Re: Question in respect to GNU/Lnux affiliation

2010-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
it and links to it. * Debian does not follow the level of discipline that the FSF wants to follow about never linking to non-free software or non-free software companies. The project promotes such software in some ways by the criteria used by the FSF. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: Invite to join the Release Team

2010-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
been the case in Debian, which makes people twitchy (understandably), but I think it's still far more often then case than not. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: What to do about negligent maintainers?

2010-01-07 Thread Russ Allbery
if it goes for too much longer with no one else stepping forward.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Closed lists as maintainers

2009-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
is extremely low. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DEP5: “ugliness” and Format field.

2009-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
by, for instance, the W3C, the larger XML/SGML community, OASIS, and freedesktop.org. I think this is a good tradition to follow. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: DEP-5: prior art for license short names

2009-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
these all out). I think this is an excellent idea, particularly if we can find a way to coordinate with Fedora for new licenses and use the same keywords in both distribution. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project

Re: squeeze release cycle?

2009-11-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: Luk proposed a new freeze date of march 2010: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg2.html Ah, this message came in while I was on vacation and I somehow missed it. Thank you. This answers my questions. -- Russ Allbery (r

squeeze release cycle?

2009-11-09 Thread Russ Allbery
, and if not, when it's going to be made so that I can plan both for the systems I administer and for my packages. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Info request about Debian

2009-10-09 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian money

2009-09-14 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: We can't do that with moneys collected in the United States under the aegis of Software in the Public Interest. It would jeopardize the non-profit status of SPI. Non-profit charities are not permitted to make

Re: Debian money

2009-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Interest. It would jeopardize the non-profit status of SPI. Non-profit charities are not permitted to make investments in for-profit businesses. I can't comment on the rules in other jurisdictions. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian money

2009-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
as a whole. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Sourceless but useless: how about ignoring some irrelevant files instead of repackaging?

2009-09-13 Thread Russ Allbery
a working get-orig-source target that does everything required, it's a bit pointless to also put the details in README.source, but I can see that going both ways. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ

Re: Sourceless but useless: how about ignoring some irrelevant files instead of repackaging?

2009-09-12 Thread Russ Allbery
. Having the RFCs be freely modifiable would, of course, help a lot of people, but us repackaging upstream tarballs to remove them has nothing to do with achieving that goal. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ

Re: Debian money

2009-09-10 Thread Russ Allbery
to the project, and on targeted developer meetings than on things like marketing or direct development. I think those are places where we know how to spend money effectively, whereas the latter are not. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Sourceless but useless: how about ignoring some irrelevant files instead of repackaging?

2009-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
was removed from the upstream source tarball and why, since it's where we describe the provenance of the upstream source. But that should be short. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de writes: Russ Allbery wrote: Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de writes: - it was never properly discussed and accepted before. If we switch to a dependency based boot system, why to this mess from SuSE called insserv? There was a *ton* of discussion of insserv across

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
. Er, it certainly has been for the packages that I've been involved in maintaining. For one of them (openldap) there is no useful choice that makes everyone happy because the necessary dependencies can't be reduced to a simple numerical ordering without way too much cascading change. -- Russ

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Russ Allbery
that update-rc.d doesn't support directly that are a problem, like moving start numbers. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-17 Thread Russ Allbery
is what drives much of the repetitive discussion in those large threads. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-08 Thread Russ Allbery
... This can be a major problem for some packages, but I have to say, I think that's way overstated for most things. For example, I've never had much trouble extracting relevant fixes from Ubuntu patches for my packages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
it). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pkyDUX5uM -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
are automated dumps of translated install logs with translated error messages, which drastically limits the number of people who can figure out what's going on. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Philipp Kern tr...@philkern.de writes: On 2009-08-06, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: The apparently partly-automated bug reports from what appears to be your live CD system are particularly bad. Many of them are automated dumps of translated install logs with translated error messages

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Russ Allbery
, or should attempt to solve. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Russ Allbery
quite a few things by reading papers on The Register. Disturbing, indeed. I suspect, in both cases, that has something to do with who is actively seeking him out. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
. It's not uncommon for projects to make new membership public but keep retirements private for similar reasons. Of course, if someone doesn't mind or would like the public acknowledgement, I'd be all in favor of it. But I'm not sure if it's worth the effort to gather that information. -- Russ

