Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?

Hi! * The Wanderer [221121 22:59]: [ description of running fortunes on login ] > I am not always - nor, indeed, often - pleased to see one of these > quotes come up in a new terminal, but they do serve as helpful / useful > reminders, [..] I appreciate that you brought up your argument, which a

Re: iso's and everything missing?

Hi Shaun! Shaun Crawford schrieb: > i noticed that everything is gone today! where are the iso's, packages, etc? > something happen? I guess you miss the iso images for the current stable release? Sorry, please be patient; we just released a bug fix version, and new images are generated right n

Draft for lenny release announcement

[ Sorry for the cross post; just trying to make sure everyone is aware of the current state ] Hi! Attached you'll find the current draft of the announcement for the lenny release. Based upon the announcement for the last release it's far from ready :( Especially the second and third paragraph

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

Hi! Adeodato Simó schrieb: > Hey, Alexander, thanks for your work here! Some minor comments follow: Thanks for the feedback; I applied your changes / added FIXME so I won't forget them. >> Hypervisor 3.2.1, OpenJDK 6b11 and more than 23,000 other ready to use >> software packages. > > I don't

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

Hi Gunnar! Gunnar Wolf schrieb: >> > > Umh... This paragraph seems to clump together very disparate > concepts. Yes, they are installer-related - Maybe it should be > rephrased +- this way: [..] > Now, Etch already included the out-of-the-box encryption support - I > wrote an article on Februar

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

Hi! W. Martin Borgert schrieb: > It's difficult to change all occurrences at the same time. Why > not start with the release announcement and explicitly say 1x000 > *source* packages? Let's change it in other documents/pages when > we're at them. Counting binary packages feels a little bit like >

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

[ dropping some lists from CC since the involved people are either subscribed somewhere else or BCCed ] Alexander Reichle-Schmehl schrieb: > The most current version may be found in a private subversion repository > (to avoid conflicts when using the wiki). You can get the most

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

Luk Claes schrieb: >> Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny to Thiemo Seufer, a Debian >> Developer who died on December 26th, 2008 in a tragic car accident. > There seems to be a part of the sentence missing... Thanks, fixed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: lenny release at epoche 1234567890 ?

Hi! Martin Meredith schrieb: >> / i~49862854.1070...@googlemail.com >> See http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html#ss4.2 for details. > Which I believe only searches in the current folder, so it's not exactly that > useful. Take a look at the grepmail package. IIRC it can do what you ask

Re: One more upload queue

Hi! Cyril Brulebois schrieb: >> Should this not go to debian-devel-announce as well? > Probably worth including in the next developer news issue. It already is. Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: US embargo restrictions for Debian?

ministration (see http://ftp-master.debian.org/crypto-in-main/ for some examples). See http://www.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain for more information about that. Best Regards, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: selling distributions

Hi! wes zemonek schrieb: > HOW DO I BECOME A DEBIAN VENDOR IF MY SELLING SITE IS EBAY? Well, I'm not an E-Bay expert myself, but don't they have some kind of "Homepage" for professional users? Best regards, Alexander PS: Please also note, that it is often considered as the written equivalen

Debian on E-Bay (way: selling distributions)

Hi! >From a private conversation I got, that the course of the problem actually is, that E-Bay keeps on removing auctions where people try to sell Debian CDs and DVDs (probably because of some kind of attempt in preventing selling pirated media), which have already been reported several times to u

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

Hi! Ben Pfaff schrieb: > The URL in the announcement is 404. Possibly a prank. Sorry, no prank just a delay since we missed the website rebuild and where to lazy to wait four hours for the announcement to be send out after the next website build. Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

Hi! Steffen Moeller schrieb: > Same here. The release team, or the individual that pressed the button for the > announcement, I suggest to apologize for disturbing our community. The text was coordinated within the entire press team, our release masters, the head of the technical commitee and th

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

Hi! Marc Haber schrieb: >>> Same here. The release team, or the individual that pressed the button for >>> the >>> announcement, I suggest to apologize for disturbing our community. >> The text was coordinated within the entire press team, our release >> masters, the head of the technical commit

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

Hi! Thijs Kinkhorst schrieb: >> If you don't like that, don't shoot the messenger, because they >> might get sick of being shooten at at every occasion; thanks. > I think an important critic in this thread is the way the message was > brought: DD's like myself are learning of this decision from a

