At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 04:26:55 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:12:13PM -0800, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: > >At Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:45:00 +0100, > >Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> > >> The Squeak image "Etoys" (the only one currently packaged officially > >> for Debian) is in "non-free" due to ftpmasters judging it not > >> possible for the security team to maintain throughout the (multiple > >> year long) lifespan of a Debian release. > > > > Is there anywhere I can read about their reasoning behind this > >judgement? Holger mentions "it's because the impossibility to > >bootstrap etoys." but what exactly does that mean? > > That looks like a quote from a post by Holger in this thread. I believe > he describes his judgement of current status better in his summary > included with the Debian packaging of Etoys, that I quoted earlier in > same thread: > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2008-November/002340.html > > > > We had a similar discussion that covered the "security" aspect > >(http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-June/015568.html and > >emails around it). Can I see anywhere the responses to these from the > >Debian ftpmasters? > > It seems those discussions took place privately between José, Holger, > Bert and the ftpmasters. I have only ever seen the final decision > forwarded by Bert to the IAEP list: > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2008-May/000699.html
Right, the "final decision" looked like some misunderstanding involved. After this, more discussion took place: http://lists.lo-res.org/pipermail/its.an.education.project/2008-June/thread.html so I was wondering if there was some more updates based on the subsequent discussion. -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep