Re: Status of Lenny Release GR

2008-12-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
at 23:59:59 on Saturday, December 28th, 2008. On a lighter note, it is funny to see possibly the most controversial vote in Debian's history finishing in what in the Spanish-speaking countries is equivalent to the Anglo-saxon April 1st (the Day of the Innocent Saints). Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - gw

Re: Is Ubuntu commited to free software?

2010-06-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
, of course, by consumption you mean only the final stages of it - but formally, banana consumption is accepted to happen at the precise moment a Banana enters your system through Mouth.iostream) -- Gunnar Wolf • gw...@gwolf.org • (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Is Ubuntu commited to free software?

2010-06-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Martin Bähr dijo [Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:58:41AM +0200]: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 09:08:30AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Bananas - proprietary trial ware, suffers from rapid bit-rot, the quick banana bitrot process could be lengthened and improved i'd like to object to the notion

Re: About DDs not maintaining packages

2010-07-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Enrico Zini dijo [Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:58:36AM +0200]: On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 01:58:45PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On sam., 2010-07-03 at 13:45 +0200, Hector Oron wrote: Excuse my english wording, I am not native speaker (yet). Does this mean to intend to become a native speaker?

Re: About DDs not maintaining packages

2010-07-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Joerg Jaspert dijo [Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 10:44:27AM +0200]: Excuse my english wording, I am not native speaker (yet). Does this mean to intend to become a native speaker? I'd be interested in how you'd manage to do that :) It's surprising that, in 2010, there are still people who

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

2010-09-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Simon Paillard dijo [Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:05:57PM +0200]: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:25:25PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: We have carried a major.minor scheme as a release numbering scheme since the Early Days, [..] So, for the past years we have had x.0.y with growing `y' for point

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Packaging the MeeGo stack on Debian - Use the name?

2010-12-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Robinson Tryon dijo [Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 07:18:43AM -0500]: (...) It would actually be rather slick if projects just used their names frontwise-round as a trademarked term, and allowed the community to use their names in reverse to merely indicate heritage (meego - ogeem, debian - naibed,

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Packaging the MeeGo stack on Debian - Use the name?

2010-12-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Adrian von Bidder dijo [Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 07:51:44PM +0100]: On Friday 10 December 2010 17.36:13 Gunnar Wolf wrote: (Palindromicly-named projects (e.g. PHP) pose a particular problem) Well, we can always say that our PHP is spelt backwards. Or we can call it qhq. Who would want

Re: [Debconf-team] Planning arrival/departure buses

2011-04-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Moray Allan dijo [Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:14:39AM +0100]: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: /me notes that if _only_ the average DD can reach the venue, we might have a total population ≥49% of the DebConf registration lost and looking for their way

Re: [Debconf-team] Magazine Ad is ready!

2011-05-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Holger Levsen dijo [Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:10:26PM +0200]: On Montag, 30. Mai 2011, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Holger Levsen (hol...@layer-acht.org): Remember, the The People's Liberation Front of Judea is something very different to the Judean People's Liberation Front! You

Re: Comments on the constitution?

2011-08-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Steve McIntyre dijo [Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:16:19PM +0100]: Humm… An idea could be: ‣ The term is defined to be for one year, with the possibility of one automatic renewal ‣ If by (election date + 10 months) the DPL sends a (signed, validated, blah) message, a simple referendum is

Re: Bug#646804: ITP: cheermeup -- Send affirmative messages to the user via the notification library

2011-10-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Steve McIntyre dijo [Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 04:38:47PM +0100]: Ole Wolf wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Wolf w...@blazingangles.com * Package name: cheermeup Version : 0.5-1 Upstream Author : Ole Wolf w...@blazingangles.com * URL :

Re: ITP: wcstools -- Create display and manipulate the world coordinate system

2012-01-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Joachim Breitner dijo [Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 05:38:18PM +0100]: Description : Create display and manipulate the world coordinate system This should somehow mention that you are modifying picture; I would not want a software in Debian that allows anyone to manipulate the coordinate

Re: [Debconf-team] Debconf12 website design

2012-02-03 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Damyan Ivanov dijo [Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 08:12:37AM +0200]: It is great! Two notes: * there is a spelling mistake in the sponsor section titles (Steal should be Steel) No. We intend to surreptitiously take things away from different providers. Only we don't want that to be such a bad

Re: [Debconf-team] dc13 venue announcement? (was: [Publicity-commits] r3231 - /dpn/en/current/index.wml)

