Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Hood wrote: > Several people said that they didn't want Debian documentation to be > full of political rants. They would like to reserve the right to > delete the parts they don't like from the manuals they package. But > what is this but censorship? And how is censorship compatible with

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Thomas Hood
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200112/msg7.html > Off to read about 100 messages ... ... and a tedious experience it was. I would like to make the following points which I didn't see mentioned in the hundreds of messages (many of them snipes and flames). 1. Document

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:39:31AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:34:36PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Software." Therefore, for something to be part of Debian, it must be > > Free Software, even if it's documentation. Now, this may be an > > It must be free software,

Re: creating package.substvars

2002-04-08 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:46:48PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > I'm packaging a library that includes three separate binary packages. > 1) the shared library (libnjb0) > 2) the dev library (libnjb-dev) > 3) sample code (libnjb-samples) > > I would like debhelper to create three separate package.s

Re: creating package.substvars

2002-04-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > I'm packaging a library that includes three separate binary packages. > 1) the shared library (libnjb0) > 2) the dev library (libnjb-dev) > 3) sample code (libnjb-samples) > > I would like debhelper to create three separate package.substv

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-08 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:34:36PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Software." Therefore, for something to be part of Debian, it must be > Free Software, even if it's documentation. Now, this may be an It must be free software, even if it's documentation? So any documentation, if included in Deb

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:17:28PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > I asked: > > Were there any other important debates about the GFDL > > that should be read? > > To answer my own question: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200112/msg7.html > > Off to read about 100 message

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:50:21PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > A work licensed under GNU FDL, version 1.1, which consists entirely of > "Invariant Sections" either has no license or is wholly unmodifiable. > Most people on debian-legal agree that this renders the work DFSG-free.

Re: GNU FDL

2002-04-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:09:11PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > > Documentation isn't software. Neither are conffiles, icons, etc. > > > > When I buy software, all of that is part of what I buy. Foldoc says > > that one definition of software is "programs plus documentation though > > this do

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Dale Scheetz wrote: >So, in fact, both of these licenses are non-free, as they contain clauses >that can be used, and will be considered non-free. > >I find it ... foolish to declare a license to be free IFF some clauses of >the license are not exercised. Using this lan

Re: Bug#140349: ITP: cvs-conf -- Manage your configuration files via CVS

2002-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.09.0112 +0200]: > | really? are you aware how buggy it is? > > No. According to the stuff I've seen it gives problems on non-UNIX > platforms, but that shouldn't be a concern to us. okay, well then i'm misinformed. good for us. PreservePer

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:53:54AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > > DFSG stand for "Debian Free Software Guidelines". > > > > Yes, and since Debian is 100% Free Software, that applies to everything > > in Debian. > > Documentation isn't software. Neither are conffiles, icons, etc. So, > if we'

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ola Lundqvist wrote: >On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:57:42PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> http://people.debian.org/~jaq/jfdg.html > >Well written. Thanks. > >One issue though: >The license may not require a royalty or other fee for such sale. > --^^^ > >Should

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >I wrote this up last night after getting fed up with this thread, then >modified it this morning after reading the thread on -legal that was >referred to. Flame away. > >http://people.debian.org/~jaq/jfdl.html Of course, I meant http://people

Re: Dependencies on libpgsql2.1

2002-04-08 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il mar, 2002-04-09 alle 00:49, Colin Watson ha scritto: > To clarify, not all of these packages are buggy in sid. The ones (by > source package) that have a problem appear to be something like this at > the moment: > > courier-ssl dbf2sql ddt gql gtksql guile-pg libch libnss-pgsql > netsaint-

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards)

2002-04-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:24:44PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > The FDL is not DFSG-compliant, but that doesn't make it non-free. > > > > By the definitions we have given "non-free", it is exactly that. > > If it was software, it was non-free. Our definitions are only about > software. The

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:30:18AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 09:01, Richard Braakman wrote: > > On the other hand, by taking action we might be able to stop those projects > > from taking such a misguided course of action. I think the FSF is making > > a big mistake with t

Re: Bug#140349: ITP: cvs-conf -- Manage your configuration files via CVS

2002-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* martin f krafft | also sprach Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.08.1943 +0200]: | > | we're talking about the PreservePermissions configuration option, | > | which is something different. i should have been more clear. | > | > Uhm, that is actually just not enabled. I might enable

Re: [Sid] SSMTP and LF bug ??

