Bug#1057057: debian-policy: Please make Checksums-Sha1 optional

2023-11-28 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hi, On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 00:05, Holger Levsen wrote: > > hi, > > snapshot.d.o also uses sha1 sums, at least internally, but I'd not > surprised if also for external verification. At the moment I am trying to focus on contents of .dsc and .changes only, not the InReleases Packages etc files. Do

Bug#1057057: debian-policy: Please make Checksums-Sha1 optional

2023-11-28 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/yolo4k/kernels/ubuntu/pool/main/h/hello/hello_2.10-2ubuntu5.dsc https://launchpadlibrarian.net/699972411/hello_2.10-2ubuntu5_source.changes Regards, Dimitri. >From 95a090af0ced9c04a79da7c006655388fd41a188 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dimitri John Ledkov Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2

Bug#981406: define "makefile" as a GNU Make-compatible makefile; support 'gmake' shebang

2021-01-30 Thread John Scott
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.5.1.0 Severity: minor At the moment, debian/rules is required to be a Makefile, but it's not exactly defined. In the absence of an explicit statement it seems most reasonable that it would be inherited from POSIX, but use of GNU extensions are liberal even in the

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2020-09-17 Thread John Barrentine
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Re: PIE + bindnow for Stretch?(Re: Time to reevaluate the cost of -fPIC?)

2016-05-15 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 15 May 2016 at 19:49, Niels Thykier wrote: > Bálint Réczey: >> Hi, >> >> [...] >> > > Hi, > >> I think making PIE and bindnow default in dpkg (at least for amd64) would be >> perfect release goals for Stretch. >> > > I support the end goal, but I suspect we should enable PIE by default > via GC

Re: Time to reevaluate the cost of -fPIC?

2016-05-14 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 14 May 2016 at 21:12, Niels Thykier wrote: > Marco d'Itri: >> On May 03, Josh Triplett wrote: >> >>> While this doesn't make PIC absolutely free, it does eliminate almost >>> all of the cost, to the point that it no longer seems worthwhile to >>> build without -fPIC. Apart from that, building

Bug#593611: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)

2014-07-30 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 30 July 2014 14:08, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:24:23PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 10:46:18AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> > Bill Allombert writes: >> > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 09:10:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> > >> > >> --- a/polic

Bug#746514: Autoreconf during build

2014-07-12 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 12 July 2014 19:50, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 09:42:23AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Le Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 04:46:53PM +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit : >> > >> > + >> > + If your package includes the scripts config.sub and >> > + config.guess,

Bug#593611: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)

2014-03-03 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 3 March 2014 13:24, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 10:46:18AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Bill Allombert writes: >> > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 09:10:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> >> >> --- a/policy.sgml >> >> +++ b/policy.sgml >> >> @@ -1688,11 +1688,14 @@ >> >> >> >>

Bug#619284: Div0rce isn't aan 0pti0n?u

2012-04-11 Thread JOHN FITZGERALD
Div0rce isn't aan 0pti0n?u https://docs.google.com/document/d/13STSR-ziNdpuJ4MPyaTdR15SdDw93lsHxKFZTIbBdhA/edit - To stop reuceiving mesusages from us pleasue send an email to oeqz0215 [at] gmail [dot] com with the worud REMOVE in the suubject line. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#192571: funding unsigned bands

2007-04-03 Thread John Nigito
troubleAs obvious profit http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2514/lpbp7.png households examines insurance savings risk IV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /etc/mailname clarfication

2005-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:30:59PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > No, I do not believe that. In fact, I have not been able to verify the > claims John makes on my test system. I have tried reproducing his > setup in my lab, and the Received headers come out just fine. See my > messages to

/etc/mailname clarfication

2005-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
> > Hi, > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:53:12PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > The file /etc/mailname is used to form the default host part of e-mail > > addresses in the From line of various programs. For instance, debchange > > -i will use it for its changelog m

Bug#225465: debian-policy: packages must give choice to not start at boot, via debconf

2003-12-29 Thread John Hasler
ot; test -z "$RUN_package_AT_BOOT" && echo $0 | grep -q '^S' && exit 0 -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Bug#225465: debian-policy: packages must give choice to not start at boot, via debconf

2003-12-29 Thread John Hasler
Dan Jacobson writes: > Each package that puts a file in /etc/init.d must in its debconf area, > call [a new debconf element[?]] that will ask the user's wishes as to if > this package is to be started at boot or not. And if the package does not use debconf? -- John Hasler [E

Re: Modernising menu manual icons requirement

2003-05-13 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:30:10PM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > Instead of adjusting this to "48x48" to match current common practise, > upping it to 128x128 will give us a bit more leeway. Why not just use SVG and eliminate the whole problem?

Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

2003-01-08 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 02:54:43PM -0800, David Starner wrote: > At 02:32 PM 1/8/2003 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > >It's not just physical terminals we're talking about here. We're talking > >about the vast majority of the state of the art terminal emulators *toda

Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

2003-01-08 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:50:45PM -0800, David Starner wrote: > If you're using a terminal that can't support UTF-8, you always have the > option of running > something like GNU screen to translate the system charset to the terminal > charset. > It seems more important to get a systemwide encodi

Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

2003-01-08 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:30:09AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > I like > > the idea that I can download any old program written in a past > > decade and just type make. > > Yay for broken software. Unicode did not exist until fairly recently. Lots of useful software was written prior to its i

Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

2003-01-07 Thread John Goerzen
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 13:50, John Goerzen wrote: > > Sorry, we have to start somewhere. Unicode is the way of the future, > and if we wait until every vendor of some random terminal updates it > with support for UTF-8, we will ne

Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

2003-01-07 Thread John Goerzen
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Then your solution is broken. Seriously, this would be a huge problem >> for many people. > > But the current situation is *already* broken! For example, for a I don't disagree. I'm saying that your solution is worse than the problem. > Chinese per

Bug#99933: second attempt at more comprehensive unicode policy

2003-01-07 Thread John Goerzen
Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think that this would be a really bad idea, because it would be a to >> severe restriction on the set of supported terminal types. Think of >> remote logins from non-Debian machines: we cannot control the program >> at the other end of the line. And

Version upgrades in stable

2002-08-05 Thread John R. Daily
, and the complete lack of problems to users of the software that an upgrade to the real 4.2 would cause, how difficult would it be to get the package bumped to 4.2 in the first update to stable? Are version upgrades in stable against policy or Policy? -- John R. Daily johngeekhavoc.com

Virtual package documentation (Was Re: [... Bug#154142 ...])

2002-07-29 Thread John R. Daily
mentation point would be whether the virtual package name is shared by a real package. I understand that that could change over time, however, and thus perhaps should be excluded. -John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rewriting policy soonish if poss.

2002-07-26 Thread John R. Daily
bianDoc that we haven't leveraged yet is indexing, which is something I've sorely missed when looking for information in Policy and the DDR. -- John R. Daily johngeekhavoc.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#148194: debian-policy: Clarification needed regarding multi-line fields

2002-05-25 Thread John R. Daily
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.6.1 Severity: normal This was discussed on the debian-policy mailing list under the subject "Policy ambiguity regarding control files", first message 2002-05-14. Below is my initial message; note that there is a relationship between this bug and #131583, since t

Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files

2002-05-17 Thread John R. Daily
At (time_t)1021654369 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > So, each header line is logically a single line, phisically it > may be broken into multiple lines with leading spaces. If policy should be changed to allow this for all fields, it may make sense to simply defer to RFC 822. -John

Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files

2002-05-17 Thread John R. Daily
e-core gnome-libs gnome-print gtm happy libcapplet libglade2 librep libsdl-ruby libsdl1.2 libxml libxml2 libxslt libzvt lirc-xmms-plugin memprof pfe pike sawfish scrollkeeper simgear snacc vlc wine -John Daily [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Policy ambiguity regarding control files

2002-05-15 Thread John R. Daily
ment tools? If the answer is "Because we don't have the software to do so", I may be able to help with that soon. -John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Policy ambiguity regarding control files

2002-05-14 Thread John R. Daily
break. What is the intended policy? -John R. Daily [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#122931: debian-policy: Spelling consistency "depend(e|a)ncies" in policy 2.3.8.1

2001-12-10 Thread John R. Daily
th many purists lamenting the change. -John

Bug#122931: debian-policy: Spelling consistency "depend(e|a)ncies" in policy 2.3.8.1

2001-12-09 Thread John R. Daily
oes not recognize it. -John Daily [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-09 Thread John R. Daily
an sucks[1], imagine how much more it would suck if there weren't reasonable standards by which developers were expected to abide? -John [1] Almost by definition, all Linux environments suck. Debian just sucks less.

Re: Should debian policy require to use debconf for postinst scripts?

2001-12-09 Thread John R. Daily
ur users' interests first is one of the 5 commitments we agree to when we become Debian Developers, then what excuse is there for not mandating debconf? -John Daily [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2001-05-22 Thread John
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Re: Is it allowed to remove old changelog entries?