2012-02-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Moray Allan dijo [Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:11:41AM +]: I've just applied changes suggested. I've also dropped any mention of Vaumarcus, as requested by Moray, and used something more generic (on the banks of Lac de Neuchâtel in Switzerland as suggested by Gregorr) I haven't changed

Re: [Debconf-team] dc13 venue announcement? (was: [Publicity-commits] r3231 - /dpn/en/current/index.wml)

2012-02-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Enrico Zini dijo [Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:39:37PM +0100]: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:51:55AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: natural setting. Sometimes, camp places grow up around them. People think Swiss are boring people, but it turns out they grow camp places! Finally, a debconf

Re: Private conversation

2012-03-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
binBz88JCvGT6.bin Description: application/pgp-encrypted msg.asc Description: Binary data

Re: Call for vote - Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-05-15 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Kurt Roeckx dijo [Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:28:32AM +0200]: A corresponding ballot might look like the following: --- [ ] Choice 1: Welcome everyone [ ] Choice 2: Further discussion

Re: sobre como inclinar mi pantalla de forma virtual.

2012-10-15 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Victor Hugo Cespedes Zuleta dijo [Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:02:09AM -0700]: hola listeros debianeros. jugando con las teclas en windows me di cuenta que con ALTGR + alguna flecha. la pantalla se inclina en 90 grados a la izquierda o derecha. inclusive se puede rotar la imagen de pantalla 180

Re: A common configuration format, anyone?

2012-11-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Holger Levsen dijo [Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 01:10:41PM +0100]: On Mittwoch, 14. November 2012, Игорь Пашев wrote: XML is not human-readable :-) either, you have not seen good XML, or you are not human, or you cannot read. No, Holger, you are really mistaken! XML is

Re: webmail administrador

2012-11-20 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Holger Levsen dijo [Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:10:22AM +0100]: JFYI, remember you can also report it to Google, by following the link located into footer's form. right, instead of running Debian, you can also run Windows. And Microsoft Word! ...I didn't know MS Word was a mail client! --

Re: webmail administrador

2012-11-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Marcin Sochacki dijo [Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 08:15:54PM +0100]: JFYI, remember you can also report it to Google, by following the link located into footer's form. right, instead of running Debian, you can also run Windows. And Microsoft Word! ...I didn't know MS Word was a

Re: Bug#694749: ITP: GNU Health -- Electronic Medical Record and Hospital Information System

2012-11-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Andreas Tille dijo [Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:51:53AM +0100]: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emilien Klein emilien+deb...@klein.st * Package name: GNU Health (...) I think either gnu-health or gnuhealth Something makes me feel this project should not be

Re: [all candidates] delegation

2013-03-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Charles Plessy dijo [Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:54:24PM +0900]: Hi Moray, what you wrote here presents the end of a delegation as a final point. However, I was very interested by your use of rotation, which I was understanding as a faster turnover where the responsibility of the delegation is

Re: FINAL release update

2013-04-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Neil McGovern dijo [Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 03:22:21PM +0100]: Hi all, Once again, and hopefully for the final time for this cycle, we are writing to you with a release update. (...) Awesomeness of Wheezy = We really need some more work on

Re: [Debconf-team] Tomorrow's f2f meeting: 25th April 1900 localtime

2013-04-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Christian PERRIER dijo [Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 07:12:40AM +0200]: As announced previously, the swiss DebConf team members will hold a face-to- face meeting in Bern. 25th April 1900 localtime is wearing a melon hat and a tuxedo a requirement to fit the Bell Époque style? Is the Bell

Re: x32 “half” arrived… now what?

2013-06-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Chow Loong Jin dijo [Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 08:40:11AM +0800]: It was the case in old versions of gnulib, but appears to be no more. Too bad, quite a few packages ship embedded copies of ancient gnulib. I just submitted a patch in one such case (#711412), it might possibly apply

Re: Proposed amendment (was: Re: GR: Selecting the default init system for Debian)

2014-01-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Holger Levsen dijo [Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 05:31:50PM +0100]: Well, my option this is hard, my brain hurts, lets go shopping was a joke and essentially the same as the above. If you cannot wrap your mind around a problem, please dont declare defeat for the whole project or propose silly

Re: init system discussion - the highlights (was: Bug#727708: init system gr override - formal resolution proposal)

2014-01-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Nikolaus Rath dijo [Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 06:52:45PM -0800]: (... long list of facts and communication [and nervous?] breakdowns ...) (F'up2 debian-curiosa) This is the first time I feel an off-topic message has reached -curiosa. :-| /me, sick of the perpetual argument... -- To

Re: Tired of my fellow SysV supporters

2014-02-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) dijo [Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:04:35PM +0200]: I do not know how many of them are trolls, but the content I had to read on this mailing list in the last days is clearly intolerable. systemd, be it as one init system or as the only init system, will not make

Re: non-free?

