were elected to a 3-year term on the SPI Board.
Yesterday, the new Board met for the first time and selected[2] the
officers for SPI. They are: President, John Goerzen; Vice President,
Benjamin Mako Hill; Treasurer, Jimmy Kaplowitz; and Secretary, David Graham.
Annual Report
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The SPI
Jimmy Kaplowitz. The treasurer's recently switched banks to
First Internet Bank, which streamlines many tasks by letting them be
performed online.
Last month, a real treasurer report was produced for the first time in
SPI's history. This is a step towards better bookkeeping.
Thanks,
John Goerzen
Hello everyone,
SPI had a board meeting yesterday, and here's an update about what's
been going on. Due to the schedule change we adopted at the previous
meeting, this is actually the second meeting this month. We'll be
back to one per month in April.
NEXT MEETING
Due to a
scheduled at its usual
date, May 17.
Like all SPI meetings, the public will be welcome at this meeting.
The regular board member attendance policy does apply to this meeting.
-- John Goerzen
President, Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
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Sorry for the late announcement...
SPI's 2005 Annual Meeting will be held Friday, July 1, at 19:00 UTC on
irc.oftc.net #spi. The public is welcome.
Items on the agenda include:
* Present and discuss the 2005 SPI Annual Report
* Select officers for the coming year
* Any other questions
if you have an item for the
agenda.
The public is welcome at all SPI meetings.
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(Debian is a SPI member project)
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Hi,
I noticed with surprise tonight that my clock was an hour off.
Investigating the matter revealed that /etc/timezone said
US/Central. running /usr/sbin/tzconfig and setting it to
SystemV/CST6CDT fixed the problem.
However, the install program, and tzconfig, both have a problem. They
do
, provides, and conflicts the previous
gcc-m68k-palmos-coff and current binutils-m68k-palmos-coff packages.
Again, is this correct?
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. Otherwise, use these.
Something needs to be done on the bootdisks, too.
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in
the ...? (Or is there a literal ... in the license?)
Nothing of consequence. The README file (from which that came) says
at the top PilRC is freeware, and then down below, it has those
other two lines. It says nothing else about any license issues.
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I'd say something like: If your time changes for daylight savings
time, use these options. Otherwise, use these.
Something needs to be done on the bootdisks, too.
OK. So, which
... in the license?)
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Ahh cool, I'm CosmicRay on LinPeople.
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patches for; others won't work. So there isn't really any good way to
share code with the native gcc packages -- the native ones usually
stay a few versions ahead.
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it to link with the system's
shared libpisock library instead of it's own, but I will leave that go
at the moment I think.
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Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 03:13:27PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
Therefore, I believe that I will just dump the tar.gz's of binutils,
gcc, and gdb into the toplevel of the package's tar file (or maybe the
debian/ directory, I dunno), and then all I
these things can
get out of otherosfs, which doesn't really apply very well.
John
Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Goerzen wrote:
pilot-manager -- Perl/TK hotsync tool (waiting for me to download and
try it out)
pilot-manager is already packaged. In fact I've been
asked its maintainer but haven't heard back
yet. My reccommendation would be to remove
binutils-m68k-palmos-coff. In any case, the gcc and gdb
m68k-palmos-coff packages can be removed from the wnpp list since
working versions now exist.
John
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John kpilot -- KDE hotsync tool
Hm.. kpilot seems to have been statically linked with libpisock.
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pilot-manager -- Perl/TK hotsync tool (waiting for me to download and
try it out)
pilot-manager is already packaged. In fact I've been using it for weeks
already.
I went back and ran a find in the main FTP
not consider this to be a bug in debstd.
You are welcome to reassign it to the appropriate package (binutils?)
then, but it is not fixed and should not be closed.
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then. Closing it is not
appropriate since the problem has not been dealt with. Also, file
corruption is not a documentation issue only.
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dpkg remains the primary bottleneck in the setup, and apt calls dpkg
anyway, so the different is not really significant, and apt-get update
is slow too.
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Hi,
I build packages with build -rfakeroot. I get this:
lincity_1.10-4_i386.changes 1.9 kB #, ok (1 s, 1.94 kB/s)
announcing to [EMAIL PROTECTED])... Unbalanced ')'
Goerzen)... User unknown
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John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
around compiling all the i386 stuff for the other archs. But nobody
goes around compiling the stuff from the other archs for i386! So if
I suddenly do all my package development on Alpha, the Alpha
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 08:24:37PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote:
On 1999-01-21 19:32, Ben Collins wrote:
All 4 of the Debian systems I run use 2.1.13x or 2.2.0-prex without any
changes to the basic setup. 3 of these are slink, one is potato. So i
say yes, it is stable with Debian.
Most
shed light on this? It is a very serious problem.
