are no snapshots after mid 2008 available... :(
regards,
Hi,
On Montag, 23. März 2009, Neil Williams wrote:
Then make an amendment that produces a lower requirement for seconding
amendments?
sounds like an excellent idea to me, any takers? ;-)
regards,
Holger
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On Mittwoch, 25. März 2009, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Munin ... does not
support alerting
It does. Directly or via nagios.
regards,
Holger
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On Mittwoch, 25. März 2009, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Debbugs/ArchchitectureTags
I'm not sure renaming-and-redirecting is possible on the wiki; if it is,
someone please do so (and sorry for this mess).
done :-)
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Hi Eddy,
On Donnerstag, 26. März 2009, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
Two days ago after upgrading the lenny 2.6.26-1-686 kernel I didn't
shut down the system, I put it in hibernate. The next day, when I
powered the computer, it failed to boot right after loading the kernel
and checking the BIOS with
Hi Eddy,
On Freitag, 27. März 2009, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
I agree this was user error. Still, recovering from it should be possible.
That's what the BR is about.
Well, the problem seems to be that your kernel was installed incorrectly...
How is it user error when I try to update the initramfs
reassign 521343 lilo
forcemerge 520645 521343
thanks Bastian
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Hi,
I'd like to use a depends like (pdns-backend-ldap pdns-recursor) | bind9 but
afaik this is not possible. AFAICS I should file a wishbug against dpkg but
as I dont have time atm to dig through all the bugs against dpkg, I thought I
drop a mail here, in the hope that someone will point me to
Hi,
On Sonntag, 29. März 2009, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
Doesn't this do what you want?
Depends: pdns-backend-ldap | bind9, pdns-recursor | bind9
sure, that works and thats what I'm doing now. But it's ugly and redudant and
potentially wrong: installing pdns-backend-ldap and bind9
Hi,
On Sonntag, 29. März 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote:
Hm? Your original mail said you wanted:
Depends: (pdns-backend-ldap + pdns-recursor) | bind9
How does installing bind9 plus pdns-backend-ldap not satisfy the above?
Sure it does satisfy the depends, but installing pdns-backup-ldap is not
Hi,
I wonder whether this shouldnt have been on d-d-a. I think it should have :)
regards,
Holger, now also wondering if I should send this mail in private ;-)
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Hi,
On Montag, 30. März 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
The solution to this and similar problems are always, as pointed out
by specific solutions in this thread by others, to turn your
dependency formula into conjunctive normal form (CNF) [1], which is
always possible, though possibly ugly,
reassign 524286 udev
thanks
On Donnerstag, 16. April 2009, Luca Boncompagni wrote:
Package: general
I try to open this as and udev bug (#524276) but Marco closed it because he
think that this is not an udev bug.
I'm speechless. (About users filing bugs against the wrong package because the
Hi Don,
On Donnerstag, 16. April 2009, Don Armstrong wrote:
reassign 524276 general
forcemerge 524286 524276
tags 524276 moreinfo
why did you reassign them to general? why are these bugs a general problem in
Debian which is not related to any particular package?
(you probably wanted to
Hi,
On Dienstag, 21. April 2009, Andreas Tille wrote:
There is no point in implementing better markup for the Blends pages
if I know from the beginning that I will end up with broken pages
for an undetermined time.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Montag, 27. April 2009, Philipp Kern wrote:
Interestingly you did it again, ignoring the list Code of Conduct.
As it sadly happens many times every day. And as long as there are no means to
enforce it (either pure social or aided by technology), it will continue to
happen.
regards,
Dear lazylist,
On Montag, 27. April 2009, Noah Slater wrote:
* The Debian lists do not have a Reply-To header,
does someone know why?
