)
Spoken like a man who has never accidentally deleted an architecture :-)
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of Everything. This leaves me confused.
Richard Braakman
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:42:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Go ahead and do it. I could frankly care less if your users get owned.
In that case it seems safer to avoid using any software you helped
to develop.
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).
Thus, this approach breaks the best way in which compatibility CAN
be preserved.
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in a happier world than I :)
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(100kB) that
depends on a monstrous silly-game-data (800MB). Still, it's a start.
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There's still time to save Europe from software patents.
EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.internautas.org
it
that there are zillions of spams out there purporting to come from
me, and I wish I could do something about it.
Richard Braakman
.
Are you sure? Looks like ordinary spam to me. And this cease desist
was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then forwarded to us -- by the
person who sent it?!? Some very broken mail agents are involved here.
Anyway, I don't think we're being addressed at all.
Richard Braakman
assuming that executables make up the bulk of most packages,
and that compression rates for those executables are similar. I highly
doubt both of those assumptions.
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as Sobig.F, which is
known to fake the sender, and then reply to it anyway. (And yes, I
get a lot of notifications that mention Sobig.F by name.)
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specific bug but leaves the package unmaintained.
That's irresponsible.
That just doesn't make sense. Is it somehow more responsible to
skip the NMU and leave the package with an extra bug that you
could have fixed?
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rude.
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and gratitude that you expect will follow, and you're already trying
to decide what kind of beer to accept, then your package is probably
ready for stable.
Richard Braakman
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:28:52AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
Jérôme, please use darn cabal of debian-legal zealots next time.
cu and- triple reading the original mail, stil smiling -reas
And don't forget to call them licensing geeks!
Richard Braakman
.
???
The survey asks whether the GFDL _does_ satisfy the DFSG, not whether
it needs to. Did you misspeak here?
Richard Braakman
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several posts, except that the Project Leader,
Project Secretary and the Chairman of the Technical Committee must
be distinct, and that the Leader cannot appoint themselves as
their own Delegate.
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pretty good, if you know how to filter for the key
words.
No need to know that -- you can let google do it :) I often
paste whole error messages into the search field. It tends
to work.
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want to contribute?
Sure, you say, then contribute. We'll just sit here and tell you
you suck. If after 6-48 months of being told you suck you still haven't
gone away, we'll think about officially (though grudgingly) accepting you.
Awesome group. I really want to contribute.
Richard Braakman
/ for later examination...)
Tab completion is fine in contexts where it works.
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library
they can possibly find, and every other package depending on gnome
or kde (or both, if they can manage it), so the terrain may have
shifted somewhat...
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the need for it has been demonstrated.
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:42:27PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
And of the users? Please read the social contract.
I read it every day, just before bedtime.
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had
dpkg-statoverride.
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now than when they started.
This might be because they're not eagerly being annotated anymore, though.
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the Essential flag to indicate
which packages are really required. We could just fold these
levels into one to simplify things.
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would be a productive way to take over
this package :)
If you want it, please let me know, and (to avoid collisions) wait
for me to confirm before you actually make an upload.
Richard Braakman
offer to maintain it...
(If you're in the new maintainer queue, I'll also sponsor your
uploads as long as you don't make a mess of them.)
If I hear nothing about it in a week or two, then I'll assume
that everyone hates hextype and I'll ask for it to be removed.
Thanks,
Richard Braakman
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:59:59PM +0200, Martin Godisch wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 14:59:50 +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
One of the packages I maintain is cgoban. I packaged it ages ago when
I was a fanatical Go player. Nowadays I only get Go fever about one week
per year
of privilege. These
people are *contributing* to Debian, despite the roadblocks we've
set up. The least you could do is show a bit of courtesy when they
complain that the roadblocks we've set up are inconvenient.
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)
If you never got that email, then it's likely that there was something
wrong with the upload and the ftpmasters never saw it. Was it properly
signed, etc? Did it have a valid .changes file?
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of a free system depends on it being
potentially possible.
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do it. If the upstream changelog is verbose and
detailed (like the GNU ones tend to be) then it's nice to have the
major changes as a short list.
