]] Christoph Anton Mitterer
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> In the case of *buntu... well to be honest I don't really see a reason
> unless someone wanted to create a company behind his distro, which
> wasn't possible with Debian.
Do you remember the sorry state of, for instance hotplugging of devices
and the utterly
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes:
> When Debian takes software from upstreams, it's majorly a case of making
> a collection (of course with adaptions).
> When a derivative take Debian, it's - compared to single software - more
> like forking it.
Except it's not, because that's not what Ubuntu do
On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 20:35 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> No. However, Debian is an upstream to many other distributions, just as
> upstream developers are to us.
Don't think that's true.
When Debian takes software from upstreams, it's majorly a case of making
a collection (of course with adapti
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 16:52 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > I wasn't talking about such an impossible task,... but there speaks
> > nothing against relatively easy things,... like securing all of our
> > package repository infrast
On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 17:25 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> """
> debsums is intended primarily as a way of determining what installed files
> have been locally modified by the administrator or damaged by media errors
> and is of limited use as a security tool.
>
> If you are looking for an int
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jeffrin Jose Thalakkottoor
* Package name: libjs-jstat
Version : 1.0.0
Upstream Author : John Resig
* URL : http://www.jstat.org/
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: JavaScript
Description : A JavaScript statistica
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Jeffrin Jose Thalakkottoor
* Package name: libjs-jstat
Version : x.y.z
Upstream Author : Name
* URL : http://www.example.org/
* License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.)
[ dropping "hijacking" from the subject, as that's not what this thread
is about :) ]
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 08:30:26AM +, Bart Martens wrote:
> The good thing is that everyone in this thread so far seems to agree that some
> packages in Debian need salvaging by a new maintainer, and that w
Package: wnpp
Owner: Dominique Dumont
Severity: wishlist
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* Package name: libmongodbx-class-perl
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Ido Perlmuter
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MongoDBx-Class/
*
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 01:14:19PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> > > part at all) will only weaken security. So I think what you say is an
> > > argument for keeping md5sum, so that noone think they can use that
> > > information for security.
> >
> > This argument is based on the incorrect assu
* Wouter Verhelst [121013 10:56]:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 09:17:32AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> > part at all) will only weaken security. So I think what you say is an
> > argument for keeping md5sum, so that noone think they can use that
> > information for security.
>
> This argument is
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:21:59AM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum writes:
> > I'm not sure about this delay. This procedure should be used for
> > uncontroversial cases, where orphaning is obviously the right choice.
>
> I strongly agree here. A package that's a salvaging candidate h
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 08:20:36AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 11/10/12 at 05:50 +, Bart Martens wrote:
> > And the maintainer does not respond within one month after the the third
> > second.
>
> I'm not sure about this delay. This procedure should be used for
> uncontroversial cases,
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:27:03AM +0200, Arno Töll wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11.10.2012 07:50, Bart Martens wrote:
> >> - the submitter of the "intent to orphan" bug must Cc
> >> debian...@lists.debian.org, and file the bug with severity:serious (this
> >> was part of the "criterias" proposal).
>
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 09:14:04AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Thursday, October 11, 2012 06:44:53 PM Charles Plessy wrote:
> ...
> > - I am not found of the voting procedure, and would rather propose to
> > follow a similar process as for the modification of the Policy and the
> > Develope
Hi Charles,
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 06:44:53PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> here are some comments.
>
> - It would be more straight to the point to submit an "Intend To Salvage"
> (ITS) and
>focus on such takeovers, because merly orphaning the package does not
> guarantee
>that it wi
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