Re: Processed: Re: apt-file: broken. curl is needed

2006-03-02 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Sebastien, On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 00:24 +0100, Sebastien J. Gross wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:35:02AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've taken a look at the bug logs and I'm very disappointed with the > > maintainer's lack of engagement. There seem to be a lot of people who > >

Re: Status of resolutions about TC tweaks

2006-03-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:51:10AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > ] So I propose we establish a rule that we won't make decisions on > > > ] issues that aren't ready for an immediate NMU when we make that > > > ] decision. > BTW, I think something similar should be done, but not as stri

Re: Status of resolutions about TC tweaks

2006-03-02 Thread Andreas Barth
* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [060302 12:11]: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:51:10AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > > ] So I propose we establish a rule that we won't make decisions on > > > > ] issues that aren't ready for an immediate NMU when we make that > > > > ] decision.

Bug#353277: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-03-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:03:56AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Otherwise, the ctte could overrule just about everything in Debian. Were > > they not bound by the SC themselves, they could overrule even the SC itself > > by determining

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-03-02 Thread Raul Miller
On 3/2/06, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With that in mind, policy on contrib says that contrib is for > > "wrapper packages or other sorts of free accessories for non-free programs." > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-contrib > > > And I think ndiswrapper

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-03-02 Thread Raul Miller
On 3/2/06, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:15:04PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Ok, we should probably find a different word to describe this > > relationship. > > > > Perhaps it could be phrased that ndiswrapper has a need for the presence > > of some software which is not avai

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-03-02 Thread Raul Miller
On 3/2/06, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 01:35:11PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > But I think this case -- < > install non-free software, in order to make the package work the way that > > people typically think of as using it>>... I think this case is on the w

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-03-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 07:42:42PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On 3/2/06, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:15:04PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > > Ok, we should probably find a different word to describe this > > > relationship. > > > Perhaps it could be phrased that ndiswrapper

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-03-02 Thread Raul Miller
On 3/2/06, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 07:42:42PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > On 3/2/06, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > But it doesn't -- ndiswrapper will sit there quite beningly if the > > > non-free > > > driver isn't present. It'll do everything it's supposed to -- link with

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-03-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:21:33PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On 3/2/06, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 07:42:42PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > > On 3/2/06, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > But it doesn't -- ndiswrapper will sit there quite beningly if the > > > > non-free > > >

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 07:27:41PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On 3/2/06, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With that in mind, policy on contrib says that contrib is for > > > "wrapper packages or other sorts of free accessories for non-free > > > programs." > > > http://www.debian.o

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:26:56AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main"): > > 1+5. As noted in my follow-up comments to Ian's proposal, I think the > > rationale is great, but I draw the opposite conclusion from it. :) > I'm afraid you'll have t

Re: Bug#307833: Processed: Re: apt-file: broken. curl is needed

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:35:02AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > I've taken a look at the bug logs and I'm very disappointed with the > maintainer's lack of engagement. There seem to be a lot of people who > are interested in helping maintain this package. > Would any of the keen people we see invo

Re: Bug#353277: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-03-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:43:45PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > Of course, I can be convinced that the constitution does give the ctte that > power, but so far, I am not. Otherwise, why didn't we pose to the ctte a > request for how the