Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-09 Thread Adam Majer
Robert Millan wrote: >> And so on. "* Copyright (C) 2009 Hubert Figuiere" is simply false, > > Alright. So, I understand you mean option 1 (see my paragraph starting > with "The new file seems to be asserting..." above). > > Unless there's a clear consensus in -legal that this is not a problem,

Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 03:32 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 10, "brian m. carlson" wrote: > > > I don't know about you, but I'd much prefer to modify any sort of > > program, firmware or not, using C or assembly rather than editing the > > binary directly. I suspect that this is the case for

Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 10, "brian m. carlson" wrote: > I don't know about you, but I'd much prefer to modify any sort of > program, firmware or not, using C or assembly rather than editing the > binary directly. I suspect that this is the case for any reasonable > programmer. Thus, we do not have the preferred

Work-needing packages report for Apr 10, 2009

2009-04-09 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 413 (new: 8) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 123 (new: 3) Total number of packages request

Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread brian m. carlson
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 10:06:55PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:41:12 + "brian m. carlson" wrote: [CC'd -legal as well; you probably want to follow up there.] I don't need to be CC'd, thanks. M-F-T set accordingly. On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:46:58PM +0200, Daniel

Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 20:41:12 + "brian m. carlson" wrote: > [CC'd -legal as well; you probably want to follow up there.] > > On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:46:58PM +0200, Daniel Knabl wrote: > >Seems to me that Broadcom Inc. does really allow Debian to > >re-distribute the included firmware explic

Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread brian m. carlson
[CC'd -legal as well; you probably want to follow up there.] On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:46:58PM +0200, Daniel Knabl wrote: Seems to me that Broadcom Inc. does really allow Debian to re-distribute the included firmware explicitly. The GPLv2 requires that distributors provide source code in cert

Re: Transition of initscripts to new order / sequence number

2009-04-09 Thread Guido Günther
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 03:35:06PM +0100, Jan Wagner wrote: > Hi there, > > while thinking about how to solve #508189, where I need to change the > position > of the initscript in bootorder, I thought it would not sufficient to change > only the call of dh_installinit in the rules file. > > If

Re: Final call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2009

2009-04-09 Thread giskard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il giorno 09/apr/09, alle ore 18:24, Kurt Roeckx - Debian Project Secretary ha scritto: Hi, This is the third and final call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2009. Voting period starts 00:00:00 UTC on Sunday, March

tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread Daniel Knabl
Seems to me that Broadcom Inc. does really allow Debian to re-distribute the included firmware explicitly. regards Daniel Begin forwarded message(s): Datum: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:02:23 -0700 Von: nic_technology_supp...@broadcom.com An: dan...@tirolinux.net Betreff: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need f

Re: Depending on python-gnome2-extras (was: Splitting of the gnome-python* source packages - MBF)

2009-04-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 09 avril 2009 à 14:24 +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 03:28:30PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Apparently, developers have a strong tendency to not fix these bugs the > > correct way and instead, to make packages depend on e.g. > > python-gtkmozembed | py

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Ferenc Wagner wrote: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: Does grub use the unallocated disk space near the MBR? Yes. As far as I know, even grub2 does so, but pls. correct me. So next question: why does windoze installation write to these block (but not to MBR)? Ah, ok the "windoze" in questio

Depending on python-gnome2-extras (was: Splitting of the gnome-python* source packages - MBF)

2009-04-09 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 03:28:30PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Apparently, developers have a strong tendency to not fix these bugs the > correct way and instead, to make packages depend on e.g. > python-gtkmozembed | python-gnome2-extras > Could you expand on this point? The question has ju

Bug#523338: ITP: radare -- Free advanced command line hexadecimal editor

2009-04-09 Thread Sebastian Reichel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Reichel * Package name: radare Version : 1.2.3 Upstream Author : pancake * URL : http://radare.org * License : GPL Programming Lang: C + scripts in various languages Description : Free advanced command

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-09 Thread Ferenc Wagner
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > Does grub use the unallocated disk space near the MBR? Yes. As far as I know, even grub2 does so, but pls. correct me. > there was a discussion about poor performance if partitions/ > filesystem was not aligned to the "physical" block sectors. I also heard hpa

Re: lilo about to be dropped?

2009-04-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Samuel Thibault wrote: Giacomo Catenazzi, le Wed 08 Apr 2009 19:47:55 +0200, a écrit : Samuel Thibault wrote: I installed grub (and Debian). Trying the Windows hidden partition (to install windows), grub stopped working (it was rescue mode, but without capability to rescue something). Also resc

Re: Location of Packages and Translation files seem to have changed since yesterday

2009-04-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Andreas Tille said: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: > > >If the service is important to you, there is a mailing list to follow > >for commits and discussions somewhere. > > Could you please specify this "somewhere" a little bit more in Detail? I would, if I

D-I release goals page (was: Re: Bits from the Debian Installer team)

2009-04-09 Thread Christian Perrier
In "Bits from the D-I team", we wrote: > Goals that were confirmed|added are listed below. These release goals > are summarized on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SqueezeGoals To be fair, they aren't yet..:-) This page needs reorganization to be inline with the meetings conclusion. Such w