Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Henning Makholm: > Scripsit Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> The GPL does fail the Dissident test because it does not permit >> anonymous changes. > > Your copy of the GPL must have been garbled in transmission. > Please fetch a fresh copy from a trusted source. What is a trusted source?

Re: Testing-watch emails

2005-11-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 00:17 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > If you're interested in making this happen I'll be happy to give > > you any info I can; > > OK, here are some questions. > > 1) The copy of britney in merkel:/org/ftp.debian.org/ does

Re: Re: [Mass bug filing] Native vs. non-native packages consistency

2005-11-05 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi Steve, >> Feel free to point me to false positives, as I haven't checked every >> single one of them. I know that some of them already have respective >> bugs filed against them. > > Indeed, at least some of these *are* false positives; there is nothing > that prohibits the use of dashes in nat

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * Henning Makholm: >> Scripsit Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> The GPL does fail the Dissident test because it does not permit >>> anonymous changes. >> Your copy of the GPL must have been garbled in transmission. >> Please fetch a fresh copy f

Re: Re: [Mass bug filing] Native vs. non-native packages consistency

2005-11-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:32:18PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote: > >> Feel free to point me to false positives, as I haven't checked every > >> single one of them. I know that some of them already have respective > >> bugs filed against them. > > Indeed, at least some of these *are* false positives

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Feel free to move it; I subscribe to -legal too. The discussion is > highly relevant, because licenses that do require that a contributor > identifies himself posivtively are _not_ free. This is, of course, a definition of "free" that's specific to som

Bug#337646: ITP: cl-arnesi -- small Common Lisp utilities

2005-11-05 Thread Luca Capello
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: cl-arnesi Version : 1:20051105-1 Upstream Author : Edward Marco Baringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://common-lisp.net/project/bese/arnesi.html * License : BSD Description : small Common Lisp uti

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:17:18PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > (We should move this discussion to -legal, or stop it right here. > > It's not very productive.) You can start CC'ing the conversation to -legal. Moving threads, in my experience, generally doesn't work; besides, -devel can hand

Bug#337652: ITP: libzorpll3.0.6 -- Low level library functions for Zorp

2005-11-05 Thread SZALAY Attila
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: SZALAY Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libzorpll3.0.6 Version : 3.0.6.2 Upstream Author : Scheidler Balázs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.balabit.hu/downloads/zorp/libzorpll-src/ * License : GNU/GPL + pe

Bug#337654: ITP: libevt0 -- Syslog event logger library

2005-11-05 Thread SZALAY Attila
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: SZALAY Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libevtlog0 Version : 0.2.3+20051031 Upstream Author : Scheidler Balazs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.balabit.hu/downloads/syslog-ng/1.9/src/ * License : BSD Desc

Bug#337657: ITP: cl-fiveam -- simple regression testing framework

2005-11-05 Thread Luca Capello
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: cl-fiveam Version : 1:20051105-1 Upstream Author : Edward Marco Baringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://common-lisp.net/project/bese/FiveAM.html * License : BSD Description : simple regression t

Bug#337662: ITP: cl-yaclml -- Yet Another Common Lisp Markup Language

2005-11-05 Thread Luca Capello
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: cl-yaclml Version : 1:20051105-1 Upstream Author : Edward Marco Baringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://common-lisp.net/project/bese/yaclml.html * License : BSD Description : Yet Another Commo

Bug#337666: ITP: cl-qbook -- create HTML/LaTeX versions of Common Lisp source code

2005-11-05 Thread Luca Capello
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: cl-qbook Version : 1:20051105-1 Upstream Author : Edward Marco Baringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://common-lisp.net/project/bese/qbook.html * License : BSD Description : create HTML/LaTeX versi

Help: molphy testing migration (fwd)

2005-11-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, is anybody out there who is able to help compiling molphy for the architectures mentioned below. Thank you very much Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:36:43 +0100 From: Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Are pure virtual Depends/Recommends entries bugs?

2005-11-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:55:18PM -0500, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > As I'm sure everyone knows, pure virtual entries in a Depends line are > strongly deprecated, due to the fact that frontends have a tendency to pick > a random provider of the package. What I'm not

Re: Are pure virtual Depends/Recommends entries bugs?

2005-11-05 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:55:18PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > (a) Is a pure virtual entry with no prior alternative in a Depends line an > actual bug? i.e., do we have a consensus on this? This will prevent the package from autobuilding, which is a bug. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: ht

Re: Testing-watch emails

2005-11-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 00:17 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: [Context for debian-dak readers who are not following the thread in -devel: I am trying to get up to speed on how to contribute some code to ftp-master that mails out testing migration notice

Re: Are pure virtual Depends/Recommends entries bugs?

2005-11-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Steinar H. Gunderson [Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:46:21 +0100]: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:55:18PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > (a) Is a pure virtual entry with no prior alternative in a Depends line an > > actual bug? i.e., do we have a consensus on this? > This will prevent the package

Bug#337705: ITP: libzorpll3.0.6-dbg -- Low level library functions for Zorp, debug version

2005-11-05 Thread SZALAY Attila
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: SZALAY Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libzorpll3.0.6-dbg Version : 3.0.6.4 Upstream Author : Scheidler Balázs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.balabit.hu/downloads/zorp/ * License : GNU/GPL + permission

Bug#337710: ITP: libfile-modified-perl -- checks intelligently if files have changed

2005-11-05 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libfile-modified-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Max Maischein, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/File/File-Modified-0.07.tar

Re: per-user temp directories by default?

2005-11-05 Thread Brian May
> "Noah" == Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Noah> Within the security team, there has recently been some talk Noah> of pushing for per-user temp directories by default in etch. Noah> I'd like to see what people's reaction to such a proposal Noah> would be. I have so

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-05 Thread Ken Bloom
Bastian Venthur wrote: > Nick Jacobs wrote: > > >>In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a >>significant amount of work should be done to restore >>support for a processor that has not been manufactured >>for 10 years? While slightly degrading performance

Re: Are pure virtual Depends/Recommends entries bugs?

2005-11-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:55:18PM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > As I'm sure everyone knows, pure virtual entries in a Depends line are > strongly deprecated, due to the fact that frontends have a tendency to pick > a random provider of the package. What I'm not sure is if this is just "ugly" >

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:21:41PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:11:32AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > I read all of your points as criticisms of Linux. That is disappointing. > > Why is criticism disappointing? The goals of Linux and the Linux Perhaps he meant tha

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-05 Thread Ken Bloom
Hubert Chan wrote: > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:48:53 -0800, Erast Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >>On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:18 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> >>>The GPL does not force developers to "contribute their changes back". >>>That's exactly the *point*. > > >>Explain please. >