Re: Can "PDB" license be considered free ?

2016-03-07 Thread Riley Baird
> The distribution of modified PDB data including the records HEADER, CAVEAT, > REVDAT, SPRSDE, DBREF, SEQADV, and MODRES in PDB format and their mmCIF and > XML equivalents is not allowed. I'm not sure what the PDB format is, so I might be wrong, but my intuition is that trying to stop people f

Re: 50.000 binary packages

2016-02-08 Thread Riley Baird
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 11:25:00 +0100 Enrico Zini wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 12:01:41PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > Possibly someone should set up an online quiz thing, where you're > > shown a package name, its short description, and three randomly chosen > > short descriptions, and ha

Re: Help me please... I need help immediately becouse I can't open my pc and I need to use it for work

2016-01-09 Thread Riley Baird
On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 22:07:15 +0100 Patrik Liçi wrote: > Hi debian I have a big problem and I need help immediately. ... I was > installing kali linux mini 2.0 in my pc then I power off the pc becouse > the downloads wants a lot to finish when I want to open my pc it > cant .the mon

Bug#808373: ITP: libwaive -- Allow processes to waive their rights

2015-12-19 Thread Riley Baird
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Riley Baird * Package name: libwaive Version : 1.0.0+git20151218.a0e8c1 Upstream Author : Dima Krasner * URL : https://github.com/dimkr/libwaive * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : Allow processes

Re: IceCat package request

2015-11-04 Thread Riley Baird
> Could somebody add/cerate a IceCat package? > https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ This has been discussed about two months ago. You can read the discussions here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/09/msg00184.html To *greatly* simplify what was said: -Packaging icecat is difficult

Re: Request for documentation about creation of Debian Language Packs

2015-10-06 Thread Riley Baird
On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 12:46:11 -0500 Zeus Hughes wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to request some documentation be provided to the public forums > or just myself appertaining the process of how a person can create a unique > language pack for Debian. I can't find any documentation on how to do thi

Re: GNU IceCat?

2015-09-08 Thread Riley Baird
> > Also, what advantages does IceCat have over the Tor Browser? (Debian > > doesn't have the Tor Browser either, due to the impossibility of long > > term maintenance, but just wondering.) > > Have a look at torbrowser-launcher in synaptic Ah, didn't realise that! pgpqsKNlZs_cp.pgp Description

Re: GNU IceCat?

2015-09-08 Thread Riley Baird
On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 09:30:46 +0200 Simon Josefsson wrote: > Riley Baird > writes: > > > On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:58:46 +0200 > > Simon Josefsson wrote: > > > >> Riley Baird writes: > >> > >> >> Is there any reason (other than lack of

Re: GNU IceCat?

2015-09-08 Thread Riley Baird
On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:58:46 +0200 Simon Josefsson wrote: > Riley Baird writes: > > >> Is there any reason (other than lack of manpower) that GNU IceCat is not > >> packaged in Debian? > >> > >> I understand Debian has IceWeasel to (primarily?) fix th

Re: GNU IceCat?

2015-09-07 Thread Riley Baird
> Is there any reason (other than lack of manpower) that GNU IceCat is not > packaged in Debian? > > I understand Debian has IceWeasel to (primarily?) fix the Firefox > trademark issue and to have a mechanism to deal with security backports. > > IceCat has diverged from Firefox/Iceweasel and has

Re: Security concerns with minified javascript code

2015-08-26 Thread Riley Baird
> Sure, you can proofread a 30k-line configure script without a > problem. So, the condition is now "must be generated from source only if > the generated from is hard-but-not-impossible to read". Several times over the last year I have modified the output form of autoconf directly when doing mino

Re: Security concerns with minified javascript code

2015-08-25 Thread Riley Baird
> For years, we have been able to ship generated files without checking if > they can really be built from sources (for example, autoconf stuff). And > JS stuff should comply to stricter standards from day one? JS stuff has been in Debian for a long time; it isn't fair to say that this is day one

Re: Bug#796467: general: if user has mail then how do we tell them if in GUI mode?

2015-08-21 Thread Riley Baird
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:20:17 -0500 Richard Jasmin wrote: > Package: general > Severity: important > > telling user has mail is easy as pi in console mode and when using a server. > But how do we tell the user they have mail without a configured mail client > when under runlevel 5? The activation

Re: Mass bug filing about non free lena image.