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Freitag, 1. Mai 2009, Paul Wise wrote:
Due to the way pipermail works, removing messages from the archives
would break all the URLs. Options for working around this might be:
- replacing the content of said mails with a placeholder.
regards,
Holger
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On Dienstag, 5. Mai 2009, Marco d'Itri wrote:
I have been told by upstream maintainers of one of my packages and by
prominent developers of other distributions that supporting a standalone
/usr is too much work and no other distribution worth mentioning does it
(not Ubuntu, not Fedora,
Hi,
On Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
With the include approach, we lack this feature and bad/broken local
overrides can't be detected if we only have the build log at hand.
which reminds me that we dont have build logs for probably a lot more than 25%
(*) of the most used
Hi,
On Dienstag, 21. Juli 2009, Jonas Meurer wrote:
is there any chance to get that fixed by either removing the circular
dependency from perl directly or by adding code to manage circular
dependencies to piuparts?
as a first approach to this problem I plan to make piuparts ignore circular
tags 506481 -patch +moreinfo
retitle 506481 wrong cpu optimisation, please specify more info
thanks
Hi Mark,
as I understand it, this bug report of yours is a bit useless atm, as it
specifies a workaround for a non-existing (general) problem, while there is
no indication which packages
Hi,
On Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2009, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
The press team are still announcing [1] this as a decision to adopt the
policy of timed release freezes beginning with the next release, while
RT maintain that it is under consideration. Which is true?
Both! ;-) Or the latter, take
Hi,
as announced at DebConf9 I'll now (slowly) start threads about different bug
categories detected by piuparts, with the aim to agree on mass filing bugs
with the correct severity.
Having a piuparts clean archive is again a release goal for squeeze, currently
Hi KiBi,
On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org (06/08/2009):
http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/processes_running_error.html and
http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/processes_running_error.html lists
those packages.
Identical URLs?
Gah
Hi Roland,
On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Roland Mas wrote:
Thank you for this effort. I must admit piuparts has been too
frightening for me to try, so far. So, in order to comfort me in my
laziness, would you consider doing continuous (or regular) runs of
piuparts on the whole archive, and
Hi,
On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Holger Levsen wrote:
http://wiki.debian.org/piuparts/FAQ
I'm subscribed to
that page and would like to collect questions and answers there, instead of
repeating myself endlessly ;-)
That might leave a wrong impression, so let me add: Thanks for asking
Hi Jonas,
On Donnerstag, 6. August 2009, Jonas Meurer wrote:
at least for zope2.1[01]-sandbox, i don't know how to fix that issue.
invoking the initscript at postinst/prerm of the -sandbox packages will
cause _all_ zope instances on the system to be restarted, and that isn't
an option at all.
Hi,
as announced yesterday, I will now continue starting threads about different
bug categories detected by piuparts, with the aim to agree on mass filing
bugs with a sensible severity.
Today I picked another simple category: packages which failed the piuparts
test because the package tries
Hi Manoj,
On Freitag, 7. August 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Fri, Aug 07 2009, Holger Levsen wrote:
Today I picked another simple category: packages which failed the
piuparts test because the package tries to overwrite another packages
files without declaring a conflict or replaces
Hi,
On Sonntag, 9. August 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
The link to the wiki page was missing
http://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages
this link was also missing in #508585.
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Samstag, 8. August 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
So am I correct in my assumption that only file conflicts with
packages installed on the once-clean chroot would be detected by the
test? Or am I missing something?
Yes. for the rest there is edos.debian.net :)
Yes, the
package: apt
version: 0.7.22.2
x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
severity: wishlist
On Mittwoch, 19. August 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
Andreas Tille wrote:
I even failed to grep man apt-get for the string suggests so
I think I can not do something like
apt-get
Hi,
for some packages the piuparts upgrade test failed because dpkg detected a
conffile as being modified and then prompted the user for an action. As there
is no user input, this fails. But this is not the real problem, the real
problem is that this prompt shows up in the first place, as
Hi,
On Mittwoch, 19. August 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15:04PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
The logs are linked from
http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/conffile_prompt_error.html
Not harmless at all. These are serious bugs.
I'll file those accordingly
Hi,
On Mittwoch, 9. September 2009, Jon Dowland wrote:
If this was a popular choice (which it doesn't appear to
be); it would be blocked on sorting out the wiki.d.o
content licensing.
No. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny has a very fine and
sosorted licence situation. All
Hi,
today I noticed that quite many packages fail the piuparts test, because of a
file left after purge in /var/lib/update-rd.d - who's responsibility is it to
clean this up? Each package? Or? Or shouldn't those be cleaned on purge and
piuparts should ignore those files? (I don't think the
package: sysv-rc
severity: important
x-debbugs-cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts piuparts.d.o
Hi Petter,
On Mittwoch, 9. September 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
today I noticed that quite many packages fail the piuparts test,
because of
Hi,
On Thursday 01 March 2007 22:28, Josselin Mouette wrote:
First, please keep your bullshit about dunc-tank outside this otherwise
interesting discussion.
be liberal what you accept, and conservative what you send?
