Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-28 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-09-27 16:39 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't think there is any requirement to have any upstream contact > > information whatsoever in order to be able to distribute a package. > > This seems to be the point of disagreement. I think this

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-25 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-09-24 13:17 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 24-Sep-07, 04:30 (CDT), Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007-09-24 18:21 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > On 2007-09

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-24 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-09-24 18:21 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 2007-09-23 17:22 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > The package should include in the copyright file the correct email > > > address for whatever contact informat

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-24 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-09-23 17:22 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Andre Majorel wrote: > > On 2007-09-20 23:10 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > > > I would not be against a policy requirement that email addresses > > > in package metadata should be the lite

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-23 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-09-20 23:10 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > I would not be against a policy requirement that email addresses > in package metadata should be the literal address without > munging. I would not be against a policy requirement that packagers *ask* third parties before publishing their email addre

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-31 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-08-28 12:22 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I don't have any time to work on this, but it occurred to me > reading this that it might be useful for QA purposes to have a > version of debuild that *unsanitizes* the environment to test > robustness. An evil-debuild that sets every problematic

Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

2007-08-29 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-08-29 10:58 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Tue August 28 2007 3:11:20 pm Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > Oh, come on. People who put $TAPE into the default environment > > may also link /dev/null to /dev/hda (or /dev/sda) and complain > > to the coretutils maintainer because ln isn't unable to

User-defined fields in control file

2006-02-14 Thread Andre Majorel
Would it be OK for an ISV to insert a user-defined field (X-Yoyodyne-Peanuts) in their binary Debian packages ? Name collisions aside, no chance of causing problems with dpkg, apt and friends ? Thanks in advance. -- André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> Do not use this account for regul

First spam

2004-10-09 Thread Andre Majorel
First use of email address: 2004-10-06 18:56 (UTC) First spam received at email address: 2004-10-09 17:12 (UTC) If you've been wondering how long it takes for an email address to propagate from the Debian list archives to spammers, here's one data point: less than 71 hours. -- André Ma

Re: Installed-Size and block size

2004-10-06 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2004-10-06 16:09 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Is the Installed-Size field supposed to be computed for a specific > > block size, or can I just go with a usual block size like 4k ? > > Do not try to compute

Installed-Size and block size

2004-10-06 Thread Andre Majorel
Is the Installed-Size field supposed to be computed for a specific block size, or can I just go with a usual block size like 4k ? -- André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> Do not use this account for regular correspondance. See the URL above for contact information.

Re: doom source GPL'd

1999-10-05 Thread Andre Majorel
At 00:57 1999.10.04 +0100, you wrote: >Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can they put limitations on your piece off work, I do not understand, do >they have a patent on wad files (I do not think so). I don't think so either but they act like they had. IIRC, the

Re: doom source GPL'd

1999-10-03 Thread Andre Majorel
At 13:17 1999.10.03 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: >On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 12:41:51PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: >> It looks like the doom source is now under the GPL. >> (http://www.doomworld.com/). This clears up the previous licencing problems >> that were keeping it out of debian. It will still be f