Re: Librairie pour la gestion des paquets debian

2004-12-11 Thread Laurent COOPER
Merci pour la réactivité! Effectivement, un petit cou d'apt-cache search m'avait donné ce résultat. Mais si ce paquet donne la doc sur le fonctionnement d'APT et de dpkg, ainsi que sur le format des fichiers qu'ils utilisent, il ne documentent pas l'API perl ou 'api C de apt et de dpkg. Ce

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041210 19:55]: Yup. There's never been a sense of urgency. The RM's throw out release dates and goals every once in a while, but no one seems to take those seriously. Not true. (And, perhaps you noticed, the release team avoided to give specific days in

Re: Bug#282742: Move daily find run later

2004-12-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-12-08 Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Metzler wrote: Anyway the solution seems to be overengineered for the problem at hand. I have yet to decide whether * I'll close the bugreport with request denied Please don't do that but tag it wontfix instead if you won't fix

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 09:41:47AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Brian Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041210 19:55]: Yup. There's never been a sense of urgency. The RM's throw out release dates and goals every once in a while, but no one seems to take those seriously. Not true. (And,

amd64: ftp-masters questions (was: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64)

2004-12-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040717 15:55]: [AMD64 situation] As to the technical questions ftpmaster wants to raise, I'm quite disappointed that they have not been posted yet because I was promised at DebConf that it would happen soon. I've now asked

historic mails from me - please ignore

2004-12-11 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, I seem to have un-frozen a couple of historic mails. Sorry for the noise, please ignore them. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C

Re: Intel EM64T porting machine for Debian

2004-12-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader | * Chasecreek Systemhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-10 20:56]: | agreed to set up the machine, host it for a while and give interested | developers access. This box is not a general .debian.org | | Is this by invitation only? | | Debian

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Thomas Bushnell BSG | That's a bad reason; if you applied it consistently you'd have to get | rid of frozen-bubble. everybody knows that frozen-bubble is useful for delaying Debian releases. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 00:13 +, Rich Walker wrote: It is outrageous to think that China's or Saudia Arabia's censorship regimes should somehow influence our decision making in the slightest. I believe the correct flame-inducing argument at this point is tell that to the first person

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

2004-12-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.11.0259 +0100]: Well, the plan is to make the dpkg-deb interface more formalized. What I mean, is being able to use it in a filter, with plugging input and output. Thanks for the explanation. Yes, this is the sensible to do it. Repacking and

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bruce Perens: The Linux Core Consortium would like to have Debian's involvement. This organization has revived what I originally proposed to do as the LSB - to make a binary base for Linux distributions that could be among several distributions who would share in the effort of

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michael Banck: 2. GNOME succeeded for the desktop. Are there any proprietary COTS applications for GNOME where vendor support isn't bound to specific GNU/Linux distributions? Maybe GNOME is a good example of cross-vendor cooperation (but so is GCC), but would be quite surprised if this

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Brian Nelson: Anyone, developer or non-developer, can help fix toolchain problems. However, the only people who can work on the testing-security autobuilders are ... the security team and the ftp-masters? It's about infrastructure, so the security team is out (they are just users of this

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-11 12:36]: Anyone, developer or non-developer, can help fix toolchain problems. However, the only people who can work on the testing-security autobuilders are ... the security team and the ftp-masters? It's about infrastructure, so the security

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:39:55PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote: You've just described the way the LSB has done it for years, which thus far, hasn't worked--while there are numerous LSB-certified distros, there are exactly zero LSB-certified applications. The reason for this is that substantially

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Langasek: Um, what's the concrete use case for a cross-distro standard network configuration interface? VPN software, intrusion detection systems, software for CALEA support, centralized management software.

Bug#284978: general: libgmp segfaults on generating 48402688-bit random number

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Womack
Thomas Womack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you have libgmp2-dev or libgmp3-dev installed? I have libgmp2, libgmp3 4.0.1-3 and libgmp3-dev 4.0.1-3, so you're using later versions of all the relevant packages (indeed, since you're on amd64, on entirely different hardware) and the bug is still

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-11 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Saturday 11 December 2004 01:13, Rich Walker wrote: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [3] Non-US exists because export of strong crypto from the US is an illegal act in the US. Hence, Debian has already accepted that local laws

Processed: Re: Bug#284978: general: libgmp segfaults on generating 48402688-bit random number

2004-12-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reassign 284978 gmp Bug#284978: general: libgmp segfaults on generating 48402688-bit random number Bug reassigned from package `general' to `gmp'. * Tom Womack [Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:39:37AM -]: Unknown command or malformed arguments to command.

