Bug#142164: acknowledged by developer (Masters Based on Working Experience Gvna)

2006-04-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
there, but the problem I was actually annoyed by was showing ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8. If anyone cares about apt and friends converting to legacy locales, they can reopen this and assign it back to apt or file a new bug. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 01:45:24PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: Honestly, I could care less whether it's in contrib or main It's nice to see that Debian Developers actually care about their Social Contract, and hold acceptance by Debian in such high regard. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#352535: ITP: gitmail -- Very simple graphical mail user agent for sending mail (GTK)

2006-02-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
for *sending* mail only. What is the purpose of a GUI for sending mail? The small memory footprint. In minimalistic Window manager + minimalistic program to send mail. Err, who uses GTK when small memory footprint or minimalistic are objectives? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: {SPAM} Question about GFDL licensed works

2006-02-13 Thread Glenn Maynard
. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about GFDL licensed works

2006-02-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
popular argument these days, not being allowed to put a password on your machine is just a practical problem, which doesn't make the license non-free. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
is free. To clarify why this is not a valid interpretation: Er, you followed this with three paragraphs that seemed like a reply to someone arguing documentation isn't software, so it doesn't have to be free, but nobody was doing that. -- ksig --random| er? :) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:41:03AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:53:39PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: Nobody is lying. A lie is an untruth made with the intent to deceive. Debian doesn't try to hide these unmodifiable licenses; it's been discussed openly

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
that such a resolution requires only a majority vote? If you take these interpretive GRs as not requiring 3:1, then you can bypass the 3:1 requirement entirely merely by phrasing your changes as an interpretion, and you can phrase anything at all as an interpretion. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
not an indication of lack of forethought. Fortunately, as is typically the case, everyone is not allowed their own interpretation of the rules. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
sections and the rest of the problems to be considered free, say so.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
an exception, then I think knowing the difference is important. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
or after the next renaming of creationism, I wonder? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP License for PHP Group packages

2006-02-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
be extended across the others and not single out PHP. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
, perhaps you should also list them as MIA. Finger habits are hard to change, especially for an editor like vi. Ridicule is unwarranted. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-21 Thread Glenn Maynard
wish people had to write a few paragraphs justifying their votes for government elections. Votes in essay format. One can dream ...) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-21 Thread Glenn Maynard
? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Experiment: poll on switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-21 Thread Glenn Maynard
your job to set headers expressing your preferences (which you only have to do once, in your mailer configuration), not everyone else's job to manually set your CC every time. (You've been on these lists for quite a while; I'm pretty sure you know this ...) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:11:20PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:19:16AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: Well, I get to use other people's systems now and then, and I'm always having to ask people to install vim. If vim is the default, and configured to act like vi

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
to use a system with vim and my .vimrc installed, but lacking a few big features like syntax highlighting, than have to use nvi. For me, it's a clear win: at least I can edit files. I'm probably a fairly typical vim user. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /run vs /var/run

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
is a specific term that clearly excludes shell scripts.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
any significant differences between vi and vim mentioned that aren't trivially fixed. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
far are things that :set compatible fixes. (Except maybe the display of cw--I'm not sure if nvi or vim's display is how vi did it.) [1] http://www.vim.org/viusers.php -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:37:59PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:58:02PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: TBH, I think these are showstoppers. Otherwise, as long as the space issue is fixed as you say it is, sounds fine. I'm confused. A simple configuration change

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
like new vim can change it with just .vimrc. A rare opportunity--everybody wins. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
) - nvi flashes the screen/bell when a command fails; vim does not :set visualbell -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching to vim-tiny for standard vi?

