Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-30 Thread s. keeling
["Followup-To:" header set to linux.debian.curiosa.] Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > bike-shedding. Thanks, interesting segue. http://www.bikeshed.com/ should be mentioned. Long, but well worth the read. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)h

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-30 Thread MJ Ray
Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > > Posting a simple mail like "I can't predict why we might want to move > > it, but it seems like a possibility we should leave open and yes, > > ftp-master was a symbolic name, but isn't the best one now. Please use

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > Posting a simple mail like "I can't predict why we might want to move > it, but it seems like a possibility we should leave open and yes, > ftp-master was a symbolic name, but isn't the best one now. Please use > the new symbolic names." a few messages back mig

Debian 0.91 beta

2008-09-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Joerg Jaspert schrieb: Hm. Get me a tarball for it to download please. Please get it from here: http://www.greffrath.com/debian/archive/debian-0.91beta.tar.gz It is taken from a 2-CD-Set published by S.u.S.E. GmbH called "Linux 1.0.9, Entwicklerversionen bis 1.1.24, Unix[TM] für PCs, deutsche

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-30 Thread MJ Ray
Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > It's just the usual nit-picking on anybody who actually does anything to > improve our infrastructure. [...] It's also combined with the usual failure by many people who improve our infrastructure to accept they wrote a confusing email (ftp-maste

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:17:44AM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > > Your second mail (the one referenced in this thread) said: > > Can please someone tell me exactly for the sake of what, we are having > this sub-thread? It just looks pointless to m

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:17:44AM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > Your second mail (the one referenced in this thread) said: Can please someone tell me exactly for the sake of what, we are having this sub-thread? It just looks pointless to me ... Pretty please, drop it, and go back helping kicking

Re: ssh.upload.debian.org

2008-09-30 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:15:58AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > Instead, you seem to be saying, "how could anyone be so stupid as to use > > a non-symbolic name?" when nobody is actually being that stupid. We're > > just using the symbolic name we were told to use the last time the names > > we