Re: suggested buildd service

2005-05-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:33:19PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> - you can build packages that aren't normaly autobuild (if the buildd > >> makes the debs available, encrypted witht the DDs key or so)

Re: Should Debian use lsb init-functions?

2005-05-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:05:19AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > I have been looking at the lsb init functions and am beginning to feel > that they are a bad idea. > > * Converting to lsb init function requires modifying every initscript in > Debian. Well, d'oh. > * Every initscript has to read in

Re: Should Debian use lsb init-functions?

2005-05-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 07:56:14AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2005 01:34:17 +0200, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:05:19AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > >> I think it would be better if we simply made rc capture

Re: Outrageous Maintainer

2005-05-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 04:35:25PM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote: > On 1 May 2005, at 8:53 am, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >True. However, it does no harm to add the conflicts, while it does make > >it easier for your users. When presented with a bug in another package > >that completel

Re: Should Debian use lsb init-functions?

2005-05-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:25:31AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 04 May 2005, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > I think it would be better if we simply made rc capture initscripts' > > > standard output (and exit status) and formatted it in such a way

Re: Rekall for Debian ?

2005-05-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:31:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 04:10:47PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Oh, I was thinking it is in SARGE and SID > > because two different versions of it. > > The name is sarge, not SARGE. Please don't shout at our releases. Well,

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:12:12PM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > > "Bartosz" == Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would prefer to be maintainer of the well known distribution which > > *doesn't* bump versions only for the fun of it. > > Exactly. This time I thin

Re: debian sarge is 3.2 or 4 ?

2005-05-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:52:55PM +0200, Andrea Mennucc wrote: > I would bet 10$ that during the freeze more than 300 packages will be > admitted into Sarge. > And I would bet another 5$ that "base-files" will be one of them. even considering that base-files has been frozen for, what, half a yea

Re: Debian AMD64 Archive Move

2005-05-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:07:30PM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote: > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 11:19am, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Seriously, get some patience and don't inflame the situation > > please. Things like "most of that" is of zero help in deciding what > > can go in and what not. We know most

Re: packages missing from sarge

2005-05-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:00:48PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 10:42:43PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Tue, 10 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >How often does a quick NMU that gives a fast improvement in the RC > > >bugs metric hide the real problem that the maintaine

Re: pine license

2005-05-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:28:29AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Also, if I recall correctly, there was a gnu project to write a pine > replacement, but I don't know where that stands. Probably it's > not complete because of a lack of development effort. Well, there's nano -- and if you want the pi

Re: Bug#308725: ITP: dhcpv6 -- a stateful address autoconfiguration protocol for IPv6

2005-05-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 02:10:35AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > It wouldn't hurt to mention that the stateless server is the Debian > package 'radvd' and doesn't require specific client software other than > iproute or whatever. s/other than.*// The kernel handles routing advertisement packets

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:19:58PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:36:18PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:25:02PM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > > > > You would rather have silence than know why you are being ignored? > > > > Then silence

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:41:34PM -0700, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > On 5/18/05, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, well. But he's still right. This once. > > Is there some reason why "eat a dictionary" had to be copied to all of > debi

Re: Debian as living system

2005-05-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:53:59PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:25:02PM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > > Certainly there would have been ways to tell Bluefuture that his mail > > was hard to read/understand without becoming offensive. > > No, really, there isn't. It

Re: unrar version confusion

2005-05-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:45:10PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Quoting Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Why is the latest version in debian lower than the one before? > >Regards Nico > > Becuase it is, in fact, a different program. The higher numbered releases > are of a non-free version

Re: unrar version confusion

2005-05-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 05:59:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then the new program should still have a higher version number, to allow > > people who currently use the non-free program to upgrade to the free > > program.

