Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-16 Thread Eric Dorland
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:50:44PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:20:57AM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: > > > > > Does the o

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-16 Thread Eric Dorland
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:23:39PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:48:55AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROT

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-16 Thread Eric Dorland
* Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Jun 16, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not trying to say it's non-free. It is free. What I'm trying to > > determine is if we should use the marks within Debian. Let me try > Go

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-16 Thread Eric Dorland
* Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Eric Dorland wrote: > > * Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > * Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > All of

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-17 Thread Eric Dorland
l's > investigation into this matter, yes. There were several others, too. Sorry Andrew, which investigation are you referring to? Which other outcomes? You've got some context there I'm not getting. > Oddly enough, I *do* know what happened. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-17 Thread Eric Dorland
* Raphaël Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Le jeudi 16 juin 2005 à 14:45 -0400, Eric Dorland a écrit : > > I'm not trying to say it's non-free. It is free. What I'm trying to > > determine is if we should use the marks within Debian. > >

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-17 Thread Eric Dorland
* Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Eric Dorland wrote: > > Well I don't think DFSG #4 says the rename has to be easy, it just > > has to be possible. > > Yes. However, the last sentence in DFSG #4 only talks about renaming, > no

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-17 Thread Eric Dorland
* Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:10:07PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > * Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 06:08:36PM +0200, Rapha?l Hertzog wrote: > > > > Le vendredi 17 juin 2005 à

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-17 Thread Eric Dorland
* Gervase Markham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > >* Simon Huggins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>I was under the impression that downstreams could call the packages > >>firefox as they had been blessed with official Debian penguin pee as > >>

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-17 Thread Eric Dorland
ey have the legal > right to do everything that we want to do with or without permission. > > So let's accept the "arrangement" and move on. There is no DFSG problem > here even if we do accept the notion that the DFSG applies to trademarks. If we don't need the "

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-18 Thread Eric Dorland
* Dale C. Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 02:16:18 -0400 > Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Jun 15, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-18 Thread Eric Dorland
* Gervase Markham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > >But I don't think it's good for our users for Debian to have rights > >that the user don't have. > > Debian already has rights that their users don't have, the most > prominent among

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-19 Thread Eric Dorland
* Michael K. Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 6/17/05, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Exactly. If Debian doesn't need such an arrangement, neither do our > > > users. > > > And i

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-19 Thread Eric Dorland
* John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland writes: > > If we don't need the "arrangement", why exactly would we accept it > > anyway? > > Because they want it and it costs us nothing to give it to them. They are > our friends. Let's acc

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-20 Thread Eric Dorland
* John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland writes: > > We may be their friends, but that shouldn't give us special privileges. > > If what we are doing does not actually infringe their trademark we would > not be getting any special privileges. What we are d

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-20 Thread Eric Dorland
s that I found in BR case law were to > > *advertising* and *misrepresenting* something as being from the wrong > > origin. > > Same in the US. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-20 Thread Eric Dorland
* Michael K. Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 6/19/05, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Michael K. Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I wouldn't say "accept" it, I would say "acknowledge" the safety zone > > >

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-20 Thread Eric Dorland
* John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I wrote: > > If what we are doing does not actually infringe their trademark we would > > not be getting any special privileges. > > Eric Dorland writes: > > What we are doing already is against their trademark policy.

Re: Mozilla Foundation Trademarks

2005-06-20 Thread Eric Dorland
* Eric Dorland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'd certainly > be interested in trying to develop some sort of policy for Debian regarding trademarks. I'm not sure how much weight it could carry, but at least if people like the ideas. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROT

Re: dummy packages and "Replaces:" field

2005-06-24 Thread Eric Cooper
Supersedes:", "Takes-Over:", "Drop-In Replaces:", > "Follows:" ? Since there should be a unique replacement that old and new package maintainer(s) agree on, I think the old package (the one being replaced) should have the header. (Perhaps "Replaced-By:"

