Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > #786909 was absolutely not acceptable, and was treated as such. > Social contract #1 remains in effect and will continue to do so in > spite of day to day bugs that violate its spirit. It might be interesting to think about ways we can auto

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-05 Thread Zlatan Todoric
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/06/2015 01:35 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: . . . > Social contract #1 remains in effect and will continue to do so in > spite of day to day bugs that violate its spirit. ^ best answer ever! > Best wishes, Mike > > Cheers, zlatan - -- I

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-05 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 12:29 AM, lumin wrote: > For example, the Chromium: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909 > What if we constantly keep feeling free to use non-free blobs, > and get compromised with those suspicious weird binary blobs, > and those odd software behaviours

Bug#791536: general: Debian 7.8 running EXTREMELY slow. Like chronic stop script error.

2015-07-05 Thread lauren-blaine
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Seems unrelated to any change * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I thought that it was a st

Re: Bug#790933: ITP: drive - Google Drive tool

2015-07-05 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/05/2015 10:46 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Am 05.07.2015 um 09:15 schrieb Jackson Doak: >> It might be possible to rename the binary and symlink "drive" to it, >> which would allow you to give the binary name over easier > > > Top-posting in a thread breaks the flow of the messages - as you

Re: Bug#790933: ITP: drive - Google Drive tool

2015-07-05 Thread Javier Barroso
Sorry ... My phone ... Grrgh .. El dom., 5 de julio de 2015 23:14, Javier Barroso escribió: > El dom., 5 de julio de 2015 22:47, Tomas Pospisek > escribió: > >> Am 05.07.2015 um 09:15 schrieb Jackson Doak: >> > It might be possible to rename the binary and symlink "drive" to it, >> > which woul

Re: Bug#790933: ITP: drive - Google Drive tool

2015-07-05 Thread Javier Barroso
El dom., 5 de julio de 2015 22:47, Tomas Pospisek escribió: > Am 05.07.2015 um 09:15 schrieb Jackson Doak: > > It might be possible to rename the binary and symlink "drive" to it, > > which would allow you to give the binary name over easier > > > Top-posting in a thread breaks the flow of the me

Re: Bug#790933: ITP: drive - Google Drive tool

2015-07-05 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 05.07.2015 um 09:15 schrieb Jackson Doak: > It might be possible to rename the binary and symlink "drive" to it, > which would allow you to give the binary name over easier Top-posting in a thread breaks the flow of the messages - as you can see here. The way to go here would be the alternati

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-05 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 07/04/2015 10:40 AM, Jan Gloser wrote: I am not an active member of the debian community, just a listener on this thread, but you got my attention. I also admire free software makers although I think one must always keep in mind the reality of the world and the rules of the game called 'trade'

Re: Accepted wesnoth-1.10 1:1.10.3-3+deb7u2 (source amd64 all) into oldstable-proposed-updates->oldstable-new, oldstable-proposed-updates

2015-07-05 Thread Colin Docherty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Unsubscribe On 5 July 2015 19:48:48 BST, Vincent Cheng wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA256 > >Format: 1.8 >Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 13:30:12 -0700 >Source: wesnoth-1.10 >Binary: wesnoth-1.10-data wesnoth-1.10-core wesnoth-core >w

GCC 5 / libstdc++ abi wiki: can FIXMEs be fixed?

2015-07-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I've heard rumours that GCC 5 is coming :-) I help maintain several C++ libraries and expect some work is required to get through this GCC transition. I'd like to understand what I'm doing and do it right the first time. I'm just an average C++ programmer, not an avid follower of GCC nor

Bug#791483: ITP: r-cran-r.oo -- GNU R object-oriented programming with or without references

2015-07-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-r.oo Version : 1.19.0 Upstream Author : Henrik Bengtsson * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/R.oo/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: R Description : GNU R object-o

Re: Bug#790933: ITP: drive - Google Drive tool

2015-07-05 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/05/2015 09:15 AM, Jackson Doak wrote: > It might be possible to rename the binary and symlink "drive" to it, which > would allow you to give the binary name over easier Personally, I think it would be best not to reserve such a generic name 'drive' for such a specific service. There could ea

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-05 Thread Joël Krähemann
Hi all Free software stands for a high qualitative product. It isn't at least of the collaborative model it uses, everybody can contribute as much as he want. And it won't be a last technological progress that will free man kind from its responsibilities. Anything other than openness isn't accepta

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-05 Thread Ben Finney
lumin writes: > Besides, some Free Software Licenses don't prevent people from selling > them for profit, and so does Debian GNU/linux itself. Indeed, if a license restricts charging a fee when redistributing the work, it is by definition (FSF and DFSG) not a free license. The work is only free

Re: Bug#790933: ITP: drive - Google Drive tool

2015-07-05 Thread Jackson Doak
It might be possible to rename the binary and symlink "drive" to it, which would allow you to give the binary name over easier On 5 Jul 2015 9:11 am, "Clint Byrum" wrote: > Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of 2015-07-04 13:45:40 -0700: > > Hi, > > > > Am Samstag, den 04.07.2015, 17:16 +02