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,

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: 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: 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: 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]

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: [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: 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: 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]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
d to a large audience? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Questions for the DPL candidates (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
he ensuing fallout) arising in future? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
Rob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I feel the need point out that the current DPL and one DPL candidate, > Matthew Garrett, havn't expressed support for this proposal in its > current form. I should say that I don't necessarily disagree with the current proposals,

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:58:06AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Uhm. You knew that conclusions from that meeting would be likely to >> contradict the answers from other DPL candidates, but you did nothing to >> make the

Re: Supporting tier-2 (was Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
hat, vulnerabilities notifications won't be available. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Supporting tier-2 (was Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3))

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 05:57:05PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Reasonable security support requires some degree of cooperation with the >> current security team. Without that, vulnerabilities notifications won't >&

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
else > pay the bill ? As mentioned in http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/03/msg00015.html , the funding came from NUUGF. As far as I know, the project spent no money on this. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
and it, SCC *binaries* get their own domain / mirrors / > everything, but the *source* shall be shared with the main archive. Uh. Not if you want to distribute any GPLed material. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 21:49 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> As I understand it, SCC *binaries* get their own domain / mirrors / > >> everything, but the *source* shall be shared with the main archive. > > > > Uh. Not if you want

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
laiming that there was any sort of conspiracy to make people look stupid. However, given that two of the people responding knew that the situation had changed, it ought to have been possible to let the others know that answering this question was a bad idea. As you say, though, the timing was unfo

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It's not clear that an FTP site really satisfies that, and it's also the >> case that this is the FSF's interpretation rather than being the one >>

Re: Questions for the DPL candidates

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew Garrett
/ solid technical discussion going on. We do have problems, and this is (so far) the best proposal we've had for dealing with them. I just wish it had been reached somewhat differently. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
p-to in replies. This discussion doesn't belong on this list. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Social pressure on mailing lists (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
anything other than an absolutely final resort. (m-f-t -project - this isn't a technical discussion) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The sarge release disaster - some thoughts

2005-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
Andreas Barth has posted a good description of the problems that the release team face, and how the proposal would help. I'm hoping that something similary will be forthcoming from the ftp-masters. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
ve the effect of discouraging people who /aren't/ working on the potentially affected ports. If we're going to fail to release architectures, then let's base this on technical grounds rather than "I don't see any real reason why you need to release this architecture". -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iyonix [was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting]

2005-03-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
ebian, but so far it hasn't been added to the buildd setup. I'm not clear on the reasons for this. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
e number drops below 12 again. If this is the case, I think that needs to be made clearer to avoid situations where people work to meet the criteria but are vetoed by the release team because there are already too many architectures. I'm not massively keen on this - it ends up sounding a bi

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
n is insane, and bringing it up in such a hostile manner (not to mention attempting to use it to claim that the DPL team don't care about your particular issue) isn't going to result in it being fixed faster. Instead, it's going to result in people assuming that you're some s

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
The answer is "all of them", so this one's not very compelling. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread Matthew Garrett
ebian archive >> > (to be added to dinstall at some point). > > [Matthew Garrett] >> The answer is "all of them", so this one's not very compelling. [Someone with a horrid, horrid quoting style] > What? All Ubuntu .deb files went through ftp-master.debian

Re: Announcement: Common Power-Management Framework

2005-12-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
#x27;d argue that it needs to be possible for configuration to be done on a per-user basis (you wouldn't believe the degree of argument over whether closing the lid of a laptop should trigger a suspend or not) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Announcement: Common Power-Management Framework

2005-12-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
figured for a server-type environment. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Announcement: Common Power-Management Framework

2005-12-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
other packages c) Should be configurable in terms of default response to actions d) Should (optionally) get out of the way if a user runs a power management daemon 2) Define a mechanism for packages to drop scripts into this framework 3) Ensure that packages like gnome-power-manager and whateve

Re: Announcement: Common Power-Management Framework

2005-12-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
ose the lid is a per-user preference. The length of time before an idle system suspends is a per-user preference. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Announcement: Common Power-Management Framework

2005-12-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
rivileges, which means that some amount of policy has to be determined by processes running as the user. It's also important that this sort of thing can only be controlled by an appropriate user - if I'm logged in on a background VT, I shouldn't be able to trigger power management st

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
ut >> of things"? > > How many developer resignations will you need to understand inaction > from people at key positions sucks the fun out of things in a worse way? Reading these threads makes me want to resign. WILL YOU NOT THINK OF THE CHILDREN? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMA

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
e for developers to be ejected from the project. If you feel that anyone is behaving in a way that would not have allowed them to get through NM, then please do invoke it. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
ything else should go in /var/run. Under Linux, can't all of this be done with mount --move anyway? I'm not convinced that we actually need a /run any more. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run vs /var/run (was: Please test new sysvinit)

