Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:37:01PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:24:11 -0600, Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > The line is not as easy to draw as you might think. > > On the contrary, the line is not so arcane. Computer related stuff is > either a) software, b

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:05:45 +0100, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Nov 18, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Since the "editorial changes" (LOL) general resolution, for >> > Debian everything is software. Welcome to the wonderful world the >> > DFSG-revisionist have ma

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:24:11 -0600, Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:10:13AM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: >> If it is a program, it is software. > And so my Python code that includes docstrings is what? Software. > What are PostScript files?

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 12:10:13AM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > If it is a program, it is software. And so my Python code that includes docstrings is what? What are PostScript files? The line is not as easy to draw as you might think. -- gram

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:42:57AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > I'd say that it's not obvious at all how removing crucial documentation > >> > because some people do not like its

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Brian M. Carlson
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian M. Carlson) writes: > >> 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; > > These are currently not bugs (but will be as soon as sarge is released > and the Social Contract upgrade goes into effect);

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Brian M. Carlson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I'd say that it's not obvious at all how removing crucial documentation >> > because some people do not like its license will help the distribution >> > and/or the cause of free software. >>

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I object. Until there is "universal" consensus (either through a vote, > leader action, whatever) that GFDL material must be purged from main, > these bugs are wishlist at best. Huh? Since when? Ultimately, the judge of licenses is the ftp-master and

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In case you are wondering about bugs in case 1), please note that the > > GNU Free Documentation License is non-free in all its forms, according > > to the informal survey taken by Branden Ro

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian M. Carlson) writes: > The sentence was meant to stress to certain maintainers (who shall > remain nameless) that like to ignore debian-legal or licensing > issues that I would that pursue these bugs as vigorously as any > others and that I expected them to be fixed, time a

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian M. Carlson) writes: > 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; These are currently not bugs (but will be as soon as sarge is released and the Social Contract upgrade goes into effect); and indeed, I think packages with GFDL material already h

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd say that it's not obvious at all how removing crucial documentation > > because some people do not like its license will help the distribution > > and/or the cause of free software. > I don't like a lot of licenses, specifically thos

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 18, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since the "editorial changes" (LOL) general resolution, for Debian > > everything is software. Welcome to the wonderful world the > > DFSG-revisionist have made for all of us. > You are the one revising history. When we voted on the

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:44:59 +, Brian M Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> El mié, 17-11-2004 a las 19:27 +, Brian M. Carlson escribió: >> >> [...] >>> > Without wishing to start/take part in a huge flamewar didn't >>> > we have

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:20:42 +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > El mié, 17-11-2004 a las 19:27 +, Brian M. Carlson escribió: > [...] >> > Without wishing to start/take part in a huge flamewar didn't we >> > have >> > a vote and agree to leave such documentation i

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:26:29 +0100, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Nov 17, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And documentation is not software. > Since the "editorial changes" (LOL) general resolution, for Debian > everything is software. Welcome to the wonderful

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:49:21 +, Brian M Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > This is an intent to mass-file bugs as required per custom. Bugs > will be filed: And shall be promptly closed on the packages singled out below. > gnus make message pgg > 1) on packages that include GN

Bug#281759: general: Cannot 'eject' a CDROM as normal user

2004-11-17 Thread Kenshi Muto
At Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:05:47 +0100 (CET), Leszek Koltunski wrote: > Package: general > Severity: important > as a normal user, I can mount my cdrom, but I cannot eject it: > So, the question is: why is /dev/hdc owned by 'disk' in Sarge? Does it > have to be so for some reason? If not, I'd suggest

Bug#281759: general: Cannot 'eject' a CDROM as normal user

2004-11-17 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:05:47PM +0100, Leszek Koltunski wrote: > > So, the question is: why is /dev/hdc owned by 'disk' in Sarge? Does it > have to be so for some reason? If not, I'd suggest to change that to > 'cdrom' as it seems to help with ejecting... I guess it is simply not owned by

