[Kevin Mark]
> would it provide any automation or easier processing for the NEW
> queue(ftpmasters)?
I doubt it. They don't take the maintainer's word for stuff like that,
as I understand it - they double-check the copyright and license
declarations in the source code.
> would it allow for redu
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:35:52AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [Kevin Mark]
> > would it provide any automation or easier processing for the NEW
> > queue(ftpmasters)?
>
> I doubt it. They don't take the maintainer's word for stuff like that,
> as I understand it - they double-check the co
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 03:54 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:35:52AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> >
> > [Kevin Mark]
> > > would it provide any automation or easier processing for the NEW
> > > queue(ftpmasters)?
> >
> > I doubt it. They don't take the maintainer's word f
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:45:12AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:12:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
[License field]
> > In other words, it seems like a lot of work, and it's not clear what
> > problem it would really solve.
> Hi,
> would it provide any automation or easier p
Note that there was a discussion using debtags for license information
on debtags-devel/debian-legal.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/06/msg00016.html
is a good starting point.
Personally I believe, that if such an information should be available,
debtags is more suitable to express thi
On 10572 March 1977, Jari Aalto wrote:
> To my understanding the only way to obtain the license information
> for a package is to actually download it (or install it) and the
> study the content of
> /usr/share/doc//copyright
Yes.
> Add new field to the debian/control (which would be generat
On 10572 March 1977, Kevin Mark wrote:
> would it provide any automation or easier processing for the NEW
> queue(ftpmasters)?
Nope.
--
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Naturally; worms that don't know what they are doing end up as
fish bait, instead of getting invited into weird math experiments.
--
On 10572 March 1977, Kevin Mark wrote:
> You mean they check ever single time $RANDOM_PACKAGE enter NEW and don't
> assume its correct until someone raises an objections?
Yes. And the big number of rejects due to incorrect debian/copyright
files (more than for technical reasons) shows that it is
On Feb 20, 2006 at 20:43, gregor herrmann praised the llamas by saying:
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> Severity: wishlist
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Kevin Mark wrote:
> You mean they check ever single time $RANDOM_PACKAGE enter NEW and don't
> assume its correct until someone raises an objections? I'd at least
> think you could create a sub-queue in NEW so that already tagged
> standard licenses would get processed faster and others would be in
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 10572 March 1977, Kevin Mark wrote:
>
> > You mean they check ever single time $RANDOM_PACKAGE enter NEW and don't
> > assume its correct until someone raises an objections?
>
> Yes. And the big number of rejects due to incorrect
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:13:15PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:45:24PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > And for fuck's sake, stop filling up my inbox w/ this crap. I'm not
> > doing a thing unless either a) you people come to a consensus on the
> > issue (which you have
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:48:30AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Kevin Mark wrote:
> > You mean they check ever single time $RANDOM_PACKAGE enter NEW and don't
> > assume its correct until someone raises an objections? I'd at least
> > think you could create a sub-queue in NEW so that already tag
On 10572 March 1977, Kevin Mark wrote:
> I understand the general idea of a DFSG-free license but, for example,
> if Clint uploads yet another zsh package bugfix, I'm not expecting him to have
> it under a different license then the last 99 uploads. And if there was
> a license change, you could d
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:58:07AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:48:30AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> > Kevin Mark wrote:
> > > You mean they check ever single time $RANDOM_PACKAGE enter NEW and don't
> > > assume its correct until someone raises an objections? I'd at lea
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:01:07AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 10572 March 1977, Kevin Mark wrote:
>
> > I understand the general idea of a DFSG-free license but, for example,
> > if Clint uploads yet another zsh package bugfix, I'm not expecting him to
> > have
> > it under a different lice
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:10:27PM +0100, Michael Koch wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:58:07AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:48:30AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> > Hi Thomas,
> > as I just wrote to Joerge, I am not refering to the initial upload of a
> > brand-new p
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'd be glad if you'd keep the Debian TeX Task Force (currently at
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED], soon at [EMAIL PROTECTED]) informed about
>> drafts of this policy. Although we don't currently package any TTF
>
>
> Of courseActually, I see some differenc
#include
* Thomas Bushnell BSG [Mon, Feb 20 2006, 09:35:14AM]:
> > No, it will never end. A few people managed to change the definition of
> > freedom which was commonly accepted when I joined the project nine years
> > ago and I do not feel a moral need to support their position.