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On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 02:15:07PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously John Goerzen wrote:
Also, whenever I shut down the client (an Alpha box), it displays:
lockd_down: no lockd running
What kind of NFS server are you using? Linux? User or kernel nfsd?
I believe (I thought I
Also, would somebody please document this in the Packaging manual?
Otherwise, it won't be terribly useful as anybody that didn't see the
message won't know about it.
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 12:19:33PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:10:11AM -0800, Guy Maor wrote:
Why should it be non-free if it's GPL?
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 09:51:35PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
Hi,
I saw the new alpha version, that has acceptable licence (GPL).
Although it's alpha, I'd like to see it packaged. If you aren't
interested, I'll do it.
For the -devel readers: section
, 1999 at 04:02:13PM -0500, Shaleh wrote:
On 01-Feb-99 John Goerzen wrote:
Why should it be non-free if it's GPL?
the mp3 patent
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 10:14:38PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
I don't see why we ought to let some lawyers trying to make a good bluff
scare us.
Fraunhofer institute holds the patent, we shouldn't take any chances.
The fact that they hold *a* patent does not put Debian in any sort of
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 10:47:25PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
The fact that they hold *a* patent does not put Debian in any sort of
jeopardy. If anything, it would be the authors; Debian is complying with
GPL completely.
Well, yes, but we still have to abide by the patent laws, don't we?
OK, I've written on both of these topics before, and nothing has happened
for months, so I'm writing here.
First, Debian's list archives will most likely die a horrible death on
January 1, 2000. That's right, folks; lists-archives is not year-2000
compliant. Not only will dates in indexes
with
gettext() from the beginning?
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Hi,
prc-tools is a gcc, gdb, and binutils cross-development package that
generates and works with binaries for use on the Palm
Pilot/PalmIII/IIIX/V line of products. I tried giving it away last
December, but apparently the person that took it didn't have time to
upload it, so I'm trying again.
By all means go right ahead and upload :-)
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John I tried giving it away last December, but apparently the
John person that took it didn't have time to upload it, so I'm
John trying
of use to the
developer, and adds nothing but bulk to the already functional system.
The person already asked for a fix, and generally deserves a timely
fix. Why not close the bugs instead of complaining about those that
remind you to?
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Someone wishing to have a reminder of bug status may choose to subscribe
to a report.
Closing bugs just because you can't fix them is wrong.
I *NEVER* said that one ought to do that, and AFAIK, nobody else did
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* There was a lot of interest in our non-i386 distros, especially
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Well put, Dale. I think you have done the correct thing here. If the
vi emulation is not sufficiently complete to work as expected of vi,
and esp. if it's really bad, remove it.
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Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 21 May 1999, John Goerzen wrote:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No one needs to take on that job, as the BTS already reports all open bugs
twice a week to every developer.
I don't get such a report.
Probably because you
This package has been a major source of serious security bugs and
indicatiosn are that it will remain as such. Our Policy states that
packages that are not sufficiently free of bugs to meet our standards
should not be in main and should be moved to contrib. I therefore
encourage that people
that should be asked
for.
No, this is silly. When you install a package, it is for use. If you
don't intend to use it, why install it?
Incidentally, can we do something about the insane CC line please?
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Severity: wishlist
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* Package name: hdbc
Version : 0.99.0
Upstream Author : John Goerzen
* URL : darcs get --partial http://darcs.complete.org/hdbc
* License : LGPL
Description : Haskell Database
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:32:43AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
Anyway, that's the general idea; hopefully it'll become clearer
later. Given release architectures have de-facto requalified, candidates
for archive (re)qualification are ttbomk:
* arm, m68k, s390, sparc
* amd64,
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:22:07AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
I want to remind you all, that previous to the two GRs which clarified the
meaning of what we must consider free, we had a widely disputed GR on the fate
of our non-free section, and we all voted to keep it, especially because there
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:57:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:35:02AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
That's not correct. The project simply voted not to removed it at that
time, by defeating the GR. There was no affirmative vote to keep
non-free as far as I can
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 04:35:31PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:23:41AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
I don't see what that has to do with the simple fact of what the vote
was about and how it turned out.
So, you think that the vote in itself is the important one
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:45:21PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
#include hallo.h
* Lars Wirzenius [Wed, Feb 15 2006, 10:42:02AM]:
(Once we use .tar.bz2, the sizes will be even smaller.)
I cannot remember a clear consens from the Size matters thread, and
IMO we should go for 7zip at least
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:09:14PM -0800, Charles Stevenson wrote:
* Package name: libghc6-http-dev
This already exists in unstable.
See http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/haskell-http.html
Also, libghc6-http-dev is not an appropriate source package.
And finaly, I am concerned that you don't
Hi,
There is apparently a printing system out there that is designed to
replace lpr-based ones, called PDQ. I notice this is not yet in
Debian. Is anyone planning to package it? Does anyone have any
experience with it? If so, how do you like it?