Re: Bug#281695: ITP: pstat -- a simple parser for process status information

2004-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 17 novembre 2004 à 11:24 +0100, martin f krafft a écrit : > * URL : http://madduck.net/~madduck/scratch/pstat > I needed this tool for debugging, found ps(1) syntax too cumbersome, > and thus rolled it out. It may well be too trivial for inclusion in > Debian. Then again,

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El miÃ, 17-11-2004 a las 22:44 +, Brian M. Carlson escribiÃ: > Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > El miÃ, 17-11-2004 a las 19:27 +, Brian M. Carlson escribiÃ: > > > > [...] > >> > Without wishing to start/take part in a huge flamewar didn't we have > >> > a vote a

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Brian M. Carlson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is of course understood. But one could always upload to >> unstable, AIUI. I am trying to *improve* the quality of the >> distribution, not decrease it. The sentence was meant to stress

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El miÃ, 17-11-2004 a las 23:26 +0100, Marco d'Itri escribiÃ: > On Nov 17, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And documentation is not software. > Since the "editorial changes" (LOL) general resolution, for Debian > everything is software. Welcome to the wonderful world the

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Brian M. Carlson
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El miÃ, 17-11-2004 a las 19:27 +, Brian M. Carlson escribiÃ: > > [...] >> > Without wishing to start/take part in a huge flamewar didn't we have >> > a vote and agree to leave such documentation issues until after >> > Sarge's release?

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is of course understood. But one could always upload to > unstable, AIUI. I am trying to *improve* the quality of the > distribution, not decrease it. The sentence was meant to stress to I'd say that it's not obvious at all how rem

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Brian M. Carlson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:49:21PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: >> Bugs will be filed: >> >> 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; > > I recommend not filing bugs on documentation until after sarge. The > project agreed

Bug#281786: ITP: xplc -- Light weight component system

2004-11-17 Thread Simon Law
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2004-11-17 Severity: wishlist * Package name: xplc Version : 0.9.10 Upstream Author : Pierre Phaneuf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://xplc.sourceforge.net * License : LGPL Description : Light weight component system

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 17, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And documentation is not software. Since the "editorial changes" (LOL) general resolution, for Debian everything is software. Welcome to the wonderful world the DFSG-revisionist have made for all of us. -- ciao, | Marco | [9258 fi

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El miÃ, 17-11-2004 a las 19:27 +, Brian M. Carlson escribiÃ: [...] > > Without wishing to start/take part in a huge flamewar didn't we have > > a vote and agree to leave such documentation issues until after > > Sarge's release? > > > > Here's the result I'm thinking of: > > > > http

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 17, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I object. Until there is "universal" consensus (either through a vote, > leader action, whatever) that GFDL material must be purged from main, > these bugs are wishlist at best. > > debian-legal consensus alone is not grounds for removal. Agre

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian M. Carlson) writes: > This is an intent to mass-file bugs as required per custom. > > Bugs will be filed: > > 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; > 2) on packages in 1) that do not include the copyright or license of > the material i

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Graham Wilson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 07:31:51PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:49:21PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > Two bugs will be filed on packages that meet criteria in both 1) and > > 2). If the release managers would like, I will be happy to auto-tag > > the bugs in 1) sarg

Re: many .pc files in wrong package / mass bugfiling?

2004-11-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 16 novembre 2004 à 15:16 +, Scott James Remnant a écrit : > On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:07 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > Many packages are buggy and include the .pc file in the main package (not > > the > > -dev). > > > Did you actually check whether any of these *had* -dev packa

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 17, "Brian M. Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In case you are wondering about bugs in case 1), please note that the > GNU Free Documentation License is non-free in all its forms, according > to the informal survey taken by Branden Robinson of the debian-legal > denizens and by my unde

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:49:21PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > Bugs will be filed: > > 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; I recommend not filing bugs on documentation until after sarge. The project agreed by vote that it was not to be considered release-cr