2002-04-08 Thread Jason Thomas
it is an error reported by qmail, NOT ssmtp, so it is either mutt or gpg's fault. maybe it is just a setting in mutt as it works fine here for me with mutt, gpg, ssmtp and postfix. On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:18:15PM +0200, wrote: > Hi all, > > I use ssmtp and mutt but I'am unable to sign mail wi

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-08 Thread Mark Eichin
> That is Horms-versioning. He starts version numbers at 0 instead of I was questioning the "exactly one release which hasn't been touched in 14 months", rather than the actual number; it is a general rule that the first public exposure of something is *not* good enough for real use, and I find it

Re: Dependencies on libpgsql2.1

2002-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:09:49PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > update_output.txt says: > > trying: postgresql > skipped: postgresql (134+2) > got: 46+0: a-46 > * alpha: courier-authpostgresql, dbf2pg, ddt-server, gda-postgres, > gphotocoll, gtksql, guile-pg, libapache-mod-auth-pgsq

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:47:42PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > It's your own fault. You choosed to run non-free software, now you get > the consequences. Debian doesn't support vmware, so go somewhere else > with your vmware problems. (Debian does support plex86 and bochs, BTW) > > Jeroen Dekke

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Mark Eichin
> As far as I can see neither the gcc nor the binutils documentation has > invariant sections. I don't know about KDE. Gcc 3 docs do: gcc-3.0/gcc/doc/gcc.texi has (1) the GPL itself [which we already need some way of dealing with, the text of the GPL isn't DFSG but we include it...] (2) the three

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Bruce Stephens
"Bao C. Ha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:03:11AM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote: > > Hi Donald, > >> >> Let me see if I understand this. I am running VMWare 2.0.4 and >> this morning I discovered that it dies with: >> >> VMware Workstation PANIC: >> AIO: NOT_IMPL

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:03:11AM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:01:00AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > > Let's replace movl %eax,%ebx with xorl %ebx,%ebx ;-) Apply > > ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-ws-1455-update12.tar.gz. > > It fixes issue for VMware 3.0 an

creating package.substvars

2002-04-08 Thread Shaun Jackman
I'm packaging a library that includes three separate binary packages. 1) the shared library (libnjb0) 2) the dev library (libnjb-dev) 3) sample code (libnjb-samples) I would like debhelper to create three separate package.substvars files, but it's only creating the one substvars. I've read all th

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards)

2002-04-08 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:22:53PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:29:27PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > IMO, an FDL-licensed document with invariant sections is non-free. As a > > > user of Debian, I'd like to know that they're not installed on my system > > > if I'm

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:28:19PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:04:12PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > The GNU FDL violates the DFSG ? > > > > > > In case this is true, nearly all KDE packages have to be moved to > > > non-free as they use the GNU FDL for the docum

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-08 Thread Thimo Neubauer
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:44:32PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > > As much as I like to have woody released soon, I'm quite confused > > because I don't understand why masqmail has to go: > > This is "had had to go". > AJ mailed "over the past few weeks". note the plural. Well, the last RC bug o

Bug#141858: ITP: cccp -- Console frontend to DCTC - Direct Connect (peer-based file-sharing)

2002-04-08 Thread Grzegorz Prokopski
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-08 Severity: wishlist * Package name: cccp Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Hampus Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://members01.chello.se/hampasfirma/cccp/ * License : GPL-2 Description : Console front

Re: Bug#141686: xbase: name clash with old XFree86 package

2002-04-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:24:47PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Package: xbase > > Version: 2.0.0-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > xbase |2.0.0-1 | unstable | source > > xbase | 3.3.6-11potato32 |stable | all > > > > This seems pretty broken to me ... it's a source