2005-12-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:44:13PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Glenn Maynard wrote: :set compatible will switch Vim's behavior for all of these, except for: Nope, I was running vim in compatible mode (the default without a ~/.vimrc) for all of them. /etc/vim/vimrc sets nocompatible, among

Re: Mailing list administration - add default Mail-Followup-To automatically

2005-12-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
more sense to me to require that the few people posting to a list unsubscribed set a header saying so, than the majority of people posting subscribed do so. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
papers shouldn't have to be free will debate theirs. Both of these are after the fact. What should happen is what is happening: debate the issue in advance, and make a decision based on that. [1] To be clear, I'm not thinking of anyone in this conversation. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Request: Source for parts of GNU/Solaris

2005-11-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
arguments coming from Free Software people that sound very close to intellectual property. I wonder if people will start suggesting copy protection with DMCA enforcement. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
-free them; however, I'm a bit interested to understand the rationale behind not wanting to, from people who are beyond I don't want people putting words in my mouth responses. (But I understand not wanting to spend time arguing *against* DFSG-freeness.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
claimed this, and received the same response, and not waste time rehashing this again unless there's something new to add. :) http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00826.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/06/msg00242.html were easy to find, at least. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
to the community. Huh? Why do you think so? Because that's what the GPL says, in relatively plain language. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program

2005-11-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 03:54:01PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Glenn Maynard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051104 14:40]: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:05:43PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Wouter Verhelst: Lets assume you have GPL-ed project dpkg. Any change to foo.c must be contributed

Re: Bug#315903: ITP: evilfinder -- proves that any given subject is evil

2005-06-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
utility in your view, then I find your opinion hard to take seriously ... -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-22 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 07:19:44PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: On Tuesday 21 June 2005 09:21, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 05:58:11PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: Rejecting every suggestion for an improvement is not helpful. Yes, it is, if every

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-20 Thread Glenn Maynard
reduce the value of pointing out the bad ones. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
don't care about @debian.org mail per se; I care about the fact that Debian acts as a role model in the community, and Debian's practices will directly affect those of others. Ignoring this fact is extremely irresponsible.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
for round-trips to many mailing lists. Reducing that to minutes on average is beyond unacceptable. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
: ./configure --libexecdir=/usr/lib. (I don't think apps that don't do this, or something like it, should be a major consideration here--take apps out of the stone age, don't clutter my /usr ...) I'm just not seeing any benefits that are worth bloating /usr. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: RES: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
%.) This just seems like change for the sake of change, with trivial benefits, if any. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and--disabled-login

2005-05-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
my password is having my own system force me to wait. One of these days I'll get annoyed enough by this to track down why FAIL_DELAY 0 isn't being honored ...) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pine license

2005-05-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
experience relevant to debian-legal? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pine license

2005-05-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:28:29AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On 5/10/05, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past, UW has (in my opinion) played deliberate word games to retroactively revoke the Freeness of a prior Pine license, and this license is clearly non-free *without* any

Re: pine license

2005-05-10 Thread Glenn Maynard
. -- Glenn Maynard Pine License and Legal Notices Pine and Pico are registered trademarks of the University of Washington. No commercial use of these trademarks may be made without prior written permission of the University of Washington. Pine, Pico, and Pilot software and its included text are Copyright

Re: GPL and linking

2005-05-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
distribute under these conditions; in addition, John may offer you a new license in the future, terms which you may accept or ignore? -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
to bounce the message--the only acceptable way to not be archived is to not post). [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/03/msg00091.html -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:28:46PM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 03:03 -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: They might one day. It's possible to restrict http://lists.debian.org to stop or slow down people leeching across the web archives. The day Debian maims its archives

Re: Bug#306268: ITP: connect -- Establish socket connection using SOCKS4 or 5 and HTTP tunnel.

