Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op wo, 02-11-2005 te 09:54 -0800, schreef Erast Benson: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 10:41 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Alex Ross: 2) 2,300 Debian packages available for immediate usage. How do you solve the problem that you cannot legally distribute software which is licensed under the

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op wo, 02-11-2005 te 18:21 -0800, schreef Erast Benson: GPL: The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-03 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Peter Samuelson [Henning Makholm] Do you mean that every package that offers to edit conffiles based on debconf questions is policy-buggy? 'conffile' is dpkg jargon that has a specific meaning: configuration files that dpkg handles specially w/r/t upgrades and removals. Editing

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-03 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Peter Samuelson] 'conffile' is dpkg jargon that has a specific meaning: configuration files that dpkg handles specially w/r/t upgrades and removals. Editing a conffile at install time makes no sense. If you want to edit a configuration file, don't ship it as a conffile - in fact, don't

Re: todos: command not found

2005-11-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op wo, 02-11-2005 te 21:24 +, schreef Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh): Le 02.11.2005 22:20:15, João Silva a écrit : Anyone knows what package brings the todos command? I had this error in a debian-cd try: tools/add-bin-doc: line 42: todos: command not found sysutils try something like

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op wo, 02-11-2005 te 18:31 -0800, schreef Erast Benson: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 01:14 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Alex Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Banck wrote: If so, do you plan to use Debian's mailing lists and bug tracking system for development? No. We have ours:

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op wo, 02-11-2005 te 21:04 -0800, schreef Erast Benson: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 18:54 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ubuntu is not an official Debian Port. on another hand, GNU/Solaris uses different kernel and libc, which brings many

Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-03 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:20:45AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Second, thanks to some enhancements Ryan Murray has recently made to buildd/wanna-build, it is now possible for the release team to request automated buildd binNMUs of a package across all architectures for library transitions,

Re: todos: command not found

2005-11-03 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Op wo, 02-11-2005 te 21:24 +, schreef Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh): try something like 'apt-file search todo | grep bin' Searching for 'todo' (as in, a todo list) or 'todos' (which happens to be a rather common spanish word) rarely ends you up with

Re: is the Debian mail server healthy?

2005-11-03 Thread Santiago Vila
The problem is still here: Received: from sanvila by master.debian.org with local (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1EXVub-0007ob-00; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:37:13 -0600 Received: from spohr.debian.org [140.211.166.43] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1ESyC9-00044c-00;

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Nick Jacobs
In-Reply-To=[EMAIL PROTECTED] You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a significant amount of work should be done to restore support for a processor that has not been manufactured for 10 years? While slightly degrading performance for the 99.9% of x86 users who have Pentium/Athlon/or

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Bastian Venthur
Nick Jacobs wrote: In-Reply-To=[EMAIL PROTECTED] You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a significant amount of work should be done to restore support for a processor that has not been manufactured for 10 years? While slightly degrading performance for the 99.9% of x86 users who

Re: real-i386

2005-11-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Nick Jacobs: You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a significant amount of work should be done to restore support for a processor that has not been manufactured for 10 years? I think AMD still makes them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: todos: command not found

2005-11-03 Thread João Silva
No, todos command is in the sysutils package. Todos means to do or something like next steps :) I also resolved this problema, thanks to all.On 11/3/05, Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op wo, 02-11-2005 te 21:24 +, schreef Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh): Le 02.11.2005 22:20:15, João Silva a

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
Erast Benson wrote: btw, Solaris 10 is absolutely free available for download, so, one could try to install and see. Sun Microsystem's Solaris 10 binary release is available without fee, but it's not free as in Free Software (despite that the underlying source code is largely licensed

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean that every package that offers to edit conffiles based on debconf questions is policy-buggy? Of course, see 10.7.3: | These two styles of configuration

Re: postinst scripts failing because a new conffile wasn't accepted: Is it a bug?