2015-08-15 Thread Riley Baird
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 14:10:21 +0100 Matthew Woodcraft wrote: > Phil Hands wrote: > > I saw that at least one package (I'm afraid I've forgotten which) > > settled on this picture of Grace Hooper: > > > > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Commodore_Grace_M._Hopper%2C_USN_%28

Re: Feature Debian in MeetAdvisors Blog!

2015-08-03 Thread Riley Baird
ommunity. Have you got a response yet? If not, you might want to try sending this message to our publicity department. Its email address is pr...@debian.org Thanks for taking an interest in Debian, Riley Baird pgpr66zRgMome.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-16 Thread Riley Baird
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:20:35 +0200 "IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)" wrote: > On 07/16/2015 08:29 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Simon Richter wrote: > >> > The problem is that the icons are displayed in the search field > >> > dropdown, which should be fully functional before

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-14 Thread Riley Baird
> > FWIW, those [requests to search engines to retrieve their icons] are a > > consequence of removing supposedly non-free icons from the source > > package. But maybe you'd prefer no icons at all for the list of search > > engines. > > That's a tough one. I haven't yet got a firm position on what

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-04 Thread Riley Baird
> In the same way, I'm pretty sure is perfectly possible to make money > developing free software. You just don't charge for selling copies or > licenses, but instead you charge for developing new custom features or > offering support and consultancy around the software. True, but you would make m

Bug#789432: ITP: coq-highschoolgeometry -- coq library for high school geometry proofs/formalisation

2015-06-20 Thread Riley Baird
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Riley Baird * Package name: coq-highschoolgeometry Version : 8.4+20150620 Upstream Author : Frédérique Guilhot * URL : http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/coq/pylons/coq/pylons/contribs/view/HighSchoolGeometry/trunk * License

Re: git and https

2015-05-30 Thread Riley Baird
> > > > > > If we can use a Debian-specific CA, we can do cert pinning, since > > > > > > we're > > > > > > then assuming we have some control over the client. I was assuming > > > > > > a > > > > > > general client where we'd have to play nice with the normal CA > > > > > > roots. > > > > > >

Re: git and https

2015-05-29 Thread Riley Baird
> > > > If we can use a Debian-specific CA, we can do cert pinning, since we're > > > > then assuming we have some control over the client. I was assuming a > > > > general client where we'd have to play nice with the normal CA roots. > > > > Then we would constantly get complaints from Ubuntu/et

Re: git and https

2015-05-29 Thread Riley Baird
On Fri, 29 May 2015 13:55:31 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > I'm fine with locking the doors. I'm not fine with paying protection > > money to a Mafia goon who claims they'll lock your windows, and sort of > > sometimes does. It's the extortio

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

2015-04-15 Thread Riley Baird
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:55:56 +0100 Ian Jackson wrote: > Vincent Bernat writes ("Re: Minified javascripts in packages"): > >13 avril 2015 17:37 +1000, Ben Finney  : > >> Is the implication of “built by web services” that the source isn't > >> available for redistribution? Those would be excluded fr

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

2015-04-15 Thread Riley Baird
> What I have done so far in my package is to include the concatenated > but unminified js from the upstream (that would be my upstream's > upstream) source tarball in debian/missing-sources. During package > build i use uglifyjs (which is already in Debian) to place minified > copies where the

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

2015-04-14 Thread Riley Baird
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:42:00 +0200 Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 14 avril 2015 18:22 +1000, Riley Baird >  : > > > It makes sense that for small changes, the preferred form for > > modification would be the generated bootstrap.css. A potential problem > > with this wou

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

2015-04-14 Thread Riley Baird
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 08:40:07 +0200 Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 14 avril 2015 11:00 +1000, Ben Finney  : > > >> > I presume that we can agree that, if someone started offering a web > >> > service compiling C code with output an order of magnitude better in > >> > every dimension than gcc can achie

Re: Minified javascripts in packages

2015-04-10 Thread Riley Baird
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 17:44:06 +0200 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On Apr 10, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > To put it simply: no, you should build everything from source, and not > > using pre-compiled code (yes, minified scripts can be (and actually are) > > considered as pre-compiled code..

