Re: should changelogs be in chronological order

2005-01-17 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Anthony Towns writes: > Travis Crump wrote: >> Should changelogs be in chronological order or should they be in >> version number order? > > The changelog should be in the order changes were made. Isn't that necessarily chronological order? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: copyright vs. license

2005-01-12 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For a GPLed project, the declaration looks something like this: > > * Copyright (C) Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Shouldn't you include a year? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: If *-module depends on *-utils, should *-source recommend it?

2005-01-12 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recommends means "packages that would be found together with this one in all > but unusual installations". It is not unusual to have a single designated > build machine in an organization, which may or may not ever have the final > binary packages inst

Re: If *-module depends on *-utils, should *-source recommend it?

2005-01-10 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:17:19PM -0600, Matthew Dempsky wrote: >> It seems like the common case for wanting to install a kernel module >> source package is to build the module and then install it on the same >> box.

If *-module depends on *-utils, should *-source recommend it?

2005-01-10 Thread Matthew Dempsky
It seems like the common case for wanting to install a kernel module source package is to build the module and then install it on the same box. Since the *-source package doesn't really depend on *-utils, why not add a Recommends line? For example, ndiswrapper-source would Recommend ndiswrapper-u

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-16 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why should elf-aggregation always mean to be part of a derived code, and > fs-level aggregation mean that not? Even e.g. Linus writes that there > _are_ examples where elf-aggregation does not mean a derived work (well, > of course: the default assumptat

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-20 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:56:43PM +0200, Maciej Dems wrote: >> > Of course this won't be created online, but such images could be put >> > on web after some time and could be identified with some session id. >> > (in addition user would be fo

Re: Content of CDs / DVDs

2004-10-20 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there *any* way to check what packages are available on particular CD > without downloading iso and mounting it locally? > > If not (and I'm assuming that's the right answer) then what about adding > some txt files alongside isos? I think

Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

2004-10-19 Thread Matthew Dempsky
"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This package is buildable by tools in main. It meets the letter of the > law. The spirit seems a bit ambiguous. Good case in point, the m68k > cross-compiled stuff, where the cross-compiler used was non-free. (I > have not verified the accuracy

Re: [OT:HUMOR] Re: software

2004-10-11 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 11:37:06PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > Price for Commercial Software: >> > Adobe Illustrator CS - 90.00 >> > Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional - 100.00 >> > McAfee Personal Firewall Plus 2004 v. 5.0 - 20.00 >> > Adobe Photoshop Elements