Bug#285274: ITP: libvisual -- abstraction library for visualization plugins

2004-12-12 Thread John Lightsey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libvisual Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Dennis Smit et al [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://libvisual.sourceforge.net/V2/index.php * License : LGPL Description : abstraction library for visualization

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 02:18 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:06:11PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: True, the Koran just invites to kill your ennemy bloodily, that's very different... Thats wrong, thats just an interpretion. I wonder how could text be

Bug#285280: ITP: libchewing -- libchewing - The intelligent phonetic input method library

2004-12-12 Thread Kanru Chen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libchewing Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Author : Jim Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://chewing.csie.net/ * License : LGPL Description : libchewing - The intelligent phonetic input method library SVN

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-12 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 02:18 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:06:11PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: True, the Koran just invites to kill your ennemy bloodily, that's very different... Thats wrong, thats just an

Added a section to your wiki

2004-12-12 Thread Christian Wicke
Hallo Joey, I added the section ReleaseAsSubsystemChoice to your wiki (http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?ReleaseProposals). I wasn't sure whether it should be included into ReleasePerSubsystem or not. I made it separate so you can delete it easier if you think it is complete nonsense. For

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Cutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] It's not the driver software depends on the firmware to function; it's the hardware that depends on the firmware to function. The software dependency is a side-effect. With the driver software loading

Re: Pre-Depends on emacs21? Re: cedet-common: breaks other packages in batch mode

2004-12-12 Thread Henning Glawe
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:25:49AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Bug #270388 regards the cedet-common package breaking emacs -batch. A proposed fix in the bug report is for cedet-common to Pre-Depend on emacs21 | emacsen instead of depending on it. An NMU based on this proposed fix has

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El dom, 12-12-2004 a las 00:22 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow escribi: [...] Installing non-free firmware taints your filesystem, using AIM does not. Taints your filesytem??? Oh, this is more than I expected. Are you really aware that your computer is plenty of non-freeness? That the device

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El dom, 12-12-2004 a las 04:52 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow escribi: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:34:10AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Yes. Once you eliminate the dependency on the non-free file the driver becomes suitable for main. The

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 01:45:01PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Dec 11, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your case of hardware wich already includes firmware is totaly irelevant since Debian does not distributes hardware,

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 22:24 +1300, Philip Charles wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 02:18 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:06:11PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: True, the Koran just invites to kill your ennemy

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 04:09:04AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Is a bit of flash or rom that much bigger than ram? Isn't most of the space in the dongle air or filling material? Space is space on the board (not to mention the complexity of the board) as well as three dimenisonal space.

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: [..] There are a number of reasons that a device's firmware won't generally be opened to us: 1. The manufacturer's concerns regarding the proprietary nature of information about their device that is below the bus. 2. The fact

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-12 Thread David Mandelberg
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 22:24 +1300, Philip Charles wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 02:18 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:06:11PM +0900, Clemens Schwaighofer wrote: True, the Koran just invites to kill your ennemy

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:50:44AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's a completely inconsistent and arbitrary policy. It's hardly that. We distribute only free software, that's our rule. I thought the post

Re: Bug#285207: ITP: kwirelessmonitor -- KWirelessMonitor is a small KDE application that docks into the system tray and monitors the wireless network interface

2004-12-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 05:39:37PM +0100, Marcin Orlowski wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kwirelessmonitor Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD,

Re: lintian warning about /usr/X11R6/lib

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
Neil Roeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my packages, xfonts-kapl, installs fonts to usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, as it should, according to policy 11.8.5. I get a lintian warning that nothing should install to /usr/X11R6/lib unless it uses imake, and that is just reflecting policy 11.8.7.