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: That I can definitely agree is a concern, and it would be very nice to figure out a way to find project consensus on what should and shouldn't go into the debian/copyright file. Or, more importantly

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Russ Allbery
disagreement). I do agree with you that having that written down somewhere would be good, though. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
. That never seemed like a difficult wait to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Banck mba...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:56:53AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: sometimes, I look at a issue and think that the correct solution here is a package split, but I often end up working around it in other ways, just

Re: Debian Membership

2009-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
doing reasonably well with the basic assumption that the people who are voting on project direction are the same people who are putting their own hard work into making that direction happen. I think we should maintain that assumption. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: Debian Membership

2009-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
people additional capabilities along the way but keep the time to final DD status at around six months to a year. I'm not sure there's that much gained in making membership much faster than that. I say this as someone who spent seven months in NM. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: Debian Membership

2009-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthew Johnson mj...@debian.org writes: On Sat Mar 14 12:46, Russ Allbery wrote: We can certainly expand the definition of technical work that qualifies for political voting membership and not focus it solely on packaging, but I think we're doing reasonably well with the basic assumption

Re: What is going wrong with NEW?

2009-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
. A bunch of my SONAME changes have cleared NEW in fairly short order (a few days), so it's being processed with some level of prioritization. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#512717: project: Should have alternatives for graphical su and sudo (x-su, x-sudo?)

2009-01-22 Thread Russ Allbery
to do it. Some people don't like having to install menu in order to get this utility. For more information, see http://bugs.debian.org/492493 -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2009-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
or just continuing to disagree with them and not interested in discussing them with you more than they already have. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2009-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop writes: So this means ignoring any concerns and pressing on regardless? Disagreeing with you is not the same thing as ignoring concerns. Making that accusation is a cheap debate tactic

Re: I give up (for the time being)

2009-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: A Software Populist Who Doesn't Do Windows

2009-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
distribution they're working on. It's badly-written, badly-researched crap. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com writes: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 09:25:37AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I don't feel the urge to constantly repeat it, but since I'm sending the mail anyway: the release team made a delegate decision. That decision was not overridden. Hence, the release

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Russ Allbery
to override the delegate decision, and it has to pass. Neither of those things have happened. Until they do, this is all pointless noise. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Ean Schuessler e...@brainfood.com writes: - Russ Allbery wrote: If he wants to stop the release, he needs to propose a GR to override the delegate decision, and it has to pass. Neither of those things have happened. Until they do, this is all pointless noise. Some people cannot just

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2008-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
already stated (and which I won't reiterate again). The formal proposal is essentially the first second towards putting it on the ballot. If you don't actually agree with the proposal, I don't think you should be doing either. I suspect we'll have to agree to disagree on this. -- Russ Allbery (r

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2008-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
). floor() in this case. Well, my idea was just to drop everything behind the .. So floor(), int(), whatever it is in your favorite language. :) It's not so much the function as it is the order of operations. It sounds like you meant 2 * floor(Q) instead of floor(2Q). :) -- Russ Allbery (r

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2008-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
huge that an option that would win in the larger vote doesn't have enough advocates reading debian-vote to get sufficient seconds. This seems unlikely to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2008-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
a lot of steam out of the discussion and reduces the chances of a general consensus compromise. Which is one of the reasons why I think Jeorg's proposal is a good one (to bring this back to the original thread topic). I agree that the threshold feels too low currently. -- Russ Allbery (r

Re: Spamming the World through Open Debian Mailinglists (Re: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you)

2008-12-27 Thread Russ Allbery
can't speak for CS, however; I'm not sure what they do. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
the full traffic to see only the most interesting bits. Sort of another digest sitting between the full list traffic and developer news. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFC: General resolution: Clarify the status of the social contract

2008-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFC: General resolution: Clarify the status of the social contract

2008-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
machinery already built into the constitution) * Some new body (probably a really bad idea, but included for completeness) Otherwise, even if we say the social contract is binding, it doesn't resolve the current problem or future problems like it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: Linux System Engineer (100%) in Zurich