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-24 Thread Eric Dorland
the issue up again if I see it happening. Hopefully this will make everyone happy (or at least equally unhappy), but I think it is the best compromise for the time being, until at least better policies are worked out with regard to trademarks. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-26 Thread Eric Dorland
* Gervase Markham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > >* Gervase Markham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>Debian already has rights that their users don't have, the most > >>prominent among them being to label a Linux distribution as "Debian&quo

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-26 Thread Eric Dorland
* Shachar Shemesh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am not a lawyer. > > I am a consultant trying to understand the world he lives in, and as > such, studied the applicable law a little. > > Eric Dorland wrote: > > >So, I don't feel I can accept the agreement offe

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-26 Thread Eric Dorland
* Gervase Markham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > >The thread is petering out > > Only because there's only one of me, and I'm too busy to deal with the > volume! It's currently ten to midnight and I just got back from speaking > at a conf

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-26 Thread Eric Dorland
* Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:48:19AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > [...] > > So, I don't feel I can accept the agreement offered by the Mozilla > > Foundation, because of my objections to it and because I don't feel > &

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-26 Thread Eric Dorland
ith the DFSG), I would urge you to not keep the > > > status quo. > > > > If Eric were to rename the packages there is the potential for somebody > > else to package again using the Firefox name. Redundant but useful for > > our users. > > > > If the MoFo i

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-28 Thread Eric Dorland
* Martin Waitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hoi :) > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:18:19AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > The whole question is whether Debian can accept a Debian-specific > > agreement to call Firefox "Firefox". > > sure, and the consensus se

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Dorland
* Baptiste Carvello ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Eric, > > First I wanted to say again that whatever your final decision, a build > system > that optionally does the renaming would still be appreciated. It would be > even > better if the MoFo would do it themselves, of

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-29 Thread Eric Dorland
ishable issues -- one is a presentation format for distribution, > the other is a means for the work to identify itself. My problem with it is DFSG 8. If we accept a trademark license, we're attaching additional rights to the program that are Debian-specific. I understand that the DFSG wer

Re: tpkg-debarch should support "arm-linux-gnu" target (was Re: small quirks setting up a cross-compile toolchain)

2006-07-28 Thread Eric Cooper
This thread suggests that it's time for toolchain-source to be retired: http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2006/07/msg00068.html If not, perhaps some documentation pointing to this alternative method of building cross tools should be added to the toolchain-source package. -- Eric C

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-01 Thread Eric Dorland
s against upstream. I really don't > understand the whole cdbs/dpatch/whatever thing -- why use a hack to > manage your patches when you could use a real VC tool that does it > better? Amen to that. (although I use svn) -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, J

Re: Bug#381745: ITP: ceferino -- action game similar to Super Pang

2006-08-06 Thread Eric Dorland
s. Levels consist of > little > platforms connected by ladders, so you can go up and down or find cover > if needed. Is this one better or worse than pangzero? -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: release update: freeze, RC Bug count, python, toolchain

2006-08-09 Thread Eric Dorland
ing with automake. I have a patch to remove the documentation cleanly, I'll try to get it all sorted out over the weekend. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: VMware packaging

2006-08-22 Thread Eric Dorland
rly stage of development, but it's there. Looking at the CVS it hasn't been touched in a year, with a bug open saying it doesn't work with qemu 0.8.0. > See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322344. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586

Re: Deploying configuration as packages

2006-08-30 Thread Eric Dorland
> > the current conffile architecture in dpkg? > > no, you will lose data if you try. Arguably this should be fixed. > -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Public discussion time for Creative Commons 3.0 license draft coming to a close

2006-10-02 Thread Eric Dorland
ummary > [5] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6017 > [6] http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/ > -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-10 Thread Eric Dorland
7;t it be possible to move the alternatives around in an atomic fashion? ln -sf bar foo.tmp ; mv foo.tmp foo . Or am I missing something? -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-10 Thread Eric Dorland
* Gabor Gombas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 05:25:57PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > Shouldn't it be possible to move the alternatives around in an atomic > > fashion? ln -sf bar foo.tmp ; mv foo.tmp foo . Or am I missing > > somethi

Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-11 Thread Eric Dorland
* Matthias Julius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> - If you set up the alternatives in preinst, then there is a time when > >> the symlink exists but the pointed binary hasn't been unpacked yet -> > >>

Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-11 Thread Eric Dorland
* Matthias Julius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Matthias Julius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> >> - If you set up the alternatives in

Re: Bug mass filling

2006-10-19 Thread Eric Dorland
means anything referenced in > the etch_rc_policy-document. I would have thought that meant a violation of http://www.us.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/. I certainly think it's the release manager's responsibility to mark bugs that are not release blocking etch-ignore, but if it is a violation of policy it should still be serious. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: buildd disk space and debug symbols

2006-03-21 Thread Eric Dorland
gt; more with it later. If I recall correctly, only the submitter of the bug and people properly blessed can turn on the ask for review flag. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 ---

Re: buildd disk space and debug symbols

2006-03-21 Thread Eric Dorland
* Martin Michlmayr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-21 10:34]: > > > get this in. I can confirm that the patch in our firefox works - > > > at least firefox starts and loads the Debian homepage. I'll play > > > some

Re: Common Position on RubyGems, stupid? what about /usr/local/ ?

2006-04-19 Thread Eric Dorland
t; Admin takes full reponsabilty about rubygem. On purge rubygem only remove > its > files in /usr/lib. > > I consider rubygem as package similar to wget. I don't expect dpkg -P wget > to remove files i have downloaded when i typed: > > wget -O /usr/local/somefile h

Re: Missing firefox source and unofficial debian-amd64 breakage

2006-04-23 Thread Eric Dorland
version anymore. > > > > > > > > >From my irc backlog this looks like a DAK screwup and not the > > > > maintainers fault and is probably being investigated already. But that > > > > doesn't help the rest of the world in the short run. > >

Re: Bug#364609: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Dorland
an rely on > us not to fake version numbers, and b) Manoj can continue to > package Gnus. There is a fairly long tradition of stripping non-free things out of the upstream tarball and adding a dfsg to the version. While the documentation removal is probably some of the most intrusive DFS

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Dorland
the only documentation. The "dfsg" tag in > > version names means not "this is the upstream dfsg version", it > > means "this is the Debian-modified version, where the only > > modifications made were those we did to make the package meet the > > DFSG

cleaning up lib*-dev packages?

2006-05-13 Thread Eric Cooper
ool I should be using? -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-15 Thread Eric Dorland
experimental distribution deleted? Ideally, they should go away as -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-25 Thread Eric Dorland
anyway) and while not signing his key because of this is reasonable, or > even revoking a signature which had been based on this ID, the constant > inflammatory claims of Martin being a 'cracker' and how this could lead > to other 'cracks' is extreme, insulting, and chi

Re: Real Life hits: need to give up packages for adoption

2006-05-29 Thread Eric Dorland
. The Easy Pickings stuff would be ideal start-up > work for new maintainers / mentorship; some of the others do need some > work. > * gnupg2 > (some clean-up work) I'd like to take this, as it ties into some of my work packaging OpenSC quite nicely. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL

proposed mozilla-firefox security update, needs testing!

2006-06-19 Thread Eric Dorland
At http://people.debian.org/~eric/mozilla-firefox you'll find mozilla-firefox 1.0.4-2sarge8. It contains backports of the security fixes present in 1.5.0.4. All these fixes are the work of Alexander Sack, who's been working tirelessly the last couple of weeks to get things ported. I

Re: dxpc in sid and ready for backports, FYI

2006-06-19 Thread Eric Dorland
the next upload will break compatibility with dxpc running > on older systems. That information is a very good candidate for a NEWS.Debian file. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6

Re: proposed mozilla-firefox security update, needs testing!

