Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:31:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:10:22PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: * What do you think are the three big things Debian should achieve over the next twelve months? In no particular order: * Fish or cut bait with respect

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Peter Makholm
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Fish or cut bait with respect to non-free, and pass any constitutional amendments necessary to permit us to make that choice; this seems a bit more definite than your previous statements on this topic. Well. Do you want a project leader who

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Seth Arnold
* Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010307 01:49]: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:31:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: html2latexConvert HTML markup to LaTeX markup [...] Package: hevea [...] Description: A fast and powerful LaTeX to HTML translator [...] Nice thought but wrong

[PRE-BALLOT] Leader Election 2001

2001-03-07 Thread Acting Debian Project Secretary
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is a test ballot. If it works for you, great, but my preliminary tests indicate that there are likely to be problems. Please save a copy of your ballot so that you can re-submit it in the event of mail system problems. PRE-CALL FOR

Re: [PRE-BALLOT] Leader Election 2001

2001-03-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:34:58PM -, Acting Debian Project Secretary wrote: In the brackets next to your preferred choice, place a 1. Place a 2 in the brackets next to your next choice. Continue till you reach your last choice. You may leave choices you consider unacceptable blank. Start

Re: [PRE-BALLOT] Leader Election 2001

2001-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
I guess it is acceptable to use GPG instead of PGP as written in the ballot? Regards, Joey -- GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them. -- The GNU Manifesto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

administrivia Re: [PRE-BALLOT] Leader Election 2001

2001-03-07 Thread Raul Miller
Thanks for the corrections. On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:19:22AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: repeat. To vote "no, no matter what" do not leave an option black but rank "Further Discussion" higher than the unacceptable choices. ... [ ] Choice 5: None Of The Above ... There IS no

Re: [PRE-BALLOT] Leader Election 2001

2001-03-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: I guess it is acceptable to use GPG instead of PGP as written in the ballot? Unless Raul has altered the vote system.. The vote system uses my mail gateway wrapper script which is used by the db.debian.org mail gateways and others. It accepts any

Re: ballot bounced

2001-03-07 Thread Sam Hartman
It looks like ~maor/dinstall/debian-keyring.gpg hasn't changed since April 2000. Is the intent to prevent maintainers who are not around for at least a year from voting or is this a bug? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:41:18 + From: [EMAIL

Re: ballot bounced

2001-03-07 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:51:03PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: It looks like ~maor/dinstall/debian-keyring.gpg hasn't changed since April 2000. Is the intent to prevent maintainers who are not around for at least a year from voting or is this a bug? It's worse than that. I hope people are

Re: ballot bounced

2001-03-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Raul Miller wrote: It looks like ~maor/dinstall/debian-keyring.gpg hasn't changed since April 2000. Is the intent to prevent maintainers who are not around for at least a year from voting or is this a bug? It's worse than that. The cannonical location of the

Re: ballot bounced

2001-03-07 Thread Brian Russo
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:21:25PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Raul Miller wrote: It looks like ~maor/dinstall/debian-keyring.gpg hasn't changed since April 2000. Is the intent to prevent maintainers who are not around for at least a year from voting or is

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:46:39AM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: But when X fails to install into testing it really does hurt the release; many packages in Debian depend on X. When X, Perl (and thus debconf) , etc failed to go into testing, it did cause a significant delay. And glibc2.2, and

[BALLOT] Leader Election 2001

2001-03-07 Thread Acting Debian Project Secretary
[If you've sent in a ballot before this point, you'll have received a number of bogus acknowledgements. Ignore them. I expect that any such vote will be recorded properly, but please re-submit your vote just to be safe.] CALL FOR VOTES Votes must be received by

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:31:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:10:22PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: * What do you think are the three big things Debian should achieve over the next twelve months? In no particular order: * Fish or cut bait with respect to

