Re: Vcs-Svn field and trunk

2009-06-02 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
now go change the packages I maintain to follow this convention and (again) consider switching away from svn. :) -- Fabian Fagerholm signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Vcs-Svn field and trunk

2009-06-01 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
e, it could be useful to have a field pointing explicitly to "trunk or equivalent" and another to the repository root, to facilitate automation. Cheers, -- Fabian Fagerholm signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: debootstrap/cdebootstrap failure: libsasl2 cannot be installed

2007-04-22 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
7; and 'debootstrap' and > 'cdebootstrap' will stay broken. Sorry for the inconvenience. We (the cyrus-sasl2 maintainers) could have tried lowering the priority of the package first, but that would also have required manual action by ftp-master to adjust the overrides, so it

Re: Call for testers: cyrus-sasl2

2006-11-28 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:05 +0100, Jan Wagner wrote: > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 07:53, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > > This new package is a major change compared to the old version. > > Therefore, we want people to test it as much as possible! > can you explain short, what are

Re: The Debian cyrus-sasl2 team is in need of your help!

2006-10-15 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
-sasl2.alioth.debian.org/ * The project list archive is at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-cyrus-sasl2-debian-devel/ and it should be read thoroughly -- lots of details about packaging choices are available there. Thanks, -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc

Re: Public discussion time for Creative Commons 3.0 license draft coming to a close

2006-10-02 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
etting up such a poll? Who is on the CC mailing list and could make sure the result would be communicated there? [0] http://master.debian.org/~jeroen/polls/ [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/12/msg00216.html [2] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6017 -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EM

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteers?

2006-03-09 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
r people who feel they are in need of a mediator. Descriptions of cases that went well or went wrong are also useful. -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-01-23 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
r before the "Why the GNU Free Documentation License is not suitable for Debian main" GR? -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

2005-01-22 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
nd there should be a way to specify such dependencies on the package management system level. Cheers, -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: origins of the Debian logo

2005-01-04 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
sts for /horse dung/." Go figure. All quotes from Liungman (see above) and apologies for the missing pictures, but honestly you do not want me to try these in ASCII... -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [custom] The term "flavor" and encouraging work on Debian

2003-12-04 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
ropose: the "plain" flavor. The definition is obvious. It's what you get when not specifically choosing a flavor. Currently, only the plain flavor of Debian or any of its Custom Distributions exists. There is an enormous amount of things that can be drawn from this, and I have ma

Re: [custom] Debian Enterprise - flavors

2003-12-04 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
for that out of the box would be appealing? So what you've described is only one aspect of (how I see) Debian Enterprise. -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [custom] The term "flavor" and encouraging work on Debian

2003-12-04 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
must get back to you on that. Sorry, I have to run now, but I'll try to get back to this asap. Don't worry, the terms will be good and then we can all get back to implementing things when we have the words to communicate with. Cheers, -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: The term "Custom Debian Distribution" (Was Re: [custom] The term "flavor" and encouraging work on Debian)

2003-12-04 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
xt from all who have some experience with subprojects, and work that material into the HOWTO. I will contact some subproject people shortly to get their input. Any pointers will be appreciated. Cheers, -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

The term "Custom Debian Distribution" (Was Re: [custom] The term "flavor" and encouraging work on Debian)

2003-12-03 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 12:17, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > > The term suggests that the distribution is "not-Debian", which is > > unneccessary and confusing. > > As non native speaker and also in general I try to avoid join

Re: [custom] The term "flavor" and encouraging work on Debian

2003-12-03 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
general to instantly give someone an idea of what it's about, and on top of all, it's quite long. Compare with "package pool" -- anyone with decent knowledge of the English language, and who knows what a "package" is, will instantly see the idea. I think "flavor" fits into the same category. -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[custom] The term "flavor" and encouraging work on Debian

2003-12-02 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
haring the same package pool. If you look at Bdale's platform from the last DPL election, you'll see that he summarized these things quite nicely: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2003/debian-vote-200303/msg00014.html So I suggest the following terms: Debian is the super-project. XYZ is a Debian Subproject, which provides the flavors A, B and C. Opinions? -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
on). > > I think this is a serious bug: the functionality of the free version > has been lowered to promote patent emcumbered package. I don't understand what you mean. Do you have a solution to the patent problem, perhaps? Or are you suggesting that a compression-free version of

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
ntained in this package for dates of expiration in countries which are known to have this patent. Use at your own legal risk." For more information, see http://burnallgifs.org/ -- Fabian Fagerholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#193574: ITP: albatross -- a Toolkit for Stateful Web Applications

2003-05-16 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-05-16 Severity: wishlist * Package name: albatross Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Object Craft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/albatross/ * License : BSD Description : a Toolki

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-08 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 17:29, Colin Walters wrote: > > > The target audience is everyone who uses a computer. > > > > OK, but that is not very clear a goal. What do we want with all those > > people? Do we want them all to use Debian? If so, what should be done to > > accomplish this goals? > > Ye

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-08 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 19:08, Rick Younie wrote: > Great post. I hope you do find your place to start and don't get > discouraged and move on to something else. Of all the posts on this thread... Let's just say there are ways to get people involved and ways to get people to go away. This belongs t

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-03 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 02:23, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > smooth introduction? you never heard of policy, maint-guide, developers' > reference, web pages, etc, have you? I have. That is not what I call a smooth introduction. For a person who can devote, say 24 hours per month to working on a pro

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-03 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 00:24, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Most of us who work for Debian do this in our spare time. But I do > personally disagree with the "you can't force a volunteer to do anything" > argument I heard in several discussions. These were discussions about > things where some work of the ma