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lun 08/04/2002 à 19:12, Dale Scheetz a écrit : > So, in fact, both of these licenses are non-free, as they contain > clauses that can be used, and will be considered non-free. > I find it ... foolish to declare a license to be free IFF some clauses of > the license are not exercised. Using thi

Re: Bug#140349: ITP: cvs-conf -- Manage your configuration files via CVS

2002-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.08.1943 +0200]: > | we're talking about the PreservePermissions configuration option, > | which is something different. i should have been more clear. > > Uhm, that is actually just not enabled. I might enable it post-woody. really? are yo

Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-08 Severity: normal Sorry, folks, but it is clear I have not enough time to work seriously on a package like dupload, which is important and should be handled with care. I leave it to someone more active. There are many bugs reported but most are mino

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Michael Stone | On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:08:10AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: | > I have this sneaking suspicion that we need a tool more appropriate than | > the BTS to handle the WNPP. The BTS seems rather fragile for this | > purpose - the format for bug titles and to a greater extent the way

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:01:15AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > Why? What freedoms are important for software that aren't for > > documentation? > > Revisionist history, for one. I'm sure the FSF wouldn't appreciate the > GCC document being modified to make it look like Linus Torvalds wrote >

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Thomas Hood
I asked: > Were there any other important debates about the GFDL > that should be read? To answer my own question: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200112/msg7.html Off to read about 100 messages ... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[Sid] SSMTP and LF bug ??

2002-04-08 Thread null
Hi all, I use ssmtp and mutt but I'am unable to sign mail with GnuPGP I always have the following error : sendmail: 451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html so is it a bug in ssmtp or in GnuGP (I dont think so because pgp signature works fine with sylpheed) ? thanks best regards -- R.

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:14:17PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > May you should consider VMware's current beta of 3.1? That might have been an option if my VMWare sessions weren't "suspended". To upgrade, they first have to be restarted with version 2.0 and shut down properly. Then they can be u

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 12:32, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:22:00AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > In that thread in debian-legal, he seemed to accept the possibility that > > some things packaged for Debian might not be software. His problem > > seemed to be with corner case

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 12:25, Branden Robinson wrote: > Jeff, you might want to read: Noted. > People who want to opine about licensing issues really, really should > subscribe to -legal. And I have (though only recently). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I find it ... foolish to declare a license to be free IFF some clauses of > the license are not exercised. Using this language, any proprietary > license becomes free as long as none of the proprietary sections are > inforced by the author... > > The lice

Re: GNU FDL

2002-04-08 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 11:51, David Starner wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:53:54AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > Documentation isn't software. Neither are conffiles, icons, etc. > > When I buy software, all of that is part of what I buy. Foldoc says > that one definition of software is "pr

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:57:42PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >DFSG stand for "Debian Free Software Guidelines". IMHO we ave to create a > >DFDG, "Debian Free Documentation Guidelines". > > I wrote this up last night after getting fed up w

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:12:06PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > So, in fact, both of these licenses are non-free, as they contain clauses > that can be used, and will be considered non-free. It is software that is or is not DFSG-free, not licenses. The simple fact is, a work licensed under versio

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Dale Scheetz quotation: > On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > As usual, this issue has been beaten to death on a list you don't read. > > > > Please review the archives of debian-legal for the past several months. > > > > In a nutshell: > > > > 1) The current version of t

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Thomas Hood
Dale Scheetz wrote: > So, in fact, both of these licenses are non-free, as they > contain clauses that can be used, and will be considered > non-free. Your objection is true of the OPL, but RMS argues http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200111/msg00017.html that that is not true

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Alan Shutko
Donald J Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > VMware Workstation PANIC: > AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(566):1081 > This is on a relatively current Woody system, and VMWare was > running fine last week. Is this the same issue, and does that > leave me in the "sorry" category? Yes, you're screwed

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Harald Dunkel
May you should consider VMware's current beta of 3.1? Good luck Harri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why was libpam-pgsql removed from the woody lineup?