2005-04-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
intelligently. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440

2005-04-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
make things any easier for address harvesters. (In practice I don't spend much time reading old threads, and it's more convenient to read a couple messages by Googling for a Message-ID than to download big mboxes. I wouldn't use them very much.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: More about GFDL

2005-04-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml I have the same question around for some months. I have read the link above but I didn't find any reply. Any extra clue? Those of us on d-legal have no idea what your question is; please restate it. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
-free is a bit unfair for those pieces of software that just fail a small point. I don't believe forbidden to be modified in any way to be a small point. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
documentation should be allowed in Debian, propose a GR to allow it. Nothing short of that will make it so. If people really think they were tricked, fine--fix it with another GR. Unless and until that happens, Debian's position is very clear. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
be applied to anything non-free; would you seriously claim that, if Qmail was in main and I was to file a bug against it for being non-free, that it should remain in main until I write a replacement if users are still a priority? That's not how it works. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:31:53PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:03:07AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:31:52AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: If you really want to retain your everything is software point of view, think about the consequences

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
be Free, according to the DFSG, and nothing short of another GR will change that. I believe this to be obvious and self-evident. (The rest is tangental, and this conversation has too many mini-threads, so I'm leaving it at that.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-19 Thread Glenn Maynard
, but these we didn't *really* want to require documentation to be free arguments are going nowhere and are a waste of time, so I'm dropping them. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-18 Thread Glenn Maynard
a given restriction is non-free. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
to go to non-free a troll. I believe this is self-evident to everyone reading this thread, so I don't feel obligated to explain myself further. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
the above via google: site:lists.debian.org license texts -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
as a practical matter Debian would be forced to grumble and accept any problems that are found. (As I mentioned in my last mail, the unmodifiable license text problem is not GPL-specific.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
need non-free things, if it's the truth; it just might inspire people to create free versions, or convince the FSF to free up their works. That's a fundamental reason for separating non-free, and that's never changed. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
2004-003: http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_003 [2] The link on the DWN page is wrong; a currently accurate one is http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/11/msg00096.html or Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. [3] Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Glenn Maynard

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
documentation to *be* non-free. The moving to non-free is just a side-effect; Adrian seems to be saying that we should eliminate the side-effect and ignore the core problem. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
disappointing that people will actually argue that completely invariant, untouchable text is free enough; I have to wonder why they're even here.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What do you win by moving things to non-free?

2005-04-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
explored. (I'm not going to waste my time digging up discussions about them for you, since you'll just complain that they're not an official position statement. Find them yourself.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: All GPL'ed programs have to go to non-free

2005-04-14 Thread Glenn Maynard
deliberately wasting the project's time with a very old, eternity-since-debunked argument. That's known as trolling. Unless you have something of value to say, go away. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new arch support proposal, hopefully consensual (?)

2005-03-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
posts won't appear in the normal flow of the thread. (I actually do point them out in the hope that you'll fix them. If you don't care enough about the quality of your posts to do so, it's not my loss. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: A new arch support proposal, hopefully consensual (?)

2005-03-22 Thread Glenn Maynard
was lightly humerous, not an attack. (I don't know why I'm replying seriously to a nameless top-poster with an email address [EMAIL PROTECTED], though. My bad. :) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#299713: ITP: cvsfs -- Translator for transparent access to cvs repositories

2005-03-15 Thread Glenn Maynard
tools. s/GNU //? (Putting GNU there reminds me vaguely of the back of a shampoo container: After shampooing with Pantene(tm) Shampoo, follow up with Pantene(tm) Conditioner, Pantene(tm) skin cleanser, ...) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: [OT] maildir (was Re: procmail and Large File Support)

2005-02-27 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Of course, all of these factors depend on the file system used. I am confident somebody could point out a file-system that eliminates many Reiserfs, of course. You meant XFS, right? (Sorry, couldn't be helped. :) -- Glenn

Re: mplayer, the time has come

2005-02-24 Thread Glenn Maynard
* to patents affecting the US, and never has been. AFAIK, non-us was an archive that was uploaded to from outside the US, but could be freely and legally used from inside the US--not an archive which was completely off- limits to the US. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: remove

2005-02-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
] Read all of the messages. The relevant info is right there. Do it! NOW! Er. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amd64 is already the 2nd most important arch (WasRe: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-22 Thread Glenn Maynard
systems. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#296369: ITP: spin -- Powerfull model checking and software verification tool

