Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Alpha1 release

2012-05-13 Thread Robert Millan
LVM support in runtime: kldload geom_linux_lvm I asked this in April [1] but didn't get any response. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2012/04/msg00232.html -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Bug#648345: marked as done (FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64)

2012-05-04 Thread Robert Millan
obviously do not want to dictate how you should spend your time, but > is kfreebsd already working so well that you are bored? Depends on the time of the week. Sometimes I'm having a lot of fun, and sometimes I'm so bored that I'd even reply to an obvious flamebait for no reas

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2011-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
at.h sys/compat/linux/linux_videodev.h sys/compat/linux/linux_videodev_compat.h in kfreebsd-9 source. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2011-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
create a file system, or just tells Linux to do so? If it works like zfsutils, then there's no usable code for other kernels (but I haven't checked). -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2011-08-20 Thread Robert Millan
kFreeBSD provides readonly reiserfs support. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOfDtXMq78iHHO9JxbtQY6LDALtNGs=qtrefnuifudzrkqy...@mail.gmail.com

Bug#636504: RFP: pcbsd-netmanager -- PC-BSD Network Manager

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: pcbsd-netmanager * URL : see below * License : 3-clause BSD (with some MIT/X11 parts) Programming Lang: C++ (Qt) Description : PC-BSD Network Manager Graphical (Qt) Network Configuration utility of the PC-BSD project

Bug#636164: RFP: apt-clone -- ZFS integrated APT package handling utility

2011-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: apt-clone Version : 0.7.9nexenta28 * URL : see below * License : CDDL Programming Lang: Perl Description : ZFS integrated APT package handling utility apt-clone is the command-line tool for handling package

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Millan
be an interesting question would it? -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caofdtxogep86aq0d4nrb0ckcn5c1hx19dj92o_d2lemjktr...@mail.gmail.com

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Millan
ay about this? I don't think the purpose of your question is concluding the debate, I think it just tries to enforce your point of view by presenting your goal as an accepted premise. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: [kfreebsd] massive report for uninstallable FUSE packages

2011-07-20 Thread Robert Millan
consistent. However, since this is basically cosmetical and the effect is the same, I don't think it's worth sending an update to each of the bug reports. But if you still want it, feel free to, I have no objection. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-18 Thread Robert Millan
if the proposal is to replace sysvinit with systemd, that wouldn't force removal of any non-Linux port. It'd be an annoying inconvenient though, as it'd just make it diverge a bit more than it already does. Have you considered InitNG instead? It seems to have similar goals as upst

Re: massive bug report to replace "!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386" kludges with dpkg wildcards

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Millan
repository, >  so their next upload will make use of wildcard archs Thanks! I'm removing them from my list. > - kradio4 >  I can do a QA upload for it Nice, please let me know when you do. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

massive bug report to replace hardcoded "kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64" with "kfreebsd-any" (where suitable)

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Millan
s instead. For example: Build-Depends: libfoo-dev [kfreebsd-any] Thanks! -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: massive bug report to replace "!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386" kludges with dpkg wildcards

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Millan
I forgot to CC debian-hurd, please follow-up there too. 2011/7/16 Robert Millan : > Title and template description (below) is self-explanatory.  156 > packages are affected (list is attached). > > Package: %package% > Severity: wishlist > User: debian-...@lists.debian.org &g

massive bug report to replace "!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386" kludges with dpkg wildcards

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Millan
correct way would be to use dpkg architecture wildcards, e.g.: Build-Depends: libfoo-dev [linux-any] Please consider making this adjustment to make life easier for future porting efforts. -- Robert Millan linux-any.list Description: Binary data

Re: [kfreebsd] massive report for uninstallable FUSE packages

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Millan
tc. I think best way is to report this and let each maintainer decide what is best. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debi

Re: [kfreebsd] massive report for uninstallable FUSE packages

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Millan
. Good point. Then I think I'll just analize some of those packages (when I think they're important enough to spend the time) and report bugs only on a case-by-case basis. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: [kfreebsd] massive report for uninstallable FUSE packages

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Millan
e" because fuse-utils is now a transitional package that depends on fuse) Else if %package% depends on fuse-utils because it can't work at all without fusermount, please reply to this bug report so we can try to find a solution. Thanks! -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: [kfreebsd] massive report for uninstallable FUSE packages

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Millan
2011/7/16 Mike Hommey : > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 04:10:18PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> Hi! >> >> There are 23 packages in unstable which can't be installed on Debian >> GNU/kFreeBSD because of their unconditional dependency on fuse-utils. >> On this pla

Re: [kfreebsd] massive report for uninstallable FUSE packages

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Millan
ecifically on the semantics of fusermount. - A package may have a versioned dependency, in which case an alternate dependency is still needed. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

[kfreebsd] massive report for uninstallable FUSE packages

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Millan
f the command-line functionality in that package (and not just to obtain a FUSE daemon), please reply to this bug report so we can try to find a solution. Thanks! Please let me know of any suggestions or concerns you may have. Please keep debian-bsd on CC, I'm not subscribed to debian-devel.