>
> This is, I
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:17:56AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:10:27PM +0100, Michael Koch wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:58:07AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:48:30AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> > > Hi Thomas,
> > > as I just wrote t
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:38:53PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> Practically, [contrib is] to avoid shipping things on our CDs that depend on
> stuff
> that's not on our CDs.
The reason for contrib isn't practicality at all, it's to distinguish
free software that stands on its own and that depends
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 02:45 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> would it provide any automation or easier processing for the NEW
> queue(ftpmasters)?
I'd assume part of the FTP masters checking is actually verifying the
license specified in debian/copyright is the license actually used by
the source, and
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess the difference is more in the historic development than in
> actual technical differences. You can easily use Type1 fonts under X11
> if they are registered to defoma; I don't know about Openoffice and
> friends.
OpenOffice.org can use Latin Mo
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:34:22AM +, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 02:45 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > would it provide any automation or easier processing for the NEW
> > queue(ftpmasters)?
>
> I'd assume part of the FTP masters checking is actually verifying the
> license speci
On 10572 March 1977, Kevin Mark wrote:
>> Only packages in NEW are checked, not every little bugfix upload. :)
> I probably need one of these two at the moment: 1) sleep 2) caffine so I
> mis-stated what NEW entails. It deals with initial uploads and other
> situations(at least new upstream and ot
Il giorno mar, 21/02/2006 alle 09.44 +, David Pashley ha scritto:
> > Typing in the stdin window while holding down the alt or meta keys sends an
> > escape character before the typed characters. This provides support for
> > programs such as emacs.
> >
> Why would I want to use this? I now
As a few people have noticed, the Ubuntu patches repository is
currently producing some unusual results; in particular the patches
seem to include Debian changes as well as Ubuntu ones.
The patches are produced by a tool we oh-so-amusingly call NDA
(Nightly Difference Analysis), which like the MOM
"Scott James Remnant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And the reason 4.23 isn't in the morgue is simple, Debian's morgue ran
> out of disk space a while ago.
What is Debian's morgue? What about using snapshot.debian.net?
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Foldi
also sprach Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.21.1506 +0100]:
> File a request here:
> https://launchpad.net/products/nda/+addticket
Scott, I appreciate your work and your mail to keep us up to date.
It's good to see you back at the keys!
This isn't a rant, but a serious wishli
On 21 Feb 2006, Steve Langasek verbalised:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:40:06AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:36:13PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>>> I requested that ndiswrapper and ndiswrapper-modules-i386 be moved
>>> to contrib.
>> While I would personally rather se
On 2/21/06, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> also sprach Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.21.1506 +0100]:
> > File a request here:
> > https://launchpad.net/products/nda/+addticket
>
> This isn't a rant, but a serious wishlist request: if Canonical
> wants more coope
also sprach Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.21.1643 +0100]:
> Launchpad does allow e-mail submission of support tickets and
> bugs, but only if your e-mail address is registered against
> a Launchpad account. I believe this is because they think it's
> the best way to avoid spam (
On 2/20/06, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As a specific counter example, consider
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> which is a project porting a windows driver to linux. This port
> appears to be possible because the windows driver was made
> available under a
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:58:37PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> > Title: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together
> > ITP: #353777
> Standard question: Do you know clusterssh, which does pretty much the
> same thing and is already in Debian? If no, I suggest you take look.