Bug#284978: general: libgmp segfaults on generating 48402688-bit random number

2004-12-11 Thread Laurent Fousse
reassign 284978 gmp * Tom Womack [Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:39:37AM -]: I've just checked that this wasn't a stupid problem to do with missing mpz_init() commands; if you insert mpz_init(A); mpz_init(B); mpz_init(C); before the first mpz_urandomb() call, it still segfaults in the same

Re: historic mails from me - please ignore

2004-12-11 Thread Ben Burton
Heh. I read that as histrionic. Twice. b.

Re: Debian package selection depending on user location/belief/society(was bug #283578 hot-babe (AGAIN :-)))

2004-12-11 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:49:57AM +, Will Newton wrote: [snip] Not to point out the obvious, but foul language is dependant on the language you speak, so most countries are unlikely to be offended by the Linux kernel. Not to point out the obvious, but what is pornographic is dependant on

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:42:57PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Adrian von Bidder dijo [Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:38:10PM +0100]: we don't exactly have a strong history of being able to pull off timely releases Did Debian even try? I didn't follow the woody release too closely, being a

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 01:24:32PM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Saturday 11 December 2004 01:13, Rich Walker wrote: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [3] Non-US exists because export of strong crypto from the US is an

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:20:32PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 09, Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been thinking about the blob problem for a while. I propose to remove blobs from the

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 15:21 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:20:32PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 09, Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Santiago Vila wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Dan Jacobson wrote: Say, perhaps a Date: field could be added to Packages files. I mean even dog food has the date stamped on it these days. Even my crumby message has a Date: field.

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-11 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Saturday 11 December 2004 14:28, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 01:24:32PM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Saturday 11 December 2004 01:13, Rich Walker wrote: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [3]

Re: amd64: ftp-masters questions

2004-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040717 15:55]: [AMD64 situation] As to the technical questions ftpmaster wants to raise, I'm quite disappointed that they have not been posted yet because I was promised at DebConf that

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 10, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to take a look at debian-legal, because some people there think that even free drivers for hardware devices which need an externally loaded firmware are not acceptable for main. I presume you're referring to drivers which are

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 11, Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it made any sense at all for a mainboard's BIOS to loaded by the Linux kernel at boot time with a non-free firmware blob, the current consensus (on debian-legal anyway) seems to be that Debian would not support it. Period. The drivers for

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 11, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because the GPL says so. Distribution of firmware binaries under GPL is just not legal. I do not believe that this is obvious. I understand that FSF disagrees, and considers firmwares to be just data. For 99% it doesn't have any effect.

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-11 Thread Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
Hello. Paul Hampson: The email address isn't important, since that has to be a subset of ASCII anyway. Are the Unicode-encoded domain names supported in (modern) browsers only? I can surf to http://.pl/ (with, e.g., Firefox) - can I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or should I always use the

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 11, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can surf to http://?.pl/ (with, e.g., Firefox) - can I send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or should I always use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] equivalent, as the Unicode in domain names is restricted to WWW only? It depends on your MUA. With

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Dec 11, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because the GPL says so. Distribution of firmware binaries under GPL is just not legal. I do not believe that this is obvious. I understand that FSF disagrees, and considers firmwares to be

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Dec 10, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to take a look at debian-legal, because some people there think that even free drivers for hardware devices which need an externally loaded firmware are not acceptable for main. I

Re: amd64: ftp-masters questions

2004-12-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-11 15:17]: Is there any progress on this issue? This seems to be one of your unfrozen mails (1. Aug, huh?). But it is still as valid as back then. My recollection is that all technical concerns were addressed and that the port would go in

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-11 Thread Michal Politowski
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:08:12 +0100, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote: Hello. Paul Hampson: The email address isn't important, since that has to be a subset of ASCII anyway. Are the Unicode-encoded domain names supported in (modern) browsers only? I can surf to http://.pl/ (with,

Re: Intel EM64T porting machine for Debian

2004-12-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:36:21AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: In addition, we have at least two other machines which are available to developers: pergolesi.debian.org -- admin is debian-admin (and all developers have accounts already) Currently, this machine is