Re: Soliciting keys for the debconf5 key signing party in Helsinki

2005-05-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:15:33PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > If have already sent your key and heven't received and acknowledgment > message, please resend it. I can't remember if I have. I do remember sending, though. I also can't find the message, but that doesn't mean I didn't jus

Re: Shell variable

2005-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 09:14:45PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > hi, > > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 01:19:05AM +0100, Adrian Mastronardi wrote: > > I need to setup an shell variable: > > ENFDATA=/usr/share/rnamotif/enfdata/ > > according to debian policy, programs must not have to rely on the > existe

Re: unrar version confusion

2005-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 01:34:34PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: [...] > Why not ship SARGE with unrar-nonfree and provide a [...] > Maybe in ETCH. [...] > SARGE $USER are using now "unrar-nonfree" and in [...] > ETCH we can remove the virtual-package "unrar". [...] It's Sarge, and Etch. Please d

Re: Bug#310887: Sarge doesn't mount scsi harddisks on boot

2005-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 09:23:44PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > reassign 310887 debian-installer > severity 310887 important > retitle 310887 Does not mount non-root partitions before fs check if other > drivers required > thanks > > On Thursday 26 May 2005 21:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Packag

Re: Example where testing-security was used?

2005-05-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:34:21PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > But setting up autobuilders doesn't require a new infrastructure > (and shouldn't require more than half a year). In this case, it did because of scalability issues. This was known and publicised for quite a while; so either you're bei

Re: Linda warnings

2005-05-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:30:56AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Robert Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > So either you don't patch the package, or you be willing to require the > > relevant auto* be installed. > > Or you put the patch in the .diff.gz. I think that's the best option. Uh, i

Re: Libraries with ABI changes

2005-05-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:18:03PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > I got some questions to library packaging. If the ABI of a library > breaks, the SONAME of it gets updated and thus the binary package's > name. As soon as the new revision gets uploaded the old binary package > should get NBS (Not Bui

Re: proficiency-level tag for debian packages

2005-05-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 07:09:38PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Tuesday 31 May 2005 19:06, Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > > I find it a quite interesting idea. If it was implemented, there should be > > an scale, so that maintainers have some reference in order to tag their > > packages. > >

Re: Keysigning without physically meeting ... thoughts?

2005-06-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:54:51AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2005 14:13:54 -0600, "Wesley J. Landaker" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Right, but they have to get it notarized (or forge a notary's seal, which is > >a criminal offense, at least in the US) which requires government I

Re: Release update: minor delay; no non-RC fixes; upgrade reports

2005-06-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:02:28PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:58:21AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Anyone who can't distinguish between an "officially announced release date" > > and a projected target release date isn't worth wasting my breath on. > > It seems you

Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

2005-06-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:18:13PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:46:24PM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 01.06.2005, 14:08 +0200 schrieb Peter Van Eynde: > > > A message like this makes you the perfect victim :-) for my question: > > > what should a deb

Re: Linux / Debian / Ubuntu

2005-06-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:29:56PM +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2005 21:37:28 -0700, Stephen Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Darren Salt([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 21:49: > > > For those who've missed the first three broadcasts today, there's one > > > more at > > > 01:05 GMT;

Re: Debian Java in Sarge

2005-06-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 01:06:44PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > instead of trying to force people to do things "your way", i would suggest > that you come up with an infrastructure for making these packages that > really is easier and consistant, and then say something like "packages > built with ja

Re: C++ ABI change for etch -- freeze unstable for all C++ libs with changed or new sonames

2005-06-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:01:33PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 05 juin 2005 à 17:57 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : > > The plan outlined in > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/04/msg00153.html is what > > Ubuntu is already doing. Note that some of the people involved

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 07:15:49PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 05 juin 2005 à 19:00 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar a écrit : > > If you're going to complain about a cabal, please do try to get the > > facts straight: The DPL team consists of only one Canonical employee, > > who was e

Re: C++ ABI change for etch -- freeze unstable for all C++ libs with changed or new sonames

2005-06-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:50:57PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The problem is that the decisions are always taken for the Ubuntu > distribution first. There's two reasons why this could be happening: * There's a master plan over at Canonical to try and take over Debian. * For every step some

Re: C++ ABI change for etch -- freeze unstable for all C++ libs with changed or new sonames

2005-06-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 10:37:08PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 05 juin 2005 à 20:40 +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 06:50:57PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > The problem is that the decisions are always taken for the Ubuntu

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:25:45AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 05 juin 2005 à 18:05 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > Now, please tell me what I can do so that all architectures in sarge are > > > supported in etch. > > > > Clone yourself and make yourself a slave to the build

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:00:47PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Then what do you mean? There are several architectures with porters > ready to do huge amounts of porting work. For example, would you dare to > say m68k is lacking manpower? We can speak for ourselves, thank you. -- The amount

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:22:08PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > > * Split the architectures over two sets of mirror networks, so that > > mirror administrators don't need 100G just to mirror Debian anymore. > > That sounds retarded in an age where a 200GB HD cost less then 100 Euro...