Re: manual in sgml

2015-03-09 Thread Riley Baird
> the manual of my package is written in SGML language. > I guess that it may be translate into a more readable format: > What is the best Debian way to convert it in HTML and/or PDF (via LaTeX) ? I recently had to deal with this problem myself, when packaging the documentation for granule. If the

Re: Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

2015-02-21 Thread Riley Baird
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 08:19:34 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Riley Baird wrote: > > > Kind of, but it's only for that one article. Is there something similar > > that lists all edits to the wiki itself like that? If not, I could make > > on

Re: Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

2015-02-17 Thread Riley Baird
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 18:30:44 +0100 Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Am 13.02.2015 um 21:15 schrieb Riley Baird: > > On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:16:39 +0100 > > Tomas Pospisek wrote: > >> Am 12.02.2015 um 20:59 schrieb Riley Baird: > >> > >>> Bug #388141 [RC] refe

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-17 Thread Riley Baird
> > But dictatorially coming in and demanding that volunteers join you in > > riding your hobby horse? Please leave. > > I did not see any dictatorial demands in his message, he gave the story > on how to get rid of systemd _within_ Debian, nothing else. True, but it was bait for another systemd

Re: Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

2015-02-13 Thread Riley Baird
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 21:16:39 +0100 Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Am 12.02.2015 um 20:59 schrieb Riley Baird: > > > Bug #388141 [RC] refers to the relicensing of the debian www pages. > > After contacting debian-www, it seems that there isn't much interest in > > fi

Re: Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

2015-02-13 Thread Riley Baird
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:47:53 -0800 Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Riley Baird wrote: > > In any case, even if there is interest in closing this bug, it is > > definitely more of a long-term thing and is unlikely to be fixed before > > the jessie release. Because

Re: Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

2015-02-13 Thread Riley Baird
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 08:40:53 + "Adam D. Barratt" wrote: > On 2015-02-12 19:59, Riley Baird wrote: > > In any case, even if there is interest in closing this bug, it is > > definitely more of a long-term thing and is unlikely to be fixed before > > the jessie rel

Should we mark #388141 as jessie-ignore?

2015-02-12 Thread Riley Baird
eived. In any case, even if there is interest in closing this bug, it is definitely more of a long-term thing and is unlikely to be fixed before the jessie release. Because of this, would it be okay to mark it as "jessie-ignore"? Thanks, Riley Baird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Bug#777220: ITP: you-get -- downloader for youtube and number of sites

2015-02-07 Thread Riley Baird
On 07/02/15 18:36, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >> I smell the chance to share… > > It would be nice if someone could contact all of the Python ones and > ask them to merge their code. Same for all of the Perl ones and all of > the other ones. Even m

Re: Jessie Release

2015-01-28 Thread Riley Baird
On 29/01/15 09:32, Balder García García wrote: > Hi, I only want to know when will jessie released , I am waitting for > SteamOS final version, but first you must launch jessie, thanks for your > time! // Hola, solo quería saber cuando se lanzará la versión estable de > Debian Jessie, estoy pendi

Bug#776005: general: After finished the installation, I rebooted and the initialization has been stopped

2015-01-27 Thread Riley Baird
s --> Debian GNU/Linux (recovery mode). > Then, as root, I do a exit, and then it start the rest OK greeen, and > then start LXDE. > > > 2015-01-22 21:04 GMT+01:00 Riley Baird > : >>> The initialization is stoped and the system does not do anything. I have to >

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-27 Thread Riley Baird
On 27/01/15 19:19, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Riley Baird (2015-01-27 04:01:20) >> That's a good idea. That being said, tarballs containing *all* of >> the firmware are already (unofficially) produced on a regular >> basis[1]. >> >> P

Re: Suggestion for the installer, when non-free firmwares are needed

2015-01-26 Thread Riley Baird
> I just installed Debian 8 (testing) on a PC of mine with the > graphical installer and the setup ran really smooth - with one > exception: It was a big hassle to find and download the unfree > firmware for my Wifi adapter, which I needed for the installation. Generally, you shouldn't need a netw