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Brian M. Carlson
Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:49:21PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: >> This is an intent to mass-file bugs as required per custom. >> >> Bugs will be filed: >> >> 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; >> 2) on packages in 1

Re: Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:49:21PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > This is an intent to mass-file bugs as required per custom. > > Bugs will be filed: > > 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; > 2) on packages in 1) that do not include the copyright or license o

Intent to mass-file bugs: FDL/incorrect copyright files

2004-11-17 Thread Brian M. Carlson
This is an intent to mass-file bugs as required per custom. Bugs will be filed: 1) on packages that include GNU Free Documentation Licensed-material; 2) on packages in 1) that do not include the copyright or license of the material in their copyright files; 3) at serious severity (DP sec.

Bug#281759: general: Cannot 'eject' a CDROM as normal user

2004-11-17 Thread Leszek Koltunski
Package: general Severity: important Hello, as a normal user, I can mount my cdrom, but I cannot eject it: # eject /cdrom eject: unable to open `/dev/cdrom' As root, I can eject the CDROM all right. Furthermore, I just tracked the problem down: it is due to /dev/hdc's group ownership by 'disk'. Cha

Re: Bug#281670: ITP: fl-cow -- copy-on-write utility

2004-11-17 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:57:00PM -0500, Dafydd Harries wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: fl-cow > Version : 0.4 > Upstream Author : Davide Libenzi > * URL : http://xmailserver.org/flcow.html > * License : GPL > Descripti

Re: Trouble to log in into s390 developer machines

2004-11-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > at http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi the hosts raptor and trex are listed > as s390 developer machines. I wanted to build the package phylip which has > to be builded manually because it is in non-free. > > $ ssh -i ~/.ssh/my_key [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ssh_exchange_i

Re: mozilla-firefox-locale package with all language translations

2004-11-17 Thread Cesar Martinez Izquierdo
El Miércoles 17 Noviembre 2004 07:10, Christian Perrier escribió: > Quoting Cesar Martinez Izquierdo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I've just uploaded a new version (1.0-3) that generates separate binary > > packages for each language. > > This is great news. Thus you mean that in the future, as soon as

Bug#281695: ITP: pstat -- a simple parser for process status information

2004-11-17 Thread martin f krafft
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pstat Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://madduck.net/~madduck/scratch/pstat * License : Artistic Description : a simple parser for process status informatio

Re: Select which conffiles shall be raplaced an which not

2004-11-17 Thread Maciej Dems
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 13:29, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > When running apt-get dist-upgrade I'd like to be able to set a list of > packages whose confiles shall be replaced by the newer versions > supplied by the package (if any) , while other packages' confiles > should be keep the lo

Re: Accepted xmlstarlet 0.9.3-2 (i386 source)

2004-11-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 05:13:28PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > Out of curiosity, what is its advantage over libxml2-utils and xsltproc ? Okay, I found out by myself, it is built *on top* of libxml2 and xsltproc, but the package not depending on it i was wondering. And the fact is it is compiled st

Re: Accepted xmlstarlet 0.9.3-2 (i386 source)

2004-11-17 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:55:42AM -0500, Alex Mauer wrote: > xmlstarlet (0.9.3-2) unstable; urgency=low >Description: Command Line XML Toolkit >(...) > The toolkit's feature set includes options to: > Check or validate XML files (simple well-formedness check, DTD, XSD, RelaxNG) > Calculate values

Re: Select which conffiles shall be raplaced an which not

2004-11-17 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--==> Matthew Palmer writes: MP> [1 ] MP> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:29:38PM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote: >>When running apt-get dist-upgrade I'd like to be able to set a list of >>packages whose confiles shall be replaced by the newer versions >>supplied by the package (if a

Re: mozilla-firefox-locale package with all language translations

2004-11-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Cesar Martinez Izquierdo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've just uploaded a new version (1.0-3) that generates separate binary > packages for each language. This is great news. Thus you mean that in the future, as soon as a language is added upstream, we will get a new Debian binary package for