Thanks,
John
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you don't correct this at once I will be forced to re-evaluate my place
within a project that is nominally devoted to free and open communication
among
its members and the rest of the world.
Your complaint against us using the DUL is valid. It
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please also note that other daemons conflict with each other well, e.g.,
inn cnews, sendmail postfix.
I am aware of that, and it's a shame, there is no real reason that
they cannot coexist.
/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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#include std_disclaimer.h
Hi,
I intend to package up the gopher suite from UMN, together with my
patches to it.
Note: they have informed me it will be GPL'd shortly.
I'll post such when the change takes place, which should occur in a
matter of a few days.
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:30:29PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
I intend to package up the gopher suite from UMN, together with my
patches to it.
Note
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Manoj The /bin vs /sbin distinction is purely about avoiding
Manoj inconvenience and/or confusion for the normal user. The sole
Actually, this is incorrect. On platforms predating FHS/FSSTND, /sbin
was for statically-linked binaries -- versions
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of it, with the notable and important exception of
fsck, fdisk, and, on i386 platforms, lilo.
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That still begs the question of the autobuild stuff - does it ignore
the Build-Depends? If so, why...
This is really weird. It's not supposed to! Somehow it didn't see
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#include
At the time, it would build only on i386. I don't know if this is
still the case or not -- the whole thing is convoluted, I think it
forked into three or four separate branches by now.
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Yes, and while you're
package installation output can be easily changed.
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If you want, I can file it that way but I just sent it to you as you
asked. In general, I have been filing them that way.
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Incidentally, I have debconfized the following:
base-passwd
I'm quite sure I
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It is unstable. Get over it.
*PLONK*
This package was originally yanked from Debian because its maintainer
was so inattentive that he didn't apply a known patch to fix a serious
data-loss bug. I care enough to maintain it to bring it back, and
intend to do so.
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, sorry. Well it is not a hurry and I can wait.
FYI, I don't plan to package up 1.5.x until upstream brands it stable.
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#include std_disclaimer.h
Gnopher is a new Gnome-based Gopher client that browses Gopherspace
using the filesystem tree paradigm, treating gopher as it was
originally intended to be treated -- as a network-spanning virtual
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Greetings,
I intend to package forg, a gopher client written in Python with
tkinter and GTK. It uses a traditional document metaphor as opposed
to the filesystem model in gopher.
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OK, I'm rather annoyed. Recently I'm doing squash bugs on my packages
and I have had already THREE that have been broken by NMUs that
occured over the past week.
Not one of the NMUers mailed me before doing that.
Only 1 actually filed a bug with a diff.
Let's review, kids:
I should add: I appreciate the efforts of the QA team and those
associated with it. I understand that mistakes happen and everyone is
human. I do not gripe about NMUs. I gripe about NMUs done wrongly.
Thanks.
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Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I shouldn't have to add my name to the list of maintainers whose
packages should never be NMUd.
IS there such a list? I don't think there should be.
Yes:
http://bugs.debian.net/
The NMU was buggy, but with all due respect it appears that the
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:10:09AM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote:
Hey everyone,
Can anyone else shed light on fate of Jared Solomon Johnson:
International DD of Mystery?
I know both the owner of futureks.net and (a bit) Jared. I'll do some
digging and let you know.
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On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:21:09PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
Description : A tracking tool for arranging video samples
VeeJay is a video tracking tool for Linux similar in concept to
FastTracker (DOS) and ProTracker (Amiga).
Your description looks good to me, except I would
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I have decided that since my mailing lists are not currently hosted on
Debian, I don't have the time/resources/testing platform that I used to for
maintaining Ecartis, and I would like some qualified person to take over
maintenance of this package.
Thanks,
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:46:12PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote:
take over maintenance of this package.
is development still active upstream? i used to use listar heavily, but
stopped because i thought it was not being very well maintained by
upstream.
Yes. There is not a lot of activity
Go ahead, it's yours. Please upload a version with a new Maintainer: line
that closes WNPP O bug 171621.
Thanks,
John Goerzen
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:01:22AM +0100, Martin Loschwitz wrote:
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:46:01PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
Hello,
I have decided that since
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Building CD Images without Contrib. Tollef Fog Heen [14]wrote a patch
against the debian-cd package to allow building a CD image without
including the contrib archive. Raphaël Hertzog [15]agreed that this
was a good idea, as long as inclusion of contrib remained
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:11:41PM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
Hmmm. Until all of glibc, the kernel and gcc deprecate and discard support
for 386 and 486, I'd love if I could keep my home edgge router running the
way it is thank you very much (and I'm happy with the great job the Security
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:57:03PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
M, that's the basis of freelosophy. Don't use proprietary formats and
don't
use proprietary software. The risk of being unable to use your own
documents is concrete. Who owns your docs? Corel does. Microsoft does.
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