2005-12-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:57:35AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Under Linux, can't all of this be done with mount --move anyway? I'm not >> convinced that we actually need a /run any more. > > So you would hav

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
obvious target. How about dealing with some more significant problems? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
FDL, > but the FDL is non-DFSG-free in the general case. I don't think the FSF have ever claimed that the GFDL would class as a free software license. Their standards for free documentation licenses are clearly different to the DFSG. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNS

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
ivergent from the FSF's viewpoint, we need to figure out how and why. Having two different definitions of free software does nothing to help the community. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That is completely irrelevant. The FSF doesn't use the DFSG as freeness >> guidelines. > > But the DFSG are intended to be a more detailed description of what fre

Re: Thoughts on Debian quality, including automated testing

2005-12-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
y of my packages. I'd be even happier if anyone who did so was willing to enter into some sort of reciprocal agreement. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dependencies on makedev

2005-12-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
plain text configuration files has never been the Unix way, and vi certainly isn't a standard unix tool. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
dless of whether you download 1GB or 20GB in a month. Therefore, as long as the increase in traffic doesn't saturate your line, the cost per GB is 0. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew Garrett
f > launchpad which is better. Again, I think it would do a good job keeping > everything organized an efficient. Launchpad is currently non-free, so it doesn't seem terribly likely. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
S service. Thanks, Sourceforge) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265920

2006-01-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
s", they've said "If you report a bug to Debian and nobody forwards it, we know nothing about it". -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-13 Thread Matthew Garrett
that the US government gives back to Debian? Do we say that your > employer gives back to Debian? If it's an authorised use of company time, sure. Whether or not it is in this case, I don't know. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No other Debian derivative, as far as I'm aware, says that it > cooperates fully with Debian. Other than, say, the DCC Alliance? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mdz writes: >> Have you ever received such a notification? > > Yes. I haven't. I'm going to cry now :-((( -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Other than, say, the DCC Alliance? > > I wasn't aware of them until just now. :) Wow! > Interestingly, the DCC Alliance says that it wants to become part of >

Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)

2006-01-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Patch clauses only prohibit code reuse if your build system is >> insufficiently complicated. > > And you are willing to contain an entire copy of the codebase from > which y

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:23:41PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The DCCA distribution is a mixture of packages from Sarge plus some > > backports. In all cases, the Maintainer: field appears to be the same as > >

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:32:20PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Have they modified these packages? > > > > Some of them, yes. Mostly the backports. > > What happens to the maintainer field in the

Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)

2006-01-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:21:14AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> I'm not going to defend patch clauses. I think they're massively >> horrible things, and the world would be a better place without them. But >> de

Re: Ironies abound (was Re: GPL v3 draft)

2006-01-17 Thread Matthew Garrett
I do apologise. These should plainly have been on -legal. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
y reasonable thing to do now that I'm aware of it. Ah, my apologies. I'd assumed it was something that you'd probably have thought about, so I'll happily withdraw that. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: DFSG4 and combined works [was: Anton's amendment]

2006-02-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
A doesn't explicitly permit us to use "patch files" or any > other work based on A for the purpose of modifying the sources of > another program, in our case B. If the license forbids the use of modified code in other works, then it's plainly not a free license. -- Ma

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
(I can provide links if you can't believe me). Sven has insulted me and accused me of engaging in a conspiracy against him and his employers in order to cover up my own incompetence on more than one occasion without any hint of an apology. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
er than wasting list bandwidth, please consult a solicitor. I have absolutely no interest in starting legal action against Sven. And rather than wasting /my/ bandwidth, would you please not Cc me on replies? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
hibaut Varene - are you sure you're not confused? Friendly, -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: acpi vs apm

2005-01-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
nto user configuration. In a lot of cases, you want PM policy to be definable by the person carrying the computer around, even if they don't have administrative access. I've got some amount of code for doing most of these things, but it's very heavily a post-Sarge thing - it

Re: Bug#292479: ITP: kernel-patch-swsusp2 -- software suspend 2 for linux kernel patch

2005-01-27 Thread Matthew Garrett
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, well, tough luck for him. That said, he can take over the > package when he's a DD. I need it now, but I don't insist on > maintaining it. I'm curious - what functionality do you need that isn't present in the

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
y architectures is basically impossible then we may have problems. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-20 Thread Matthew Garrett
m before making up his mind. This way the decition is > taken by an elected person, based on the available input from the > relevant teams. Constitutionally, I think it makes more sense to devolve it to the technical committee. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: NEW handling: About rejects, and kernels

2005-03-21 Thread Matthew Garrett
email. Problems with communication come from both sides. If you're rude to people, they become less likely to do useful stuff for you. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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