Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 05:59:35PM -0500, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > Nope. An organization that will not accept the GPLv3 because of the > tivoization and patent clauses will not accept > GPLv2 or later. The "or later" clause means a downstream can invoke their > rights under the GPLv3 to demand

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

On 12/28/2013 06:09 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Thomas Goirand [131228 08:30]: >> don't think it does anymore, especially seeing that almost no upstream >> author cares about Debian's nit-picking on this particular issue. We're >> just beating ourselves for no valid reason. > > Almost no upst

Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:37:05AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > [...] > Again, I don't understand why you are becoming huffy and impolite. I am > still trying to help you and you fail to follow my instructions. You > are not helping your case at all and you are not showing yourself > i

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

Hi! On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 11:28:09 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > reading the Launchpad bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1022824, > asking to add application/x-deb to /etc/mime.types, and giving the link to > another bug where it is mentionned that application/x-debian-package is still >

Re: Switching default dpkg-source compressor for V2+ formats to xz

Hi! On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 03:52:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > I'd like to switch the default dpkg-source compressor to xz for V2+ > (not for V1) source formats, as suggested by Ansgar Burchardt in [0]. > > [0] > > After having swi

Bug#733563: ITP: entr -- Run arbitrary commands when files change

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Yuri D'Elia" * Package name: entr Version : 2.5 Upstream Author : Eric Radman * URL : http://entrproject.org/ * License : ISC, BSD-3-Clause, BSD-2-Clause Programming Lang: C Description : Run arbitrary commands

Bug#733557: ITP: python-openstackclient -- Python-openstackclient is a unified command-line client for the OpenStack APIs.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "gustavo panizzo " * Package name: python-openstackclient Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : OpenStack Development Mailing List * URL : https://github.com/openstack/python-openstackclient * License : Apache-2.0 Prog

Bug#733544: ITP: pd-aubio -- aubio external for PureData

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Brossier * Package name: pd-aubio Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Paul Brossier * URL : http://aubio.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : aubio external for PureData aubio gathers a set o

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

* Andreas Metzler: > In July 2011 with version 3.0 [1] GnuTLS switched to Nettle as only > supported crypto backend. Nettle requires GMP. > > GnuTLS and Nettle are available under LGPLv2.1+. GMP used to be > licensed LGPLv2.1+ ages ago but upgraded to LGPLv3+ in version 4.2.2 > (released Septembe

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful

* Clint Adams: > The only theoretical advantage I see to GPLv2 is in the termination > clause, and in practice that seems to be really more trouble than > it's worth. > > Beyond that you have substandard and unclear wording, tivoization, > lesser patent protection, and incompatibility with Apache

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful

* Stephen M. Webb: > Nope. An organization that will not accept the GPLv3 because of the > tivoization and patent clauses will not accept GPLv2 or later. Apple allegedly rejects the GPLv3, but continues to distribute GPLv2-or-later code. Microsoft distributes GPLv2-or-later code, too. -- To

Bug#733527: ITP: r-bioc-biovizbase -- GNU R basic graphic utilities for visualization of genomic data

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-bioc-biovizbase Version : 1.10.7 Upstream Author : Tengfei Yin, Michael Lawrence, Dianne Cook * URL : http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/biovizBase.html * License : Artisti

Bug#730426: ITP: gmediarender -- UPnP Media renderer

Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #730426 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Rodrigo, can you give an status update regarding your ITP? If not interested anymore, I would like to volunteer to take over this ITP. (I recently made a package already for private use) Please let me know

Bug#733518: ITP: libfixbuf -- Implementation of the IPFIX protocol

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer * Package name: libfixbuf Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Brian Trammell * URL : http://tools.netsa.cert.org/fixbuf/index.html * License : LGPL2 Programming Lang: C Description : Implementation

Bug#733509: RFP: lubuntu-software-center -- Utility for browsing, installing, removing applications.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: lubuntu-software-center Version: 0.0.8 Upstream Author: [Stephen Smally (not sure)] URL: [https://launchpad.net/lubuntu-software-center]

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

On 2013-12-28 19:24:33 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Now, the companies in question may legitimately regard a GPLv2+ > upstream as a source business risk, because they have no guarantee > that future versions of the software won't be made available under > GPLv3+ instead of GPLv2+, and if they're

Re: lcms -> lcms2 migration

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Hi, > lcms needs to go for jessie in favour of lcms2 (#717928). (liblcms1-dev -> > liblcms2-dev) > The maintainer seems MIA, so I'm going ahead. Below is a dd-list of affected > packages. > This is a headsup as recommended by policy,

Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

On 12/29/2013 05:59 AM, René Kuligowski wrote: >> This is a common fallacy: Just because a piece of hardware is working >> properly on Windows doesn't mean anything is adherent to the >> specifications. The reason why your hardware is running on Windows >> without any problems is that the manufactu

lcms -> lcms2 migration

Hi, lcms needs to go for jessie in favour of lcms2 (#717928). (liblcms1-dev -> liblcms2-dev) The maintainer seems MIA, so I'm going ahead. Below is a dd-list of affected packages. This is a headsup as recommended by policy, I'll file bugs in a few weeks. I've made a few test builds/conversions (