LCC and Debian: next steps

2004-12-12 Thread Ian Murdock
I'm pleased at the discussion this thread has generated. Thanks to everyone who has participated. As a next step, I've created a mailing list where we can continue the discussion ([EMAIL PROTECTED], http://lists.progeny.com/listinfo/lsb-workers/). I'm out of town all day today, but I'll go

Bug#285330: ITP: gazpacho -- GTK+ User Interface Designer

2004-12-12 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gazpacho Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Lorenzo Gil Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://gruppy.sicem.biz/componentes#gazpacho * License : LGPL Description : GTK+ User Interface Designer Gazpacho is

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: El dom, 12-12-2004 a las 04:52 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow escribió: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:34:10AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Yes. Once you eliminate the dependency on the non-free

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Miguel Gea Milvaques
El dg 12 de 12 del 2004 a les 00:05 +0100, en/na Goswin von Brederlow va escriure: The difference between a standalone driver and a driver included in the kernel is the usability. A standalone driver is not useable without its firmware and needs a depends, the kernel works very well without

Re: dselect survey

2004-12-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 10-Dec-04, 17:02 (CST), Florent Rougon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it is because the shortcuts are completely non-intuitive. I use aptitude for the good intuitive keymapping, not for its menu. I see. You find them utterly unintuitive, and

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: El dom, 12-12-2004 a las 00:22 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow escribió: [...] Installing non-free firmware taints your filesystem, using AIM does not. Taints your filesytem??? Oh, this is more than I expected. Are you really aware that

strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread martin f krafft
I am trying to make sense of /var/log/*. I noticed the following peculiarities: - user.log is 0640. However, aren't user messages possibly relevant to users? If so, I suggest making the file 0644. - uucp.log, mail.* and news/* are 0644. I would say that these should be 0640. - why

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Miguel Gea Milvaques [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: El dg 12 de 12 del 2004 a les 00:05 +0100, en/na Goswin von Brederlow va escriure: The difference between a standalone driver and a driver included in the kernel is the usability. A standalone driver is not useable without its firmware and needs

Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread Loïc Minier
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sun, Dec 12, 2004: I am trying to make sense of /var/log/*. I noticed the following peculiarities: - user.log is 0640. However, aren't user messages possibly relevant to users? If so, I suggest making the file 0644. I think this is user as in

Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 04:54:14PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: - why is dmesg 0644? This is not really a problem, but do users need access to the boot messages? The log buffer can normally be read using the dmesg utility (or similar code) as well as via the log file. -- You grabbed my

Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, martin f krafft wrote: I am trying to make sense of /var/log/*. I noticed the following peculiarities: - user.log is 0640. However, aren't user messages possibly relevant to users? If so, I suggest making the file 0644. 640 is not necessarily broken. There might

Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.12.1706 +0100]: I think this is user as in userland, simply because this is the default level for programs. ah, okay. also sprach Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.12.1706 +0100]: The log buffer can normally be read using the dmesg

Re: strange (or unexplainable) permissions on /var/log/*

2004-12-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.12.1708 +0100]: My mail.* files are 640 and I don't remember having done anything special for that to happen. Judging from an IRC conversation, I should note that I just did a fresh install into VMware from the 2004-11-27 netinst ISO. The log

Re: lintian warning about /usr/X11R6/lib

2004-12-12 Thread Christoffer Sawicki
Neil Roeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my packages, xfonts-kapl, installs fonts to usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, as it should, according to policy 11.8.5. I get a lintian warning that nothing should install to /usr/X11R6/lib unless it uses imake, and that is just reflecting policy 11.8.7.

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: If it comes down to the driver, on its own, would not be acceptable for main because it is not functional; but as a practical matter, we allow it aggregated with the rest of the kernel because splitting individual drivers into contrib is a pain for everyone involved and

Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Your opinion (and I would generaly agree there) would be that the pseudo source files released are not source as per GPLs definition A lot of these BLOBs have been identified as ARM7 code, and generally thumb (the 8-bit ARM instructions). They come from C or

Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Imagine a source where all variables are named vnumber and all functions fnumber. Is that still free? Where do we draw the line? When does source stop to be bad style and start to become obfuscated and unacceptable for main? This has been handled before. Some

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Glenn Maynard wrote: contrib exists for software which is free but fails SC#1, we will never make the system depend on an item of non-free software. Moving something from contrib to main that does, in fact, depend on such an item is a pretty basic violation of Debian's principles. It's not

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 17:50]: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Imagine a source where all variables are named vnumber and all functions fnumber. Is that still free? Where do we draw the line? When does source stop to be bad style and start to become obfuscated and

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Hamish Moffatt wrote: And 4. They're not allowed to by regulations, eg wireless hardware whose firmware cannot be distributed by FCC rule. It's not at all clear to me that the type-approval process depends on security by obscurity in the firmware. Some manufacturers may think it does, but I