2006-06-20 Thread Eric Dorland
* Martin Spoehrle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:34:55PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > Please test these packages! There was quite a lot of code change in > > some of these patches, and the more users we have to test the sooner > > we can resolve any

Reclaiming automake

2006-06-25 Thread Eric Dorland
ED]> fwbuilder libfwbuilder libgcgi Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> anjuta Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gato Rune B. Broberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tuxtype Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fluidsynth Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Reclaiming automake

2006-06-25 Thread Eric Dorland
* Artur R. Czechowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 07:11:14PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > automake1.4: This is the old school package, that's been completely > > unsupported for a number of years (since 2002). It certainly not used

Re: proposed mozilla-firefox security update, needs testing!

2006-06-27 Thread Eric Dorland
* Alexander Sack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:25:36PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > * Martin Spoehrle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:34:55PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > Please test these packages! There

Re: Reclaiming automake

2006-06-29 Thread Eric Dorland
* Scott James Remnant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 19:11 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > Scott James Remnant dropped me an email recently, interested in > > improving the automake situation in Ubuntu and Debian[0]. > > > > [0] Their plan, whi

Re: Reclaiming automake

2006-06-30 Thread Eric Dorland
* Scott James Remnant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 19:37 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > * Scott James Remnant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 19:11 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > > > > Scott James Remnan

Re: Reclaiming automake

2006-06-30 Thread Eric Dorland
* James Westby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On (29/06/06 19:37), Eric Dorland wrote: > > * Scott James Remnant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 19:11 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > > > > Scott James Remnant dropped me an email re

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-11 Thread Eric Dorland
o available under the GPL. I don't really see why that's > relevant...) Just to point out that as of Firefox/Thunderbird 2 the entire codebase is triple licensed under the MPL, GPL and LGPL and any objection to the MPL as far as Mozilla is concerned is fairly academic at this poin

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-11 Thread Eric Dorland
* Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just to point out that as of Firefox/Thunderbird 2 the entire codebase > > is triple licensed under the MPL, GPL and LGPL and any objection to > > the MPL as far as Mozilla i

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-11 Thread Eric Dorland
* Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:47:32AM -0400, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > * Matthew Garrett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-12 Thread Eric Dorland
ptcstubs_asm_ppc_linux.s and > xptcinvoke_asm_sparc_linux.s are NPL only ; > xptcinvoke_asm_mips.s is MPL. Even if we don't use the irix, vms, etc files, if they're problematic license-wise, we'd need to strip them out or get the license fixed. > I'm going to contact G

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-14 Thread Eric Dorland
* Mike Hommey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:58:13PM -0400, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Some examples and test files are licensed under Mozilla-sample-code. > > > > Uh, is that actually a license? > > Yes it is:

Bug#378938: ITP: ocaml-sha1 -- SHA1 binding for OCaml

2006-07-19 Thread Eric Cooper
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ocaml-sha1 Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Vincent Hanquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://tab.snarc.org/download/ocaml/ocaml_sha1-0.4.tar.bz2 * License

Bug#379343: ITP: jrpg -- kanji learning game

2006-07-22 Thread Eric Dorland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: jrpg Version : 20060524-2151 Upstream Author : Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : mostly GPL, but will go

Re: Bug#379343: ITP: jrpg -- kanji learning game

2006-07-22 Thread Eric Dorland
* Matthew R. Dempsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 06:01:57PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > * URL : http://www.example.org/ > > Does this package not have an actual web site? Sorry, http://www.zabor.org/jrpg/ -- Eric Dorland <[EMA

Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2005-01-12 Thread Eric Dorland
ages? And with the recent upload of ffmpeg make these objections moot? -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++

Bug#290364: ITP: svn-arch-mirror -- one-way mirroring from Subversion to Arch revision control

2005-01-13 Thread Eric Wong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: svn-arch-mirror Version : 0.2.6 Upstream Author : Eric Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://des.petta-tech.bogomips.org/eric/MusicPD/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/svn-arch-mirror/ * License : GPL v2 Descr

Re: Bug#290652: ITP: kernel-patch-ibookg4-suspend -- patch to support for hibernation in new G4 ibooks

2005-01-15 Thread Eric Dorland
; Architecture: powerpc (ppc) > Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-g4 > Locale: LANG=es_ES, LC_CTYPE=es_ES (charmap=ISO-8859-1) > > -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -BEGIN GEEK C

see with URL support or agnostic konqueror?