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Friday 16 March 2007 00:49, Steve Langasek wrote:
A large fraction of bug reports are bad or incomplete, so you need to
ensure that you can contact bug submitters for more information.
HTTP doesn't give you a callback mechanism, so you need to be able to tie
the web submission back to
Hi,
On Thursday 22 March 2007 13:55, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
Hmmm, if we do that, we could probably start handing out accounts for
this web-based bug submission system, so that people who report more
than one bug only need to answer once to such a mail. Hmmm, that sounds
like we're
Hi,
On Friday 23 March 2007 13:54, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
We still have no usable linux-source deb. The prepatched source
currently shipped will not build vserver, xen and several archs and
the debian patch is not compatible to make-kpkg and it is undocumented
how to apply it manualy to
Hi,
added -project to to: as its more appropriate there :)
On Friday 23 March 2007 18:26, Steve Greenland wrote:
That's all true, but if the standard requires (or recommends) MPEG4
support, then that's what everyone will use, and we'll be screwed,
again. If we (the Free Software community)
Hi,
On Thursday 12 April 2007 11:03, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
Since this inquiry is valid however, it seems to me that it would make
sense the think about some CDD specialised for developers.
I recently heard about this Debian sid thingy, maybe you give it a try?
Seriously, I dont understand.
Hi,
On Monday 04 June 2007 10:38, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
I can't believe that... gothic fonts are forbidden in Germany by law!!!???
They were merely deprecated, but not forbidden, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua-Fraktur_dispute - the german version of
that page gives a bit more info.
Hi,
On Saturday 09 June 2007 15:12, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
I had an idea and still pondering on it. I wanted to do automatic
two-way synchronization with README.Debian and wiki.debian.org
Newer moinmoin versions can export to sgmldoc, see for example
Hi,
On Monday 02 July 2007 17:45, Jon Dowland wrote:
Can someone upload an example of a wikipage, exported as
docbook and post-processed? I'm interested to see e.g. what
happens to links etc.
try
http://wiki.skolelinux.no/Dokumentasjon/ITIL/Samleside?action=formatmimetype=xml/docbook
or
Hi debian-kernel ;)
for those of you who dont read debian-devel... :-)
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 18:14, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
I'm trying to find out who has responsibility for Bug #430646.
Thomas, if you think that a bug has fallen under the radar of a maintainers
team, why do you send
Hi,
On Saturday 07 July 2007 08:30, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
It looks like rpmstrap could build you a suitable chroot (like
debootstap for Debian), but from the description it appears to be
somewhat outdated (eg Fedora Core 2).
mock worked for me to setup Fedora Core 6, haven#t tried 7 yet.
O
Hi,
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 21:46, Neil Williams wrote:
And a script to implement that in every box I have to install. Again
and Again and Again and
Hu? You don't change any other configuration on those boxes? Nothing??
regards,
Holger
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Hi,
On Thursday 09 August 2007 10:03, Christian Perrier wrote:
No, we should use the liberation fonts, which are designed to replace
the MS fonts.
Have their licensing issues been solved?
Have those issues been communicated to upstream and what is their reaction?
The ITP includes the
reassign 173829 devscripts
thanks
Hi,
IMHO debuild should have an option to test for this, thus reassigning.
regards,
Holger
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reassign 366893 lintian
thanks
Hi,
I'm reassigning this to lintian so that a check for a standarized stop message
can be implemented. Reading from the bug, I think policy is quite clear about
it. (If there is a stop script, there should be a stop message)
Feel free to reassign to
reassign 238833 qt-x11-free
retitle 238833 wrong rendering fallback
thanks
Hi,
please read the bugreport until the end to understand why I reassigned this
bug. Probably you also want to retitle this bug even more.
regards,
Holger
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reassign 65611 lsb-base
tags 65611 +upstream
thanks
Hi,
I don't think it's Debians role to demand such changes in upstreams behavior,
even though this change might be a good idea. So I'll reassign this to
lsb-base.