Re: Portability improvements with libbsd 0.3.0

2011-06-06 Thread Robert Millan
, Just for completeness, I disagree with the GNU part. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTinpTJ-X_Me6KTGjr+4hrQbwi=m...@mail.gmail.com

Bug#566907: ITP: mingw-w64 -- Minimalist GNU w64 (cross) runtime

2010-01-25 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan * Package name: mingw-w64 * URL : http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL, LGPL, ZPL, etc... Programming Lang: C, amd64 asm Description : Minimalist GNU w64 (cross) runtime This package contains the

Bug#563315: ITP: dragonegg -- GCC plugin that uses LLVM for optimization and code generation

2010-01-01 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan * Package name: dragonegg Version : SVN snapshot Upstream Author : Duncan Sands * URL : http://dragonegg.llvm.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : GCC plugin that uses LLVM for

Bug#562484: ITP: multiboot -- The Multiboot specification

2009-12-24 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan * Package name: multiboot Version : 0.6.96 Upstream Author : GNU project * URL : http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: Texinfo for the manual C and i8086

Re: Bug#559774: ITP: modem-cmd -- send arbitrary AT commands to your modem

2009-12-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:28:03AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 07 décembre 2009 à 01:43 +0100, Robert Millan a écrit : > > modem-cmd can be used to send arbitrary AT commands to a modem device > > over a serial line. > > . > > For example: > >

Re: Bug#559774: ITP: modem-cmd -- send arbitrary AT commands to your modem

2009-12-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:14:52AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 01:43 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Robert Millan > > > > * Package name: modem-cmd > > Version : 0.0

Bug#559774: ITP: modem-cmd -- send arbitrary AT commands to your modem

2009-12-06 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan * Package name: modem-cmd Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : me * URL : none yet, debian-native * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : send arbitrary AT commands to your modem modem-cmd

ITP: jclicmoodle -- JClic module for Moodle

2009-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Owner: Robert Millan Severity: wishlist * Package name: jclicmoodle Version : 0.1.0.8 Upstream Author : Sara Arjona Téllez * URL : http://projectes.lafarga.cat/projects/jclicmoodle * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP Description : JClic

Bug#537495: ITP: 1 -- C++ API for D-BUS

2009-07-18 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan * Package name: dbus-c++ Version : GIT snapshot * URL : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus-c%2B%2B * License : LGPL 2.1 Programming Lang: C++ Description : C++ API for D-BUS This package

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Robert Millan
phen Gran | > | : :' :sg...@debian.org | > | `. `'Debian user, admin, and developer | > |`- http://www.debian.org | > - -- Robert Millan

Re: Bug#529525: ITP: vsag -- Very Simple Archive Generator

2009-05-21 Thread Robert Millan
s > and more. Hi Goswin, I think reprepro serves a different purpose. It actively manages your packages and keeps an internal database of their metadata. Vsag is designed to be stateless, and to avoid managing the directory containing packages themselves (one might wish to manage it by hand,

Re: Bug#529525: ITP: vsag -- Very Simple Archive Generator

2009-05-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:44:38AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 22:18:51 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Robert Millan > > > > * Package name: vsag > > Version

Re: Bug#529525: ITP: vsag -- Very Simple Archive Generator

2009-05-19 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:42:22PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-05-19, Robert Millan wrote: > > * Package name: vsag > > Version : 0.0.1 > > Upstream Author : Robert Millan > > * URL : not yet released > > * License :

Bug#529525: ITP: vsag -- Very Simple Archive Generator

2009-05-19 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan * Package name: vsag Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Robert Millan * URL : not yet released * License : GPL Programming Lang: bash, make Description : Very Simple Archive Generator Vsag is a

Re: Bug#529183: Grub on Compact Flash, Plzzzzzzz

2009-05-18 Thread Robert Millan
says /boot/stage2 could not read correctly.. > > > > > > Please help me, > > I'm struggling for this for long time > > > > > > with regards > > > > Ravi > > > > <http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail

Re: Bug#529183: ITP: gcc-mingw32 -- The GNU C compiler (cross compiler for MingW32)

2009-05-18 Thread Robert Millan
aintain it, I don't see why it'd be a problem to keep it. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data an

Re: Bug#529183: ITP: gcc-mingw32 -- The GNU C compiler (cross compiler for MingW32)

2009-05-17 Thread Robert Millan
or h8300-hitachi-coff) gcc-m68hc1x - GNU C compiler for the Motorola 68HC11/12 processors -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to

Bug#529183: ITP: gcc-mingw32 -- The GNU C compiler (cross compiler for MingW32)

2009-05-17 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan * Package name: gcc-mingw32 Version : 4.4 * URL : http://gcc.gnu.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : The GNU C compiler (cross compiler for MingW32) Build of GCC for MingW32

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-26 Thread Robert Millan
looking forward to a fully free linux-2.6 in Squeeze that will make Linux-libre unnecessary for Debian users. In the meantime, Lenny users who want to run a free system also have an option. I guess we made everyone happy already? :-) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data bel

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-26 Thread Robert Millan
t not running > non-free software, does that provide any real gain/benefit/improvement > over running a kernel full of request_firmware() calls [...] Personally I don't think it does; others (e.g. RMS) tend to prefer removing request_firmware(), but I don't think anyone has a str

Re: Linux-libre for Debian Lenny

2009-04-23 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:52:45AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As you probably know, back in December last year it was decided [1] that the > > Linux package shipped

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-15 Thread Robert Millan
n a separate thread in -legal. I gave my personal opinion there. Btw the license change comes from upstream, not Debian. It's obvious Hubert has his own reasons for doing it, but whichever they are they're off-topic here. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belon

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-10 Thread Robert Millan
license version can be updated by recipients of the code, and that keeping the old license blob around is not a must; is this correct? Does section 12 of LGPL 2.1 work the same way? If not, where's the difference? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Robert Millan
7;m fine with extra clarification, for the sake of correctness, it just means a bit more work. I'll speak with the gnote author about it. > and a > clear violation of Tomboy's license. Notice license and copyright statements are two separate issues. AFAIK LGPL doesn't explicit

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-08 Thread Robert Millan
gt; - until then, GNote cannot be considered > suitable for Debian. Sure. Btw, I'm adding debian-legal to CC, perhaps they can provide some insight (as you know, when there are doubts about legal stuff it is considered good practice to discuss things in that list). Cheers -- Robert

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process

2009-03-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:52:22PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:03:46PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > I'd also like to complain about the title text of the initial GR. It is > > clearly manipulative, as it pretends to be merely describin

Re: [Amendment] Reaffirm the GR process

2009-03-24 Thread Robert Millan
learly manipulative, as it pretends to be merely describing the proposed changes when in fact it is asserting an opinion. I hope the Secretary will fix this. And if that's too much to ask, then I hope voters will read carefuly and won't fall for such an easy trick. -- Robert Millan T

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-19 Thread Robert Millan
in separate ballots. This doesn't change anything I said in this mail, nor make me feel that his decisions as secretary are somehow illegitimate. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but no

The firmware GR

2008-12-15 Thread Robert Millan
02665 http://bugs.debian.org/502666 http://bugs.debian.org/502667 http://bugs.debian.org/502669 I hope this helps everyone pick the options they feel most comfortable with. Sincerely, -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) y

Bug#505224: RFP: freecad -- An extensible CAx program (alpha)

2008-11-10 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: freecad Version : 0.7.1672 * URL : http://juergen-riegel.net/FreeCAD/Docu/index.php?title=Main_Page * License : LGPLv2.1+ Programming Lang: C++, Python Descr

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 05:41:05PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 03:51:22PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:23:50PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > On Tuesday 21 October 2008, you wrote: > > > > But, in fact, fixes

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
ublic, please stop this and come back to more constructive > discussions). And I take it that Thomas is supposed to take your attitude as an example on how being constructive? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may acce

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ???lenny-ignore????

