Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:23:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:03 am, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:18:16PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > They could just as well do their changes directly in the debian archive, > > > and have the ubuntu guys onl

Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:00:22PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > (I just got the mails to utnubu-discuss, so bear with me) > > Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 15:39 +0100 schrieb Sven Luther: > > The process was to be manually though, the idea is to scan incoming mails to > > the BTS, w

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Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Joey Schulze
Joachim Breitner wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 15:39 +0100 schrieb Sven Luther: > > The process was to be manually though, the idea is to scan incoming mails to > > the BTS, which would notice an URL to an ubuntu patch, and auto-attach it > > (and > > complain loudly to the submitter if

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:03 am, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:18:16PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > They could just as well do their changes directly in the debian archive, > > and have the ubuntu guys only recompile, or maintain the ubuntu-specific > > patches which should

Re: Debian on one dvd?

2005-12-15 Thread Philip Hands
Siward de Groot wrote: [...] >>The FSF diagrees. See below. > > They can disagree all they want, > but as long as they don't write it in the license, we are not bound by it. > Or do you know of any prior ruling or general consensus among lawyers >about this ? So you think you'll convince a

Re: Debian on one dvd?

2005-12-15 Thread Siward de Groot
On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:24, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Siward de Groot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Here i think clause b) is sufficient, > > as info on debian servers is machine-readable, > > and the internet is a medium customarily used for software interchange. > >

Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 16:13 -0500 schrieb Joey Hess: > Joachim Breitner wrote: > > I don't think there is much gain - an attached patch is not much better > > than a link, and might annoy people with limited bandwidth. > > It's SOP in Debian to attach patches to bug reports. I might

Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Joachim Breitner wrote: > I don't think there is much gain - an attached patch is not much better > than a link, and might annoy people with limited bandwidth. It's SOP in Debian to attach patches to bug reports. I might consider doing otherwise if the patch exceeded 1 megabyte. (And yes, I'm on

Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, (I just got the mails to utnubu-discuss, so bear with me) Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 15:39 +0100 schrieb Sven Luther: > The process was to be manually though, the idea is to scan incoming mails to > the BTS, which would notice an URL to an ubuntu patch, and auto-attach it (and > complain

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > > > Notice that it is official ubuntu directive to *NOT* do that, that is to not > > send patches directly to the BTS, > > Please give a reference to this directive. I am part of the MOTU team, > and have never heared about such a directive. There was a large thread on

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: > I have no idea how ubuntu works internally, but my believe, since they > (canonical) pay people all around the world, and they don't have structures > locally to do the official hiring, they are forced to hire independent worker, > who pay their social charges and stuff themsel

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:26PM +, Andrew Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ubuntu is setup internally to circumvent social charges > > I don't understand this statement. Could you please explain what you mean? My

Re: Debian on one dvd?

2005-12-15 Thread Joe Smith
"Siward de Groot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Here i think clause b) is sufficient, as info on debian servers is machine-readable, and the internet is a medium customarily used for software interchange. So clause c) is not needed. Last paragraph is not app

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation

2005-12-15 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is true that some MOTUs don't consider submitting to debian bts > as priority because of bad experiences they had because of > unresponsive and unhelpful Debian Maintainers. That doesn't solve any pro

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:26PM +, Andrew Saunders wrote: > On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ubuntu is setup internally to circumvent social charges > > I don't understand this statement. Could you please explain what you mean? I have no idea how ubuntu works inte

Re: Linux Magazine Project

2005-12-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Sasa! * Sasa Matejic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051213 17:15]: > We have founded Linux Magazine project in march 2005.Our goal is to offer > free hard copyes of Linux Magazine to it's members on their home address > informing them about the news and events in Linux industry absolutely for > free.Th

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Andrew Saunders
On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ubuntu is setup internally to circumvent social charges I don't understand this statement. Could you please explain what you mean? -- Andrew Saunders

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:29PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:54:11PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > If the ubuntu patch database is public, and the patches therein > > DFSG-free licensed, why don#t we establish an automatism which moves > > patches from the Ubun