2005-01-16 Thread Eric Lavarde
;agnostic" utility that does this kind of thing? - would the 'mime-support' maintainer be interested in adding URL handling to the 'see' utility? (would this be at all a good idea?) Thanks, Eric -- Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht der Inkompetenz. Violence is the La

Bug#291495: ITP: blktool -- Program that does stuff with block devices

2005-01-20 Thread Eric Dorland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: blktool Version : 4 Upstream Author : Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/ * License : GPL Description : Program that does stuff with block devices blktool is use

Re: FTP arrangement

1995-09-28 Thread Eric Youngdale
and hardcoding some interface >into the kernel to use that name under certain circumstances. [much >hand waving here.] This gives me a headache just thinking about it. -Eric -- "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."

Bug#2083: machine hangs when ftping large file

1996-01-02 Thread Eric Hanchrow
* Exactly what you typed or did to demonstrate the problem. On another machine, I typed ftp erich1 erich (my user name) sdlfskldfj (my password) binary cd /usr/local/bin get emacs * A description of the inco

Bug#4506: bad value assigned to XVDestDir in XView.cf (xview-dev package)

1996-09-19 Thread Eric Delaunay
done #endif /* InstallNonExecList */ ---- Best regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)

Bug#4507: XView.tmpl overrides MKDIRHIER (xview-dev package)

1996-09-19 Thread Eric Delaunay
X-Window defaults. Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)

Bug#4509: mkdirhier is buggy

1996-09-19 Thread Eric Delaunay
e is no trouble. It seems that bash isn't 100% compatible with sh :-( Does mkdirhier be patched to accept this syntax ? Thanks in advance. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)

Bug#4643: online help badly configured for vim-4.4

1996-09-29 Thread Eric Delaunay
14:53 vim_unix.txt.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root15596 Sep 24 14:53 vim_w32.txt.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root22133 Sep 24 14:53 vim_win.txt.gz Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les sup

Re: Crazy Idea: debian developer conference

1999-09-23 Thread eric scroger
ghts and lodging. I'm aware that there are high concentrations of developes in the San Fran/San Jose Bay area as well as in Europe. Whatever it takes I hope it comes together. Eric -- Eric Scrogerhttp://www.promosaic.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.novare.net code monkey 214.720.0700

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-10-01 Thread Eric Weigel
ng as each package and packager "does the right thing" when a potential conflict crops up. The bottom line: let the user decide. Eric Bestnet Internet Inc On Fri, 1 Oct 1999 10:28:03 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: >On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 08:34:48AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: >>

Re: boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)

1999-10-01 Thread Eric Delaunay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Do we still want to support very old hardware, especially low memory system > > (eg. some old sparc, and maybe old 386, 486 as well) ? > > Then you also need a 1.x kernel. 2.0 is wasting mem

Re: nasty slink -> potato upgrade problem

2000-03-12 Thread Eric Weigel
And/or make the new Perl pre-depend on the new apt, so the apt update will happen before anything else? On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > > Trouble ahead? > > Please run "apt-get install apt" before doing the dist-upgrade. Old apt > > don't manage well the perl transition. This w

Re: netstd split results in loss of functionality

2000-03-13 Thread Eric Weigel
License problems: namely, there isn't one, and it's not clearly public domain, and nobody knows who the author is. On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Daniel Martin wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Why doesn't netstd depend: on all the packages it previously included? > >

hwtools going multiarch (for scsi stuff)

2000-03-19 Thread Eric Delaunay
er to split the scsi part out of it and create a new scsitools package (I can adopt it if you want). What do you think about this? Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a pas de problème. Devise Shadok.

Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-23 Thread Eric Weigel
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > > Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs. > > Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros > > have? > > They're both libc 6.0 -- how would ld.so

no freeramdisk? -> util-linux

2000-03-29 Thread Eric Delaunay
agree with this proposal? It should go under /bin or /sbin (/sbin preferably) because I need it early at boot time, before any partition (like /usr) is mounted. I will file a bug against loadlin & util-linux if I get a consensus on it. Thanks in advance. -- Eric Delaunay

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Eric Weigel
eceived headers is a mistake. They are useful for tracking problems, not just spam. Maybe X-Received is an option for dealing with broken mailers. Cheers! Eric -- Mathematics belongs to God -- Donald Knuth

Re: What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2000-03-31 Thread Eric Weigel
I just logged in on console as root, and ulimit -a reported 256 processes max. So I don't think the problem is with su. Maybe it's PAM? I wonder where this gets configured? On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Brian Greenfield wrote: > >On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi Uek

RE: Embedded Debian (was: compaq iPaq)

2000-08-16 Thread Eric Molitor
Ag, evil. If you plan to use busybox upgrade to .46 there are some serious problems with .45 in regards to tar and nfs. On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Frank Smith wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > anywhere else in Debian? It's curious that busybox isn't packaged > > separately. > > A

Re: Crazy idea: removing version numbers from debian

2000-08-30 Thread Eric Schwartz
Numbers make a lot of things easier. > And we'd have a goal for the name. Like the goal for "whiskey" release > would be every package that needs it supports debconf, or the goal for > "vodka" is every package supports kernel 2.4 and IPv6, or the goal for > "scotch" is every package supports perl 5.6 or whatever. A great idea. But can't we do that now? -=Eric -- Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. -- Sydney J. Harris

Bug#194961: ITP: yaz -- A C/C++ toolkit for Z39.50/ISO23950 applications

2003-05-27 Thread Eric Schwartz
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: yaz Version : 2.0.2 Upstream Author : IndexData * URL : http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ * License : BSD-ish: http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/doc/license.php Description : A

Re: Bug#197907: ITP: quark -- an audio player, for geeks, by geeks.

2003-06-19 Thread Eric Schwartz
kage, or else xemacs would never have been uploaded. :) Just attempt something catchy (which my contribution isn't, really), and leave the full description for the appropriate section. -=Eric (xemacs user, BTW)

Bug#203712: ITP: irqbalance -- Balances irq's for SMP systems

2003-07-31 Thread Eric Dorland
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-31 Severity: wishlist * Package name: irqbalance Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/irqbalance/ * License : OSL 1.1 Description

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-07 Thread Eric Schwartz
, many US firms have legally mandated document retention policies; archiving sent mail may be a required part of that. Of course, most of the time it's probably not. You should value your integrity more than that. Which is why he wants to send personal mail through a non-work server, no? -=Eric

SDLcam-0.7.3.tar.gz install problem

2003-09-06 Thread eric lin
but it is not successful install, please help on this, highly appreciate your time and effort, and looking to hear from any suggestions, sincere eric _ Have you signed up for the World's Fastest Free Email ? http://www.Luxmail.com

can not connect video device(/dev/video0)

2003-09-08 Thread eric lin
and time sincere ERic _ Have you signed up for the World's Fastest Free Email ? http://www.Luxmail.com

Bug#320044: ITP: libforms-java -- framework helping you lay out and implement elegant Swing panels quickly and consistently

2005-07-26 Thread Eric Lavarde
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libforms-java Version : 1.0.5 Upstream Author : Karsten Lentzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://forms.dev.java.net/ * License : BSD Description

Re: Bug#320067: ITP: vamps -- Vamps evaporates DVD compliant MPEG2 program streams by selectively copying audio and subpicture tracks and by re-quantizing the embedded elementary video stream.

2005-07-27 Thread Eric Cooper
ler? Perhaps a confusion of "evaporate" with "condense"? (Maybe the thermodynamic equivalent of an "off by 1" error? :-) -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Periodic cleanup of old automake versions (aka, removal of automake1.6)

2005-07-31 Thread Eric Dorland
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