Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - Linux IS about CHOICE

2014-03-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Yes, by all means we should ignore the fake personas, Mr. Natural Linux, whoever you are. On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Natural Linux wrote: > Matthias Urlichs, Why should we believe you or the bullshit excuses given > in the article? > > The fact is, last year none of this crap was needed. >

Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

2004-11-30 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
RogÃrio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, I have already merged some bugs on the BTS, but I myself can't do > much. I would invite other users to help with this. Perhaps this way the > bug count will drop and the maintainers will give up maintaining their > packages, leaving room for som

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isn't this exactly the obligation you impose when you allow that invariant > sections from the GFDL are DFSG-free? The classic invariant section is > literally RMS's soapbox in the EMACS documentation... Yes, it is just such an obligation. But apparentl

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Jeremy Nickurak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The issue isn't whether we should keep racist material out of > debian. It's a matter of providing software without racist material > when people don't want racist material, joke or otherwise. Right now, I have no trouble: I don't use bitchx. If I w

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If an individual developer feels it's warranted, then by all means, they > can do so. But making it a Debian motto to do such is a bad idea. Oh, certainly. I don't think we should have *any* kind of Debian policy on such things.

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Changing some working simply because you are offended by it is just > plain wrong. You are making a decision based solely on your own personal > criteria, rather than that of sound technical advice. I think a Debian developer has a perfectly legitimate ri

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it is unreasonable. That's like saying that the library has a > right to burn books that it finds filthy or innappropriate. If you > modify source code simply to remove the authors remarks, your are > censoring, and are no better than a book-burner

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't start a trend that we cannot stick to. Unless you really feel like > perusing the sources of everything (grep -ir fuck in the kernel source), > you should drop this now. Yes it sucks. Yes, a lot of people disagree > with such remarks, but freedom com

Re: emacs 20.5a uploading (Possibly important Y2K fixes).

1999-12-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. His email prompted my question. I didn't realize he was *sure*, > and I wanted to double check before I go make irreversable (well > without using epochs) changes in the Debian package. > The real problem was that I didn't notice the release of 20.

Re: emacs 20.5a uploading (Possibly important Y2K fixes).

1999-12-22 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > P.S. The version number is 20.4.pre20.5a-1. This avoids the problem > with the fact that the upstream tarfile's version 20.5a sorts (via > dpkg) as newer than 20.5 which hasn't been released yet. Epochs would > be another solution, but I haven't decided