2014-03-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Paul Wise dijo [Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 07:21:07AM +0800]: In practice almost everyone has non-free in their sources.list due to most firmware being non-free. Also most developers will have non-free in their sources.list due to various GNU documentation being in non-free. Don't know. In my case,

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jakub Wilk dijo [Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 09:06:38PM +0200]: * Russ Allbery r...@debian.org, 2014-04-04, 10:28: We should change the default desktop environment with each release And the default init system, too! We should just abolish the notion of default and be done with all those senseless

Re: The proper place to announce GRs (was Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?))

2014-10-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Yves-Alexis Perez dijo [Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 08:46:48PM +0200]: On lun., 2014-10-13 at 19:30 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, a change to Constitution (to include a reference to where GRs should be posted) would need to be achieved via GR. And where should that GR be

Re: The proper place to announce GRs (was Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?))

2014-10-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Neil McGovern dijo [Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 05:08:49PM +0100]: Good point. We can have a GR to decide where we announce GRs that decide where GRs are announced. I'd like to propose a GR to decide that. Option A. Main project discussion mailing list. Option B. Further discussion.

Re: GR proposal: jessie+1 == zurg

2014-11-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hubert Chathi dijo [Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:35:57AM -0500]: Choosing code names based on animated characters is the sign of an amateur project. I order to be taken seriously, we must choose a name that reflects professionalism. I therefore propose the following:

Re: REISSUED CfV: General Resolution: Init system coupling

2014-11-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Neil McGovern dijo [Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 06:31:35PM +]: I have a half-written series to make it cope with lettered, rather than numbered, options. Would it be worth my while finishing that off (in my CFT) ? I think that would probably be helpful, yes! Not only in the case where

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer dijo [Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:40:32PM -0300]: On Wednesday 19 August 2015 09:45:36 Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Looking at the various proposals, those caught my attention: - get.debian.org -

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-18 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jakub Wilk dijo [Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 08:49:35PM +0200]: * Justin B Rye justin.byam@gmail.com, 2015-08-18, 19:42: - get.debian.org Too slangy and ambiguous. Make it obtain.debian.org... Or perhaps acquire.debian.org. We are a community, not a company. We are immune to acquisitions.

Re: I/O issues with writing to mtdblock devices on kirkwood

2015-10-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Iain McFarlane dijo [Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:31:45PM +0100]: > On 21/10/15 22:28, JM wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Iain McFarlane wrote: > >> On a different note anyone know why udev would not be running modprobe? > >> Every time I reboot this box I have to the

Re: Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy

2016-02-05 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Wouter Verhelst dijo [Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 06:45:49PM +0100]: > [M-F-T set, as this is getting increasingly off-topic] > > On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 10:16:55AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > I mean, who needs a desktop? A background? Overlapping windows? We the > > *real* tech-s

Re: qbzr: autopkgtest fails since 2015-01-01

2016-01-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Dmitry Shachnev dijo [Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 04:08:19PM +0300]: > > qbzr autopkgtest fails on both ci.debian.net [1] and jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com > > [2] > > since recently. > > > > [...] > > > > On both servers, it is clear that the test succeeded in 2014, but started > > failing in 2015 (maybe due

Re: Fwd: You wouldn't miss it . . .

2016-04-11 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Adam Borowski dijo [Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 02:16:48PM +0200]: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:25:02AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > The really funny thing is that these six mails with spam > > are a reply to the thread from <20160407220148.gg13...@sdfg.com.ar> > > “Re: wordpress 4.4.2+dfsg-1~bpo8+1

Re: Package naming rant

2016-04-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Thomas Goirand dijo [Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 06:46:47PM +0200]: > In the general case, I'd agree. But we're not talking about "a package" > here, but about a complete *suite* of a complex cloud system. > > The argument is that you can't use OpenStack without at least learning > what the components

Mr. Palfrader, would you please get out of that tube?

