On Sunday 08 May 2005 9:27am, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 10283 March 1977, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > >> Whats going on == someone needs to check it. Thats it. > > > > That was the point made by Ed Cogburn. Its already been checked in the > > other arch! If this is not the case please explain why. Without that > > explanation I am forced to agree with Ed - the problem are political... > > Which is the bane of debian. > > We are *NOT* Debian
We ARE Debian for Heaven's sake! This move to another server is just TEMPORARY! We WILL be Debian as soon as sarge gets out and development on etch picks up. Who in the world is going to get upset when they know we will soon be part of official Debian, and they've already given permission for Debian to distribute their stuff! Get real people! How many non-free packages have been cleared? Why haven't you at least set up non-free and moved the packages known to be ok into it? I know for sure that the rogue-like games in non-free are perfectly fine and can brought on-line now, since they and a lot of other stuff is in non-free just because they are "old" pre-GPL software with "don't sell for money" restrictions which make them fail the DFSG test on distribution, but are otherwise fully open-source (and who's earlier authors can no longer be found to ask them if they'd agree to a change to the GPL or some other Free license). In fact, looking through the non-free docs section, most of that can go in right now because they don't require anyone's permission to distribute since they're in non-free because of the dispute between Debian and FSF over documentation. > thats all you need to get! Hogwash. This sounds like an extremely defensive response. How many packages have been cleared for non-free? Why haven't you just put up a non-free section with the stuff thats been cleared? Why has it been more than a week, with no non-free section at all, no indication of how the "vetting" process is going, and with you telling us above that we don't need to know anything more? Now do you understand why I'm just a little bit skeptical? Just establish the non-free section and move everything over. If anyone complains then just drop the package they're complaining about. Of course, NO ONE is going to complain since they know we will "become" Debian soon anyway (and for all intents we ARE Debian - just not on their server), and they've already given Debian permission to distribute. For the rest of non-free, permission to distribute is not an issue, and not the reason they're in non-free to begin with. Re-evaluating non-free is just silly when we're going to "officially" become Debian again in a few months, certainly less than a year, anyway (assuming Debian gets Sarge out soon). Heck, Debian doesn't even advertise us, we're the bastard child they don't want to talk about, because when they do it reignites the argument about which architectures to "officially" support, and why... and why not. NO ONE IS GOING TO CARE ABOUT OUR NON-FREE! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]