T
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 07:04:27PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > In this case, even in the absence of free NDIS
> > drivers, one could argue that the utility of having ndiswrapper in main
> > (especially if it is integrated into the install) outweighs any potential
> > drawbacks (and since the o
On Feb 21, Anthony Towns wrote:
> The reason for contrib isn't practicality at all, it's to distinguish
> free software that stands on its own and that depends on non-free
> software. That's why it's specifically talked about in the social
> contract, rather than only being discussed in policy.
On 2/21/06, Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/20/06, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As a specific counter example, consider
> > http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
> > which is a project porting a windows driver to linux. This port
> > appears to
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:42:08PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * David Weinehall:
>
> >> Upstream includes non-free manpages these days, so in reality, we have
> >> already forked. Further Debian-specific changes are needed to address
> >> bugs such as #295211 (upstream does not document our l
Is it possible to mark a particular message to the BTS (as in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) as spam? This information could be used for
filtering the web page reports, or possibly training the spam filter.
Thanks!
Shaun
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> Is it possible to mark a particular message to the BTS (as in
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]) as spam? This information could be used for
> filtering the web page reports, or possibly training the spam filter.
Visit http://bugs.debian.org/
Click: "Send a report th
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> Is it possible to mark a particular message to the BTS (as in
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]) as spam? This information could be used for
> filtering the web page reports, or possibly training the s
You probably missed this question, which I also wanted to ask:
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:55:23PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> "Scott James Remnant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> And the reason 4.23 isn't in the morgue is simple, Debian's morgue ran
>> out of disk space a while ago.
> What is De
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sebastien Delafond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: lanmap
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Ryan Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://parseerror.com/lanmap/
* License : GPL
Description : lanmap sits quietly on
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:22:57PM -0800, Sebastien Delafond wrote:
> * Package name: lanmap
> Version : 0.1
> Upstream Author : Ryan Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://parseerror.com/lanmap/
> * License : GPL
> Description : lanmap sits quietly on
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:04:32AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:22:57PM -0800, Sebastien Delafond wrote:
> > * Package name: lanmap
> > Version : 0.1
> > Upstream Author : Ryan Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > * URL : http://pars
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:43:59PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:45:24PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > Please also stop insulting ndiswrapper users and developers by calling
> > > it a "warez wrapper".
>
> Actualy, since such "ndis drivers" are often provided with v
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: exscalibar
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Gavin Wood
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/exscalibar/
* License : GPL
Description : extendable, scalable architec
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:06:47PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> * Processing netbase
>- unstable: 4.24
>- main: 4.23ubuntu4
>- testing: 4.24
>- stable: 4.21
>- oldstable: 4.07
>- morgue: 4.22
> So the reason it didn't use 4.23 was simply t
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:57:21AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 07:04:27PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > In this case, even in the absence of free NDIS
> > > drivers, one could argue that the utility of having ndiswrapper in main
> > > (especially if it is integrated int
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Anthony Towns wrote:
> But afaik, you don't actually have access to that since it's on a
> restricted access machine, so I'm at a loss as to what you're calling
> "Debian's morgue".
Merkel's mirror, most probably.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One d
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Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: xserver-xair
Version : 1.0.1
Upstream Author : X.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.freedesktop.org
* License : MIT/X
Description : X Server Featuring Acceler
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:53:30PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> * Package name: xserver-xair
> Version : 1.0.1
> Upstream Author : X.org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL : http://www.freedeskt
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:11:00AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > But afaik, you don't actually have access to that since it's on a
> > restricted access machine, so I'm at a loss as to what you're calling
> > "Debian's morgue".
> Merkel's
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:35:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > So give a reference or Message-ID of (what you consider) a sound argument
> > that is not similar to "CIPE, and Windows driver developers who want to test
> > on Linux don't count."
>
> And that's what I mean -- there's nothing un
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:11:50PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:35:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > So give a reference or Message-ID of (what you consider) a sound argument
> > > that is not similar to "CIPE, and Windows driver developers who want to
> > > test
>
Hi,
* Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-22 07:51]:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:07:39PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > Is it possible to mark a particular message to the BTS (as in
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) as spam? This information could be used for
> > filtering the web page reports, or possi
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