2005-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Peter Samuelson [Henning Makholm] Do you mean that every package that offers to edit conffiles based on debconf questions is policy-buggy? 'conffile' is dpkg jargon that has a specific meaning: configuration files that dpkg handles

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
Wouter Verhelst writes: Op wo, 02-11-2005 te 18:21 -0800, schreef Erast Benson: GPL: The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
Erast Benson wrote: But are you seriosly saying that SUN violates GPL? I believe you've misunderstood Thomas. What Thomas is trying to get across, I think, is that whatever Sun does or does not do has little to no significance for your own case. In particular, but Sun does it too does not

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 02 novembre 2005 à 21:04 -0800, Erast Benson a écrit : FreeBSD kernel under BSD license and not GPL-compatible. Native GNU libc do not make any difference since it is a part of system runtime which includes: kernel, libc, compiler, etc (as per GPL). In fact, it is even more

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-11-03 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:15:35PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Speaking as a co-maintainer of libkrb5-dev, no, this Conflicts assumes that the two packages, er, conflict. Namely, they provide identically-named include files which define different ways of implementing roughly the same API.

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-11-03 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 12:46:47AM +0200, Rolf Kutz wrote: The admin should know whether he messed with the account and if he did just remove the package instead of purging it. It's not like packages get purged by themself. Messing with the _account_ is not the same as messing with config

Re: Bits from the release team: the plans for etch

2005-11-03 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:21:13PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: An other issue that always annoyed me is that assuming a NIS server and a NIS client which both install say exim. I want to give some users membership in the group Debian-exim. I can't easily. The UID picked by Debian-exim is

How to tell dpkg that a conffile of a disappeared package is now a configuration file (ucf)?

2005-11-03 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, in the woody-to-sarge upgrade, tetex-base has taken over a file that was previously a conffile of the texdoctk package. In sarge, tetex-base: Replaces: texdoctk tetex-bin: Replaces/Conflicts/Provides: texdoctk so usually texdoctk is left in state rc. However, since the file has changed

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 09:18 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Op wo, 02-11-2005 te 18:21 -0800, schreef Erast Benson: GPL: The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (a) to ship packaged OpenSolaris core on main CD, and the rest of GPL-filtered software, will go on Companion CD, or through APT repository later on. This is doable, since OpenSolaris core has everything it needs to be installed as a base system. We will

Bug#337254: ITP: slang-tess -- regression testing system for the S-Lang scripting language

2005-11-03 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: slang-tess Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Michael S. Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://space.mit.edu/cxc/software/slang/modules/tess/ * License : MIT [*]

more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
[was Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program] On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote: Remember that dpkg is GPLed, so there's a slightly awkward bootstrapping issue. This reminds me of an issue which I feel needs change but I've never felt worked up enough to do anything about.

Bug#337255: ITP: slang-slirp -- C code generator for the S-Lang scripting language

2005-11-03 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: slang-slirp Version : 1.7.6 Upstream Author : Michael S. Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://space.mit.edu/cxc/software/slang/modules/slirp/ * License : MIT [*]

Bug#337256: ITP: slang-gtk -- binds the GIMP Toolkit (GTK) to the S-Lang scripting language

2005-11-03 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rafael Laboissiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: slang-gtk Version : 0.5.15-r2 Upstream Author : Michael S. Noble [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://space.mit.edu/home/mnoble/slgtk/ * License : MIT [*] Description

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
Erast Benson wrote: any others ideas? (c) Have whoever is in charge of the CDDL remove the parts from CDDL that make it GPL incompatible in the next revision of CDDL. That should most of your problems at once. cheers, dalibor topic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2005-11-03 kello 11:06 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas kirjoitti: I submit anything written specifically for the Debian Project should either have some more permissive yet DFSG-compliant license or at the most GPL + an exemption for linking to other DFSG compliant software. One of Debian's main

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: [was Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program] On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Matthew Garrett wrote: Remember that dpkg is GPLed, so there's a slightly awkward bootstrapping issue. This reminds me of an issue which I feel needs change but I've never felt worked up

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005, Dalibor Topic wrote: If your core feature is GPLd code coming from Debian, I'd kindly suggest to take the concerns of Debian developers regarding compliance with the license of that code seriously, and to argue your points accordingly. And I will unkindly *demand* that

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Often the Debian packaging scripts are GPLed and we are the copyright holders of those. Not to mention a bunch of Debian-specific packages that are also GPLed, and whose copyright holders are Debian developers (and I am one of them).

