Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-06 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2010-05-05, Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: This is still an annoying thing to handle. If you install machines at different locations regulary, this firmware crap is nothing but a pita. I can't see a reason why we should not be able to ship cd-images in non-free. I fully concur.

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2009-07-30, Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi wrote: On 2009-07-30 13:12 (+0200), Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-30 11:36 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Oh, and Debian got hundreds of active developers, and I doubt they'll be running to Shuttleworth anytime soon. Probably not, but the

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-30 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2009-07-30, Marc Haber mh+debian-proj...@zugschlus.de wrote: I don't see the advantage for Debian short of probable ease of work for the security team (which doesn't seem to have commented yet). The synergy is negligable, since the most time-consuming elements (testing, handling the buildds

Re: Debian Membership

2009-03-17 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
[Followup-To: header set to gmane.linux.debian.devel.new-maintainer.] On 2009-03-14, Thomas Viehmann t...@beamnet.de wrote: Hi, if you allow me to share a thought here even though I am not a developer and as such do not have any say in this. Matthew Johnson wrote: My goals with changing the

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

2009-02-09 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2009-02-09, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl alexan...@schmehl.info wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --040603030801070601030404 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [ Sorry for the cross post; just trying to make sure

Re: Will Debian ever seperate blobs?

2008-08-29 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Frederique W. Piccart wrote: I've just read about blobs and that Debian is not completely free, even if with the fact I refused non-free and contrib software during expert install. What gives? Is Debian ever going to be completely free from blobs for users who prefer this? Go ahead, the

Re: No buildd redundancy for alpha/mips/mipsel

2007-11-30 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2007-11-30, Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:23:34AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: On 29/11/2007, Michael Banck wrote: I believe buildd redundancy does not mean having 2+ active buildds, but having at least one active buildd who can keep up, plus a

Re: infrastructure team rules (second edit)

2007-10-19 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Clint Adams wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:50:29PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: * Infrastructure teams have to decide to accept or reject candidates who nominated themselves. The basic requirements are: Why should teams decide on their own membership? I don't think this should be allowed.

Re: Need of non-germany-tree in Debian?

2007-07-15 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Alexander Wirt wrote: Huh? Distributing computer games without the necessary permission under applicable youth protection laws is already forbidden. [..] planetpenguin-racer is affected as well. It doesn't matter whether the game is violent or not. There's only an exception for mostly

Re: Need of non-germany-tree in Debian?

2007-07-07 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Malte Hahlbeck wrote: Today the upper House of the German Parliament (Bundesrat) decided to declare Security Software like nmap, nessus etc. illegal in a way that the software itself and not it's criminal use is indictable. That is no Joke. This Law will be active when it is published. That

Re: Some thoughts on the ARM build daemons

2007-05-08 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Aurelien Jarno wrote: - tofee: up, building packages, sometimes stable-security. I think it is time to changes things. Our faster build daemons have a 233MHz CPU with 256MB of RAM, while there are way faster ARM CPU today. How much faster is the fastest available ARM CPU compared to toffee?

Re: Some thoughts on the ARM build daemons

2007-05-08 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Lennert Buytenhek wrote: - tofee: up, building packages, sometimes stable-security. I think it is time to changes things. Our faster build daemons have a 233MHz CPU with 256MB of RAM, while there are way faster ARM CPU today. How much faster is the fastest available ARM CPU

Re: Debian 4.0 finally arrives... does anyone care?

2007-04-11 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070410 08:19]: (There are many news items more or less just quoting the release=20 announcement, But also note, that lazy journalists might falsify your positive statistics ;) (Please take this as enhancement bug, not a flame)

Re: Rethinking stable updates policy

2006-08-30 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
David Nusinow wrote: The rough plan is to provide an alternative set of updated kernel packages and potentially also xservers (depending on how modular the new X.org modulization really is) nine months after Etch release. ian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Concerns with Open/OS Corporate Linux ads?

2006-08-30 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
martin f krafft wrote: and that they add support and maintenance, which adds the features - reliable release cycle - newest packages - security team - security administration Their latest security update is from February... Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Rethinking stable updates policy

2006-08-28 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Martin Schulze wrote: It would be good, though, especially in order to have some support for hardware that has entered the market after the last Debian release, if there would be an outside repository for updated kernel and installer packages. However, nobody considered this important enough

Re: PR work

2006-03-13 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Martin Schulze wrote: Couldn't we just put something nice there? Like news that actually show how alive Debian is, reporting about new, shiny software packages in testing, with xxxtra-bling! Seriously, good press work isn't when you send out a hrm, still not dead notice every three of four

Re: Stable security support

2006-01-06 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Anthony Towns wrote: Since the above, Moritz Muehlenhoff has been added as a security secretary and given priveleges to do security updates for testing via the security.debian.org infrastructure, but there's been no other activity to my knowledge. I'm busy with the sarge2 kernel update, I'll

Re: The source of FSF policy

2005-04-15 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.project, you wrote: Several of you work closely with GNU people. A question for you. Is the FSF a body like the IETF, W3C or Debian in which stakeholders make reasonably collaborative policy decisions together? Or is FSF policy more or less another name for the