2016-04-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Yes, this appeared in Slashdot, not in Debian. But still, it's perfectly good d-curiosa material: https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/04/29/1858256/weasel-apparently-shuts-down-worlds-most-powerful-particle-collider Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Nikolaus Rath dijo [Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 04:41:15PM -0700]: > On Jul 22 2016, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Lionel Elie Mamane [2016-07-22 12:14 +0200]: > >> Since Debian is an international project, with many (I expect a > >> majority but am too

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Wouter Verhelst dijo [Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:15:57AM +0200]: > Hi Marga, > > I second this amendment, although it introduces a minor awkwardness: > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 03:27:56PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > - The Technical Committee and/or its Chairman; > > + The Technical

Re: Misc Developer News (#42)

2016-10-17 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Holger Levsen dijo [Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 05:32:36PM +]: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:25:59AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Holger Levsen dijo [Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 08:02:11AM +]: > > > Hi & sorry for the noise. Upon re-reading when replying I realized I didnt > >

Re: braillegraph_0.1-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

2017-03-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Adam Borowski dijo [Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:20:15PM +0100]: > (...) And as for non-copyleft licenses, there's way too many of them > to rationally choose. > > Alas, I have a problem: > * I can't seem to find a single die > * I have no ChaosKey or similar true random generator > * my CPU has no

Improvised Online Visibility Techniques: Gwolf.Org

2017-03-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Harry Snyder dijo [Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 10:12:53PM -0500]: > Hello Gwolf Team, > > Hope you are doing good these days. > > This year, stay away from errors that kept you far away from driving > towards the front pages of internet searches. Make your website solid > enough so that it can help you

Re: [Debconf-video] Feedback

2017-08-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Gunnar Wolf dijo [Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:44:10AM -0500]: > Kyle Robbertze dijo [Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 01:02:15PM +0200]: > > > (...) > > > So the pattern seems to be that the sound was bad in the big Buzz > > > room. > > The problem was, in Buzz,

Re: [Debconf-video] Feedback

2017-08-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Kyle Robbertze dijo [Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 01:02:15PM +0200]: > > (...) > > So the pattern seems to be that the sound was bad in the big Buzz > > room. > The problem was, in Buzz, we did not have control of the sound... The > venue provided a tech to run the sound in there. Lesson learned:

Re: Announce: docker-buildpackage

2018-05-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult dijo [Tue, May 01, 2018 at 03:23:31PM +0200]: > Hi folks, > > I've written a tool for isolated deb builds in docker containers. > It's a little bit like pbuilder, but using docker for isolation. > > https://github.com/metux/docker-buildpackage > > Everything

Re: help needed: LSM acronym

2018-01-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Adam Borowski dijo [Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 09:42:31PM +0100]: > Hi! > I'd like to ask for help with devising an acronym, as my ability with puns > or other wordplay in any language is almost non-existant. > > Background: I'm working on a kernel facility to set a policy for filenames, > for security

Re: Bug#894551: ITP: fascism -- Exhaustive exploration of Fascist theory and practice

2018-04-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Ben Finney dijo [Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 08:52:12AM +1000]: > Enrico Zini writes: > > > * Package name: fascism > > Version : 19190323 > > Should we be carrying such an old version in Debian? There are much more > modern versions available in 2018. > > Though I do

Legit-looking spam

2019-08-24 Thread Gunnar Wolf
I hope nobody minds me forwarding spam sent to the private mailing list over here. Of course, I'm obscuring basically everything that could be of use to a spammer. And yes, it took me a couple of reads to make sure this was not something we (keyring-maint) should be looking into. Now I have a

Re: Legit-looking spam

2019-08-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Dimitri John Ledkov dijo [Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 01:19:25AM +0300]: > OMG we need to make Debian keyrings! With like gpg fingerprint of the > release key. I see this getting fractal. Can somebody plz Mandelbrotize the Debian logo for me? Hmmm... Might even be akin to the deprecated "Official" logo

Re: Waiting for the voting vote to finish... :-)

2021-11-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jonathan Carter dijo [Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 06:43:27PM +0200]: > Ah, I also had one, but can wait my turn. I considered starting a thread in > -project in the meantime, but I'm slightly concerned of information overload > between a large discussion on -project and a running vote. > > Not to

Re: Please avoid using ambiguous language

2022-03-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Samuel Henrique dijo [Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:05:09PM +]: > On Wed 23 Mar 2022, 14:55 Paul Tagliamonte, wrote: > > > According to nm.d.o, we have 1.022 kilomembers (kDd). > > > > So we're only 2 DD's away from 1 kibimember (KiDd)? Well, AFAICT, KiBi has been a member for over 15 years,

Re: bits from the release team: are you ready to skate yet?

2022-10-13 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Christoph Biedl dijo [Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 03:42:40PM +0200]: > > The release team has decided that the release after bookworm and > > trixie will be called forky. > > Noo. Debian release names *must* begin with the letter "b". > It's the law. Never before has the release team given us four