2008-11-29 Thread Russ Allbery
believe there is. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux System Engineer (100%) in Zurich

2008-11-28 Thread Russ Allbery
the basic requirement there. It's doubly illegal around here -- age discrimination is a violation of California's Fair Employment and Housing Act as well as the federal statute. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Linux System Engineer (100%) in Zurich

2008-11-26 Thread Russ Allbery
questions. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FSF not considering Debian as Free (Re: Debian and non-free)

2008-09-19 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It most certainly is not. I can attest to that personally, having been involved in and followed multiple FSF projects for many years. It is an expectation for all GNU projects. Expectation and advice, but not a rule

Re: FSF not considering Debian as Free (Re: Debian and non-free)

2008-09-18 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] My understanding of RMS's position is that he would like Debian to follow something like the rule that the FSF has about not linking to any non-free software from their sites, [...] That rule is a myth. It most

Re: FSF not considering Debian as Free (Re: Debian and non-free)

2008-09-16 Thread Russ Allbery
and generally aren't worth paying much attention to. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iceweasel: Kerberos authentication does not work

2008-09-01 Thread Russ Allbery
-uris, IIRC). You generally do not want to set delegation-uris unless you have a specific need, and you *never* want to set it to a wildcard like https://. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
-uris. I do think they both have to be set to do Negotiate-Auth with delegation. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
of OpenAFS should continue to work fine. This mostly is a problem if one runs a backported kernel, in which case you'll need a backported OpenAFS as well. I'd certainly be happy to answer questions and help with AFS setup as I have time. I'd love to have a Debian OpenAFS cell. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
for pop-up menus and the like for sites that are attempting Negotiate-Auth, rather than just disabling it by default -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: About the use of epicene they in technical documents.

2008-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
to spread around the burden of explaining that, yes, it really is proper English. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

2008-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
the butchering. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

2008-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
/01/msg00360.html This thread seems to establish that you're in a small minority with this opinion. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

2008-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a single person with indeterminate gender, which is exactly the use case for the epicene they. I believe you're simply wrong here. This supposedly stilted and contrived construct routinely goes unremarked and unnoticed by native English speakers

Re: Deprecating (and deactivation) of an archive feature?!

2008-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
packages in main, though.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deprecating (and deactivation) of an archive feature?!

2008-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
packages, - defective by missing dependancies for contrib packages. I think it would be very surprising to have installation of a package from the main distribution area result in downloading non-free software from elsewhere, which is a common case for contrib packages. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: confusion about non-free (Re: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008)

2008-08-04 Thread Russ Allbery
://bugs.debian.org/473439, which tries to help clarify terminology in this area. If you have a chance and care, please review that bug and second or discuss the proposed change in that bug. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: confusion about non-free (Re: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008)

2008-08-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Giacomo Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: I recommend not attributing such judgements to the configuration files of software packages. Sorry??? It is more that a configuration file, and BTW the same notation it is also used by apt. Archive and its format are an area

Re: debian/copyright for files not part of the binary packages?

2008-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
the topic a lot of thought before deciding they should. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian/copyright for files not part of the binary packages?

2008-07-20 Thread Russ Allbery
copyrights. But not always, depending on what the upstream license says. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DEP licenses

2008-06-02 Thread Russ Allbery
not be there since it usually can't be referenced correctly by packages (it lists a specific copyright holder). But it's not clear to me whether it's worth the effort to withdraw it or change it at this point. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: NMU versioning

2008-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
. :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Lover from Thailand

2008-03-27 Thread Russ Allbery
possible to overstate the effect of minor differences and work that's not yet happened and miss the big picture. Debian and the FSF, apart from the documentation freeness issue, agree in 99% of the cases. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian Lover from Thailand

2008-03-27 Thread Russ Allbery
that. But more to the point, if you don't want to get non-free packages, you can just remove non-free from sources.list and then never see them. sorry about my english is the worse :S I found it quite easy to understand. :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: State of the project - input needed

2008-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
a difficult problem in that it's a balance between tools that make DDs more productive and the ease of treating Debian packages in a uniform manner. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ideas regarding a conflict management strategy

2008-01-16 Thread Russ Allbery
to teach it, except possibly indirectly and in the same way that any interactions with other people can teach empathy if people are open to learning it. Empathy isn't something that's taught so much as it's something that one individually decides to learn. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ideas regarding a conflict management strategy