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:40:37PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > That said, it may be different for ubuntu employees and random > > maintainers. > > Ubuntu does not have any employees. Those guys that get money for ubuntu work. No n

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:54:11PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > If the ubuntu patch database is public, and the patches therein > DFSG-free licensed, why don#t we establish an automatism which moves > patches from the Ubuntu patch database to the Debian BTS? The Utnubu[1] project was started at Debc

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:40:37PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > That said, it may be different for ubuntu employees and random > > maintainers. > > Ubuntu does not have any employees. Canoncal has. Greetings Marc, suppressing the

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > I was implying that ubuntu employees where supposed to not file patches as > attachement to debian BTS, and instead send links to the ubuntu patch > database, links which may or may not stay alive for the time needed until the > patch i

Re: snapshot.d.n (was: Complaint about #debian operator)

2005-12-15 Thread Mirosław Baran
[Andreas Schuldei pisze na temat "Re: snapshot.d.n (was: Complaint about #debian operator)"]: > actually, NetApp (the storage company) and Intel (the chip > manufacture) are solving this problem for us. we get a 7 or > 10Tbyte storage from NetApp and two beefy servers to use as a > front end for

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > That said, it may be different for ubuntu employees and random > maintainers. Ubuntu does not have any employees. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:55:45PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is their choice to fork with (possibly) too small manpower to keep > > > up. > > > > They could just as well do their changes directly in the debian archive, and > > have

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:46:41PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Every "relevant" change put into the BTS would be nice, yes. Filing > > > > > > > > Notice that it is official ubuntu directive to *NOT* do that, that is > > > > to no

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:50:54AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > OTOH, I've seen a number of ubuntu patches which were blatantly wrong, > > > where the maintainer clearly didn't grok the package they were changing. > > > > *This* irrit

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > OTOH, I've seen a number of ubuntu patches which were blatantly wrong, > > where the maintainer clearly didn't grok the package they were changing. > > *This* irritates me mightily. The reason, as given by a MOTU when I asked It irritates us all. B

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:57:37AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:57:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > I don't disagree. I would much rath

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:46:41PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > It is true that some MOTUs don't consider submitting > to debian bts as priority because of bad experiences they had because > of unresponsive and unhelpful Debian Maintainers. How much extra work is it to submit a patch one has p

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:18:16PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > They could just as well do their changes directly in the debian archive, and > have the ubuntu guys only recompile, or maintain the ubuntu-specific patches > which should *not* go into debian. A good idea for Ubuntu to ease this would

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is their choice to fork with (possibly) too small manpower to keep > > up. > > They could just as well do their changes directly in the debian archive, and > have the ubuntu guys only recompile, or maintain the ubuntu-specific patches > whi

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Every "relevant" change put into the BTS would be nice, yes. Filing > > > > > > Notice that it is official ubuntu directive to *NOT* do that, that is to > > > not > > > send patches directly to the BTS, > > > > Please give a reference to

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Isaac Clerencia
On Thursday 15 December 2005 11:57, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Please give a reference to this directive. I am part of the MOTU team, > and have never heared about such a directive. May be I've been a FUD victim too, but I've also heard that directive some months ago. Best regards -- Isaac Clere

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:17:32AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > There's "I screwed up because I made a mistake", and there's "I screwed up > > because I don't actually know what I'm doing", but "I screwed up because I > > didn't c

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:28:39AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:17:32 +0100 > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > There's "I screwed up b

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:57:37AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:57:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > I don't disagree. I would much rath

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:57:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > I don't disagree. I would much rather every ubuntu change had a > > > corresponding patch filed in the BTS, >

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:17:32 +0100 Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > There's "I screwed up because I made a mistake", and there's "I > > screwed up because I don't actually k

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:57:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > I don't disagree. I would much rather every ubuntu change had a > > corresponding patch filed in the BTS, > > Every "relevant" change put into the BTS would be nice,