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Is there any source with a copyright assignment for The Debian Project? You mean to SPI? No. On purpose, I'd say. Those of us who would assign over copyright of our works would probably do so to the FSF, but that's IMHO. -- One disk to rule them

Bug#337277: ITP: link-grammar -- Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser

2005-11-03 Thread Ken Bloom
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ken Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: link-grammar Version : 4.1b Upstream Author : Daniel Sleator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Davy Temperley [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Lafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL

Re: Planning a libglade to libglade2 transition

2005-11-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
In June I asked whether it would be possible to start a libglade to libglade2 transition [1]. As it turns out, migrating applications to libglade2 can be harder than expected and we can therefore assume that libglade will stay with us for quite a while. Unfortunately, libglade has been orphaned

Re: Dependencies of -dev packages

2005-11-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Gabor Gombas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:15:35PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I don't consider this to be a good solution. #include krb5.h is part of the API, and forcing all packages that want to build with Kerberos to use special compiler flags to find include files

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:51 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (a) to ship packaged OpenSolaris core on main CD, and the rest of GPL-filtered software, will go on Companion CD, or through APT repository later on. This is doable, since OpenSolaris core has

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 03 November 2005 04.37, Erast Benson wrote: If don't, Nexenta will continue its way more like Ubuntu does. You'll hire heaps of Debian developers and actually pay people to contribute their stuff back to Debian? Now there's a thing! Which Debian developers are in your pay (just

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:45:52AM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: If Debian really wans to be system runtime independent, and would like to have Debian GNU/Solaris port, it should release dpkg as LGPL software. This should help FreeBSD and GNU/Solaris non-glibc ports to suvirve. Please stop

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:45:52AM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: If Debian really wans to be system runtime independent, and would like to have Debian GNU/Solaris port, it should release dpkg as LGPL software. This should help FreeBSD and GNU/Solaris non-glibc ports to suvirve. Being

Re: real-i386

2005-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:22 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Nick Jacobs: You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a significant amount of work should be done to restore support for a processor that has not been manufactured for 10 years? I think AMD still makes them. If so,

Re: Embedded Debian

2005-11-03 Thread DAWN NASH
I am looking for an embedded solution for AMD SC520 @133MHz processor, was wondering about the embedded Debian package. Dawn Nash Sr. Software Engineer ISE Corporation http://www.isecorp.com/ 12302 Kerran Street Poway, CA 92064 USA

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Why do programs written specifically for Debian such as dpkg or apt, have a license which is not compatible with some other DFSG-compliant licenses? Because the authors chose so. Obviously. But the question was why they chose to do so when it goes

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 03 November 2005 08.32, Erast Benson wrote: Matthew: [...] whether you want to be part of A Debian Release. Hard to say right now... Lets see how all this thing will progress. But, *yes* we are willing to cooperate. So I guess this summarizes the technical side of this

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Lars Wirzenius wrote: to, 2005-11-03 kello 11:06 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas kirjoitti: I submit anything written specifically for the Debian Project should either have some more permissive yet DFSG-compliant license or at the most GPL + an exemption for linking to other DFSG

Re: real-i386

2005-11-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:35:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:22 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Nick Jacobs: You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a significant amount of work should be done to restore support for a processor that has not been

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] I strongly suggest we continue the current practice where the authors get to choose their license as they wish. Of course there is no other way we _can_ go. If somebody decides to write cool, useful OS infrastructure software and license it under the

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 16:36 -0800, Alex Ross wrote: Do you plan to submit your port as an official port to Debian once it stabilizes? Yes. Wasn't this already discussed regarding CDDL being not compatible with DFSGs? Otherwise, hit myself with a cluebat :)

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Bastian Venthur wrote: Maybe renaming Debians i386 into something more accurate like x86 or even IA32 (in consistency with IA64) would suppress discussions like this in the future? Good idea :-) -- ksig --random| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Dalibor Topic
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Why do programs written specifically for Debian such as dpkg or apt, have a license which is not compatible with some other DFSG-compliant licenses? Because the authors chose so. Obviously. But the question was why they

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Erast Benson wrote: There are things like forums, mailing list, blogs, web-based Debian repository browser, etc. which need ^ Trademark point. Are you referring to a browser for *Debian's* FTP archive? If you are not, you must not call this a Debian

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Dalibor Topic wrote: They can't have deliberately chosen the GPL to be incompatible with a DFSG-(non?)compliant CDDL for two reasons: I was not specifically referring to the CDDL. There are other non-GPL compatible free software licenses. I strongly agree that if the

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Why do programs written specifically for Debian such as dpkg or apt, have a license which is not compatible with some other DFSG-compliant licenses? Because the authors chose so. Obviously. But the

Re: Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

2005-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: We're only talking about keeping old binary packages around which are no longer available from the new source package, which is precisely the case that is at issue with library transitions. Ahhh. I get it. Just don't remove the old binaries unless they're manually

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread John Hasler
Erast Benson writes: This should help FreeBSD ... non-glibc ports to suvirve. In what way does the GPL licensing of dpkg harm such FreeBSD ports? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I personally with community help will re-write stripped down CDDL variant of dpkg. Will Debian community be happy? But this is sort of duplication of work. I do not think that the goal of Debian community is to force developers do duplicate their work.