2002-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:40:04AM -0700, David D.W. Downey wrote: > Just wondering why libpam-pgsql was removed from the woody lineup. It has not. Check madison's output on pandora. > As of libpam-pgsql-0.5.2-3, libpam-pgsql has been built against > libpgsql2, not libpgsql2.1. > > Also, CJ Wats

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:34:45AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:17:02PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > Yes, of course. It only says a newer version is in sid, and that it will > > be considered tomorrow. > > It also says: > > Depends: galeon mozilla > > galeon 1.

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:03:11AM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:01:00AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Phillips) writes: > > Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > > > As SUSv2 mandates that new nice return value is correct, > > > please use [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Bao C. Ha
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:03:11AM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote: Hi Donald, > > Let me see if I understand this. I am running VMWare 2.0.4 and > this morning I discovered that it dies with: > > VMware Workstation PANIC: > AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(566):1081 > > This is on a relatively curr

Re: New Packages (i18n version of APT)

2002-04-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Michael Piefel wrote: > clear to someone who takes the easy path like me. It would also help if > I could see your current source; the CVS archive on cvs.debian.org does > not seem to be current. It is current. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Bug#140349: ITP: cvs-conf -- Manage your configuration files via CVS

2002-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* martin f krafft | > See #10448 and #15516 (and my comments to them). | | we're talking about the PreservePermissions configuration option, | which is something different. i should have been more clear. Uhm, that is actually just not enabled. I might enable it post-woody. -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:50:43PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > I think that the point being made is that, if the GNU FDL is not a free > license, then we will need to redefine "free" or watch our project > splinter into uselessness. The GNU FDL is a license, period. It can applied in a manner co

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Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:22:00AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 00:05, David Starner wrote: > > Where? Branden seems to believe that anything that Debian packages is > > software, for the purposes of the DFSG. [...] > In that thread in debian-legal, he seemed to accept the pos

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:30:18AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > On the other hand, by taking action we might be able to stop those projects > > from taking such a misguided course of action. I think the FSF is making > > a big mistake with the GFDL. > > I'm curious about your reasoning. Have y

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:36:28PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > 3. I placed my book under this license with the express understanding > > that it was considered free. Now I'm hearing noise that this is a > > non-free license. While I disa

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:01:15AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > Revisionist history, for one. I'm sure the FSF wouldn't appreciate the > GCC document being modified to make it look like Linus Torvalds wrote > GCC, for example. How does the GFDL stop that? I can add a section to the GCC documentat

Re: GNU FDL

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:53:54AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > Documentation isn't software. Neither are conffiles, icons, etc. When I buy software, all of that is part of what I buy. Foldoc says that one definition of software is "programs plus documentation though this does not correspond wi

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Well, since there are these other issues being raised > (specificcally, the concern that GFDL may not meet the DFSG [I happen > to disagree with that statement, for what that counts for]), we > should wait for the dust to settle down before mo

Re: Scripts in /etc/init.d Question and Comment.

2002-04-08 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:35:57PM -0400, JPS wrote: > There is something that has always bothered me about the scripts in > `/etc/init.d'. Every once in a while I attempt to execute one of these > scripts while logged in as a non-root user. For example, I might type > `/etc/init.d/foobar restart'

Why was libpam-pgsql removed from the woody lineup?

2002-04-08 Thread David D.W. Downey
Just wondering why libpam-pgsql was removed from the woody lineup. As of libpam-pgsql-0.5.2-3, libpam-pgsql has been built against libpgsql2, not libpgsql2.1. Also, CJ Watson erroneously filed a bug against that version simply because it depended on libpgsql. He erroneously assumed that that meant

Re: Request for NMU: sidplay-base

2002-04-08 Thread Will Newton
On Saturday 06 Apr 2002 7:35 pm, Will Newton wrote: > Quite simple fixes: > > - Fixes build on hppa and quite possibly others. > - Bump version number to replace older packages correctly. (RC bug) > - Fix a minor bug in the description. > > Packages and diff are here: > > http://www.misconception.o

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Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:01:00AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Phillips) writes: > Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > As SUSv2 mandates that new nice return value is correct, > > please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or @GLIBC_2.2.6 as it is in CVS > > only) for new nice() interface, so o

Re: Stupid Arithmetic Tricks

2002-04-08 Thread Walter Tautz
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Erich Schubert wrote: > > A little knowledge of series tells me to apply n*(n+1)/2 to sum an > > arithmetic > > progression of common difference 1, starting at 1. This seems even quicker: > > 100*101/2 becomes 5*101*10 becomes 505*10 = 5050. > > Yep, but you aren't teache

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:08:10AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > I have this sneaking suspicion that we need a tool more appropriate than > the BTS to handle the WNPP. The BTS seems rather fragile for this > purpose - the format for bug titles and to a greater extent the way > followups for bug repor

Re: ITP: arp-fun -- ARP Spoofing utility

2002-04-08 Thread Robert van der Meulen
Quoting Jerome Petazzoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'll consolidate this opinion : last time I really NEEDED dsniff's arpspoof, > it did not work. I don't know why ; maybe it was because my host had many > eth. interfaces, some of them with "redundant" routes and other crap ; but > arpspoof died imme

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-08 Thread Erich Schubert
> As much as I like to have woody released soon, I'm quite confused > because I don't understand why masqmail has to go: This is "had had to go". AJ mailed "over the past few weeks". note the plural. Greetings, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: mirrors [Re: Release notes]

2002-04-08 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:48:51PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:38:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:13:38PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > > after the dust settles after the CD stampede > > > > Speaking of which, what's the tactic to get thi

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:12:07PM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:02:07AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:33:11PM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > > > None of these packages have RC bugs. masqmail itself just has two > > > important bugs which will

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 09:01, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:08:05AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > The point is that pulling everything out that's GFDL isn't really a good > > option; it damages the project for zero gain. This is especially true > > in the long term, as proje

Re: g++-3.0 library support?

2002-04-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
King "Leo (Martin Oberzalek)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > The alternative will be packing all required libraries of this package > into this package too. This would be rather painful. > Or maybe creating a package bar-shared which contains all required > libraries and the packag

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-08 Thread Thimo Neubauer
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:02:07AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:33:11PM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:24:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > kvdr masqmailxtell > > > > As much as I like to have woody rele

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 01:42, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:27:40AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > DFSG stand for "Debian Free Software Guidelines". IMHO we ave to create a > > DFDG, "Debian Free Documentation Guidelines". > > Why? What freedoms are important for software th

Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-08 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:28:12PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Jeroen Dekkers > > | It does also other things, like making distribution creation more > | flexible. I'm thinking of having a some kind of package file for every > | source package. That would include the current information and

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 00:43, David Starner wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:27:40AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > DFSG stand for "Debian Free Software Guidelines". > > Yes, and since Debian is 100% Free Software, that applies to everything > in Debian. Documentation isn't software. Neithe

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:05:31AM +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:20:28PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > > Given that gcc, binutils, and KDE are in main, it would seem that the > > status quo and the DFSG are in conflict, or the status quo and someone's > > interpretat

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:46:23AM -0700, Martin Quinson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 05:57:43PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > There are an ever growing number of packages that make use of the GNU Free > > Documentation License. Isn't it about time to put a copy of this license > > into the co

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:33:11PM +0200, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:24:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > kvdr masqmailxtell > > As much as I like to have woody released soon, I'm quite confused > because I don't understand why masqmail

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:08:05AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > The point is that pulling everything out that's GFDL isn't really a good > option; it damages the project for zero gain. This is especially true > in the long term, as projects follow the FSF's lead and start releasing > GFDL docs. O

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-08 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:30:29AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: > Two quotes come to mind: [...] You left out my favourite :) "Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself." - A. H. Weller, according to the first google hit. Richard Braakman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Subversion packages

2002-04-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, in case someone's curious about the current status of subversion, you can fetch packages for i386 from: http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/subversion/ These are just an update of David Kimdon's packages. I only tweaked stuff here and there to get it to build with current ve

Re: Update excuses openh323gk (2.0b2-1 to 2.0b4-1) (mk68k)

2002-04-08 Thread Mark Purcell
Wouter, Thanks for the upload of openh323gk hopefully it should clear testing now. While I'm sure there is some history and some good reasons for the m68k autobuilders list on nocrew.org. It does make it difficult for non-m68k maintainers to find out where to forward their email such as mine.

