Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:15:28PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On ti, 2007-05-22 at 13:30 +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > > > 1. The GPLv3: the latest draft did not raise major objections from > > > -legal and despite its concerns with the strategies

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:34:39AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > To reduce the security risk an unused open account has, and also to get > the number of Developers to reflect the reality, we, the Debian Account > Managers, decided to do regular "WaT"[2] runs. > > Selection of the people included i

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-05-23 Thread paddy
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:26:38PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:10:06PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > [...] > > Those are good reasons. Those are different reasons than "static > > libraries are faster", which was the previous argument for keeping them. > > No, tha

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070523 11:00]: > Could someone make a page with GPLv2-only software, I'd be curious what > would be affected. Maybe the easiest way would be to dump and format a > page on the Wiki so that it could be commented upon? Given the current drafts for the GPLv3, I think

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-23 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Wed, May 23, 2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > >Because software under the GPLv3 is incompatible with GPLv2-only > > software, while "GPLv2 or above" software is compatible with both. > Could someone make a page with GPLv2-only software, I'd be curious what > would be affected. Maybe the easiest way

Re: Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-23 Thread Josh Triplett
Sam Hocevar wrote: >I have started working on such a page, based on /usr/share/doc > copyright files rather than source code. There is simply too much > software for now to do anything else than semi-automatic skimming: > > http://people.zoy.org/~sam/gpl/ This helps greatly. A quick ski

Troubles on Sparc

2007-05-23 Thread Camilo Nova
Hello, thanks for your support, i have debian etch installed on a SunFire T2000 sparc64, and i want to configure sun-java for my machine but i cannot get a package for sparc The uname -a throws: Linux axiacore 2.6.18-4-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Tue May 1 22:54:26 UTC 2007 sparc64 GNU/Linux Can you help

Re: Troubles on Sparc

2007-05-23 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Camilo Nova wrote: > Hello, thanks for your support, i have debian etch installed on a SunFire > T2000 sparc64, and i want to configure sun-java for my machine but i cannot > get a package for sparc > Can you help me?, its very important > no, because Sun does not provide Java for Linux on Sparc

Bug#425756: ITP: memchan -- Tcl extension, which implements in-memory channels

2007-05-23 Thread Sergei Golovan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sergei Golovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: memchan Version : 2.2.1 Upstream Author : Andreas Kupries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://memchan.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD-type Programming Lang: (Tcl, C)

Re: Intention to drop sparc32 support for Lenny

2007-05-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is, and that has been mentioned before, that *there is no > upstream maintainer* for sparc32. Unless some people step up and ensure > that upstream issues _are_ fixed in a timely manner, sparc32 is > effectively dead. "Upstream" should r

Bug#425761: ITP: decoratortools -- version-agnostic decorators support for Python

2007-05-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: decoratortools Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Phillip J. Eby * URL : http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/DecoratorTools * License : ZPL or PSF Programming Lang: P

Bug#425759: ITP: tcltrf -- Tcl data transformations library (Tcl-Trf)

2007-05-23 Thread Sergei Golovan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sergei Golovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tcltrf Version : 2.1p2-20060125 Upstream Author : Andreas Kupries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://tcltrf.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD-type Programming Lang: (Tcl

Lakhraj.Prajapati Prajapati added you as a friend on WAYN...

2007-05-23 Thread Lakhraj.Prajapati Prajapati
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Re: Bug#425761: ITP: decoratortools -- version-agnostic decorators support for Python

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/07 14:42, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: decoratortools > Version : 1.4 > Upstream Author : Phillip J. Eby > * URL

Re: discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:27:22PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > > >Because software under the GPLv3 is incompatible with GPLv2-only > > > software, while "GPLv2 or above" software is compatible with both. > > Could someone make a page with GPLv2-only sof