music in debian

2005-10-03 Thread Escape Velocity
Hello, my name is Michael Chagnon. I am in an independent music group called "Escape Velocity". Our web site is located at: www.escapevelocity.com. I was interested in having one song of ours, from our new album, distributed with the Debian package. So that when users install Debian, they have a pi

Re: Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB

2005-10-03 Thread Matt Taggart
Steve Langasek writes... > That's a fine goal, but I believe it's out of scope for the LSB, and I don't > want to see the ability of distros to conform to the LSB compromised by some > poorly designed attempt to enforce common init script names. As I pointed out in another mail, the LSB can't ma

Re: Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB

2005-10-03 Thread Matt Taggart
Petter Reinholdtsen writes... > > [Steve Langasek] > > Debian packages shouldn't have to compete with the LSB for its own > > namespace. As pointed out in another mail, they don't. Trying to quash this wrong idea before it spreads... > Well, assuming that it is a good thing to have cross-dist

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-10-03 Thread Matt Taggart
Steve Langasek writes... > Right, so if this is "generally understood", why does the text of the LSB > standard read the exact opposite, telling implementors that they should > register all of their init script names with LANANA? Where does it say that? I just scanned that chapter and I can't fi

Re: Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB

2005-10-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ma, 2005-10-03 kello 13:55 +0100, Philip Hands kirjoitti: > I think both latitudes can be largely satisfied if LANANA can be persuaded > (if they do not already do so) to solicit approval from distributors before > issuing new approvals. It's so much easier to do this: 1) LANANA only appr

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2005-10-03 Thread francescolauro2004
Ciao... Sono un ragazzo di 23 anni che da poco sta iniziando a intraprendere lo studio di Linux. Sto iniziando la raccolta di "Facilissimo Linux" e iniziando a leggere e sfogliando qualche pagina internet sono capitato sul vostro sito! Sinceramente mi ha colpito tantissimo, e forse รจ la spinta gi

Re: Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB

2005-10-03 Thread Philip Hands
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Steve Langasek] > >>The goal of the LSB is to provide a standard that ISVs can write to >>-- *not* to make life easier for admins moving from distro to >>distro. > > > Hm, that is sad. Because some of us with a large number of machines, > do need to handle cross-di

Re: Resignation as Debian Release Manager

2005-10-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Branden Robinson: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:10:00AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> I hereby tender my resignation as Debian Release Manager. > > Thanks for your outstanding service, Colin. Reinventing the team > mid-release was not easy, but you and Steve didn't flinch from it and did a > gre

Re: Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB

2005-10-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Steve Langasek] > The goal of the LSB is to provide a standard that ISVs can write to > -- *not* to make life easier for admins moving from distro to > distro. Hm, that is sad. Because some of us with a large number of machines, do need to handle cross-distribution consistency. Not to move fro

Re: Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB

2005-10-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:40:30AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Steve Langasek] > > Debian packages shouldn't have to compete with the LSB for its own > > namespace. > Well, assuming that it is a good thing to have cross-distribution > consistency, because this make users more comfortable

Naming of init.d scripts and the LSB (Was: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA)

2005-10-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Steve Langasek] > Debian packages shouldn't have to compete with the LSB for its own > namespace. Well, assuming that it is a good thing to have cross-distribution consistency, because this make users more comfortable with moving to Linux from their current platform, I believe it would be a good

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-10-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:31:05AM -0700, Matt Taggart wrote: > > Did you happen to see the comments about getting a sane option for init > > script handling into the LSB, so that we don't get stuck having to argue > > with LANANA at some later date?: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005