Re: Dependencies on libpgsql2.1

2002-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:12:12AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 02:09, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'm currently in the process of filing bugs on those packages in > > unstable that still depend on libpgsql2.1 rather than libpgsql2, or > > upgrading bugs to grave where they'd al

Re: Accepted traceroute 1.4a12-6 (i386 source)

2002-04-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Herbert Xu wrote: > Quite the contrary. I think he makes a fine treasurer. However, there > is an improtant difference between the treasurer and the DPL. If the > treasurer runs amok, then the DPL can replace him. Wrong, the DPL can not change the SPI board membership. Wichert. --

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-08 Thread Thimo Neubauer
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:24:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > kvdr masqmailxtell As much as I like to have woody released soon, I'm quite confused because I don't understand why masqmail has to go: masqmail (- to 0.1.16-2) * Maintainer: Debian QA Group

libmagick5, releasable?

2002-04-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I've noticed that some reports around libmagick5 incompatibility are floating around -bugs-dist. It's unnerving considering that we are trying to release, and apparently, a new upstream version has been uploaded today. There needs to be some checking, a. if the program runs b. if the progr

Re: Python module for debconf

2002-04-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Hornburg (Racke)) cum veritate scripsit: > > No, pre-depending on python will not ensure that your package's > > config script has python available at preconfgiuration time. > > So we are really restricted to a fix set of packages at preconfiguration > time ? Hmm, that's

Re: g++-3.0 library support?

2002-04-08 Thread Leo \(Martin Oberzalek\)
Am Son, 2002-04-07 um 21.35 schrieb Matthias Klose: > King "Leo (Martin Oberzalek)" writes: > > Hello, > > > > it's not possible linking a C++ library compiled with g++-2.9x to a C++ > > application compiled with g++-3.0. > > > > We all no the reasons... > > > > My question is how I should handl

Re: autobuilder question

2002-04-08 Thread Philip Blundell
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 12:53, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > Just of curiosity, is the queue for the autobuilders available anywhere, > either on the web or by logging into the machines? Yes (kind of) - see http://auric.debian.org/~pb/shame/arm.html and http://buildd.debian.org/stats/arm-all.txt p.

Re: mirrors [Re: Release notes]

2002-04-08 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 10:15, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote: > Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Sun, 7 Apr 2002 13:48:51 +0200: > > Don't worry, ./ will be faster. There's nothing we can do about it... ;) > > > You can always ask them not to post it before the mirrors are ready, > not? > Hah, it is their

Re: autobuilder question

2002-04-08 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 11:33, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 10:00, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > python-gnome: Depends: python-gdk-imlib (>= 0.6.8-17) but it is not > > going to be installed > > E: Sorry, broken package

Re: Scripts in /etc/init.d Question and Comment.

2002-04-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JPS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There is something that has always bothered me about the scripts in >`/etc/init.d'. Every once in a while I attempt to execute one of these >scripts while logged in as a non-root user. This is Unix. It gives you enough rope to hang y

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-08 Thread Joe Drew
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 02:44, Martin Schulze wrote: > Since I had to use grep to find it in the mail, it was well hidden > and I don't consider this a proper call for help like done by other > people who actively seek for help and receive them. Personally, I > don't wonder why only two people volun

TV/Uydu Yayinlarina Artik Sifre Kisitlamasi Yok! -ekcannrx

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Re: Bug#140349: ITP: cvs-conf -- Manage your configuration files via CVS

2002-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.07.1306 +0200]: > It does not disable anything. If you had read the info file it states > pretty clearly: > >All `,v' files are created read-only, and you should not change the > permission of those files. The directories inside the r

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