Re: Processed: Forwarding to the technical committee

2006-04-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:10:50PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Steve McIntyre writes (Re: Processed: Forwarding to the technical committee): I believe that Eduard has already come up with a GPL-compatible build system to use with cdrtools, but he is nervous of the possible consequences

Cdrtools licensing (was Re: Processed: Forwarding to the technical committee)

2006-04-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
details. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Cdrtools licensing

2006-04-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:47:42AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 10614 March 1977, Steve McIntyre wrote: Correct, mkisofs was initially written by someone else. JS claims that there is not that much code left, but I doubt that he could relicense it as he likes it. Yup; if needs be, we could

Re: Processed: Forwarding to the technical committee

2006-04-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
are | unwilling to come to a sensible result within this discussion, I | am going to use them. Minor addition: Eduard later amended that translation: Wait, more appropriate translation for dann wende ich sie an is not going to use them but I am using them or then I will use them. -- Steve McIntyre

Re: Stepping down from tech ctte

2009-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
contact me already to ask about this, and I have some people in mind myself whom I think would be a good fit. -- Steve McIntyre, Debian Project Leader lea...@debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: New Technical Committee Members

2009-01-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
, and the DPL still needs to approve it. We've discussed this and I'm entirely happy to accept the TC's recommendations for new members. Doubly so, as I personally recommended both! Until now, I just hadn't said so publically. Fixed. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Debian Project Leader lea...@debian.org

Re: Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-03-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
or so. Yup. The offer is still there if we think it will help, of course. -- Steve McIntyre, Debian Project Leader lea...@debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#699808: Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
for consistency. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten. -- Malcolm Ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Bug#699808: Bug#699742: Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release

2013-02-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
-cd, it doesn't matter at all what version of syslinux is in sid. Already corrected elsewhere (repeating for clarity for people who may not read all of the thread here) - debian-cd uses syslinux from the archive at build time. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st

Re: FTP masters willingly blocking OpenStack nova 2013.1 just right before the OpenStack summit

2013-04-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
anytime soon, I will act upon it. Thus turning a technical disagreement with the ftp team into a personal attack on Joerg. Well done. :-( Adam has already pointed out your factual mistakes. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We

Bug#727708: Aribtrarily breaking working interfaces?

2013-12-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
this kind of long-term breakage is likely to be a future problem with systemd... [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/518942/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten. -- Malcolm Ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ

Bug#727708: systemd jessie - jessie+1 upgrade problems

2013-12-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
from under a fully live system. This does still count as fully supporting upgrades. You might think so. To me, that sounds like a hacky workaround for needlessly inflexible software. Much like Windows. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com The problem

Re: Please restrict posting to #727708

2014-02-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
. The comments from the public gallery do not help the situation right now, and although they may have been manageable for a while are now becoming nothing but ridiculous. Seconded 100%. :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Further comment on how

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
ds + Astro + Astro option 1 + Astro option 2 + Debian-Edu ... etc. I've pondered about how to do achieve that with the existing debconf code, but not got very far yet. Including more descriptive text and maybe even screen shots with each would be very helpful. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambr

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
list. A better split of the tasks (like Phil is suggesting) would help a lot here. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers"

Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)

2016-12-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
is better please? To make this kind of change for stretch, we'll also need updates to translations directly in the installer and in the installation guide. I'm worried that we're doing this too late in the cycle - as KiBi says. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.c

Bug#914897: tech-ctte: Should debootstrap disable merged /usr by default?

2019-02-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
eable solution at the time > of bullseye is `weak`; and asks the debootstrap maintainers to disable > "merged `/usr`" by default. There is a deeper worry about builds that may be done against the "weak" background. Although buildd chroots are easily fixed

Re: Dispute resolution in Debian

2020-07-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
imarily >involve) CoC issues. In which case, the relationship between the two >would not really fit the model you suggest. Correct - we're *mostly* targeting very different areas. There *can* be some overlap, but I don't see this working as Felix suggests. No harm in proposing new idea

Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
/boot/efi, >so why couldn't it do for separate /usr too ? That's exactly what I'm about to do. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Managing a volunteer open source project is a lot like herding kittens, except the kittens randomly appear and di

Re: Bug#1000239: Rescue system won't find root partition, but insists on /usr

2021-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 10:42:29PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>Le 03/12/2021 à 22:08, Nicholas D Steeves a écrit : >>> >>> >>> c) parse /target/etc/fstab, and attempt to mount other parti

Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
ing without significant cross- and inter-project discussion. Pointing at gentoo or nixos as examples of projects that have decided to break compatibility doesn't cut it, I'm afraid. They're well known for changing fundamental things around Linux and (basically) not caring about interoperabil

Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Your apparent lack of care for agreed standards here is horrifying. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Johannes, On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 06:48:04AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: >Quoting Steve McIntyre (2023-05-15 02:54:02) >> >> Pointing at gentoo or nixos as examples of projects that have decided >> to break compatibility doesn't cut it, I'm afrai

Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
ies. WTF? *Nobody* has been talking about breaking ABI like this, that I've seen. The interpreter must *not* be changed willy-nilly. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in

Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 01:11:38PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: >On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 12:08, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 11:40:05AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: >> >>

Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: >On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 09:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 07:40:00AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: >> > >> >The core issue as I see it is as follows: >> > >> >- Debian

Bug#1035904: dpkg currently warning about merged-usr systems (revisited)

2023-05-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 11:40:05AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: >>On Fri, 12 May 2023 at 09:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 07:40:00AM +0200, Ansgar wrote: >>> > >&g