2001-05-16 Thread John Galt
rd Stallman about this, when I heard he was working >on GPLv3. He said he'd think about it. Since there is no GPLv3 yet, >I presume he's still thinking :-) > >Richard Braakman > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "uns

Re: packages with really old standards version

2001-02-22 Thread John Galt
means 'I should >read policy'. > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PROPOSAL] cron.* scripts should be quiet

2001-02-20 Thread John Galt
account. >I'd like to suggest deleting "to root". > > -- I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Frozen distribution?

2001-02-17 Thread John Galt
and apt 0.4. > >Cheers, >aj > > -- EMACS == Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: FHS, netscape and Dan Bernstein

2001-02-06 Thread John Galt
tributors.html > >For inclusion in non-free, which is more significant: access to source >code or 100% FHS compliance? > >Thanks, > > -- Customer: "I'm running Windows '98" Tech: "Yes." Customer: "My computer isn't working now." Tech: "Yes, you said that." Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: Directing Debian users to use project BTSes - should we?

2001-02-06 Thread John Galt
plication of High Explosives. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: Path modification

2001-01-13 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Moshe Zadka wrote: >On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:46:19 +, "Oliver Elphick" wrote: >> Moshe Zadka wrote: >> >OTOH, it bothers me that there are subdirectories under /usr/bin. >> >E.g.: >> >Try typing "mh" at the prompt for weird behaviour. >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mh >> b

Re: cleaning up our task packages

2000-12-08 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, David Schleef wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:16:49PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > > Now John, I consider myself fairly competent; however, with three dhcp > > clients to choose from (an actual situation from many months ago) many > > folks won'

Re: cleaning up our task packages

2000-12-07 Thread John Galt
Again, how about the target audience for a task-*: -user? If it's for Joe Newbie, wouldn't it be good to get his input before carving something in stone? On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Chris Waters wrote: > > A requirement for discussion on -policy before adding a task package > might well go a long wa

Re: cleaning up our task packages

2000-12-07 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, John Galt wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > > Aaron Lehmann wrote: > > > > Another thing that I think is important is that a task should actually > > > > ha

Re: cleaning up our task packages

2000-12-07 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Aaron Lehmann wrote: > > Another thing that I think is important is that a task should actually > > have the effect of installing a multitude of packages. If it doesn't, > > you gain nothing over selecting packages by hand. > > No, you gain the ability to sa

Re: cleaning up our task packages

2000-12-07 Thread John Galt
I'm going to chime in with my non-DD-ness. ATM the people who decide a task package are not the ones who will ever use them. Tasks were by definition not for developers, but for FNGs--DD's should know what they want. Has anyone gone to -user and ASKED? I would submit that the first step in ref

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-06 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:55:20PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > Do I get to quote Whitman here? "Do I contradict myself, very well then, > > I contradict myself [I am many, I contain multitudes]" :) > > The irony of thi

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-05 Thread John Galt
wrote: > > > Actually, it does make a difference -- we're not in violation of the > > > GPL for any instance where we're distributing .debs to users of debian > > > systems. > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:53:28PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > Yeah, bu

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-05 Thread John Galt
On 5 Dec 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Okay, "you". No sweat off my nose if you wish to exclude me. > > Well, I ask because again your motives for posting are unclear. > > For all I know, you're

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-05 Thread John Galt
Okay, "you". No sweat off my nose if you wish to exclude me. On 5 Dec 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can we really expect others to follow the DFSG when we do so > > only when convenient? > > "w

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-05 Thread John Galt
ld* point out that a *lot* of the software we > > provide *cannot* be redistributed *unless* you also provide the > > source. That is, after all, the terms of the GPL, and it clearly > > doesn't match what you seem to think. > > Good idea. [There's a good chance we al

Add Web page to package

2000-12-03 Thread John Stevenson
Could we add a home/reference web page to each package? It would naturally scale with the system. -- --- John K. Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who vote aren't important, those who count the vote matter. J Stalin  

Re: GPL is not the only free licence, and FSF not the only holder

2000-12-03 Thread John Lines
the impression which many corporate people have (incorrectly) that RedHat own the licenses for all the software they sell. John Lines

Re: GPL is not the only free licence, and FSF not the only holder

2000-12-03 Thread John Galt
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, John Lines wrote: > By being the first, and most frequently mentions Free Software license the GPL Survey says...Bzzzt! The GPL is a latecomer in the free software arena. > has become the best known. Most authors of free software are not as interested > in licensi

GPL is not the only free licence, and FSF not the only holder

2000-12-03 Thread John Lines
) This would free up the FSF lawyers to look at more interesting questions, such as, if I am installing 20 servers with RedHat Linux, how many copies do I need to buy ? (Note that replies on RedHat licensing are off topic for Debian Policy, so mail solely on that direct to me only please) John Lines