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interface), I want to do it by creating a small,
human-editable file that contains the _differences_ from the defaults.
So even then I have no use for a copy of the default configuration.
(If I want an example, I can look in /usr/doc/$foo/examples, which is
a better place for it than $HOME.)
Richard
harmless
that reports the same errors.
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: NET SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Agents.
The NET SNMP agent allows remote monitoring of various network and
system information.
This is a good enough explanation for me.
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to. It's just not safe. Don't let that stop you from holding
a conference, though -- if you already live there, it's no extra risk :)
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is used
by netinet/in.h which defines htonl() and friends, and by byteswap.h
which defines bswap_32() and friends. Compiling for the i486 will
make a difference here even if GCC doesn't care itself.
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your screen if you press the right key combination would
be not harmful. Easter eggs are usually in that category.
Although, was the behavior to do it at a specific
time or at startup everytime?
At startup everytime, after a certain date.
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but this is a rather onerous task when replying to a large number of emails.
If you're not sure, you should just follow list policy and not Cc.
It's also nice to attribute your quotes, btw.
Richard Braakman
-to-day running of the system.
(Example: if I'm installing and configuring a firewall, I'd like to be
able to delete the dpkg files from the final image before flashing it.)
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internationalization, no matter what they say, then they should be told
to go away. That kind of shit just demoralizes the people who are doing
the work.
Richard Braakman
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On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 04:22:52PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
wrote:
Hmmm, ok, on 2nd thought there's modems, printers, and old ISA cards.
Anything else?
What about configurations for IP, DNS, mail and news? I don't see why
it would be limited to hardware detection.
Richard
the people we hope to convert.
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that format is, and refers to a section that does not
describe it.
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. indicates the end of a sentence, and . does
not.
I was about to say that, but then I realized that it doesn't help if
a period is at the end of a line. I use two spaces between sentences
myself (old emacs habit), but it irks me that that's not a complete
solution.
Richard Braakman
,
so you might not have noticed on debian-*.
Hmm, if I understand it right, your plan will mean that anyone operating
such a broken mail system will get DoSed by spammers? Then maybe there's
something to it after all :-)
Richard Braakman
, if you change the program, you would like to change
the documentation along with it, yes? And in an entirely free system,
doing so would either destroy the images or leave them incorrect.
Losing a feature just because you recompile is not the mark of a free program.
Richard Braakman
not be a good thing for the text of
the text of the Unicode license to be free? Your only answer so far
seems to be because it currently isn't.
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with programs that we can't modify to support new
languages, for example.
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on the limits of copyrightability.
CNN.com - Composer pays for piece of silence - Sep. 23, 2002
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/23/uk.silence/
Richard Braakman
the
character attributes are defined nowhere else. So writing the list down
from the unicode spec means copying the file.
Richard Braakman
, as long as there is an accompanying
notice indicating the source.
Richard Braakman
they configure apt. For what benefit?
Richard Braakman
with the specification anyway, I would
suggest one where the client states up front whose certificate it wants.
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packaged according to Debian policy,
because that's what our upgrade plan will expect.
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, it is impossible to prove that a program does NOT
infringe on any patent. We'll have to consider the details of each case
individually.
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use.
(I say alleged because I have not yet seen any basis for their claim
that decoding is patented. The FAQ at
http://www.mp3licensing.com/help/developer.html implicitly makes this
claim, but gives no details.)
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in January and are fully creditable against annual royalties.
US$ 15 000.00 per calendar year
Presumably this is intended to apply to distributors, not individual users :)
They don't actually say that, though.
Richard Braakman
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:48:13AM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote:
Perhaps I should use /usr/doc/ instead. Even shorter...
I have been a happy man since I made a /doc symlink.
Richard Braakman
don't
have experience with the platform in question, but I have experience
with ugly code. The experience should be similar :-)
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Prupperty of Apple.
(For reference, the USPTO patent search engine is at
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm
Unfortunately, it doesn't generate useful urls for individual patents.)