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:39:58PM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:50:35PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:00:47PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Then what do you mean? There are several architectures with porters

Bug#312269: ITP: emile -- Early Mac Image LoadEr, a bootloader for m68k macs

2005-06-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: emile Version : 0.9, probably (not released yet, still CVS version at this point) Upstream Author : Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:48:56PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:11:44PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > * Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:12:00PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > * Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:47:12AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 07, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - _No_ bugs in base packages (well, at least no old bugs). Base system > > should be upgraded to latest upstream (forward patches!) this includes > > PAM,

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:12:04AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Oh, you'll also note that the traditional "slow" architectures (mips, > mipsel, m68k, arm) aren't on this "problems" list. That's because a *lot* > of effort has been put into providing sufficient parallelization for each > architec

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:18:47AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:12:50AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:47:12AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > 2.4.x kernels are already obsolete by now except that for some doorstop

Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
[This is actually more a question for debian-cd. Cc set appropriately] On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:03:51PM +0100, Brian Teeman wrote: > Is there any way that the source can be remastered so that it fits on 2 > dvd. Seems kind of daft that it stretches to three dvd for the sake of > 212mb. > > If

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:31:24PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Julien BLACHE > > | A bug is a bug, whether it triggers or not. > > It's not RC and therefore not a priority if it has no effect. The primary question, I think, is whether one can be 100% sure whether a bug that results in an

Re: package building problems (was Re: Canonical and Debian)

2005-06-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:10:15AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 03:27:42PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > > > It looks like this software could use some redesign to put less work > > on the buildd maintainers and scale better to more buildds. > > There was one in the m

Re: Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD image problem

2005-06-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:21:15PM +0100, Brian Teeman wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Josh Lauricha wrote: > > > On Tue 06/07/05 18:17, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Dropping a source package might get you into legal trouble (some of the > > > licenses for software in

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:15:18PM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > > > If your X configuration is broken and your X won't start then that is > > effectively the same thing as the proposed run level 3 anyway. So > > what is the point? > Well, I used to have problems with my graphiccard that hard l

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:58:32PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:34:26PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > Nobody. However, you're assuming that xdm et al will keep trying to > > start an X server, even if it fail

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:55:17AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:10:43PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > The primary question, I think, is whether one can be 100% sure whether a > > bug that results in an FTBFS on only one out of eleven platforms will &

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:13:00AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 07, Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - - The locale codeset should be UTF-8 for all new installs by default. > FFS! When will people learn to not mess with other cultures they know > nothing about? > Feel free to ad

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:18:39PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 09 juin 2005 à 10:53 +0200, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > > Now, that is why we have runlevel 1. But in most cases, wasting > > runlevels to things that could just as easily be fixed by ending the > >

Re: Architecture restrictions and arch: all binary packages

2005-06-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:58:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Right now, therefore, the buildds for those four platforms try to build > every OpenAFS release, install all its dependencies, and then error out in > the configure script. This is doubtless a bit annoying to the buildd > admins, is a

Re: Bug#312669: /sbin/ifconfig: Add ifconfig to user path

2005-06-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:24:43PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > And anyway ifconfig is deprecated, While I don't have a very strong opinion on this matter either way, I feel I should point out that a) ifconfig is an application that exists not only on Linux, but on many other (free or non-free

Re: Sedna - a native XML DBMS

2005-06-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 06:15:31PM +0400, Roman Pastukhov wrote: > I am wondering whether it's possible to include Sedna in Debian > distribution. You can make this happen yourself! You would need a sponsor who would help you, check your package for obvious errors, and, eventually, upload your pa

Re: Bits from the dpkg maintainer

2005-06-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:30:07AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Historically we always wanted to be able to use all the source in the > > archive with the tools available in stable. If that policy is still > > true you would be able to use the new features by the time edge releases > > wi

Re: Bits from the dpkg maintainer

2005-06-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:39:30AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Yes, that's what we mean. The reason is that for various things (e.g., > > buildd, ftp-mastery, ...), we need to be able to manipulate source > > packages with the tools in stable. Note, I said "manipulate", not > > "build". >