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Millan
ting anything simpler. > > Ever hear of the Technical Committee? The Technical Committee is not empowered to override foundation documents. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threa

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
I can't believe those come from the same people who keep this as one of their official songs: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39 Our contradictions might not be so unique to Debian after all ... -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:23:20PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 20:18 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Apparently, our control structures are not reliable enough to _enforce_ > > what we have decided. It seems we relied primarily on the release team

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 08:46:18PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It seems we relied primarily on the release team, which has betrayed > > the goals of the project, > > I do not accept to be calle

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:48:57AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 08:41:16AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > > > > Has the current release team lowered the bar on Debia

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 07:16:12PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > You cannot ask, so late in the release process, Some of these bugs have been known for *years*. In one of them, I even got a reply saying something along the lines of "I was expecting this one". -- Robert M

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Millan
.html btw, would be really nice if it can be fast-tracked. [3] that means either sanctioned by the maintainers or by the DPL -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 04:21:24PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 20 octobre 2008 à 16:08 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit : > > > Has the current release team lowered the bar on Debian actually > > > trying to follow the social contract? > > >

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Millan
nding a name, I think "Blobbie" is a pretty one. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Millan
ecided to look the other way: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497823 Btw, I'm looking for supporters for a GR to stop this gross violation of the SC. Any DDs who read this, please let me know if you're interested. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "

ITP: a52 -- Motorola DSP56001 assembler (Re: Bug#494010: Source for dsp56k firmware)

2008-10-17 Thread Robert Millan
compiling the firmware used in Linux' dsp56k.c driver. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at

Re: mpeg encoder patents, Was: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Millan
to be patent-encumbered, we're sending a message claiming that it is not. I don't appreciate the Moonlight folks trying to use Debian for this purpose. Whatever the choice is, let us at least be consistent... -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will

Re: mpeg encoder patents, Was: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Millan
istributors. > > Such convenience services already exist (debian-multimedia.org, > debian-unofficial.org), Debian doesn't need to start one. But they don't get the associated benefits of being officially part of Debian, like BTS and such. (which contrib and non-free do *g*) --

Re: mpeg encoder patents, Was: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Millan
their tax and politely let you know that you have to pay as well. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not acc

Re: mpeg encoder patents, Was: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Millan
and our users don't really miss anything if we don't ship it. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not

Re: mpeg encoder patents, Was: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:44:40PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> At the very least, we could distribute them in a specific "patented" > >> section, with rules similar to non-free, and that we’d only mi

Re: Bug#501190: Reworded control

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Millan
Btw, please keep in mind that the description issues I pointed out are relatively unimportant compared to legal risk (and I haven't seen that being discussed in debian-legal yet). On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:32:48PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:38:41AM +

Re: Bug#501190: Reworded control

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Millan
hat might be necessary to implement 1.0, beyond what is currently published on the web; [...]" http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Sep-05.html -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody

Re: mpeg encoder patents, Was: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight

2008-10-07 Thread Robert Millan
ry least, we could distribute them in a specific "patented" > section, with rules similar to non-free, and that we’d only mirror in > countries where it is not a problem. While we are at it, would be nice to have a section for DMCA-impaired software such as libdvdcss. -- Robert Milla

Re: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight -- open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight

2008-10-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:05:58AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 07 October 2008 09:03, Robert Millan wrote: > > Unclaimed patents are precisely the reason we don't have any MPEG encoders > > in Debian (see http://techliberation.com/2006/05/11/mpeg-pa

Re: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight -- open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight

2008-10-07 Thread Robert Millan
ve this kind of problem. > ** Note, apologies to debian-devel@ for the offtopic nature of these > messages, my reply is aimed at debian-devel only for mailing list > archive purposes ** It is standard practice to CC debian-devel in new ITPs. Though, as I said for legal discussions

Re: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight -- open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 03:33:48PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > [2] http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx Btw, an independent analisys of that covenant is available: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080528133529454 -- Robert Millan The DRM opt

Re: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight -- open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 03:24:26PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Description : open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight > > > > [...] > > Hi, > > The description is misleading. This is (AFAICT) not an implementation of a > standard but a c

Re: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight -- open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Millan
terop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Bug#501190: ITP: moonlight -- open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Millan
bs from Microsoft. Unfortunately they aren't very explicit about what the problem is, but it is certain there is one, so please find that out, and have it discussed in debian-legal. Thanks -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide

Re: Deprecating (and deactivation) of an archive feature?!

