Re: planet.debian.org vs. blog illiteracy

2005-09-26 Thread John Hasler
W. Borgert wrote: (I would prefer to get all the technical information on debian-devel Andreas writes: Same for me who does not spent time in reading blogs. Me as well. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Standardizing ~/.cache/ and similar things.

2005-09-18 Thread John Hasler
on a per-user basis. This will help administration of per-user installed stuff in the same way that the FHS helps with machine-global installed stuff. I like this idea. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-09-17 Thread John Hasler
is supposed to be started/stopped at, is essential, I think. If you've had any such problems with sysvconfig please file bug reports. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CDDL, OpenSolaris, Choice-of-venue and the star package ...

2005-09-09 Thread John Hasler
needs a choice of venue clause in order to file suit against you in his home jurisdiction? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-07 Thread John Hasler
Thomas Bushnell writes: Not quite correct. You are buing not just the right to read it; you are also buying the physical copy, and you may do with it what you want: loan it, rent it... In some jurisdictions lending is an exclusive right of the copyright owner. -- John Hasler

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-07 Thread John Hasler
-.html http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_0109000-.html -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
The Fungi writes: Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems to me that it would be more effective to try to get http://www.callwave.com/members/cancel/ bumped up to the top of the google search instead. Now that sounds sensible. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
that of the law. That's the problem. How does the law judge the quality of works of authorship? Do the courts employ panels of literary critics? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
the US notion of originality. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-06 Thread John Hasler
and a small fee with no possibility of denial). When they need external expertise they may do for that specific case. So if I brought suit against someone for making unauthorized copies of my Usenet articles a court guided by panel of literary critics might rule them not worthy of protection? -- John

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Garrett writes: That should be spam - SPAM is a trademark of Hormel Foods Corporation. Only when used to sell food (in which case spam would also infringe the mark). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Please do not follow up to these messages. These idiots apparently Google the phrase and then spam all the addresses they find. Posting about the subject here just creates more hits. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
. Don't follow up. Reply to them privately. On a side note, I believe that if you are going to follow up, you should at least be polite. Unless you cc them they are not going to see the follow up. They are not subscribed. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Spam on this list

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
courts would find it confusingly similar to Hormel's SPAM mark. While the canonical form of a word trademark is all caps, changing the capitalization or typeface won't save you from infringement. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: REMOVE ME FROM C4LL W4VE

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
believe I did reply to them. But I did not cc them. That was my point (I replied privately with an entirely different message). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Source code for unpacking Debian archives

2005-09-01 Thread John Hasler
Tommy Nordgren writes: I wan't to do this because my own OS don't contain any built in support tools for Debian Archives You want the 'alien' program. It should be available for your distribution. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Unnecessary Conflicts with imap-server packages

2005-08-29 Thread John Hasler
Perhaps we need some sort of a weakly conflicts. Sort of the inverse of recommends. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More pbuilder use!

2005-08-23 Thread John Hasler
convenient. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Will the amd64 port be rejected because of the 98% rule?

2005-08-22 Thread John Hasler
port including i386. Make it 98% of the packages buildable on the accepted port with the highest build percentage. How was 98% arrived at? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-15 Thread John Hasler
: I admit that a machine without network is of little use... Bringing the machine up without networking can be useful for problem solving. I prefer to use multiple consoles when doing so. This requires multiuser. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-14 Thread John Hasler
Perhaps the upstream README should be renamed 'README.upstream'? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-14 Thread John Hasler
W. Borgert writes: as a conclusion of many discussions at DebConf5, I propose to maintain all packages by teams. You would have a team maintain 'units'? That's silly. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Dogme05: Team Maintenance

2005-08-14 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: You would have a team maintain 'units'? That's silly. W. Borgert writes: If the team maintains only the package 'units', yes. If the same team maintains multiple relating packages, it's different. There are no packages related to units. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-13 Thread John Hasler
Does there exist a list of all the packages that install scripts in /etc/init.d? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-13 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Does there exist a list of all the packages that install scripts in /etc/init.d? Marco writes: Yes, it's called Contents-$ARCH.gz... Thanks. That gives me some of what I need. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-13 Thread John Hasler
broken.) -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-12 Thread John Hasler
a feature to sysvconfig to configure LSB runlevels. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-12 Thread John Hasler
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: If the local admin needs multiple multi-user runlevels, he can always set it up himself (and use a initscript system that supports it without hassle ;-) ), Could you suggest one? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-12 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Please check the archives. This has been discussed many times. It is clear that there is going to be no change. Javier writes: The last sentence is not true. For some of the compelling reasons as to why this should change... I didn't say it shouldn't change. -- John Hasler