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:00:35PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > ok, that's gotta be invalid argument since this could be argued for > > ANY file so you would end up with links to EVERYTHING in /etc, so that > > program would know where to find li

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:05:20PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Adrian von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > As I understand DSFG 8, this covers only the case that the firefox package > > distributed by Debian *as is* must still be usable legally when used > > outside Debian. > > Come on,

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:43:28PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > Why not? Trademarks are not software, and the mozilla trademark policy > > is not depriving anybody of freedoms about their code. > > *Their* trademark policy. Maybe the emphasis should have been there in > the first place. Do you

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:06:51PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães used a broken MUA that breaks threads and wrote: > > Yes. Copyright and trademark are completely orthogonal. > > Sorry John, but this is BS. The text of the GPL#6 says: "You may not > impose *any* further restrictions on the reci

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:51:51PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Cesar Martinez Izquierdo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> So, in this paragraph you are basically stating that we *should* > >> rename firefox to save them from such burden. > > > > No, I think we should NOT rename Firefox to save o

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:26:11PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > People seem to be using DFSG 4 as a justification for keeping the > name, but I believe that is flawed. DFSG 4 allows for a license to say > "if you meet conditions X, you can use our name, otherwise you > can't". So the TeX guys have

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:20:57AM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: > > Does the opposite make it worse? I think so. > > IMHO it makes no difference at all. The "normal", "regular", > "I-dont-read-debian-mailing-lists" folk install the "Gnome Desktop" > or the "KDE Desktop" tasks, see the "W

Re: links to logs in /etc? (/etc/postgresql/7.4/main/log)

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 08:35:10AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > As I said, I only regard the symlink target as configuration value, I > don't actually pretend that the actual log file is in /etc. Okay, good; it's just that someone seemed to imply that this was not the case. -- The amount of time

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:50:59PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > I think keeping the name does hurt Debian. Keeping the name means we > cut a Debian specific deal. That doesn't sit well with me. I don't > want to get special treatment just because we're popular. We don't get a special treatment ju

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:54:01PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães wrote: > > Firefox is free software, and DFSG-compliant: "The license may > > require derived works to carry a different name or version number > > from the original software." (Even if it is "a compromise"). > > But is non-rebrand

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:35:12PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > We're losing sight of the key issue here. We *cannot* use their > trademark under their current trademark policy. They are offering us a > deal that is Debian specific to allow use to use the marks. Can we > accept such a deal as a pro

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:47:34PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães used a broken MUA that breaks threads and wrote: > > Yes, it's not nice, it's crap, but it's still entirely > > possible within the > > (pseudo-)legal framewark Debian gives itself. > > Isn't Debian point to be less crap? Yeah,

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:09:49AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:31:45AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I didn't see anyone proposing prelinking so far. I've seen rumors > > that program start time for some programs decrease a lot if prelinking > > is enabled. I

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:10:06AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:05:20PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > Come on, that can't possibly be the intention. I could craft a license > > > that

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:13:41PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: > Gervase Markham wrote: > > > That's simply not true. Anyone distributing significant copies of > > Firefox can have a representative on the security group, which has > > access to all the confidential bugs. Just ask Dan Veditz > > <

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:38:34AM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> *Their* trademark policy. Maybe the emphasis should have been there in > >> the first place. > > > > Do you know the history of the Adamant

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:07:58AM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimarães used a broken MUA that breaks threads and wrote: > > Not really, because the DFSG is not supposed to apply to trademarks. > > This is the center of Wouter's and Marco's argument, IMHO. But I don't > see anything in the DFSG restri

Re: C++ ABI change -- freezing unstable for new C++ library packages

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:22:19PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 15 juin 2005 à 02:48 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > Furthermore, this package has a long history of triggering weird > > > compiler errors, including several ICEs. Is there a way to test the > > > build with g++-

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 01:43:36PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 15 juin 2005 à 13:27 +0200, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > Fine. And we also agree that the basis for that is the DFSG? If so, > > where does the DFSG speak about trademarks at all? > > > > The license of firefox is DFSG

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:48:55AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Where possible, sure. But "principles" doesn't mean "the rules should be > > exactly the same". > > Please stop putting words in