2008-01-15 Thread Russ Allbery
, and in the absence of specific actionable things that groups or people in Debian could do, there isn't a lot of Debian content. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
(as literal strings, not as escapes or hex encodings of characters). Here's what I saw (let's see how Gnus rencodes it): GÜx89RÜx94ME -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: linhdd concerns

2007-11-28 Thread Russ Allbery
and info tags to the lintian.d.o pages for some time and just haven't had the time to work on the scripts. Patches are definitely welcome. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: NM process, AMs, advocates, mentors and applicants

2007-11-20 Thread Russ Allbery
the NM process. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NM process, AMs, advocates, mentors and applicants

2007-11-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish that AMs could spend even *more* time per applicant than is currently spent following the standard templates. Marc was my AM and did a TS evaluation based on solving real problems in Debian While that sounds

Re: do all of MJRs subjects sound like they were ripped from the Daily Mail?

2007-11-05 Thread Russ Allbery
is supposed to work. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hiding email addresses from spammers on https://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php

2007-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
here, but I'm completely serious about this topic. People aren't opposing address munging or hiding just because they don't really care or are lazy. We're getting off-topic for -newmaint though. Please take it to -project if you reply to my mail. :) Done. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Deficiencies in Debian

2007-07-13 Thread Russ Allbery
gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 18 May 2007 22:09:56 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: And one of the best things about the Linux model is that Linus regularly talks about how he wants things done and what leads him to take stuff or not take stuff in public on the lists, which

Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcetvoting

2007-06-13 Thread Russ Allbery
of an issue with range voting), I find this conclusion highly dubious. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Jury

2007-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
/Jury_nullification for more details than you may want to know. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deficiencies in Debian

2007-05-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 10 May 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: In a workplace environment, this sort of thing is often addressed by putting mentoring and staff development on the performance goals of senior staff and freeing up time that they're supposed to dedicate

Re: Deficiencies in Debian

2007-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [cc and reply-to/m-f-t [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 10 May 2007 12:32:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: There are other things that *are* signs of fundamental deficiencies in the project, Would you mind to elaborate on this point, I'm really interested

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-15 Thread Russ Allbery
is really a useful way to spend time. Access to Debian systems is unfortunately somewhat less useful than it ideally could be, for a variety of reasons. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: When a discussion goes bad...

2007-03-15 Thread Russ Allbery
work, you have to convince me. Some examples of things that would convince me are A, B, or C. I also want to make sure that other things that I think are important aren't broken by the fix for this issue. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Please appoint one new person to the DSA Team

2006-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
such changes should be only done after discussion with the DSA team), but this is a serious problem and it needs to be fixed, and it needed to be fixed *before* frustration resulted in this unfortunate escalation of tensions between people who are all trying to do the right thing for the project. -- Russ

Re: Please appoint one new person to the DSA Team

2006-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
to break roadblocks by force of will. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Weekly News - November 28th, 2006

2006-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:36:23PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I suppose it's possible this is how they were reading the Dunc-Bank QA effort to find RC bugs, but if so, I think they were misreading the spirit of that effort I think that the first two

Re: Debian Etch Stable.

2006-12-07 Thread Russ Allbery
João Henrique Furtado [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, would like to know which day of December will be launched and version of the Debian Etch Stable. So would we. :) The only answer we can give you is when it's ready, which may or may not be in December. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian Weekly News - November 28th, 2006

2006-12-01 Thread Russ Allbery
for one would really appreciate that right now. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sun T2000 available for SPARC development

2006-11-26 Thread Russ Allbery
may just be a matter of changing the harness scripts to just do it (and do it on a fast enough machine that it will finish in a reasonable amount of time); I'm not sure that we need to run lintian natively on each architecture. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: Use of tokens for access to Debian resources?

2006-11-11 Thread Russ Allbery
. There are also smartcard based tokens (like GnuPG cards) which don't require retyping of codes. Don't they then require specific hardware when used (a card reader or at least a USB port)? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc experiment

2006-10-28 Thread Russ Allbery
that some people will think is way too low and some people will think is way too high. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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