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Joe Smith writes: policy-rc.d update-rc.d (this is the only one installed on my system) sysvconfig Any others? This seems excessive! Update-rc.d and sysvconfig do not do the same thing. Read the man pages. And policy-rc.d is not an rc.d manager. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: not starting daemons at boot: ln -s disabled

2005-08-06 Thread John Hasler
Dan Jacobson writes: But the downsize is later, unless one keeps records, one isn't quite sure of just what tampering one has done in /etc/rc?.d/ Sysvconfig keeps records. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-08-05 Thread John Hasler
for their respective target audiences. It _should_... -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-08-04 Thread John Hasler
on the domain of application. So I'd suggest concentrating on the 3% of packages non-technical users might actually want to select manually, and making sure those have legible and searchable descriptions. Technical users don't deserve legible and searchable descriptions? -- John Hasler

Re: Bruce Perens hosts party at OSCON Wednesday night

2005-08-03 Thread John Hasler
Michael writes: Adam, I'm kind of curious what you mean by that I took it for a joke. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread John Hasler
Lars Wirzenius writes: Is this acceptable to everyone? It's fine with me. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-07-21 Thread John Hasler
Jon Dowland writes: I think you are expecting people to say C++, and on the other hand, Perl: However, I think perl for both :-) I agree. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#319334: ITP: ng-spice -- Mixed-level/mixed-signal electronic circuit simulator

2005-07-21 Thread John Hasler
go in non-free. Users of non-free are expected to read the licenses. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-21 Thread John Hasler
Francesco P. Lovergine writes: Any possibility of producing a nice web report on a per package basis? ... Filling BTS reports could be not so appropriate. I'd prefer bug reports. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: debian mentors ubuntu

2005-07-19 Thread John Hasler
martin f krafft writes: a new debian maintainer is also a ubuntu maintainer in some sense. Only in the rather strained sense that she is also a Libranet, Mepis, and Linspire maintainer. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Bug#301527: ITP: mazeofgalious -- The Maze of Galious

2005-07-09 Thread John Hasler
It is still using a copyrighted/trademarked (don't know which) name There is no such thing as a copyrighted name. The name does appear to have been a trademark at one time, but if enough time has gone by without a product being marketed under that name the trademark will have lapsed. -- John

Re: Does Debian need a press office?

2005-07-07 Thread John Hasler
. The fact is that the most they _will_ do is look at the Web site. You can't even rely on them to do that: they need to be sent press releases. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to tell user default random pass for daemon?

2005-07-06 Thread John Hasler
Suppose you'd like to generate a random pass by default after your daemon is installed. How should you get that pass to the user? Is it allowed to write it to a file in root's home dir? Chrony puts it in a file in /etc/chrony. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-25 Thread John Hasler
to anyone else ever. You assume that our usage is infringing. I don't think that is established. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dummy packages and Replaces: field

2005-06-23 Thread John Hasler
Steve Greenland writes: Dummy packages work, and have the advantage that it's very clear what is going on. Users often find them very confusing. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-21 Thread John Hasler
if however I try to pass off my completely rebuilt car and tried to pass it off as ford. If I put a NAPA water pump in my Ford I am not required to remove the Ford logos before selling it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-20 Thread John Hasler
Eric Dorland writes: We may be their friends, but that shouldn't give us special privileges. If what we are doing does not actually infringe their trademark we would not be getting any special privileges. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-20 Thread John Hasler
selling my truck. Basically, the only references that I found in BR case law were to *advertising* and *misrepresenting* something as being from the wrong origin. Same in the US. -- John Hasler (IANAL) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-20 Thread John Hasler
that special privileges. If their policy is not legally enforceable our users have all the rights we have whether we accept the agreement of not. -- John Hasler (IANAL) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-19 Thread John Hasler
waits... Which is why you need dependencies. Alternatively, don't start Apache and Postgres on your workstation to save a second or two in the boot process. I use Apache and PostgreSQL on my workstation. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-18 Thread John Hasler
Eric Dorland writes: If we don't need the arrangement, why exactly would we accept it anyway? Because they want it and it costs us nothing to give it to them. They are our friends. Let's accommodate them where we can. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2005-06-17 Thread John Hasler
Luca writes: Under gnome you can find gpppkill and gpppon, but they can't manage provider setting. Gpppon doesn't need to manage settings. It uses the same settings as pon/poff, which can be managed with pppconfig. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-17 Thread John Hasler
not do without explicit permission[1]. [1] I doubt that trademark law reaches that far, but I am not a lawyer. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-17 Thread John Hasler
) using that mark. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-17 Thread John Hasler
on. There is no DFSG problem here even if we do accept the notion that the DFSG applies to trademarks. -- John Hasler (IANAL, IAADD) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-16 Thread John Hasler
of these constitute trademark infringement. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread John Hasler
Peter Samuelson writes: I'm curious to know where you got that impression. I just reread the DFSG and it makes no mention of copyrights, trademarks or patents. The legislative history of the DFSG makes it quite clear that it was only intended to apply to copyrights. -- John Hasler

