Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
donot generally roost. Specifically, this package could be built with either gcc or icc. I will accept the argument from a pragmatic standpoint, in as much a bug in icc would be harder to track down, but not from a ``it is a different package'' because of using icc instead of gcc. -- John H

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
in contrib. Given the circumstance, I felt that this action is the best. We could fork this into a discussion of re-building all packages uploaded (ala source only uploads) which neatly sidesteps the entire ``intent of buildable with tools in main'' issue entirely. -- John H. Robinson, IV

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-18 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
I am not subscribed to debian-legal. Glenn Maynard wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 06:28:01PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: Note the exact words (I am assuming that Glenn copied them verbatim): the package in main must be buildable with tools in main Exact words

Re: committee for FSF-Debian discussion

2003-10-01 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Branden Robinson wrote: I don't have any problems with Don personally, but I personally would rather we had a full-fledged Debian Developer as our other delegate to this committee. i tried to volunteer[1] but i have not seen that message hit the list yet. [1] Message-ID: [EMAIL

Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

2003-08-08 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
John Goerzen wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:16:39AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: Documentation and some other kinds of data can be used without computer. Documentation can be printed and sold as books. One does not need a computer to read a printed

Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

2003-08-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Nick Phillips wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:50:13PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: % snip of definitions % Pretty good. I would have tried to phrase it slightly differently, but you have hit the nail on the head. If it's represented essentially as a sequence of 1s and 0s

Re: Inconsistencies in our approach

2003-08-02 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:38:43 -0700, John H Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: as a mostly passive observer at this point, the only data we are missing is a clear working definition to separate out Software, Data, and Documentation. My feeling