Bug#285207: ITP: kwirelessmonitor -- KWirelessMonitor is a small KDE application that docks into the system tray and monitors the wireless network interface

2004-12-11 Thread Marcin Orlowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kwirelessmonitor Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Description : KWirelessMonitor is a small KDE application

Re: Bug#285207: ITP: kwirelessmonitor -- KWirelessMonitor is a small KDE application that docks into the system tray and monitors the wireless network interface

2004-12-11 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El sb, 11-12-2004 a las 17:39 +0100, Marcin Orlowski escribi: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kwirelessmonitor Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X,

Re: Bug#285207: ITP: kwirelessmonitor -- KWirelessMonitor is a small KDE application that docks into the system tray and monitors the wireless network interface

2004-12-11 Thread Nico Golde
Hello Marcin, * Marcin Orlowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-11 18:12]: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kwirelessmonitor Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL,

Re: menu-method for .desktop files?

2004-12-11 Thread Christoffer Sawicki
Perhaps a stupid question because I do not understand all this menu stuff: Would this (together with Gnome 2.8) fix the user menus in Gnome??? This would be reall great for Sarge release! No, this is about fixing the available session types in gdm and kdm. */ Christoffer Sawicki [EMAIL

Re: Bug#282409: ITP: mozilla-firefox-locale-pt-br -- Firefox Localization Package to Brazilian Portuguese.

2004-12-11 Thread Cesar Martinez Izquierdo
Hi! The es_ES translation is packaged in a separate package, because we uploaded it before the mozilla-firefox-locale-all was ready. The next version of mozilla-firefox-locale-all will also include es_ES translation. Regards, César El Martes 07 Diciembre 2004 14:57, Javier

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 03:49:48PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 11, Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it made any sense at all for a mainboard's BIOS to loaded by the Linux kernel at boot time with a non-free firmware blob, the current consensus (on debian-legal anyway) seems

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 03:07:56PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I'm concerned, distribution of the firmware is the manufacturer's realm. Whether the manufacturer distributes it on an EPROM on the device itself, or on a CD shipped with

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 11 décembre 2004 à 11:00 -0800, Brian Nelson a écrit : You are the only person I've seen express views similar to mine on debian-legal. All other participants argue for non-free-firmware-using drivers going in contrib. Do they? Also, the current practice already is moving in this

Re: Intel EM64T porting machine for Debian

2004-12-11 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:36:21AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: In addition, we have at least two other machines which are available to developers: pergolesi.debian.org -- admin is debian-admin (and all developers have

Pre-Depends on emacs21? Re: cedet-common: breaks other packages in batch mode

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Langasek
Bug #270388 regards the cedet-common package breaking emacs -batch. A proposed fix in the bug report is for cedet-common to Pre-Depend on emacs21 | emacsen instead of depending on it. An NMU based on this proposed fix has already been uploaded to the DELAYED queue by Henning Glawe without first

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:11:31PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 11 d?cembre 2004 ? 11:00 -0800, Brian Nelson a ?crit : You are the only person I've seen express views similar to mine on debian-legal. All other participants argue for non-free-firmware-using drivers going in

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

2004-12-11 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Adam Heath wrote: Well, the plan is to make the dpkg-deb interface more formalized. What I mean, is being able to use it in a filter, with plugging input and output. Ie, multiple input methods: .deb, .rpm, filesystem filter mode: standard tar output output mode: filesystem, .deb, .rpm Repacking

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a completely inconsistent and arbitrary policy. It's hardly that. We distribute only free software, that's our rule. The rest, as you say, is for the manufacturer and the user to work out, but we disvalue non-free software, and so we don't distribute

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:50:44AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a completely inconsistent and arbitrary policy. It's hardly that. We distribute only free software, that's our rule. The rest, as you say, is for the manufacturer and the user

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You say they should go into contrib because they depend on non-free software. However, *all* device drivers depend on non-free software. Why does it matter if that non-free stuff is stored on the device itself or is loaded externally? Because if it

lintian warning about /usr/X11R6/lib

2004-12-11 Thread Neil Roeth
One of my packages, xfonts-kapl, installs fonts to usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, as it should, according to policy 11.8.5. I get a lintian warning that nothing should install to /usr/X11R6/lib unless it uses imake, and that is just reflecting policy 11.8.7. Seems like those two section contradict each

