Please avoid using ambiguous language
On debian-private somebody wrote (leaked with permission): > some billion(*) > (*) German: Milliarden Can we please decide as a project to avoid using ambiguous English words like billion or trillion and move to proper SI prefixes or exponential notation, as appropriate? We would also have to decide how to decide this, of course, and then how to enforce the decision, whatever that is. I believe this would be enough material for at least a baker's dozen new threads on the appropriate mailing lists, plus the spurious ones on inappopriate ones. :D -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Recommendations around Git Packaging in Debian
On 2020-04-21 at 08:31:40 +0200, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > As a matter of facts, we all do that to some extent: the last few months > in English (and in many western European languages) are named as if the > year started in March (because that used to be the case for Latin > calendar, I believe): [...] > Fortunately we at least agree on being wrong in this case. Not wrong everywhere, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz (and then there are others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year ) See also: https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca :D speaking of that: has Debian been used on a space ship orbiting a black hole already? closely orbiting? -- Elena ``of Valhalla''
Re: Bug#844431: Packages should be reproducible
On 2017-05-11 at 14:21:25 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 08:54:16PM +, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Note that the id should be changed before applying, since there already > > is a sect with this id value. > > No no no... there are no sect in debian, only cabal. but... but... there is no cabal! (you probably meant cabal*s*, right?) -- Elena ``of Valhalla''
Re: braillegraph_0.1-1_amd64.changes REJECTED
On 2017-03-08 at 22:20:15 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > Hrm, looks like I have a problem with a ftpmaster being in denial. > [...] > # Those who have yet to mend the error of their ways are also given all of > # the above rights, albeit grudgingly. > [...] > Thus, could anyone help, and pick a license that would get accepted? Either > a pull request at https://github.com/kilobyte/braillegraph or a mail would > be swell. What about changing the above phrase so that it is more evident that we are talking of the complementary set? Maybe something like: # Those, human or otherwise, who don't recognise the above as truth are # also etc. It's hard to get people out of denial, but you can't expect perfection out of members of an inferior species, and I suspect that a license is not the right place to insist on it. (Now, I suspect that the FTP masters won't be very happy to accept even this patched version, but one could hope...) also: meow! -- Elena ``of Valhalla''
Re: Debian conspiracy theories?
On 2016-08-18 at 12:24:58 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Anyone got any conspiracy theories about Debian? There is the idea that the OpenSSL bug had been introduced by some TLA as a backdoor that sometime appears in the comments on LWN, but right now my google-fu is lacking and the only thing I can find is https://lwn.net/Articles/632815/ -- Elena ``of Valhalla''
Re: Debian conspiracy theories?
On 2016-08-18 at 14:30:37 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > The Trout Cabal instead is for real: > http://www.zouish.org/posts/trout/ And the links on that post are broken. Evidentely it's a conspiracy. -- Elena ``of Valhalla''
Re: Package naming rant
On 2016-04-18 at 11:26:26 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I could have pre-fixed all packages with "openstack-" like they did in > RDO/Red Hat, but this has proven to be really not convenient at all for > OpenStack users, with for example, names like this one: > [...] > Adding an "openstack-" prefix would be really a lot of additional > typing, both for package maintainers and final users, and it wouldn't > help our final users so much. Wait, does this mean that there is actually some people out there who is still typing package names? I thought that everybody was just copypasting them from some web page / running apt from a script that had been curled and piped to the shell! (or — but this is getting a bit OT for this list — using tab to complete the name, or some other sensible way not to type long lists of names multiple times, including using orchestration tools etc.) -- Elena ``of Valhalla''