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread John Hasler
Bernardo Arlandis Mañó writes: Even when a package is free that doesn't mean you can name it using a trademark name, that would be an illegal use of a trademark. it is not at all clear that that is true. A trademark owner does not have anywhere near the rights of a copyright owner. -- John

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-14 Thread John Hasler
Humberto Massa Guimarães writes: But is non-rebranded Firefox *really* distributable by us under GPL#6, no further restrictions? Yes. Copyright and trademark are completely orthogonal. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-14 Thread John Hasler
but have no idea how to change them. The advice to boot to runlevel 3 to fix X is commonly seen even on debian-user. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-14 Thread John Hasler
that package names infringe. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-13 Thread John Hasler
runlevels be what most people expect them to be. And it _does_ come with predefined options and settings: ones unique to Debian. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread John Hasler
continuing to customize your runlevels. We are mererly proposing to change the default, not to impose anything on you. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread John Hasler
Wouter Verhelst writes: In practice, many third-party applications will make assumptions about the availability and configuration of runlevels... Seems to me that the most likely such assumption is that the runlevels are Red Hat-like. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread John Hasler
that you are proposing. Roberto C. Sanchez writes: I agree. I rather like being able to configure run levels to my liking. Why would defaulting to something other than the current flat arrangement prevent you from configuring your runlevels to your liking? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread John Hasler
runlevels. It's the _lack_ that confuses them. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread John Hasler
Roberto C. Sanchez writes: Where, pray tell, is a newbie going to learn about [runlevels]? a) By having used Red Hat. b) By reading up on Linux before trying to use it (yes, some people _do_ that). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: New Nokia device is Debian-based?

2005-06-06 Thread John Hasler
of the pro-patent companies). They believe that the OSS companies can just pay the royalties and all will be fine. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Nokia device is Debian-based?

2005-06-06 Thread John Hasler
? It is not possible for a work to be both public domain and educational use only. Do you mean that Microsoft has patented an invention that was published in the referenced work, or that they are infringing the copyright? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: New Nokia device is Debian-based?

2005-06-06 Thread John Hasler
the company that now calls itself SCO is not the original SCO. It used to be called Caldera and was a Linux company. It bought SCO's Unix business (and the name SCO) from SCO. At about the time that it sued IBM it changed its name to The SCO Group and now calls itself SCO. -- John Hasler

Re: C++ ABI change for etch -- freeze unstable for all C++ libs with changed or new sonames

2005-06-05 Thread John Hasler
that everyone has been paying close attention to Ubuntu and it's activities. While I have the impression that many Debian senior developers are involved with it, I can name only one who I am sure is and one who I am sure isn't. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Bug#311795: ITP: rast -- A full text search system

2005-06-05 Thread John Hasler
NOKUBI Takatsugu writes: BTW, there is the n-gram word in libdigest-nilsimsa-perl package's description without explain of the word. Where it helps to render the description incomprehensible. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-05-31 Thread John Hasler
resulted from deliberate policies of attempting to lock-in customers with differentiation. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-05-31 Thread John Hasler
they are generally frowned upon. I agree that they may have drawbacks, but I don't believe that they can cause the sort of damage that the Unix wars caused. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: dependency on base package adduser ?

