Re: Non-english license and documents

2006-05-24 Thread Ying-Chun Liu
Jamie Jones wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 13:27 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:30:50PM +1000, Jamie Jones wrote: In the event of any license related issues perhaps caused by mis-translation, the Japanese version is the canonical version that must be followed. Isn't this

[OT?] debmirror does not add index files

2006-05-24 Thread Eddy Petrişor
Hello all, I don't know if this is the best place to ask this question, but I suppose I will get some pointers (I suspect -devel to be a better place, but I might be missing something due to my lack of knowledge, thus my choice). I started creating a local mirror via debmirror sometime ago and

Re: Non-english license and documents

2006-05-24 Thread Joe Smith
Jamie Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Based on my understanding of Japanese law, the original document being in Japanese is the one that is legally binding, even if the author makes an English translation. Other jurisdictions may accept a hypothetical English

Re: [OT?] debmirror does not add index files

2006-05-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
=?UTF-8?Q?Eddy_Petri=C5=9For?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5/24/06, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =?UTF-8?Q?Eddy_Petri=C5=9For?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, I don't know if this is the best place to ask this question, but I suppose I will get some pointers (I

Re: RFS: FSlint - File System lint

2006-05-24 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
especially if a package maintainer is the upstream. This isn't an argument for inclusion of the debian directory (will you release a new upstream version just because you need to change a build-depends and trigger a rebuild on the Debian buildds?). yikes... pardon my ignorance if it is not

Re: SASL2 (Bug#368370)

2006-05-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: wow, pretty bad news in this week's DWN about cyrus-sasl2 being orphaned. I checked popcon, and it has some 12.000 installations, so: Yes, and it is one of the hariest, most horrible packages to maintain I know of. I'd really like to do something

Re: [OT?] debmirror does not add index files

2006-05-24 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
=?UTF-8?Q?Eddy_Petri=C5=9For?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, I don't know if this is the best place to ask this question, but I suppose I will get some pointers (I suspect -devel to be a better place, but I might be missing something due to my lack of knowledge, thus my choice). I

SASL2 (Bug#368370)

2006-05-24 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Hi Matt, hi list, wow, pretty bad news in this week's DWN about cyrus-sasl2 being orphaned. I checked popcon, and it has some 12.000 installations, so: I'd really like to do something about it, but I doubt I could, at least not alone. I never took over a package, and hardly know how to apply

Re: RFS: FSlint - File System lint

2006-05-24 Thread Pádraig Brady
Christoph Haas wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:07:04AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: Christoph Haas wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:15:09PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: cool, So I'll need to register my signature as a Debian Developer. I'll figure out how to do this thanks. Uhm, you

Re: RFC/RFS: bfilter, aspell-hr, myspell-hr

2006-05-24 Thread Kari Pahula
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 01:23:43AM +0200, Vedran Fura?? wrote: Hi! I'm looking for a sponsor (or sponsors) for the following packages: - bfilter (Simple web filtering proxy, see http://bfilter.sf.net) I'd like to see this in Debian and am willing to sponsor it. As far as the technical

Re: [OT?] debmirror does not add index files

2006-05-24 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/24/06, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =?UTF-8?Q?Eddy_Petri=C5=9For?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, I don't know if this is the best place to ask this question, but I suppose I will get some pointers (I suspect -devel to be a better place, but I might be missing

Re: Non-english license and documents

2006-05-24 Thread Jamie Jones
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 15:22 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: Jamie Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Based on my understanding of Japanese law, the original document being in Japanese is the one that is legally binding, even if the author makes an English translation.

Re: Non-english license and documents

2006-05-24 Thread Jamie Jones
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 15:21 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: Jamie Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Only if an adequate English version was available [1], pruning the Japanese docs would be an option IMO (and only because ~99.9% of Japanese people have good

Re: Non-english license and documents

2006-05-24 Thread Jamie Jones
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 14:52 +0800, Ying-Chun Liu wrote: Jamie Jones wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 13:27 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:30:50PM +1000, Jamie Jones wrote: In the event of any license related issues perhaps caused by mis-translation, the Japanese

RFS/RFS: cvschangelogbuilder -- perl utility to generate ChangeLogs or html CVS reports

2006-05-24 Thread Adriaan Peeters
Hello, I am looking for comments/for a sponsor for the package cvschangelogbuilder [1], detailed info below. You will notice that I removed some (redundant) documentation from the binary package. I believe the man page should be the ultimate source for information in this case. Comments

Re: [OT?] debmirror does not add index files

2006-05-24 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Try using http. Or try reprepro instead. I'm considering orphaning debmirror in favour of reprepro. does reprepro support 'real' mirroring of Packages/Sources file preserving signatures from the upstream mirror? From what I see it does not. This is the only feature

Re: [OT?] debmirror does not add index files

2006-05-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Reinhard Tartler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060524 15:21]: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Try using http. Or try reprepro instead. I'm considering orphaning debmirror in favour of reprepro. does reprepro support 'real' mirroring of Packages/Sources file preserving signatures from the upstream