2005-02-21 Thread Glenn Maynard
. Please see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/01/msg00267.html -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Verify debian-devel@lists.debian.org for Francois.Mescam@onera.fr

2005-02-13 Thread Glenn Maynard
-at-all measure, really. Why would anyone put up with this?) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#294084: ITP: life -- Linux Instrumentation for Enterprise - a set of WBEM management providers from Novell

2005-02-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
be called life, though. -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debug packages cluttering the archive

2005-02-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
option mentioned in the info page found from your google search). I had no idea it was even implemented, though. (Aha: the strip tool mentioned is in elfutils, which is non-free. Blah.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
of the stuff that runs in Wine is non-free--but not all, so Wine goes in main. The relative quantities aren't relevant. (It's not clear whether data beyond the scope of Debian--such as comics being downloaded--are relevant to this, either, but that's another debate.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
: (It's not clear whether data beyond the scope of Debian--such as comics being downloaded--are relevant to this, either, but that's another debate.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#293382: ITP: zen-cart -- simple SQL and php based e-commerce solution

2005-02-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
generate buzzwords? But he seems to be having so much fun writing bad commercials instead of package descriptions ... (Do I get a set of Ginsu knives if I install now? FTP servers are standing by ...) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
to condemn those who we are unwilling to ignore it completely. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-06 Thread Glenn Maynard
; but I can't put my finger on any tangible difference in these cases, and maybe there isn't one.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems? (was: Are mails sent to xxxx at buildd.debian.org sent to /dev/null ?)

2005-01-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
then? Please ask those people how you can rid off of off-list CC replies. This is incorrect. The proper way to respond to lists in Mutt (especially on Debian lists, where it's policy) is to add the lists to subscribe, and press L (list reply). -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Ignoring the truth or Hiding problems?

2005-01-05 Thread Glenn Maynard
for mail, than trying to teach people how to use their MUA.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
text which is relevant to some other quote would mean never removing anything. (As your complaints about my quoting are both frivilous and in a somewhat demanding tone, I doubt I'll respond to them any further.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

2005-01-04 Thread Glenn Maynard
lost--regardless of how many times you assert that is has. [1] You cannot justify the bad things that happen as a result of your actions by saying that your goals *require* bad things to happen. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
it's used should be up to the local admin. ... so I don't know why we're talking about implementation details. :) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn Maynard
to my response, so no, they weren't relevant. Stop yelling. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: murphy is listed on spamcop

2005-01-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
people and bouncing email. Whatever point you were trying to make is lost. The thread is over. You're the one trying to force that comparison, not TB, so it's apparently your point that's been lost. Nice try, though. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2005-01-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
thing doesn't work if the secondary CPU is on a sound card's DSP or a SCSI card's processor. The CPU being used isn't an important metric here (even if it's not obvious what the real metric is). -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
lost, anyway ... :) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
refuting ... -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:39:46AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:37:45AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, there's a very concrete reason: given an installation of Debian main

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
firmware to fire up a device counts as depend[ing] on an item of non-free software, but your emulator example has no such ambiguity.) -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-17 Thread Glenn Maynard
the simpler cases of simple on-card flash should be dealt with before banging our heads on the corner cases. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
. in the AIM client case, but that's a very different scenario and should be treated independently. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
make me wonder why you're here at all, though; you appear to regard Debian's founding principles with contempt. [1] depending on whether we're allowed to distribute the firmware at all: if the firmware isn't even in non-free, then it's a legal issue and philosophy doesn't enter into it. -- Glenn

Re: Bug#285518: misdn-utils includes a firmware loader

2004-12-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
, is not whether these drivers are Free; we're assuming they're Free, and asking whether they should go in main or contrib due to the firmware being non-free. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-16 Thread Glenn Maynard
working firmware. The existance of non-working hardware is irrelevant. -- Glenn Maynard

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