regards,
Holger
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reassign 388065 cups
tags 388065 +upstream
thanks
Hi,
based on the assumption that a bug report titled My PC should warn me when I
try to shut down while my printer is still printing clearly assumes (My
PC) a default printing environment on a default desktop install (which is
cups) and that
reassign 457839 perl
thanks
Hi,
my understanding on this is based on reading the bug report. I'm not fully
sure if this issue has been closed with perl 5.10 or if seperate bug reports
for all effected manpages are useful. (I think the former but leave it to the
perl maintainers to confirm.)
reassign 30020 lintian
thanks
Hi,
reassigning to lintian, because a.) I think thats right and b.) I dont
understand why it was reassigned from lintian to general in the first place.
Probably this is already implemented (a check that two binary packages from
one source package have exactly the
Hi Barak,
On Saturday 20 September 2008 21:09, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
What makes Debian a distribution rather than just a random
collection of miscellaneous software is integration. This is an
integration wishlist. It has to happen at the distribution level if
it is to happen anywhere.
Hi Barak,
On Sunday 21 September 2008 19:13, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
As said, feel free to reopen.
Will do.
And you did :-)
Willing? Yes. Able? No, not realistically: too many other plates
spinning in the air. But I'm happy to bounce things around with
people.
If there are people
Hi,
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 23:10, Neil Williams wrote:
Guess we have different ideas about what wishlist bugs are for.
My attitude is they're for wishes, like the sea is for fishes.
Wishes should still have some possibility of attainment, otherwise it
is wishful-thinking not wishlist.
Hi Ben,
On Monday 25 August 2008 11:38, Ben Armstrong wrote:
Thanks. It's hard to let go, but it's really for the best if someone
else will carry on.
Yup. Has something happened on this in the last month?
Is that vision written down somewhere?
It is probably best expressed on
Hi,
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 11:37, Ben Armstrong wrote:
Probably. But it doesn't stop me from wishing this were not so. I
didn't want Debian Jr. to be *only* a packaging effort. I wanted a
living, breathing relationship between children, their caretakers and
developers. We've fallen
Hi Reinhard,
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 12:11, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
Can you please backup that claim?
Well, no and yes ;-)
You confirm it yourself, but then say its not comparible. I only said that
those patents are being enforced, which they are. (I didnt mention whether
thats comparible
Hi,
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 09:03, Robert Millan wrote:
Unclaimed patents are precisely the reason we don't have any MPEG encoders
in Debian (see http://techliberation.com/2006/05/11/mpeg-patent-thicket/).
Wrong. We dont have mpeg encoders in Debian because those patents are being
Hi,
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 16:44, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
- packages in 'patented' must fulfill the requirements of the dfsg
I dont think we should support the obsolete, useless wrong patent system by
doing this.
Also, something must patented in which / how many of the 160
Hi,
I was thinking whether not to mail this at all, or to -curiosa or to Gunnar,
but then, I think it's useful to spread the message how silly patents are...
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 21:13, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
For positive proof, I'd buy it - but we must remember logical
fallacies can be
Hi Christian,
I don't understand why you reassigned this bug to general. Surely, if you want
to discuss this with debian-devel@ you can cc: the list. Reassigning the bug
to general often achieves nothing (which cannot be achieved by cc:ing) while
it tends to pile up the list of general bugs
Hi,
On Monday 27 October 2008 19:35, Frank Küster wrote:
If the PDF is frozen documentation, it's probably worth the effort. If
upstream changes the PDF with every new version, you should ask them for
their sources instead.
What if they use openoffice.org to edit the pdf and the pdf is the
Hi,
On Sunday 26 October 2008 23:04, Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
Mostly thanks to Joerg and Mark this
is down from ~250 packages we had in NEW on Friday.
thanks to all of you who worked on this! (now and before and in future.)
regards,
Holger, who is happy to have spoiled the its a
Hi,
On Sunday 09 November 2008 13:37, Paul Wise wrote:
The images don't include non-free stuff, but they do allow loading
non-free firmware. Joey Hess blogged about how it works here:
http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/d-i_firmware_loading/
So all we need is just a download location for
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