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-02 Thread John Galt
On 2 Dec 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > pkg_add -r gcc on a freebsd box will pull down a binary of gcc without a > > copy of the GPL. > > Perhaps I'm confused, but I thought the normal procedure was the &g

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-02 Thread John Galt
On 2 Dec 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is it? What does Debian have to do with EvilCorp that Red Hat or > > Slackware doesn't? Why is Debian getting singled out? Why haven't I seen > > the same thing on

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-02 Thread John Galt
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 02:54:24AM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:58:36PM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > > > > Since when does intenti

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-02 Thread John Galt
On 2 Dec 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > www.ll.georgetown.edu/Fed-Ct/Circuit/fed/opinions/97-1425.html > > > > Reasonable man and estoppel are linked, and a choice quote: > > > > A delay of more than

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-02 Thread John Galt
On 2 Dec 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > See Wollensak v. Reiher, 115 U.S. 96, 99 (1885). See also USC Title 17, > > section 507 > > > > * (b) Civil Actions. - No civil action shall be maintained under the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-02 Thread John Galt
On 2 Dec 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > First of all, knowledge is not that of the actors, but of the "reasonable > > man". The .deb archive standard contents were decided on when Debian was > > still a

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-02 Thread John Galt
On 2 Dec 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Lawyers are involved? This makes it imperitive that no change ever get > > off the ground ATM. Compromising around a lawyer is like bleeding around > > a shark: you don'

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-02 Thread John Galt
On 2 Dec 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Widespread ignorance of the law is. Name one binary packaging system that > > always includes the GPL when necessary. Five years without a correct > > implementation is evide

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-02 Thread John Galt
stomer: "I'm running Windows '98" Tech: "Yes." Customer: "My computer isn't working now." Tech: "Yes, you said that." Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-02 Thread John Galt
implementation is evidence of widespread ignorance or a changing playing field, take your choice. > -- Customer: "I'm running Windows '98" Tech: "Yes." Customer: "My computer isn't working now." Tech: "Yes, you said that." Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-01 Thread John Goerzen
sions of the GPL that it finds inconvenient? -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.complete.org Sr. Software Developer, Progeny Linux Systems, Inc.www.progenylinux.com #include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-01 Thread John Galt
ware patent issue instead of a copyright issue, 2/3 of the lifespan of the patent would've passed without action by the holder. Most courts would laugh at the idea of allowing injunctive relief in this situation. -- void hamlet() {#define question=((bb)||(!bb))} Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED] that's who!

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-01 Thread John Galt
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:26:22PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > > > > > > In the Real-World application, though, installing 300+ copies of the GPL > > > > is absurd, and, quite frankly, a waste of space. Which se

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-11-30 Thread John Galt
> -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Customer: "I'm running Windows '98" Tech: "Yes." Customer: "My computer isn't working now." Tech: "Yes, you said that." Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-11-30 Thread John Galt
bstantial size for a non-technically derived fix, is it? > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Customer: "I'm running Windows '98" Tech: "Y

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-11-29 Thread John Galt
of us with low drive space, violating DFSG 5, and discriminate against making a small footprint distribution, violating DFSG 6. The cat's out of the bag on DFSG 8 ATM, and there's no way it's going back in. -- FINE, I take it back: UNfuck you! Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-11-29 Thread John Galt
> install it unless it isn't installed already. > > The famous dpkg-needs-metadata-per-file thing.. > > Wichert. > > -- FINE, I take it back: UNfuck you! Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!

Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts

2000-10-26 Thread John Goerzen
to log the output of an external program. Requiring dpkg-log prevents that. -- John

Re: Preparing Debian for using capabilities: file ownership.

2000-09-24 Thread John Lines
ained one of the ones which could be leveraged to obtain all privileges. I used to regard the levels of privilege as being similar to the safety catch on a gun. It does not provide you with much protection if someone takes control of the gun away from you, but it will stop you shooting yourself in the foot. John Lines

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-19 Thread John Ackermann
ng of what configuration files the package uses (and where they are), and where it stores data (i.e., does it use space in /var) would be a big help. John Ackermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Ackermann N8UR Dayton, Ohio, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.febo.com -BEGIN PGP PUBL

Re: www-data policy?

2000-08-18 Thread John Goerzen
anoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>"John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> I know there is a www-data policy somewhere, but I can't seem to find > John> it in any policy document. Can someone tell me where to look?

www-data policy?

2000-08-17 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, I know there is a www-data policy somewhere, but I can't seem to find it in any policy document. Can someone tell me where to look? Thanks, John

Re: PMFJI, but what (if anything is happening wrt crypto and us)?