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I sense a disturbance in the force
As though millions of voices cried out, and ran
;-)
No... he had his style long before he became X maintainer :)
The bitterness, on the other hand... But X will do that to a man.
Imagine what it's like, not being able to browse XXX sites without
being reminded of the latest chipset driver bugs.
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, namely forced speech.
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A version of the GFDL that allowed deletion but not modification of such
sections would be perfectly acceptable to me.
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:51:27PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote:
Richard Braakman wrote:
What you're advocating is the evil twin of censorship,
namely forced speech.
I don't think that placing restrictions on an otherwise
completely liberal license amounts to using any kind of
force
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:30:29AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
Two quotes come to mind:
[...]
You left out my favourite :)
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
- A. H. Weller, according to the first google hit.
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On the other hand, by taking action we might be able to stop those projects
from taking such a misguided course of action. I think the FSF is making
a big mistake with the GFDL.
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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:30:18AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 09:01, Richard Braakman wrote:
On the other hand, by taking action we might be able to stop those projects
from taking such a misguided course of action. I think the FSF is making
a big mistake
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:53:07PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
IMHO the non-free section should be removed.
Well, go for it. In the meantime, stop antagonizing people who do nice
things for us.
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I sense a disturbance in the force
As though millions of voices cried out
really hope we make this May 1st release date, because I've
scheduled a really massive celebration party here in Helsinki[*]. There's
going to be people dancing in the streets and everything. And of course
excessive intake of alcohol. And then we'll all throw our hats in the air.
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for a new version up for
review at the FSF site.
There's also a still-open discussion about whether the GFDL is free
enough for Debian if Invariant Sections are used.
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about such a situation,
where people were told to upgrade by installing both packages in one
dpkg invocation. Apt also has an algorithm for breaking such cycles.
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Will write free software for money.
See http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html
for telnet, see RFC 1184.
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See http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html
a stable interface
in another library. There's obviously enough need for what libgal
provides, otherwise there wouldn't be so many packages using it now.
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Will write free software for money.
See http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html
with
arguments x- and -x, and invoke echo accordingly.
bash -c 'echo x-${IFS}-x'
will do what you expect.
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attributes
and file types. It can't represent symbolic links, for example.
So, no, I don't intend to write a compressor.
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have any unusual arj archives
lying around then I would appreciate a copy for testing.
When it's done I will release it under the GNU GPL.
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of bandwidth and memory. [6] [7] [8].
(Reference 7 is in fact to the TCP standard :)
Richard Braakman
in that bugreport, and
a corrected diff submitted later -- and the package maintainer gets
the warm happy glow of nuclear catastrophe having been avoided.
Richard Braakman
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:32:42AM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote:
Richard Braakman schrieb:
In that case the right repository could be a bugreport to the package
involved. That way the diff submission is guaranteed.
I agree with you that _something_ has to be done about
catastrophal NMUs
with an older version
of upx? The code I've seen doesn't seem to care much about that, so
I wonder if the author considers it a design requirement at all.
Richard Braakman
of porting. We have
lots of unix-specific packages. I don't see a problem here.
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, but the argument
I presented at the time is that a dependency on debhelper is far more
likely to be versioned than the others are. A package that makes use
of a new feature of debhelper is going to have to declare its own
build-depends anyway.
Richard Braakman
.
The test period will show which of the bugs are truly critical.
Richard Braakman
[debian-devel-announce is an announcements list. Please direct discussion
about this announcement to debian-devel instead.]
for them. Otherwise, we'll
have to have another test cycle that we know won't become a release -- oh well.
(The ones I'm thinking of are emacs20, gdb, gpm, glibc, pdl, ssh, sysvinit,
and util-linux -- I hope the list can be shortened because not all of those
look release-critical.)
Richard
sometimes see discussion on debian-devel about
whether a bug really is release-critical. Such discussion is good
and useful for gathering consensus. But discussing, agreeing, and
then doing nothing will do nothing. Please follow up on such decisions.
Richard Braakman
[Please send discussion
I have removed these packages from the frozen distribution today. They
are still available in unstable (except for xemacs20).
Richard Braakman
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