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 11 décembre 2004 à 11:44 -0800, Brian Nelson a écrit : For a single package that won't work without the binary blob, that's a good policy. It's a completely inconsistent and arbitrary policy. Virtually *all* device drivers in existance require a binary blob to work. It's up

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:11:31PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le samedi 11 d?cembre 2004 ? 11:00 -0800, Brian Nelson a ?crit : You are the only person I've seen express views similar to mine on debian-legal. All other participants argue for

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:50:44AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a completely inconsistent and arbitrary policy. It's hardly that. We distribute only free software, that's our rule. The rest, as you

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because if it were stored on the device itself, and always packaged with the device, then there *still* wouldn't be a dependency, because all owners of the hardware would already have the firmware. In most cases, the owner of the device will

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 03:07:56PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I'm concerned, distribution of the firmware is the manufacturer's realm. Whether the manufacturer distributes it on an EPROM on

Re: amd64: ftp-masters questions

2004-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-11 15:17]: Is there any progress on this issue? This seems to be one of your unfrozen mails (1. Aug, huh?). But it is still as valid as back then. My recollection is that

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Michael Poole
Goswin von Brederlow writes: Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You aren't reading what I've written. Virtually 100% of firmware out there (included on the device or loaded externally) is non-free. By your reasoning, the entire kernel should be moved to contrib since no free

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 11, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your case of hardware wich already includes firmware is totaly irelevant since Debian does not distributes hardware, does not even stand for free hardware nor do debs have to depend on hardware. And why it should be different if that

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 11, Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are the only person I've seen express views similar to mine on debian-legal. No, others did too, even if most of them did not bother arguing to death like I'm doing. Also, the current practice already is moving in this direction. For

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 11, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You only see it as inconsistent because you think the relevant consideration is do we support this hardware, and you don't care how we support it. Most of us *do* care; we support it provided we can do so without distributing non-free

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Think of it this way. For the card with the built-in firmware, the driver does not depend on any additional packages or software distribution to work. By contrast, for the card with the separate firmware, the driver *does* depend on that

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Dec 11, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your case of hardware wich already includes firmware is totaly irelevant since Debian does not distributes hardware, does not even stand for free hardware nor do debs have to depend on

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Dec 11, Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are the only person I've seen express views similar to mine on debian-legal. No, others did too, even if most of them did not bother arguing to death like I'm doing. Please continue your

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Michael Poole
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Think of it this way. For the card with the built-in firmware, the driver does not depend on any additional packages or software distribution to work. By contrast, for the card with the separate firmware, the

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 11 décembre 2004 à 13:45 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : Please continue your argument on debian-legal. NOT HERE. Why should this go on debian-legal? I think the legal status and DFSG-freeness of these firmwares is pretty clear. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette/\./\

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When the firmware is burned into the device, the user is prevented from modifying it in a rather more drastic and permanent fashion than when the restrictions are a matter of missing code or permissions. Sure, but that's not the point. If someone

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le samedi 11 dcembre 2004 13:45 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a crit : Please continue your argument on debian-legal. NOT HERE. Why should this go on debian-legal? I think the legal status and DFSG-freeness of these firmwares is pretty clear. Then

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 11 décembre 2004 à 13:51 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : Why should this go on debian-legal? I think the legal status and DFSG-freeness of these firmwares is pretty clear. Then it doesn't go anywhere. It certainly isn't for debian-devel. Of course it is. This is about how

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
(Please try to not Cc me on every reply. My messages even contain a Mail-Followup-To header.) On Dec 11, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And why it should be different if that firmware is distributed by the manufacturer on a CD instead of a flash EPROM chip? Because in that

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 11, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know about no drivers which are useless without a non-free firmware, while I know about a huge number of hardware devices which are useless without a non-free firmware. So the drivers without the firmware are usefull (i.e. make

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 11, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not believe that this is obvious. I understand that FSF disagrees, and considers firmwares to be just data. Would you accept a patch for ppp of the form: char data[] = { 0x17, 0x23, 0x42, ...}; ... *(int (*)(int))data(fd);

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le samedi 11 dcembre 2004 13:51 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a crit : Why should this go on debian-legal? I think the legal status and DFSG-freeness of these firmwares is pretty clear. Then it doesn't go anywhere. It certainly isn't for

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: (Please try to not Cc me on every reply. My messages even contain a Mail-Followup-To header.) On Dec 11, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And why it should be different if that firmware is distributed by the manufacturer on a CD

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would make more sense if I sent it to the right list, really. Sorry about that. Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are the only person I've seen express views similar to mine on debian-legal. All other participants argue for

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With drivers that load external firmware files this split is possible leaving the driver in main inside the kernel and the non DFSG free firmware in non-free. This argument suggests that we can shift drivers from contrib to main simply by turning

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let's pretend that Debian actually has a significant amount of leverage on this sort of issue, and that vendors see their drivers appearing in contrib and want to do something about it. They /could/ open the firmware and provide a toolchain for it.