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Obviously. But the question was why they chose to do so when it goes against the spirit of the DFSG? I disagree. It does not go against the spirit of the DFSG. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is clear tension between this and the mere aggregation clause. However, given that source code is only required for *contained* modules, shared libraries or the kernel would seem to be more governed by the mere aggregation clause than the

Re: Planning a libglade to libglade2 transition

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone who maintains a package depending on libglade up to this, or could the GNOME team adopt libglade? [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg01199.html Since I'm the de facto gnome 1 weenie, being the last maintainer of a big

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 14:32 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 03 Nov 2005, Dalibor Topic wrote: If your core feature is GPLd code coming from Debian, I'd kindly suggest to take the concerns of Debian developers regarding compliance with the license of that code seriously,

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nexenta community willing to make appropriate changes to the system and make it absolutely Debian legal OS. And more I'm looking into it, i'm sure it is quite easy possible by making main Nexenta OS CD to be GPL-free. All GPL software will be distributed

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is clear tension between this and the mere aggregation clause. However, given that source code is only required for *contained* modules, shared libraries or the kernel would seem to be more governed by the mere

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 17:31 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:45:52AM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: If Debian really wans to be system runtime independent, and would like to have Debian GNU/Solaris port, it should release dpkg as LGPL software. This should help FreeBSD

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 18:31 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:45:52AM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: If Debian really wans to be system runtime independent, and would like to have Debian GNU/Solaris port, it should release dpkg as LGPL software. This should help FreeBSD

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My reading of the interface definition files clause is that it only applies to those associated with the modules contained in the executable. That is, it means header files as well as implementation files (plus Makefile-equivalents, through the build

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me enlighten you in regards of CDDL benefits. The great thing about CDDL is that it is file based. So, all files which are licensed under CDDL-terms works exactly as GPL does. i.e. any change made by anybody (including propriatery distributors)

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Kenneth Pronovici
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:25:22AM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: To make it happen, we need to resolve dpkg issue and initial boot strapping process. Which is quite possible to re-write dpkg as CDDL software. But to avoid duplication of work, it will be wise for Debian community to release dpkg

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please stop mentioning the FreeBSD port as an example of your licensing problems. There is no license problem with the BSD kernel, and GNU/kFreeBSD uses dpkg for a long time now. ok. lets assume Debian and Nexenta communities needs to sort out

Re: real-i386 (was Re: i386 requalification for etch)

2005-11-03 Thread Yavor Doganov
At Thu, 3 Nov 2005 02:38:51 -0800 (PST), Nick Jacobs wrote: You mean, it's seriously been proposed that a significant amount of work should be done to restore support for a processor that has not been manufactured for 10 years? While slightly degrading performance for the 99.9% of x86

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Kenneth Pronovici [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Besides that, you haven't even given us very many good reasons why we should care about your problems. You insist on making it sound like somehow by not conforming to your needs, we're missing a great opportunity. I've got news for you: the great

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To make it happen, we need to resolve dpkg issue and initial boot strapping process. Which is quite possible to re-write dpkg as CDDL software. But to avoid duplication of work, it will be wise for Debian community to release dpkg under LGPL license. Of

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Jaldhar H Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I strongly agree that if the CDDL is non-DFSG free then we should not make any compromises. If however it or any other otherwise DFSG-compliant license is merely GPL incompatible then we (or rather they who hold copyright) ought to consider it.

