Le samedi, 12 août 2017, 10.06:40 h EDT Christian Seiler a écrit :
> win32-loader probably doesn't run on Wine or ReactOS (though I haven't
> tried it, so I may be wrong here) - should that be in contrib if that's
> the case?
win32-loader runs fine on wine, for what is worth. It's also built entir
Vincent Bernat writes:
> As a sidenote, I strongly think I should just shut up. This kind of
> discussions always lead nowhere and people just forget them. But...
Yeah, I've been feeling the same way. But one message in support of this
point, just to try to balance the expressed opinions a bit.
❦ 9 août 2017 19:57 GMT, "Dr. Bas Wijnen" :
> If the free options are limited to a point where it does not make sense to
> recommend them to our users, that means the non-free service should be
> recommended and IMO that means the program should be in contrib.
As a sidenote, I strongly think I
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 07:58:06AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2017, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > Ah, that's good then! Still, I think its description has the same
> > problem as certspotter, namely that it recommends the use of a
> > non-free service. In Debian, I would prefer to see
On Mon, 07 Aug 2017, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Ah, that's good then! Still, I think its description has the same
> problem as certspotter, namely that it recommends the use of a
> non-free service. In Debian, I would prefer to see a recommendation
> for the free alternative, while the non-free altern
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 02:25:51AM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> The description of s3cmd is outdated. It's *not* useless without AWS.
> It can be used with self-hosted S3 protocol compatible service, such
> as Ceph RGW, minio[1]. Both are free softwares, and Ceph is in our
> main archive.
Ah, tha
Quoting Paul Wise (2017-08-05 09:38:45)
> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
> > Am I alone in finding it wrong to promote commercial services in long
> > descriptions of packages n Debian main?
>
> In general, I think we should avoid doing that.
>
> In this case, the adve
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On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 09:38:45AM -0400, Paul Wise wrote:
> > No, at worst this is misuse of Debian resources for commercial gain -
> > i.e. using long description field for advertising a non-free service.
>
> I got the impression that Faidon is not
On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Am I alone in finding it wrong to promote commercial services in long
> descriptions of packages n Debian main?
In general, I think we should avoid doing that.
In this case, the advertisement is also present on the upstream github
page, v
Dear fellow Debian developers,
Am I alone in finding it wrong to promote commercial services in long
descriptions of packages n Debian main?
Quoting Faidon Liambotis (2017-08-04 13:57:10)
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 03:53:13PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Long description includes a paragra
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