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This argument suggests that we can shift drivers from contrib to main simply by turning them into kernel patches and getting them included in the stock kernel. This seems, uh, odd. That's our policy. Every policy will have curious corner cases.

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 11, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All hardware depends on non-free software. If you want to lobby for all hardware to be free, including the firmware/BIOS/whatever, then fine. That's a noble war to wage and I'd support your efforts. Really? Will you support it in

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The dependency still exists - it just isn't expressed within the terms of our package management system. I am entirely happy to describe this distinction as arbitrary. And yet, in this case the

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: And yet, in this case the non-freeness of the software isn't hurting the user. The point isn't whether the firmware exists, the point is whether the user is being prevented from modifying it by licensing or

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh, but it does. Having the source code to the firmware of my DVD drive would allow me to remove some silly restrictions. I've even got software that would allow me to reflash it. Now, you could make the argument that if I bought the DVD drive then

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 11 décembre 2004 à 21:47 +, Matthew Garrett a écrit : Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With drivers that load external firmware files this split is possible leaving the driver in main inside the kernel and the non DFSG free firmware in non-free. This argument

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

2004-12-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:51 +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote: Adam Heath wrote: Well, the plan is to make the dpkg-deb interface more formalized. What I mean, is being able to use it in a filter, with plugging input and output. Ie, multiple input methods: .deb, .rpm, filesystem filter

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, because we have chosen a limited set of goals. We are for free software, not Curing All The World's Ills. There is nothing hypocritical about Debian deciding to attack one problem (non-free software) without attacking a different problem

Bug#285234: ITP: unlzx -- unarchiver for *.lzx archives

2004-12-11 Thread Marcin Orlowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: unlzx Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?unlzx * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Description : unarchiver for *.lzx archives

Bug#285233: ITP: undms -- unpacks DMS (Disk MaSher) floppy image archives

2004-12-11 Thread Marcin Orlowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: undms Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Tritscher) * URL : http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?undms * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Description : unpacks DMS (Disk

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This argument suggests that we can shift drivers from contrib to main simply by turning them into kernel patches and getting them included in the stock kernel. This seems, uh, odd. That's our policy.

Re: Bug#285234: ITP: unlzx -- unarchiver for *.lzx archives

2004-12-11 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:53:10PM +0100, Marcin Orlowski wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: unlzx Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?unlzx * License : (GPL,

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Brian Nelson
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 03:07:56PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I'm concerned, distribution of the firmware is the manufacturer's realm. Whether

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le samedi 11 d=E9cembre 2004 =E0 21:47 +, Matthew Garrett a =E9crit : We put it in contrib so that people know that by using this software, they will also have to use non-free code. This is less obvious for drivers that use firmware in flash, but

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, because we have chosen a limited set of goals. We are for free software, not Curing All The World's Ills. There is nothing hypocritical about Debian deciding to attack one problem (non-free

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It also means that I can upload a kernel image that contains all these drivers, ensure that it's ABI compatible with the official kernels, and then build udebs containing the firmware-requiring drivers. These could then be grabbed by d-i. The drivers

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le samedi 11 décembre 2004 à 11:44 -0800, Brian Nelson a écrit : For a single package that won't work without the binary blob, that's a good policy. It's a completely inconsistent and arbitrary policy. Virtually *all* device drivers in

Re: Bug#285233: ITP: undms -- unpacks DMS (Disk MaSher) floppy image archives

2004-12-11 Thread Michal Politowski
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:44:54 +0100, Marcin Orlowski wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: undms Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Tritscher) * URL : http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/aminetbin/find?undms * License :

Re: Bug#285234: ITP: unlzx -- unarchiver for *.lzx archives

2004-12-11 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:37:01PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:53:10PM +0100, Marcin Orlowski wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: unlzx Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

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