Re: DFSG : Really useful?

2014-04-27 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:16:31 +0200 Solal solal.rast...@me.com wrote: I see that you don't like the DFSG. But as already has been said: We are Debian and follow our own contract and not a contact of some other project/company. I think if you have problems with the DFSG you should propose

Re: DFSG : Really useful?

2014-04-25 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:14:49 +0200 Solal solal.rast...@me.com wrote: Why not just take the Free Software Definition[0] instead lose a lot of time in specific guidelines. I think use the Free System Distribution Guidelines published by the FSF[1] is the best way. Use the FSDG instead of the

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-09 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 23:10:13 -0300 converge conve...@jplab.com.br wrote: The point is: is all this effort pointing to the future of linux desktop, or is it just some workaround to try to make users a bit happy for now ? The truth is that linux still doesn't have a competidor for windows

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-09 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:04:09 -0500 Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org wrote: Each of us will have different anecdotary evidence pushing the opinion one way or the other. We cannot please everyody with a single DE, and that's (part of) the reason there are so many. I can speak you of the users I

Re: identifying unused manually installed packages

2014-03-28 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:05:49 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Sven Bartscher wrote: Also I'm not really sure if this is even a good idea, or if there is maybe another program already present which does already identify unused, manually installed

identifying unused manually installed packages

2014-03-27 Thread Sven Bartscher
, manually installed packages and I just didn't find it. But if this approach is maybe a good idea. Would it be worth to consider packaging it? If so, I would be able to maintain it, even though I would need a sponsor. What are your thoughts on this approach to take the system clean? Regards Sven

Re: contrib and nonfree distribs

2014-02-28 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:21:13 +0100 Bálint Réczey bal...@balintreczey.hu wrote: Hi Solal, 2014-02-28 19:24 GMT+01:00 Solal Rastier solal.rast...@me.com: Le 28 févr. 2014 à 19:22, Octavio Alvarez alvar...@alvarezp.ods.org a écrit : On 02/28/2014 09:29 AM, Solal Rastier wrote: My

Bug#739538: ITP: libghc-setlocale -- Haskell bindings to setlocale()

2014-02-19 Thread Sven Bartscher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sven Bartscher sven.bartsc...@weltraumschlangen.de * Package name: libghc-setlocale Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Name l@web.de * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/setlocale * License : PublicDomain

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