Re: net-tools future

2009-03-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:57:13AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:07:29PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Every relevant Linux distribution requires udev, and so do many > > important features of Debian systems. Anything not compatible with udev > > is a toy which wastes

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 20 mars 2009 à 08:28 +, Sune Vuorela a écrit : > If anyone wants to actually try working with copyright files for one of > those "bigger" packages, Mike O'Connor helpfulyl just opened #520485 to > track one of them. Patches are welcome. How thoughtful of his. Hint: you can open su

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 20, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > It is still possible to install and run Lenny without the use of udev, > and many people do so. popcon shows that the number is trivial. Definitely not "many". > Whether you agree that this is useful or a 'toy' > setup is beside the point; fact is that it happ

svn-buildpackage's future

2009-03-20 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi all, I had some talks with Eduard Bloch (the author of svn-buildpackage) and Eddy Petrisor (as a contributor listed in its uploaders field) and it seems that both of them lost their interest in svn-bp and/or are too busy to take care of current development. Some time ago I started fixing some o

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
[Transferred to -devel as suggested. Please follow-up there]. Le Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 04:40:33PM +, Sune Vuorela a écrit : > http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat > > It is a too complex, overengineered solution to a very minor issue. > It is not easy readables for humans > It is u

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:09:53AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:02:48PM -0700, Daniel Moerner wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Mike O'Connor wrote: To me, it seems like since one has to go through all of the source files anywa

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Roger Leigh
Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:02:48PM -0700, Daniel Moerner wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Mike O'Connor wrote: To me, it seems like since one has to go through all of the source files anyway, creating a list of copyright holders while you are doing it is a trivial ta

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:05:53AM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Ben Hutchings writes: > > You can do this with ethtool now, and more cleanly: > > > > link-speed 100 > > link-duplex full > > Yes, I know. But that means that existing working configurations have > to be modified. Which shoul

Re: net-tools future

2009-03-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:07:29PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 15, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > Being able to rename an interface without messing with udev is a > > feature, not a bug. > Every relevant Linux distribution requires udev, and so do many > important features of Debian systems. Any

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Ben Finney
Sune Vuorela writes: > On 2009-03-20, Ben Finney wrote: > > All of what you've demonstrated is part of what Mike covered with > > ???one has to go through all of the source files anyway???, is it > > not? The point I got from his message is that, having *already* > > accepted the burden of going

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2009-03-20 kello 04:00 +0100, Romain Beauxis kirjoitti: > Was there any intent of writting such a tool at some point ? > Most of the specifications also deduce from an actual implementation, which > also helps people who don't want to follow the multiple revisions to check > and convert their

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-03-20, Ben Finney wrote: > All of what you've demonstrated is part of what Mike covered with > ???one has to go through all of the source files anyway???, is it not? > The point I got from his message is that, having *already* accepted > the burden of going through all the files, one can t

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-20 Thread Mike O'Connor
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:28:09AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20 2009, Mike O'Connor wrote: > > >> > >> Why is this list needed? > > > > Often the license requires it. For instance the BSD license says, > > "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright". >

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