Re: Sun Java available from non-free

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 03:55:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > [...] They didn't ask you because Debian is not a democracy and random > opinions on this decision *don't* matter. Wow, thanks for telling us. I thought the Debian developers elected a DPL every year. Of course, since I'm not one

Re: how about a real unstable?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Andrew" == Andrew Lenharth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Andrew> It is the unstable branch, lets take advantage of it and make it unstable Andrew> to start out with. The sooner we can find problems and fix them, the Andrew>

Re: why I packaged the GNU Philosophy web pages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Edward" == Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [SNIPitty] Edward> 'Why does Debain have a gimp package and a gimp-non-free package?' Edward> 'Because of the problems with GIFs.' Edward> 'What problems?' Edward> 'Install gn

Why /var/www? (Was: Where does 'www-data' come from?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why is the www data under /var/www, while ftpd's stuff is under /home/ftp? Ain't ftp probably more `var'iable than www data (incoming!)? I personally thing either the ftp hierarchy should go to /var/ftp, or the www data should move to /home/www (the

Debian 3.0 and release goals

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In the release naming thread (I don't know whether it died down already), there was a mention of 3.0 (right after 2.2, for one). Now... I know `we'[1] don't want to set hard release goals anymore. And I agree with that. Someone (can't remember who) a while back