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-23 Thread Riley Baird
On 24/01/15 15:18, Russ Allbery wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: > >> Please, no. Under normal circumstances, the only dynamic bit of the >> motd comes from uname, and only changes on reboot; updating it via cron >> just wastes cycles and adds noise to syslog. > >> I'm not particularly convinced

Re: motd handling in jessie

2015-01-23 Thread Riley Baird
>> If we go the update-motd route, I'd like to see the update-motd calls be >> removed from login (and boot) and instead have the dynamic part of >> /etc/motd be updated via a cron job. > > Please, no. Under normal circumstances, the only dynamic bit of the > motd comes from uname, and only chang

Re: comment installer une imprimante canon PIXMA MG2450

2015-01-23 Thread Riley Baird
On 24/01/15 02:18, bejaoui wrote: > j ' ai eu des problèmes d' installation de l' imprimante j' arrive télé > charger les logiciels qu' il faut je vous demande de l' aide merci. Nous ne parlons pas français. debian-devel-fre...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@l

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-20 Thread Riley Baird
> This is *not* what I asked. I've complained on the long description > only. The other fields like "Depends:" are still needed, without > having them to be truncated by "less". > > This shows that any attempt to write a wrapper will fail at some > point, and the real solution would be either to l

Re: Bug#775436: ITP: xlennart -- An XBill fork but with Lennart and SystenD instead of Bill and Wingdows

2015-01-16 Thread Riley Baird
> While not a full-scale ad-hominem attack, I’d say that the two > differences I know of between the vrms operation and the > official FSF position amount to a misrepresentation at best. > Are we going to drop that package, too? If you apt-cache show vrms, you will see the

Re: Bug#775436: ITP: xlennart -- An XBill fork but with Lennart and SystenD instead of Bill and Wingdows

2015-01-15 Thread Riley Baird
On 16/01/15 12:40, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Riley Baird wrote: > >> That sounds like a lot of code duplication. Is it possible to have a >> common library between XBill and XLennart? > > ITP submitters aren't necessarily subscribed to

Re: Bug#775436: ITP: xlennart -- An XBill fork but with Lennart and SystenD instead of Bill and Wingdows

2015-01-15 Thread Riley Baird
> * URL : https://github.com/xaionaro/xlennart The URL should be the main branch of xlennart; that is https://github.com/Xylemon/xlennart >> if there are other packages providing similar functionality, how does it >> compare? > > This's a fork of XBill. Everything the same, just with

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-09 Thread Riley Baird
On 10/01/15 08:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-01-10 07:05:48 +1100, Riley Baird wrote: >>> Otherwise shouldn't utilities (such as "dpkg -s") provide a >>> configurable way to limit the output of the "Description:" field? >> >> You

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-09 Thread Riley Baird
> Otherwise shouldn't utilities (such as "dpkg -s") provide a > configurable way to limit the output of the "Description:" field? You can pipe the output to "head" or "tail" to sort of achieve what you want to. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-05 Thread Riley Baird
On 06/01/15 05:17, john Lutz wrote: > I was wondering how one would one go about buildinga GUI tool to cover every > imaginable setting via a GUIinterface for the majority of standard live and > other installedDebian distribtion?.. And what tools / standards > are required by such? Hmm... each

Re: Ghostscript licensing changed to AGPL

2014-05-08 Thread Riley Baird
>> So if Debian provides, say, a web frontend to Ghostscript, then with >> AGPL Ghostscript running that web frontend as a service for others >> only require an interface serving its sources if the _webmaster_ >> changes the code for that frontend? >> >> Not if Debian makes changes to both the f

Re: Ghostscript licensing changed to AGPL

2014-05-08 Thread Riley Baird
> So please excuse my ignorance here: But how does that work? How can we, > as Debian, ensure that a user automatically complies with the license > when a package is installed and spawns up a service on a port? (Or > similarly, installs itself into a web server found on the system.) I don't think

Re: Ghostscript licensing changed to AGPL

2014-05-07 Thread Riley Baird
> Yes. But this isn't as bad as you think, because the source > availability requirement exists only if you modify the AGPL'd > software. I don't think that this is the case. Firstly, because it leaves a practical loophole in the AGPL: -Person A takes some software under the AGPL. -Person A priv