Re: questions about audit and budget processes

* martin f krafft [2016-03-03 13:22]: (...) > In my opinion, neither a balance sheet nor a P statement make any > sense and would be far too difficult to create and maintain. We > wouldn't even know what standard to us. IFRS? US-GAAP? Neither of > those are particularly

Re: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

* Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl [2015-04-19 17:45]: I saw backports has been removed as default setting from sources.list in Jessie RC3. I am very disappointed by this last minute change, without much discussion so far I know. I did not know about this bug. In my opinion it's very

Re: DebConf travel sponsorship (was: Re: [Debconf-team] Budget status - travel sponsorship)

* Iain Lane la...@debian.org [2012-06-20 16:25]: Decisions and transfers of money should happen significantly before the conference is to take place. 4-6 months, as you suggest, is probably about fair. I would very much hope, given the importance of Debconf, that Debian is willing to

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf11 financial report

Hi Richard! Thanks a lot for your afford! Yours Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120620153450.gh21...@anguilla.debian.or.at

Re: DDG

* vangelis mouhtsis vange...@gnugr.org [2012-03-29 12:20]: And how can i avoid to have DDG as default search URL on my iceweasel? I think thats not fair enough. Change it just the way you would if you didn't want google as default. Yours Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: License doubt

Hi Lucas! * Lucas Pomez lucaspo...@gmail.com [2011-10-02 19:06]: I need do know if is it possible to modify the debian installer pics to adapt it to a new distribution i want to do. If you refere to the SpaceFun theme see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/SpaceFun Yours Martin -- To

Re: Please draft a policy for planet.debian.org

Hi! * Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org [2010-11-11 10:56]: I have been made aware that people use Debian resources for personal financial gain using the planet.d.o syndication platform, by for instance including 'flattr' links and images in the text present on planet. Furthermore

Re: commercial spam on planet

* Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org [2010-11-10 16:21]: AFAIK the DMUP rules were meant to avoid problems that DSA would have to deal with (either legal problems or supplementary useless work). I don't think that the presence or the absence of a flattr button/link is going to make any

Re: dpkg feature implementation

Hi dE! * dE . de.tec...@gmail.com [2010-01-05 12:13]: The developers and administrators will have to understand my point. This is the only reason why people refuse to install any Linux OS. I really don't have an answer to these simple windows users when they say what about offline software

Re: squeeze release cycle?

Hi Raphael! * Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org [2009-11-10 00:36]: But indeed it's only a proposal at this point. The release team needs to set a date in stone now. If you're talking about the Ubuntu release team that's up to them. If you talk about the Debian release team then I don't

Re: Switching the default startup method

Hi Steve! * Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org [2009-08-24 09:19]: So far, the only bugs that have been highlighted in this thread appear to be bugs that happen when trying to remove insserv. If there aren't any problems with the new system, why do we need to support downgrading? Because

Re: Switching the default startup method

Hi Steve! * Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org [2009-08-24 10:03]: The main thing I know about file-rc is that it's a corner case that further breaks upgrade handling when packages need to renumber their symlinks in /etc/rc?.d. I know embedded is often used as a catch-all to describe all

Re: Switching the default startup method

Hi Tollef! * Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no [2009-08-24 10:27]: ]] Andreas Barth | Eh. This translates to: it is ok that the admin cannot switch back | from insserv to oldstyle booting. | | And that is a statement that I heavily disagree with. I think neither | our users nor our

Re: Switching the default startup method

Hi Giacomo! * Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org [2009-08-24 11:33]: BTW the resolving dependencies is done at installation/update time, not at every boot. You're right. I should time the calculation on those ~200 MHz low-ram boxes - I don't expect this to be reasonably fast tough. Yours

Re: Switching the default startup method

Hi Luk! * Luk Claes l...@debian.org [2009-08-24 19:42]: There is no reason to use insserv on embedded systems, though if you do, you could create the image somewhere else on a fast machine and don't have the draw backs of time-consuming resolving dependencies AFAICS? If insserv breakes all

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

* Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org [2009-08-03 19:30]: Aligning our releases with RHEL rather than with Ubuntu seems more worthwhile to me. They have similar stabilisation lengths as we did for previous releases and they're investing a lot of work into the kernel, from which we could profit

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

* Marc Haber mh+debian-proj...@zugschlus.de [2009-07-30 09:16]: I don't think that we shouldn't time our releases according to what Mark Shuttleworth says. We are not Ubuntu's slave even if they try hard to make it look like that. In fact, I would prefer if Ubuntu had to change _their_

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

* Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org [2009-07-29 07:39]: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes No, the project DID NOT decide it, the release team did, and the project has to accept it; there's a lot of difference. No see 4.1.3 of the constitution Make or override any decision

Re: What is preventing Debian from being fully free at this moment?