2000-07-21 Thread John Goerzen
=-===-==---=--=---' > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.complete.org Sr. Software Developer, Progeny Linux Systems, Inc.www.progenylinux.com #include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#11094: Policy should mention that serial lines require UUCP-style locking

2000-06-28 Thread John Goerzen
. -- John Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John, > > You originally proposed the following amendment to policy: > > There is no mention of the UUCP-style locking required for serial > lines to prevent multiple communications programs from attempting to >

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-21 Thread John Galt
c.gov, typical bureaucratic garbage, I'm guessing (but a PITA to hand paste--#$%^ synaptics touchpads...). On Sat, 20 May 2000, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:46:11PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > Has anyone submitted the non-US tree to Treasury so that it can be >

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-20 Thread John Galt
Has anyone submitted the non-US tree to Treasury so that it can be reviewed and exported legally? Unless somebody's done that, the current export control laws still prevent export of it...They've been LOOSENED, not eliminated. On Sat, 20 May 2000, Raul Miller wrote: > > > Ok, nothing illegal ab

Re: /usr/local policy

2000-03-01 Thread John Lines
he package, presumably with the correct owner and permissions without my having to do as much administrative work, but I can appreciate that other people may have different requirements. John Lines

Re: Debian GNU {Linux,Hurd,Win32, ... }

2000-02-14 Thread John Goerzen
My personal opinion is that this would not really serve our goals to promote Free Software. A better solution for us, in general, is to educate the PHBs. I'll supply the cattle prod if you supply the power stapler. :-) -- John Chad Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My compan

Re: adding rationale commentary to the policy manual

2000-02-06 Thread John Lines
onsider, or - if they really have thought of a better way to do things - have the policy changed so that everyone else can benefit from their brilliance. John Lines

Re: webmin license

1999-12-17 Thread John Galt
the Debian userspace to other kernels. A license that restricts architectural ports is unequivocally foolish, one that restricts kernel ports is often perceived as less foolish, though IMHO it's just as foolish. On 17 Dec 1999, Henning Makholm wrote: > John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [PROPOSED] Change package relations policy to remove referenc es to non-free from main

1999-12-01 Thread John Lines
> --force-legal to override. > > You could even get rid of non-free this way. Or am I being too ambitious > here ? Yes John Lines

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-10-01 Thread John Goerzen
. Anything beyond that should be asked > for. No, this is silly. When you install a package, it is for use. If you don't intend to use it, why install it? Incidentally, can we do something about the insane CC line please? -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate funct

1999-09-29 Thread John Lines
a convenient place to put a flag which says 'ask me (the user) before enabling any daemons' John Lines

Re: Linking -dev packages with their non dev package

1999-06-07 Thread John Travers
ly want to run these libraries at runtime, i.e. some graphics viewer needs libjpeg62, but they do not want to compile or develop with this libraray and so they don't want the devel stuff... does it sound sensible? -- John Travers "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exist

Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-14 Thread John Lapeyre
the adoption of Debian (or linux) a much more attractive proposition. This may eventually help lead more quickly to the adoption of an open word processing standard. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-14 Thread John Lapeyre
very difficult). Working with my g-friend under a dead-line, we have occaisionally had been forced to boot win98. But this is only a side issue... -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-14 Thread John Lapeyre
would just take a while for the distribution to come into line with policy; this is normal. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-14 Thread John Lapeyre
is scenario > really do anything for free software? You're allowed to eat, but not to > cook. This shackles you to the restauranteurs. > -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: StackGuard

1999-05-04 Thread John Goerzen
I would say that if we are going to be putting effort into something, that the effort be put into code audit instead of StackGuard. That would be more likely to find and fix problems, and would not be so restricted in scope. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL P

Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-04 Thread John Goerzen
full implementation of the client library; ie, xfree86. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | + The 954,963rd digit of pi is 3.

Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-04 Thread John Goerzen
ource code, and you should have all you need to write something to communicate with it from the other end. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Fre

Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-03 Thread John Goerzen
tment of packages. Presumably you and the other ftpmasters are abiding by the same set of policy guidelines; therefore presumably there exists a discrepancy in the interpretation or else this is an isolated incident from the others. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL

Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-03 Thread John Goerzen
x27;t mean that netcat as a SMTP server is devoid of use. It means simply that your needs are different than mine. I do not try to force my needs on you; please reciprocate in kind. -- John -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL

Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software

1999-05-03 Thread John Goerzen
ill be has a free server available: netcat. This renders other distinctions meaningless, I think. There's nothing to stop me from typing TCP/IP stuff to it. In fact, I do this with the SMTP protocol from both ends on a fairly regular basis. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting &am

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