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is not clear to me that standard library header files qualify as associated interface definition files. Wrong. Library header files that you link against are exactly what it covers. Then we will have to disagree on

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 17:31 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Being system-runtime independent is a great goal, but helping free software is a better one. Releasing dpkg under the LGPL would allow people to build proprietary software on top of dpkg, and we

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread John Hasler
Erast writes: But to avoid duplication of work, it will be wise for Debian community to release dpkg under LGPL license. That's entirely up to the authors. You are free to contact them. Of course, if Debian community serious about non-glibc ports. Again you imply that the BSD license is not

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 18:51 +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Thursday 03 November 2005 08.32, Erast Benson wrote: Matthew: [...] whether you want to be part of A Debian Release. Hard to say right now... Lets see how all this thing will progress. But, *yes* we are willing to

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:22 -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 16:36 -0800, Alex Ross wrote: Do you plan to submit your port as an official port to Debian once it stabilizes? Yes. Wasn't this already discussed regarding CDDL being not compatible with DFSGs?

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
OK. We will change it to Nexenta repository browser. Point taken. Thanks. Erast On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:34 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Erast Benson wrote: There are things like forums, mailing list, blogs, web-based Debian repository browser, etc. which need

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is not clear to me that standard library header files qualify as associated interface definition files. Wrong. Library header files that you link against are exactly what it

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: World is changed since then, and today we have Nexenta OS. This forces community to re-think/re-work all these CDDL vs. GPL issues. You seem to be saying that if a bunch of people are already violating the GPL, we are forced to do something other than

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:10 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I personally with community help will re-write stripped down CDDL variant of dpkg. Will Debian community be happy? But this is sort of duplication of work. I do not think that the goal of

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:10 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I personally with community help will re-write stripped down CDDL variant of dpkg. Will Debian community be happy? But this is sort of duplication

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:29 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nexenta community willing to make appropriate changes to the system and make it absolutely Debian legal OS. And more I'm looking into it, i'm sure it is quite easy possible by making main

Re: more tolerant licensing for Debian infrastructure

2005-11-03 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:01:46PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I haven't heard anything about the CDDL that would cause me to argue against inclusion of CDDL-covered software in the archive, for instance. (It's possible that it isn't DFSG-free in some obscure way -- I haven't investigated it

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
Erast Benson writes: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:22 -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 16:36 -0800, Alex Ross wrote: Do you plan to submit your port as an official port to Debian once it stabilizes? Yes. Wasn't this already discussed regarding CDDL being not

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:55 -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: It really seems like you jumped into this base our system on Debian thing without really understanding what Debian is about. Consider what you're asking for. You're asking Debian to make changes to the license of some of its core

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Existense of problem in Debian project not be able scale very well on non-glibc ports should be addressed and resolved. Debian scales fine on non-glibc ports. It doesn't do so well on non-GPL compatible ports. These are very much not the same thing. --

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:57 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please stop mentioning the FreeBSD port as an example of your licensing problems. There is no license problem with the BSD kernel, and GNU/kFreeBSD uses dpkg for a long time now. ok.

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:59 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Kenneth Pronovici [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Besides that, you haven't even given us very many good reasons why we should care about your problems. You insist on making it sound like somehow by not conforming to your needs,

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 20:00 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To make it happen, we need to resolve dpkg issue and initial boot strapping process. Which is quite possible to re-write dpkg as CDDL software. But to avoid duplication of work, it will be wise

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Poole
Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: Michael Poole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then we will have to disagree on this point. When the restriction supposedly kicks in only by virtue of two pieces of software existing on the same disk[1], and would not apply to separate distribution, I have to think the

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 20:03 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 17:31 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Being system-runtime independent is a great goal, but helping free software is a better one. Releasing dpkg under the LGPL would allow

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:17 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: World is changed since then, and today we have Nexenta OS. This forces community to re-think/re-work all these CDDL vs. GPL issues. You seem to be saying that if a bunch of people are

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:18 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:10 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I personally with community help will re-write stripped down CDDL variant of

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:26 -0500, Michael Poole wrote: Erast Benson writes: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:22 -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 16:36 -0800, Alex Ross wrote: Do you plan to submit your port as an official port to Debian once it stabilizes?

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:39:25PM -0800, Erast Benson wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 20:00 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: However, as has already been pointed out to you, Debian has no control over the people who hold the copyright on dpkg. Knowing several of them personally, I'd be surprised

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
Erast Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently you misunderstood me. All I'm saying is that Debian community might want to embrace GNU/Solaris non-glibc port or reject it. To embrace, some core components, like dpkg, should be dual-licensed CDDL/GPL. Not every dpkg copyright holder is

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