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Re: dselect survey

2004-12-12 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Steve Greenland writes, Which, of course, isn't to say that it should be removed. I was surprised by how many people still use it; I hope some one will pick [dselect] up. Dselect is sufficiently important to me that, as time permits, I mean to pick it up. Another competent person with more

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Suffield wrote: http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?ReleaseProposals Every single one of these falls into one of these four groups: Please note the wiki in the URL and the edit page button on the page. (Or are you just pointlessly bitching?) -- see shy jo signature.asc Description:

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: Well, my first question is why, irrespective of how valuable the LSB itself is to them, any ISV would choose to get their apps LSB certified. The benefits of having one's distro LSB certified are clear, but what does an LSB certification give an ISV that their own

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode) writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: If it comes down to the driver, on its own, would not be acceptable for main because it is not functional; but as a practical matter, we allow it aggregated with the rest of the kernel because splitting individual drivers

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Your opinion (and I would generaly agree there) would be that the pseudo source files released are not source as per GPLs definition A lot of these BLOBs have been identified as ARM7 code, and generally thumb (the 8-bit ARM

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:40:07 +0100, Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Suffield wrote: http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?ReleaseProposals Every single one of these falls into one of these four groups: Please note the wiki in the URL and the edit page button on the page. Inspired by A.S.'s comment

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Andi writes: preferred form for modification is _only_ a GPL-term and not part of the SC. The SC is not a legal document. Common sense should suffice to conclude that obfuscated source does not comply with the DFSG. -- John Hasler

Re: Bug#285234: ITP: unlzx -- unarchiver for *.lzx archives

2004-12-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za, 11-12-2004 te 16:37 -0600, schreef Graham Wilson: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:53:10PM +0100, Marcin Orlowski wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: unlzx Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za, 11-12-2004 te 16:59 +0100, schreef Goswin von Brederlow: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Dec 10, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to take a look at debian-legal, because some people there think that even free drivers for hardware devices which

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op za, 11-12-2004 te 20:12 -0500, schreef Glenn Maynard: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: What about the rest of the driver? I think that if you remove the BLOB, it's Free Software. It talks to a bus interface, which is a natural demarcation between our Free

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op zo, 12-12-2004 te 04:52 +0100, schreef Goswin von Brederlow: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:34:10AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Yes. Once you eliminate the dependency on the non-free file the driver becomes suitable for main. The driver

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bruce Perens: That's why I say the BLOB should be in a file rather than the driver. The problem is that this introduces unnecessary complexity. If the blob is required for booting, it has to be put into the initial ramdisk anyway, and a fail to see a significant advantage over the

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

2004-12-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Adam Heath | The above makes it easy to exclude whole heiarachies, ie, /usr/share/doc. So will the filetype part of how Scott James is doing stuff. | It can also be used to alter /lib to /lib64 or /lib32, on the fly, during | install. You can't do that in a sane way anyhow. (Think libtool

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 19:35]: Andi writes: preferred form for modification is _only_ a GPL-term and not part of the SC. The SC is not a legal document. Common sense should suffice to conclude that obfuscated source does not comply with the DFSG. I didn't argue against

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Brian Nelson | Anyone, developer or non-developer, can help fix toolchain problems. | However, the only people who can work on the testing-security | autobuilders are ... the security team and the ftp-masters? What's | that, a handful of people? With a bottleneck like that, isn't that a |

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Op za, 11-12-2004 te 20:12 -0500, schreef Glenn Maynard: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: What about the rest of the driver? I think that if you remove the BLOB, it's Free Software. It talks to a bus interface, which is

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Bruce Perens: That's why I say the BLOB should be in a file rather than the driver. The problem is that this introduces unnecessary complexity. If the blob is required for booting, it has to be put into the initial ramdisk anyway, and a fail to

Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Adam Heath | The above makes it easy to exclude whole heiarachies, ie, /usr/share/doc. So will the filetype part of how Scott James is doing stuff. | It can also be used to alter /lib to /lib64 or /lib32, on the fly, during | install. You

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Brian Nelson | Anyone, developer or non-developer, can help fix toolchain problems. | However, the only people who can work on the testing-security | autobuilders are ... the security team and the ftp-masters? What's | that, a handful of people?

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Goswin von Brederlow: That's why I say the BLOB should be in a file rather than the driver. The problem is that this introduces unnecessary complexity. If the blob is required for booting, it has to be put into the initial ramdisk anyway, and a fail to see a significant advantage over

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 08:53:32AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: contrib exists for software which is free but fails SC#1, we will never make the system depend on an item of non-free software. Moving something from contrib to main that does, in fact, depend on such an item is a pretty basic

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Goswin von Brederlow: That's why I say the BLOB should be in a file rather than the driver. The problem is that this introduces unnecessary complexity. If the blob is required for booting, it has to be put into the initial ramdisk anyway, and a

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:05:58PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 17:50]: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Imagine a source where all variables are named vnumber and all functions fnumber. Is that still free? Where do we draw the line? When does

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 20:25]: Compiled in the blob MUST comply to the GPL. The nature of being a blob already seems to violate that. Only if the blob is derived from the GPL-code. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 08:29:16PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is not the autobuilder infrastructure per se. It is that testing and unstable are largely in sync (!). This, combinded with the fact that testing must not have

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 12, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And why it should be different if that firmware is distributed by the manufacturer on a CD instead of a flash EPROM chip? Because the user has to actively do something and taint his filesystem with the non-free files from the CD. And

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 12, Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the rest of the driver? I think that if you remove the BLOB, it's Free Software. It talks to a bus interface, which is a natural demarcation between our Free Software and the proprietary hardware design. It loads an arbitrary

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 12, Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lot of these BLOBs have been identified as ARM7 code, and generally thumb (the 8-bit ARM instructions). I know of some devices (very cheap stuff, nothing fancy) which even uses VxWorks. This explains why it is not even possible for some

Re: menu-method for .desktop files?

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Christoffer Sawicki wrote: Perhaps a stupid question because I do not understand all this menu stuff: Would this (together with Gnome 2.8) fix the user menus in Gnome??? This would be reall great for Sarge release! No, this is about fixing the available session types in gdm

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 11, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the driver has to be able to open the file and read the blob so it can send it to the device, there's a clear relationship and dependency between the driver and the blob: if you don't have a copy of the blob, the driver doesn't work.

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Goswin von Brederlow | Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | * Brian Nelson | | | Anyone, developer or non-developer, can help fix toolchain problems. | | However, the only people who can work on the testing-security | | autobuilders are ... the security team and the

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 21:35]: * Goswin von Brederlow | Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | * Brian Nelson | | | Anyone, developer or non-developer, can help fix toolchain problems. | | However, the only people who can work on the testing-security | |

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 08:53:32AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: contrib exists for software which is free but fails SC#1, we will never make the system depend on an item of non-free software. Moving something from contrib to main that does, in fact,

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:05:58PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 17:50]: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Imagine a source where all variables are named vnumber and all functions fnumber. Is that still free?

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 20:25]: Compiled in the blob MUST comply to the GPL. The nature of being a blob already seems to violate that. Only if the blob is derived from the GPL-code. No, always. Compiled in it is part of the

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:27:05PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 11, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the driver has to be able to open the file and read the blob so it can send it to the device, there's a clear relationship and dependency between the driver and the blob: if

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 21:55]: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 20:25]: Compiled in the blob MUST comply to the GPL. The nature of being a blob already seems to violate that. Only if the blob is

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Dec 12, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And why it should be different if that firmware is distributed by the manufacturer on a CD instead of a flash EPROM chip? Because the user has to actively do something and taint his filesystem

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Dec 11, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the driver has to be able to open the file and read the blob so it can send it to the device, there's a clear relationship and dependency between the driver and the blob: if you don't have a copy of

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Goswin von Brederlow | Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | * Brian Nelson | | | Anyone, developer or non-developer, can help fix toolchain problems. | | However, the only people who can work on the testing-security | |

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 08:29:16PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is not the autobuilder infrastructure per se. It is that testing and unstable are largely in sync (!). This, combinded with

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Goswin von Brederlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041212 22:20]: Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: t-p-u is not uploaded from another host through a mapping. (Remember, uploads to stable are mapped to stable-security on security.debian.org, then uploaded to stable from that host. The

Re: Bug#285207: ITP: kwirelessmonitor -- KWirelessMonitor is a small KDE application that docks into the system tray and monitors the wireless network interface

2004-12-12 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 00:12 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 05:39:37PM +0100, Marcin Orlowski wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: kwirelessmonitor Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: Processed: Fixed in NMU of tetex-base 2.0.2c-2.1

2004-12-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:04:57AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 02:45:17PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: One could argue about sending the NMU-patch/interdiff to the BTS, but I personally do not see much point in it, since (hi Omnic!) you can just get it from the

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Bruce Perens may or may not have written... Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Your opinion (and I would generaly agree there) would be that the pseudo source files released are not source as per GPLs definition A lot of these BLOBs have been identified as ARM7 code, and generally

ITP: rssreader.app -- RSS reader for GNUstep

2004-12-12 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: rssreader.app Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Günther Noack [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~guenther/rssreader.html * License : GNU GPL Description : RSS reader for GNUstep This

ITP: gtamsanalyzer.app -- Qualitative Research Software for the Free World for GNUstep

2004-12-12 Thread Gürkan Sengün
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gtamsanalyzer.app Version : 0.42 Upstream Author : Matthew Weinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://tamsys.sourceforge.net/gtams/ * License : GNU GPL Description : Qualitative Research Software for the

new quik in sid

2004-12-12 Thread simon
hello, the new quik is now in sid, as per discussed earlier i was to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to notify them about it. well, it's there (finally! :). you have been warned tongue in cheek / eric -- I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful

Re: LCC and blobs

2004-12-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
Please retain the d-devel@ CC. It's horrible for some posts in a thread to go to one list, some to another, and some to both, since it forces everyone wanting to follow the conversation to read the entire thread on two lists. On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 04:44:44PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: Does

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-12 Thread Dan Jacobson
I challenge you to tell me the dates of the packages using just the Packages file. The best you can do is $ grep-available -F version 200 -s Version|wc -l 1207 But that still leaves $ grep-available -F version 200 -vs Version|wc -l 15127 packages that don't put the date into their version

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson said: Off line with just the Packages file, you can't tell a dusty 1997 package from an up to the minute state of the art package. You have the changelogs. Use them. -- - | ,''`.

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:06:59PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson said: Off line with just the Packages file, you can't tell a dusty 1997 package from an up to the minute state of the art package. You have the changelogs. Use them. You must have a

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 11:39:30PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: [..] There are a number of reasons that a device's firmware won't generally be opened to us: 1. The manufacturer's concerns regarding the proprietary nature of

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 02:30:51PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Op za, 11-12-2004 te 20:12 -0500, schreef Glenn Maynard: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: What about the rest of the driver? I think that if you remove the BLOB, it's Free Software. It talks to

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andi writes: preferred form for modification is _only_ a GPL-term and not part of the SC. The SC is not a legal document. Common sense should suffice to conclude that obfuscated source does not comply with the DFSG. While I tend to agree, this has the

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Will Newton
On Sunday 12 Dec 2004 00:43, Bruce Perens wrote: 1. The manufacturer's concerns regarding the proprietary nature of information about their device that is below the bus. 2. The fact that misprogramming the device at that level can damage the hardware. 3. They aren't going to want to support

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-12 Thread Don Armstrong
[MFT: set to -legal, since this is kind of OT for -devel] On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Andreas Barth wrote: Why should elf-aggregation always mean to be part of a derived code, and fs-level aggregation mean that not? The absence of a trivial method to separate the driver from the other part and the

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Gran writes: You have the changelogs. Use them. The changelogs are in the Packages file? -- John Hasler

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 17:37, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 11:39:30PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: [..] There are a number of reasons that a device's firmware won't generally be opened to us: 1. The

Re: Obfuscated source

2004-12-12 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 11:43:40PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: The SC is not a legal document. Common sense should suffice to conclude that obfuscated source does not comply with the DFSG. While I tend to agree, this has the unfortunate side-effect of removing any form of support for

Re: add Date: field to Packages files

2004-12-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Palmer said: On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:06:59PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson said: Off line with just the Packages file, you can't tell a dusty 1997 package from an up to the minute state of the art package.

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