Re: Which files should go in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/’?

2017-12-09 Thread Yao Wei
Shall I also point out that it might save some spaces for Debian archive? It could be little but not effortless. Also for packagers it is easier to read shorter copyright files rather than full of license details. Yao Wei On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 at 03:39 Ole Streicher wrote: > Ben Finney writes: >

Re: Which files should go in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/’?

2017-12-09 Thread Ole Streicher
Ben Finney writes: > The files in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/’ get installed on every Debian > system, by the ‘base-files’ package. This is needed because that allows > ‘/usr/share/doc/…/copyright’ to refer to a file there, knowing it will > be available. > > If I understand correctly, the justif

Re: Which files should go in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/’?

2017-12-09 Thread Sean Whitton
[CCing -devel, but please move discussion to -policy] Hello Markus, On Sat, Dec 09 2017, Markus Koschany wrote: > Users who are facing this kind of limitations will most likely remove > /usr/share/common-licenses, /usr/share/doc and /usr/share/man and > maybe more already. I don't think that it

Re: Which files should go in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/’?

2017-12-09 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 08.12.2017 um 05:18 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Ben Finney writes: > >> So I think we should specifically ask the position of people who have >> expertise maintaining machines with very small disk space: How to judge >> which files should be unilaterally installed in that directory, in the >> hope

Bug#883932: ITP: sword-comm-mhc -- Matthew Henry Complete Commentary for SWORD

2017-12-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: sword-comm-mhc Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : The SWORD Project * URL : http://crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=MHC * License

Re: Debian Stretch new user report (vs Linux Mint)

2017-12-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 16:38:06 -0600, Michael Lustfield wrote: >As long as I avoid Nvidia, I usually have excellent luck finding systems >(specifically laptops) that work well without anything from non-free. Which current and available Wifi adapter works without non-free firmware? Greetings Marc --

Re: Debian Stretch new user report (vs Linux Mint)

2017-12-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 09:45:33 +0800, Yao Wei wrote: >My 2 cent is, we can distribute ISOs without non-free things, but we >need an add-on pack to put into the USB flash drive for non-free network >drivers, and we categorize the add-on not part of Debian. We also have >to improve the website to poin

Re: ISO download difficult (was: Debian Stretch new user report (vs Linux Mint))

2017-12-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 12:34:52 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >The docs say to dump firmware files or packages on a USB stick: > >https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch06s04.html.en I fscking do know what the docs say. They're ambiguous and it didn't work in either interpretation way I could come

Re: ISO download difficult

2017-12-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 12:22:06 +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: >Additionally, the social contract says in its fourth article: Why are we only quoting the Social Contract when it is to be used as a bludgeon to justified measures that are likely to send users to less-free operating systems because they