2008-08-06 Thread Robert Millan
elf (main) and the other archives we provide /support as a supplement to Debian. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your dat

Re: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008

2008-08-05 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 10:11:32AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > As Robert Millan brought to my attention, in my enthusiasm to present > our progress towards fully Lenny support for the Eee in the best > possible light, my announcement muddied the distinction between Lenny > and non

Re: confusion about non-free (Re: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008)

2008-08-04 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 08:46:36PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 20:36:17 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > This is troubling. Do you have any suggestions on how to address this? > > Stop trolling about utterly uninteresting details? I think it'

Re: confusion about non-free (Re: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008)

2008-08-04 Thread Robert Millan
> : Components: main contrib non-free > : Description: Debian x.y Testing distribution - Not Released > > So lenny is made from main (Debian), contrib and non-free. Therefore Lenny is not Debian, but a superset of it? This is troubling. Do you have any suggestions on how to address th

Re: lzma: New upstream version available (#460501)

2008-08-03 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, Please could you aim at 4.58beta instead? It's the first version that can be used by grub-pc for compression of boot blocks. See: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-07/msg00036.html thanks -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to u

confusion about non-free (Re: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008)

2008-08-03 Thread Robert Millan
[ adding debian-project ] On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 01:53:54PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 08:28:19AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > > Earliest Eee models fully supported in Lenny > > > >Lenny will release with the atl2 ether

Re: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008

2008-08-03 Thread Robert Millan
non-free is not part of Debian. Check the Social Contract. Friendly, -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not ac

Bug#492935: ITP: seabios -- Legacy BIOS implementation

2008-07-29 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: seabios Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Kevin O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://linuxtogo.org/~kevin/legacybios/ * License : GPL Programmi

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-23 Thread Robert Millan
. Who's the copyright holder? gpg? The authors of gpg? The person who typed gpg in command-line? The entropy source? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-23 Thread Robert Millan
des security. This ITP is not about making it simpler. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:34:15PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 03:52:12PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > >> I'm still not that sure if its a good idea to add a non-offical debian repo > >> keyring into the archive... B

Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-21 Thread Robert Millan
his sound fine to you? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

2008-06-21 Thread Robert Millan
: GPLv2+ Description : GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository Alexander, please let me know if you have any objection to this key being added to the archive, or if you would like to be the maintainer for this package or just the upstream (either way is fine with me). -- Robert Millan

Re: Bug#485553: ITP: charybdis -- fast, scalable irc server

2008-06-10 Thread Robert Millan
7;t know if it's possible, but you might want to try to link it to > GNUTLS [1] instead. GNUTLS has an OpenSSL portability layer, but it is not complete. It would require some porting work. Btw, the build system in ircd-charybdis considers OpenSSL an optional dependency. If it's an o

Re: MENU DEFAULT64 support for syslinux

2008-06-10 Thread Robert Millan
el is not the most indicate place. - Have you based your code on the currently existing check in 02-64bit-autodetection.dpatch? It is best to reuse known-working code for this. If you want a C-friendly version, you can use cpuid.c from the win32-loader package (it derives from GCC and h

Bug#480925: support for playing blu-ray discs

2008-05-12 Thread Robert Millan
Package: general Severity: wishlist I'm creating this bug to track support for playing blu-ray discs in Debian's default desktop install. I'll add related bugs as blockers to this one (and welcome others to do the same). -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT polic

Re: RFH: Multiarch capable toolchain as release goal

2008-04-20 Thread Robert Millan
s been silence. And the usual way to deal with silence is to interpret it as lack of time rather than refusal (and accordingly send a polite offer to NMU). -- Robert Millan "The technological evasion of the license is as unacceptable as the legal evasion of the license [...]. That&#x

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:19:58PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > And most importantly, you wouldn't contemplate deploying somewhere else an > implementation of triggers that hasn't been accepted in dpkg, because of the > danger of creating (and maintaining) a sustained inc

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Millan
>From my POV, this means you were already challenging Guillem way before starting this thread. [1] for your amusement, this happened to me on dpkg: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355654#10 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440636#5 -- Robert Millan I know

Re: Producing multiple -dbg packages using CDBS

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Millan
Not sure if that's what you were looking for (i.e. a specific feature introduced with cdbs 0.4.38), but you can cook that up on your own. See how grub2 package does it for an example. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unab

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-31 Thread Robert Millan
aint.html . Why -j3 ? It's already quite an effort to aim for -j2. Shouldn't we try to fix those first? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: There interest in emacs-snapshot. Is there sense to have it?

2007-09-14 Thread Robert Millan
ike distributors to package unreleased versions of emacs (I assume either because of the support burden or because bugs in these snapshots might affect their reputation). I would suggest getting in touch with them first to see what they think. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call!

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