Re: Packages in contrib solely because they allow using non-free software

2021-04-04 Thread Austin English
On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 12:57 AM Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Maybe the comparison to winetricks is not very fitting because I think > winetricks can *only* download non-free software while lutris can also > download > games that their developers distribute under a DFSG license? (Ups

Re: download of source packages alarmed clamav

2013-06-25 Thread Austin English
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > Marius Gavrilescu wrote: > >>On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:19:46AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: >>> These are real-life viruses that should not be distributed >>> using Debian's FTP server (IMHO). >> >>Even if they wre real, they would be

Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

2011-03-15 Thread Austin English
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 13:52, Jari Aalto wrote: >    - is DFSG compliant. The current license is GPL. Nitpick, but winetricks is LGPL (same as Wine). >    - does not depend on external programs outside of Debian. Winetricks can do some things without external help (change the emulated windows

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Austin English
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:14, Ian Jackson wrote: > [Someone] writes ("Re: Default Homedir Permissions"): >> [stuff] > > We are in danger of wasting a lot of time with this discussion. > > The general pattern is that someone who is unhappy with the state of > the world proposes a substantial chang

Bug#550435: general: SYS_prctl undefined on squeeze/kFreeBSD

2009-10-09 Thread Austin English
Package: general Severity: important Needed to build Wine. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686) Kernel: kFreeBSD 7.2-1-486 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh li