Bug#53121: Online Pharmazx

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew
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Achieve stronger and harder erections

2005-06-28 Thread Matthew
Penis Enlargement announcement http://www.asdokm.com/ss/ Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many. I am responsible only to God and history. You have to know how to

Re: Ubuntu discussion at planet.debian.org

2004-10-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 02:40:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:54:05 +0200, J?r?me Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Okay, that's what t-p-u is roughly for, but the fact is that it's > >>> quite painful. > >> > >> C

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
u stop. Your posts are counter-productive - your style of argumentation repels those who may have sympathy, and inflames those who already disagree with you. Your current activities are accomplishing nothing. There is no advantage to be gained in "I told you so" - instead, you merely delay us from going anywhere. Please. No more. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-free firmware: driver in main or contrib?

2004-10-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
hed to the device? If the total amount of non-free software on a user's system is the same regardless, why are we concerned about how it's packaged? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-free firmware: driver in main or contrib?

2004-10-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The point is, some drivers DO require firmwares. I'd rather say: Some >> depend on firmware. In that case, if the firmware is non-free, the >> driver can't

Re: Security updates for sarge?

2004-10-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
Ingo Juergensmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC, you're one of those Ubuntus, right? No more to be said then... I am not an employee of Canonical, and nor have I ever been. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#278027: RFP: ibm-acpi -- Driver for IBM laptops to extend ACPI support

2004-10-24 Thread Matthew Garrett
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Package name: ibm-acpi This has been integrated into the acpi.sf.net patch, so is fairly likely to end up in the mainstream kernel before too long. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#278075: ITP: libical0 -- An implementation of basic iCal protocols

2004-10-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
Ricardo Mones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * URL : http://www.softwarestudio.org/libical/ The last version of this appears to have been released in 2002. Is there any sign of ongoing development, and is there any software that actually uses this library? -- Matthew Garrett

Re: Bug#278027: RFP: ibm-acpi -- Driver for IBM laptops to extend ACPI support

2004-10-25 Thread Matthew Garrett
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sun, Oct 24, 2004: > >> This has been integrated into the acpi.sf.net patch, so is fairly likely >> to end up in the mainstream kernel before too long. > > Oh never read of that,

Re: racoon-tool with >1 algorithms

2004-10-26 Thread Matthew Grant
do a bit more work on my netscript package, and get a new version of that out the door with whereami and resolvconf support for IPv4 and IPv6. I will try and start doing work on ipsec this weekend, and leave the bluez issues alone. Cheers, Matthew Grant On 27/10/2004, at 5:32 AM, Marius Reiner

An important lesson

2004-10-28 Thread Matthew Garrett
Developers, do not allow http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Asecring.gpg to happen to you. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:35:53AM +0200, Arnaud Kyheng wrote: > I love the Debian project, and I have worked on a new development for > it: Apt-Torrent :) > > Apt-Torrent is an apt proxy to the Bittorrent network. For security, the > package listing, and the .torrent files are downloaded from a

Re: Apt-Torrent project

2004-10-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:00:16PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > If we can get individually-signed .debs, you won't even need to worry so > > much about getting the torrent files off a trusted

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:15:19AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I am facing a problem with my ISP started filtering incoming mails with > SPF. Since AOL adopted it, it seems becoming quite popular as I see it. [...] > SPF has known issue with e-mail forwarder such as pobox.com. I think > debian.o

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 09:59:44AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Osamu Aoki > > | If you know easy way to avoid this problem exists, please let me know. > | (Changing ISP is certainly an option.) > > Use BSTMP to gluck. > > (If your ISP can't be whacked into turning it off/Implementing yaho

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:11:07PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Matthew Palmer > | Uhm, having just read through the supplied URL, I can't agree with the > | sanity of the proposal. > > | It appears to require that headers not be modified at all in transit > | (whic

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:15:09PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:37:08PM +1100, Matthew Palmer said > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:11:07PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > It gives you traceability and it can be used to prevent joe-jobs. > > &g

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:48:29AM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:38:20 +1100, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's a question you'll have to ask of Yahoo and the SPF people. My guess > > is that the pushers of these schem

Re: Company launch with Linux system

2004-11-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 07:27:06PM +0200, Hartmut Rummel wrote: > This is cory yearwood from Exsis. Please can you remove the e-mail from your > website.. And yet the name in your From: line is Hartmut Rummel, and you're using a totally different e-mail address. Either way, I doubt that post

Re: Use CVS/Subversion/... as a fast way to update apt lists?

2004-11-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:31:18PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > On the topic of all those talks about reducing network traffic caused by > apt-get update, without putting too high load into server (as rsync does). > > Can't CVS (or Subversion or other similar tool) solve this problem? > S

Bug#281154: RFA: ipsec-tools -- IPsec tools for Linux

2004-11-14 Thread Matthew Grant
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I am planning to maintain this package in the meanwhile, and would love to help out with the racoon-tool script that configures the daemon. I have an interest in making this work for my new laptop, but IPSEC and VPNs are no longer part of my day-to-day work, and oth

Re: Select which conffiles shall be raplaced an which not

2004-11-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:29:38PM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > When running apt-get dist-upgrade I'd like to be able to set a list of > packages whose confiles shall be replaced by the newer versions > supplied by the package (if any) , while other packages' confiles > should be keep

Re: Bug#283751: ITP: fakepop -- fake pop3 server to warn users that only pop3-ssl is available

2004-12-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:12:12PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Steve McIntyre] > > So, let me get this straight - fakepop will allow people to log in > > (using their username and password) in the clear and THEN tell them > > that they should have used POP over SSL instead. Quite how is th

Re: Bug#283751: ITP: fakepop -- fake pop3 server to warn users that only pop3-ssl is available

2004-12-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:17:33AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 11:04 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > So, let me get this straight - fakepop will allow people to log in > > (using their username and password) in the clear and THEN tell them > > that they should have used POP o

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:50:08PM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Yes, hotbabe is sexist (at least in it's current incarnation - if it > included a male theme then it would only be sexually offensive to > some) Anyone who feels that hot-babe would become less sexually offensive because it included

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:38:54AM +0100, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > I can volunteer to provide some naked photos of myself, but I guess they will > be more suitable for section "fun" than section "erotic". There was discussion on IRC in the last few days about a "Men of Debian" calendar.

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:04:15PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: > The poor man's daily snapshot, glastree builds live backup trees, with > branches for each day. Users directly browse the past to recover older > documents or retrieve lost files. Hard links serve to compress out > unchanged files, whil

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: > > In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use > > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package > > operates? > > glastree provides a subset of the functionality of dirvish. It is > actually m

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:58:17PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:59:09PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: > > > > In what ways is this package different to, say, dirvish, which I use > > > > in a manner which is, AFAICS, identical to the way this package > > > > operates? > > >

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:30:05PM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: > > > > Is there any benefit to using glastree over dirvish or pdumpfs? > > > > > > The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented > > > in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered >

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:10:01AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Meanwhile, what's > > the total installed space for glastree if you're not a Perl lover? > > Perl-base is 'Proirity: required'

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:02:38PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:00:22 +1100, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >3314kB, including pdumpfs itself. I'll donate a 32MB USB key to store it > >all on for anyone that is *truly* that star

Re: Bug#283994: ITP: glastree -- builds live backup trees, with branches for each day

2004-12-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:17:45PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > >>The advantage of using glastree over pdumpfs is that it is implemented > >>in Perl rather than Ruby (this is in fact the reason that I encountered > >>it in the fir

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
putting it another way: failing to include this piece of code does Debian no demonstrable harm. Including it does. I know we have something of a reputation for preferring philosophical masturbation to actually doing the useful thing, but that shouldn't result in a several hundred post flamewar. What are you all, stupid or something? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:28:51PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Manoj>Well, remember to exclude the Linux kernel, then. It > Manoj> is certainly not minor friendly. > > How many children look at the Linux kernel source cod

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:53:00PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Also, to the best my knowledge the kernel doesn't contain any pictures > > > of naked people either. I might be mistaken. > > >

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
a strong argument for maintainers actually being allowed to spell their name properly, even if pragmatism suggests that we want a latinised version available as well. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:13:08PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > On 06/12/2004 Steve Langasek wrote: > > Publishing houses never let writers edit their own work -- at least until > > they're famous and have mindless followers who'll buy and read any formulaic > > tripe they slap together. I don't t

Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
ar= > e=20 > used. The libc manual is out of date. We've been using more than 16 bits for a while. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#170548: On closing lists of bugs in changelog...

2004-12-08 Thread Matthew Danish
easier to maintain in the future ). > > * (Closes: 273895, 217516, 220407, 252897, 159110, 170548, 203843) > > (Closes: 238981, 264436, 159410, 137751, 213624) > > > > -- Matthew Danish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 15 Nov 2004 02:14:10 -0500 > > > &g

Bug#284909: ITP: vbetool -- run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state

2004-12-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: vbetool Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/laptops/ * License : GPL Description : run real-mode video BIOS code to alter ha

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:33:30PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Why don't standard ABIs suffice? Not that I'm necessarily arguing in favour of a set of common packages, but defining an ABI is not a sufficient condition to ensure compatibility. Consider a function int s(int, int) -- you can have tw

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:20:32PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 09, Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The whole system has to be DFSG-free. Debian won't compromise on that. > Which DFSG? The original one or the "clarified" one? Give it up, Marco. Your little tantrums aren't cute.

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
rely happy to describe this distinction as arbitrary. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This would make more sense if I sent it to the right list, really. Sorry about that. > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You are the only person I've seen express views similar to mine on >> debian-legal

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
lone blobs just have to follow DFSG if they want to be in main > and some of the BSD licensed blobs can be once they stop linking into > the kernel. Blame it on the viral nature of the GPL. Yes. That's an entirely separate issue. The definition of a DFSG blob is difficult, though. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The dependency still exists - it just isn't expressed within the terms >> of our package management system. I am entirely happy to describe this >> distinction as

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
rmissions. Indeed. If I want to flash various bits of hardware I have, I need to reverse engineer the flash method first. This isn't necessary if I have a driver that uploads an image on every boot. If the firmware isn't in flash, I'm completely screwed. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
t attacking a different problem (unchangeable > burned-in software). Burned-in software is, in general, non-free software. It would be as easy for us to write a free alternative as it would be to write a free version of firmware loaded from disk. Why do you believe this goal to be less important? --

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This argument suggests that we can shift drivers from contrib to main >> simply by turning them into kernel patches and getting them included in >> the stock kern

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le samedi 11 d=E9cembre 2004 =E0 21:47 +, Matthew Garrett a =E9crit : >> We put it in contrib >> so that people know that by using this software, they will also have to >> use non-free code. This is less obvious for d

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
their drivers, so that users are warned away from them. How does moving firmware from the disk to the hardware (therefore making it harder to modify and more expensive) further the cause of free software? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Garrett
t of drivers - the ipw2100 requires different firmware for Linux and Windows. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:06:59PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson said: > > Off line with just the Packages file, you can't tell a dusty 1997 > > package from an up to the minute state of the art package. > > You have the changelogs. Use them. You must hav

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 11:39:30PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > [..] > > There are a number of reasons that a device's firmware won't generally > > be opened to us: > > > > 1. The manufacturer's concerns regarding the proprietary n

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 02:30:51PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op za, 11-12-2004 te 20:12 -0500, schreef Glenn Maynard: > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > What about the rest of the driver? I think that if you remove the BLOB, > > > it's Free Software. It t

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
ly with the DFSG. While I tend to agree, this has the unfortunate side-effect of removing any form of support for Nvidia graphics cards. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
> It makes it covered by the hardware manufacturers warentee. If it is > faulty, you can return it for repair or refund. Under UK law, I have the same rights with faulty software. Do other jurisdictions actually treat software and hardware differently in this respect? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
open the firmware in its entirity. One of these choices does nothing to advance freedom. The other does. If anything, we should be happy that manufacturers /are/ starting to move away from flash - it makes it clearer that there's a freedom issue that we're not at liberty to ignore. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why firmware generally won't be Free Software

2004-12-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: >>Non-free code in flash is no more or less a problem than non-free code on >>disk. >> >> > Except that we have to distribute it. If the manufacturer is so > concerned about their code th

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
this sort of thing. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
on-free code that exists on the filesystem but is executed on that device? How is the cause of free software advanced? How is the experience of our users improved? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
ia humour. Given all that he's done for Debian at various points, suggesting that he shouldn't be here is really going too far. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:53:51AM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote: > I'm stunned. So anything in a Debian package is software. With alien I can > convert a tar.gz into a debian package, so all tar files are software. With > tar I can create a tar.gz from any file, so all electronic data is software

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:37:45AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > No, there's a very concrete reason: given an installation of Debian >> > main, the dri

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:45:07AM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > >>Should I go on? > > > > > >No, I think you've adequately demonstrated that you don't have the foggiest > >idea what you're talking about. > >

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
So far, this is all a repeat. It wasn't convincing any of > the last couple times, so it won't be this time. Note that the social contract says "requires", not "depends". I'm inclined to believe that policy is in the wrong here. (This does not mean that I believ

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
u can find me a piece of hardware that can be driven by the kernel's orinoco driver and which contains no non-free executable code, I will agree that the driver does not require the use of non-free executable code. But not until then. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
use of volunteers, accusations of conspiracies and generally nasty attitude is a good combination of tactics to ensure that your questions are never answered, no matter how good they are. If you have any desire to help Debian, then lose the attitude. If you don't, then please stop wasting

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
he biggest blocker after these things is probably a general failure to actually care all that much. How many people are actually behaving as if a release is just around the corner? How can we fix this? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
on the correct side of it. As a project, Debian owes you nothing. If you're not going to make a sufficiently useful contribution to outweigh your character flaws, then it's better for you to make no contribution whatsoever. Unless you're a FPAV fan, please don't Cc: me. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New stable version after Sarge

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
Releasing every 6 months wouldn't be a problem if we could support the previous two releases as well. That's probably excessive, but the optimal release length depends on how much support we can provide. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:46:51PM +, Stephen Quinney wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > ti, 2005-02-01 kello 15:25 +, Stephen Quinney kirjoitti: > > > This is the 3.4 series of RT, it can be installed alongside the 3.0 > > > and 3.2 series withou

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:27:30PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Lars Wirzenius: > > > ti, 2005-02-01 kello 15:25 +, Stephen Quinney kirjoitti: > >> This is the 3.4 series of RT, it can be installed alongside the 3.0 > >> and 3.2 series without any problems. This release is a big > >> im

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
t; vast majority of the stuff that runs in Wine is non-free--but not all, so > Wine goes in main. The relative quantities aren't relevant. Even then, the freeness of material outside Debian is generally ignored. We have multiple clients that only work with non-free servers. -- Matthew Garre

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:38:10PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Matthew Palmer: > > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:27:30PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> * Lars Wirzenius: > >> > >> > ti, 2005-02-01 kello 15:25 +, Stephen Quinney kirjoitti: >

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:04:40PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 02-Feb-05, 18:31 (CST), Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So archive bloat is not a problem for you, and "apt-get dist-upgrade" not > > actually providing upgrades to

Re: Bug#293167: ITP: request-tracker3.4 -- Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system

2005-02-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:04:33AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Matthew Palmer: > > >> As a user, I think this is very convenient. The ability to switch > >> back to a known-to-work version by tweaking a few configuration files > >> is reassuring, even

Re: mkchroot scripts

2005-02-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:28:19AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:58:55PM +0300, Sergei I. Kononov wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 03 at 20:23:20 (+0100), Christoph Berg wrote: > > > > > What's the difference to makejail and debootstrap? > > > > 1. Created chroot enviroment us

Re: [Ipw2100-devel] debian, ipw2200 and wlan0

2005-02-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
nd up as eth2 anyway. It makes more sense to either bind configuration to specific cards (using the mac address, for instance), or different classes of card. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Ipw2100-devel] debian, ipw2200 and wlan0

2005-02-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 18:45 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Oliver Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Naming wired network eth%d and wireless wlan%d would make things a lot >> > easier. For example, it is easi

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

2005-02-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:19:12AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 15, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suppose I will start filing minor bugs against packages that do > > this. I'd like to hear other people's opinions, though. (It occurs > > to me that help output to stderr

Re: Bug#295328: general: Help messages to stderr should be banned

2005-02-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:06:19PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:38:08AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Francesco P. Lovergine writes: > > > It depends on programs, sometimes the same usage function is used for > > > either --help or invalid options. > > > > Sure

Re: apt-src cannot build

2005-02-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:26:12PM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2005 21:32, Michael Koch wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:09:41PM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > > > On Thursday 17 February 2005 13:18, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 06:

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Clint Byrum spamaps.org> writes: > > Now, can someone please tell me how messages like the one below, and > > others, aren't indicative that debian should drop s390, mipsel, and > > maybe hppa from the list of architectures? How

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:15:58AM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > undisputed: essentially all users are on i386 clearly dominating all other > arches, with a fraction of users in maybe two, three, four other arches --- > and comparitively nobody in the other fringe arches we keep around for n

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 04:39:22AM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Matthew Palmer debian.org> writes: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:15:58AM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > undisputed: essentially all users are on i386 clearly dominating all > > > other &g

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:42:15AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> - scarce resource such as release managers, ftp admins, ... > >> if we have to look after arches that are *not really used*. > > > >All of whom have sai

Re: self-depending packages

2005-03-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Er, hardly. libdpkg will contain *extremely* low-level stuff. > Reading/writing debs(ar/tar/gzip/bzip/checksum stuff). It won't contain > higher-level anything. The active development seems to disagree with you... -- Matthew Garret

Re: Bug#298195: ITP: tinywm -- Ridiculously tiny window manager

2005-03-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:07:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 01:59 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le dimanche 06 mars 2005 ? 01:17 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu a ?crit : > > > TinyWM is a ridiculously tiny window manager implemented in nearly as > > > few lines of C as pos

Re: Re: Bug #298195: ITP: tinywm -- Ridiculously tiny window manager

2005-03-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:38:49PM -0600, Nick Welch wrote: > (not sure if i can post to this list, but what the hey) > > > That's not a free license. In fact, it's about as non-free as you can > > get, since it's essentially "all rights reserved"; there's no > > permission to modify or redistribu

Re: Bug #298195: ITP: tinywm -- Ridiculously tiny window manager

2005-03-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:59:11AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > That licence does not grant any permission to modify, > > redistribute, or otherwise deal in the work in a Free manner. For it to be > > judged as satisfying the Open Source Definition

Re: Bug #298195: ITP: tinywm -- Ridiculously tiny window manager

2005-03-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
[no cc thanks] On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:16:03AM -0600, Nick Welch wrote: > > Thanks for pointing this out. Now we have a concrete example of just > > how screwed up OSI is. That licence does not grant any permission to > > modify, redistribute, or otherwise deal in the work in a Free manner. >

Re: Bug #298195: ITP: tinywm -- Ridiculously tiny window manager

2005-03-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 02:38:35AM -0600, Nick Welch wrote: > > This is why random Joe off the street should not be writing licences. > > >From what I can gather, the license was developed through discussion on > OSI's mailing list, and in the end it was OSI who approved it. Quite > different fro

Re: usbmount: udev script to automatically (un)mount USB mass storage devices: include in Debian?

2005-03-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
g ext2/3, that isn't a problem. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#299146: RFA: phpwiki: An informal collaborative website manager

2005-03-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: wnpp,phpwiki Version: 1.3.7-3 Severity: wishlist I no longer use PHPWiki myself, and don't have time to do the necessary work to keep PHPWiki as sharp as it needs to be. Personally, I don't think it's suitable for release as-is, so anyone who wants to see PHPWiki in Sarge should probably

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
[Probably going a bit off track for -release; MFT to -devel] On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:14:35PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > The queue ordering is entirely automatic, and AIUI the queue(s) is (are) > sorted by: > > - target suite > - package priority > - package section > - package

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:12:12PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:01:28PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Remember that the buildd queue is not FIFO at all. The queue has a > > > completly static order. Any c

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