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:23:19PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > The MoFo has made no statement that they would grant a trademark > license to anyone would adhered to the same standards as Debian. If > this were true (and hopefully in writing), I think things would be > much less problematic. Well

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
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: > > You're free to make /any/ modifications to firefox, as long as you > > either r

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
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 PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Where possible, sure. But "

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:09:47PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Jeu 16 Juin 2005 14:33, Santiago Vila a écrit : > > Now that we have released sarge, I would like to ask debian-admin and > > the Project Leader to consider seriously doing something to reduce > > the level of spam we have to rec

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:30:50PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is realtime a requirement for bug reporting? > > Since delays could be weeks from graylisting--or worse--yes. Uh, no. If properly configured, graylisting will not produce suc

Re: graphic installation to debian

2005-06-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:59:07PM +0300, Markus Åkerman wrote: > hi, > > i suggest a raphical insallation to debian, one is soon coming ro gentoo. This is being worked on, and might happen with etch. Note, however, that it's never a good idea to just go and suggest something to an open source p

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:48:05AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 02:30:50PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> Since delays could be weeks from graylisting--or worse--yes. > > &

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:03:34PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That being said, even if you couldn't do that, there still are ways to > > avoid the problem: e.g., do graylisting based on the /24 of the sending

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 07:21:52PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 20 June 2005 21:45, "Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, the major problem now are the @packages.debian.org addresses, I > > have ~20 of them and most days they account for 1/3 to 1/2 of all the > > spam I r

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
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 > empowered to make an agreement like this on behalf of Debian. [...] > If the DPL does not

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:34:00AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > "Presumably" isn't good enough IMHO. If they cared about fairness they > would develop a trademark policy that could be applied to everyone, > based on the "quality" criteria that is right now only known to the > MoFo. How do you judg

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 03:05:47PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Marco d'Itri: > > > What is the rationale for changing the default setting? > > Reducing wormability. I think it's a pretty clever change. Some of us actually do care what is listed in that file, and edit it from time to time.

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 09:04:18PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst: > > > Some of us actually do care what is listed in that file, and edit it > > from time to time. Hashing those names makes that much harder > > There should be tools supporting this, I

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-07-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 05:35:09PM -0700, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > On 7/2/05, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:43:04PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: > > > These are two very different cases, though. If a local admin installs a > > > new root cert, that's

Re: GCC 4.0 as the default GCC / C++ ABI change

2005-07-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:56:46AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2005-07-05 Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > Besides the C++ ABI change, all m68k and hppa packages depending on > > libgcc1 have to be rebuilt to use libgcc2. > [...] > > Hej, > Who is responsible for this?

Re: GCC 4.0 as the default GCC / C++ ABI change

2005-07-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:43:39PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Loïc Minier writes: > > I had that very same customization for alpha *and* for sh builds, I > > didn't see the same customization for sh. Is it safe to assume gcc-4.0 > > will work at its best under sh too? > > the patch is curr

Re: GCC 4.0 as the default GCC / C++ ABI change

2005-07-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 01:50:37PM +0300, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I don't know much about the SH port either, except that it's been dead > for years now. Not much point in trying to support it, I'd say. Okay. It's been pointed out to me on IRC that the SH port is cur

Re: Drop the minor release number

2005-07-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:50:35AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Then we would have > > > > Debian 4.0 for etch, 4.1 for etch stable release 1, 4.2 for etch stable > > release 2, 4.2a for etch stable release 2 with a minor CD mastering fix > > (for example), etc.pp. > > Coun

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:40:55PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 08, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Feel free to add any other wishlists (or discuss any one of them). I'll try > > to track the subsequent thread and keep the list current somewhere... > Make h

Re: "How to recognise different ETCH wishlists from quite a long way away" (revised)

2005-07-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:07:20PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 08, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Feel free to add any other wishlists (or discuss any one of them). I'll > > > > try > > > > to track

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > >Erast Benson wrote: > >> I do not need to make the build system > >> available under GPL (GPL §3 requires me to make it available but does > >> not mention a license) > > >GPL 3(a) requires the "comp

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-31 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 08:28:04PM -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:03:14PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Note it is unclear whether the makefiles could be called "scr

Re: cdrtools

2006-08-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:32:58PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You should better _read_ the GPL and try to understand it. > > > > Good plan. > > Did you have some time to make your plan reality meanw

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