Bug#502959: general: raff.debian.org uses non-free software

2008-10-21 Thread Peter Clifton
nt to having a completely open-source driver which does un-told magic by poking un-documented registers in a complex chip. Think Intel graphics before they released documentation for (some of) their chips. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambr

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Clifton
ot;extra" package could be made to cut out implemented portions (with appropriate dependencies on the newer versions of the appropriate spec. implementing packages). > Have a nice day, Likewise, Best wishes, -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, Univ

Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 09:43 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:34:21PM +0000, Peter Clifton a écrit : > > > > In gEDA, the .desktop files list "Electronics" and "Engineering" (both > > of which are sub-categories), and without an

Re: Generic "extra menus" package (was: Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion))

2008-01-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 10:53 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0-1.dsc > > http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc2/debian/extra-menus_1.0-1.diff.gz > > http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pcjc

Generic "extra menus" package (was: Re: electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion))

2008-01-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 19:34 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > Joerg is advocating creating a package "xdg-extra-menus" to gather any > possible extra menus which could be installed by the user. I've spent a fair amount of time hacking on this, and have a result.. a package I&#

electronics-menu REJECTED (discussion)

2008-01-12 Thread Peter Clifton
nd on it being installed, or will it be installed by default with the desktop? Should we call it "xdg-..." this isn't from the xdg people.. does that break name-spacing, or mislead about its origins? As an upstream developer for gEDA Electronics CAD software, I don't think t