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Peter Makholm
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Fish or cut bait with respect to non-free, and pass any constitutional amendments necessary to permit us to make that choice; this seems a bit more definite than your previous statements on this topic. Well. Do you want a project leader who

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:31:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: html2latexConvert HTML markup to LaTeX markup Hrm, I don't actually use this. I should probably remove it. The license is quite definitely non-free. Can someone suggest alternatives? We

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:31:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: html2latexConvert HTML markup to LaTeX markup Hrm, I don't actually use this. I should probably remove it. The license is quite definitely non-free. Can

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Seth Arnold
* Sven LUTHER [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010307 01:49]: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:31:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: html2latexConvert HTML markup to LaTeX markup [...] Package: hevea [...] Description: A fast and powerful LaTeX to HTML translator [...] Nice thought but wrong

[PRE-BALLOT] Leader Election 2001

2001-03-07 Thread Acting Debian Project Secretary
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is a test ballot. If it works for you, great, but my preliminary tests indicate that there are likely to be problems. Please save a copy of your ballot so that you can re-submit it in the event of mail system problems. PRE-CALL FOR

Re: [PRE-BALLOT] Leader Election 2001

2001-03-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:34:58PM -, Acting Debian Project Secretary wrote: In the brackets next to your preferred choice, place a 1. Place a 2 in the brackets next to your next choice. Continue till you reach your last choice. You may leave choices you consider unacceptable blank. Start

Re: [PRE-BALLOT] Leader Election 2001

2001-03-07 Thread Martin Schulze
I guess it is acceptable to use GPG instead of PGP as written in the ballot? Regards, Joey -- GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them. -- The GNU Manifesto

administrivia Re: [PRE-BALLOT] Leader Election 2001

2001-03-07 Thread Raul Miller
Thanks for the corrections. On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:19:22AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: repeat. To vote no, no matter what do not leave an option black but rank Further Discussion higher than the unacceptable choices. ... [ ] Choice 5: None Of The Above ... There IS no Further

Re: [PRE-BALLOT] Leader Election 2001

2001-03-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: I guess it is acceptable to use GPG instead of PGP as written in the ballot? Unless Raul has altered the vote system.. The vote system uses my mail gateway wrapper script which is used by the db.debian.org mail gateways and others. It accepts any mail

Re: ballot bounced

2001-03-07 Thread Sam Hartman
It looks like ~maor/dinstall/debian-keyring.gpg hasn't changed since April 2000. Is the intent to prevent maintainers who are not around for at least a year from voting or is this a bug? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:41:18 + From: [EMAIL

Re: ballot bounced

2001-03-07 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:51:03PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: It looks like ~maor/dinstall/debian-keyring.gpg hasn't changed since April 2000. Is the intent to prevent maintainers who are not around for at least a year from voting or is this a bug? It's worse than that. I hope people are

Re: ballot bounced

2001-03-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Raul Miller wrote: It looks like ~maor/dinstall/debian-keyring.gpg hasn't changed since April 2000. Is the intent to prevent maintainers who are not around for at least a year from voting or is this a bug? It's worse than that. The cannonical location of the

Re: ballot bounced

2001-03-07 Thread Brian Russo
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:21:25PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Raul Miller wrote: It looks like ~maor/dinstall/debian-keyring.gpg hasn't changed since April 2000. Is the intent to prevent maintainers who are not around for at least a year from voting or is this

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:45:58PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:31:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: * What do you think will be the three major problems Debian will face over the next year or two? * version skew between our many supported architectures

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:39:29PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:31:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: * Fish or cut bait with respect to non-free, and pass any constitutional amendments necessary to permit us to make that choice; this seems a bit more definite

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Sam TH
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:27:03AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:03:48PM -0600, Sam TH wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:31:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: mpg123MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player This has a hand-rolled license. Is

Re: Some questions for the DPL candidates

2001-03-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:24:29AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:45:58PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:31:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: * What do you think will be the three major problems Debian will face over the next