* Fred frederiqu...@gmail.com [2009-07-29 06:12]: I'd love to see Debian comply to real GNU/FSF freedom. When I visit the website it boasts about how it is free. However, it is far from free while it is offering proprietary software as well as having binary blobs in the kernel. The kernel

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

* Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org [2009-07-29 18:22]: Please, everybody, stop this kind of you evil DebConf attendees have decided for us all arguments. The time-based freeze has been announced/proposed during a talk at DebConf; it was fresh news for the attendees as it was fresh news for

Re: debian developers from *any* country ?

* Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de [2009-07-28 18:19]: I think its not a problem to offer keysigning in the mentioned countries, if an applicant will be accepted at the end is not decided by the place where his key was signed. Also there are people from foreign countries living in the

Re: donation in EUR

Hi Florian! * Florian DUVAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-01 15:33]: I want to makea donation, but i'm in the EURO zone, is it possible to donate in EUR ? From http://www.debian.org/donations.en.html Europe: Verein zur Förderung Freier Informationen und Software e.V. (ffis) in Germany HTH

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

Hi Anthony! * Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [2007-02-15 09:37]: Not every criticism is an insult, and if you want to know why things don't happen you need to be able to take criticism without taking insult. To some readers of your last mail In general, I could pretty easily imagine

withdrawal of my proposal [was: Policy (re)delegation]

* Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-01 19:44]: With this mail I'm formally delegating Debian's policy maintenance to the following group: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andreas Barth [EMAIL

Re: Policy delegation

Hi Kalle! * Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-10-25 14:03]: Martin Wuertele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I therefore propose a resolution as defined in section 4.2.2 of the Do note that such proposals need to be sent to debian-vote to be effective. And PGP/GPG signed but I'm

Re: Policy delegation

* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [2006-10-25 12:49]: I won't be looking into formally creating a new delegation 'til after etch has released, at which point I hope we can find at least four people who'll be active in maintaining policy according to the policy process we've had for quite

Re: Proposal: Source code is important for all works in Debian, and required for programmatic ones

== BEGIN PROPOSAL = The Free Software movement is about enabling users to modify the works that they use on their computer; about giving users the same information that copyright holders and upstream developers have. As such, a critical part of

Re: Live image: strategic for Debian or not?

* Ottavio Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-08-23 09:53]: --- Ottavio Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it as an official download, branded as Defiant Live image? Obviously I meant: Debian live image. Blame the Yahoo spellchecker! Take a look at http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

* Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-21 03:39]: On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 08:12:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: SPI and Debian are separate organisations who share some goals. Debian is grateful for the legal support framework offered by SPI. Debian's Developers are

Re: Debian Server restored after Compromise

Hi martin! * martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-14 09:05]: As stated in the post, at least all those developers had their accounts locked. But they can get their account unlocked. Maybe adding no-gpg-secret-keys to DMUP might help. yours Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian

Re: Call for a new DPL mediation ... This will be the only thread i will reply to in the next time about this issue.

* Benjamin Seidenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-21 06:15]: AIUI (please, correct me if I am wrong) the D-I repository is hosted on svn.d.o, a machine belonging to the debian project. I don't see why the DPL would have authority over the mailing lists (hosted on a debian machine and

Re: Donations

Hi Manoj! * Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-12 15:47]: OK, How about this: (... Manojs suggestion ...) That sounds fine imo. Thanks for the work. yours Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal Operating System Martin Klaffenboeck wrote: Ist unter

Re: Donations

Hi Manoj! * Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-11 15:37]: Hi, How about simplifying the strictures in the constitution to something like this: ] Since Debian has no authority to hold money or property, any ] monetary donations for the Debian Project must be

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

* Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-02 08:27]: I personally volunteer for this for doing kernel related NEW work, but i guess someone else can be found if you don't judge me dign of confiance. Right, let's have everyone volunteer to process NEW for his pet package... Martin -- [EMAIL

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

* Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-10 14:43]: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:31:09PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: And if anything, we now have an official decision on this matter (even though you might not like it), so we can all move along. All except me, naturally, right ? The world