2005-05-10 Thread John Hasler
Russ Allbery writes: So far as I know, a base package (section base) has no particular special meaning from a dependency perspective, although I believe that section may be reserved for required packages (but am not sure). There are optional packages in base. -- John Hasler

Re: Debian AMD64 Archive Move

2005-05-08 Thread John Hasler
. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted chrony 1.20-8 (i386 source)

2005-05-01 Thread John Hasler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 18:47:30 -0500 Source: chrony Binary: chrony Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.20-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: transcode

2005-04-30 Thread John Hasler
Transcode is not in Debian because the codecs are not DFSG-compliant. Look at http://apt-get.org for an unofficial package. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubuntu and its appropriation of Debian maintainers

2005-04-30 Thread John Hasler
They have Adam Majer is responsible for this Debian package with a link to Debian's QA. For me they have: John Hasler is the maintainer of the following distribution packages: Ubuntu Linux :: hoary :: pppconfig Anyway, the bottom line is, 1. I'm a Debian Developer and chose to be associated

Re: definition of use

2005-04-26 Thread John Hasler
grants specific rights to the owner of a copy of a piece of software. Better to be more specific, though. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-16 Thread John Hasler
. For nearly everyone else software is free if you don't have to pay for it. Should we then package everything that won't get us sued? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted chrony 1.20-7 (i386 source)

2005-04-16 Thread John Hasler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:59:13 -0500 Source: chrony Binary: chrony Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.20-7 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Matthew Garrett writes: In general, the law doesn't allow us to modify the license attached to a piece of software. That has nothing to do with creating a derivative of a license for use elsewhere. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-10 Thread John Hasler
a) the BIOS requirements are such that many problems have only one solution and so Compaq's code was certain to be very similar (or even identical) to IBM's in many places and b) they expected IBM to sue and wanted a bulletproof defense (IBM did not sue). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread John Hasler
the resulting firmware can be released under a free license without any legal risks. Unless you've signed an NDA you're fine. Just do it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: acenic firmware rewrite

2005-04-09 Thread John Hasler
copy any protected code you'll be fine. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why allow broken packages to get all the way to mirrors?

2005-04-02 Thread John Hasler
if the food is rotten before it gets to the consumer? That's what Unstable is for. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should Debian use lsb init-functions?

2005-03-26 Thread John Hasler
Thomas Hood wrote: Should Debian initscripts use lsb init-functions? Where can we find these functions? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accepted pppconfig 2.3.11 (all source)

2005-03-23 Thread John Hasler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:55:35 -0600 Source: pppconfig Binary: pppconfig Architecture: source all Version: 2.3.11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted pppstatus 0.4.2-8 (i386 source)

2005-03-17 Thread John Hasler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:59:47 -0600 Source: pppstatus Binary: pppstatus Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.4.2-8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: arch-specific packages and the new SCC requirements

2005-03-16 Thread John Hasler
-specific. It's just a little Perl program that edits some PPP files. While I have never tried it, I see no reason why it wouldn't work on Solaris or BSD. I'm quite surprised that the Hurd still doesn't support PPP. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Restrictive SMTP server

2005-03-15 Thread John Hasler
adjustments before delivering the mail to my ISP's smarthost. The only change I've ever found necessary, though, is to forge the HELO command used by my MTA when talking to the smarthost. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Restrictive SMTP server

2005-03-12 Thread John Hasler
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Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-07 Thread John Hasler
the difference between appalling style and deliberate obfuscation. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#297233: ITP: wmansied -- An ANSI/ASCII editor.

2005-02-28 Thread John Hasler
Joe Wreschnig writes: I don't know what the official standards for the character set and terminal specifications are... Whatever IBM said they were. I believe they are in the IBM PC Technical Reference Manual: I've got one around here somewhere. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Any reason why I'm not CCed by bugs of my packages?

2005-02-25 Thread John Hasler
a year. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cross-compiling and dist-cc

2005-02-22 Thread John Hasler
_target_ _architecture_ and then compare the binaries. I don't see why they should differ. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Brian Nelson writes: That's an overstatement. Simply having two architectures (i386 and ppc) would be enough to reveal nearly all portability bugs. It required several architectures to uncover all of the portability bugs in Chrony. ppc was not one of them. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-20 Thread John Hasler
configuration. At least make enabling the change a Debconf question. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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