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

Hi! Steve Langasek schrieb: >> Please try to put yourself in our (the press teams) place: >> * In the release teams keynote a major change is announced >> * It is clear, that the topic will be picked up by journalists > I wonder why this is clear, exactly - I didn't notice journalists in > the ro

Re: Debian redesign

Hi! Fathi Boudra schrieb: >> What do you think? :D > I don't like much the illustration and prefer Kalle's design. > About the logo, I like current logo and don't see why we need a new one. I agree, especially about the logo. While our current logo is quite well known and associated to us -- ju

Re: Debian money

Hi! Jesús M. Navarro schrieb: >> 4 Marketing stuff: [..] > So, if Debian can be truly so great for companies from IBM to Alfresco, to > Oracle (and the end result can be so great for we, mere users), how is it > that we won't have "certified" stuff from them? It can't be the platform or > e

Re: Löschung meiner Daten

ther public archives. So deleting them on our side wouldn't make them disappear from the net anyway. Best Regards, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: CentOS using swirl-ish logo.

Hi! Yves-Alexis Perez schrieb: >> I believe that confusion isn't good for any of the projects. >> What do you think about?. > I don't really think anybody would confuse CentOS and Debian because of > that theme. Neither do I. While they have a swirlish Design, it isn't that similar to our "fu

Re: Your affiliation with Debian IT

lso find some consultants in Ireland there, I hope that helps. If you are satisfied with using Debian, we would be very honoured if you allowed us to list you on our users list (http://www.debian.org/users/). Yours sincerely, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, Debian Developer and Spokesperson

Re: let's add news.debian.net to planet.d.o (!?)

Hi! Sune Vuorela schrieb: Please not. While I like news.debian.net, I also like the fact that planet is for individual blogs. I would be happy to see a link to news.dn from planet somewhere where you notice it. IIRC something similar has been discussed previously, when the RSS-Feed of the D

Re: Using project resources for blends and non-free

Hi! Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt schrieb: Our problem is that while volatile and experimental are official Debian services by now and backports is working on becoming one, using buildd.debian.org for Debian non-free and debian-edu might be something not everyone is happy about. If people are OK with

Re: print shirts with the logos of Debian

dex.en.html for more details about the usage of our open use logo. Best regards, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bab2113.60...@debian.org

Re: print shirts with the logos of Debian

Hi! As my mails to them seem to get lost somewhere, maybe someone could phone them and tell them to a) what I just said and b) to fix their spam filters ;) Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Let's resurrect Debian Weekly News (act the second)

Hi Marga! Margarita Manterola schrieb: As you might remember, we once had a weekly newsletter informing our users and our fellow developers, what was going on in the "Debian Universe". [..] Currently, there's http://news.debian.net, which does not have _all_ the info that the DWN used to have

Re: Let's resurrect Debian Weekly News (act the second)

Hi! Stefano Zacchiroli schrieb: How about establishing a common place to collect news? If debian-public...@l.d.o is already an established place, [..] That sounds very good to me! Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Proposed changes to the Debian Machine Usage Policy (DMUP)

Hi! On 02.05.2010 16:45, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: the Debian Project Leader recently asked DSA in his delegation[1] to fix a flaw in the current version of the DMUP, the fact that expulsions are DAM's domain, and not our's. Could you please explain, why this is a flaw? Best regards, Alex

Re: Proposed changes to the Debian Machine Usage Policy (DMUP)

Hi! On 03.05.2010 10:45, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: If that is not deemed to be clear enough or satisfactory, I'm happy to clarify any additional doubt that people might have. Thanks, this (and the following) indeed clarified my questions. Best regards, Alexander PS: Sorry, didn't saw y

Re: Gemini Project

Hi! Am 01.06.2010 10:59, schrieb Marco Mura: > i'm not English... Neither am I ;) > The Project it's a website, you can test the OS without installing it, > it's different from a live cd or a live dvd, you do not need to download > it, the system probably have a lot of limitation, we are on th

Re: Micro or Mini SD Cards

Hi! * Jonathan Wiltshire [100623 14:42]: > In short: probably, but please ask debian-u...@lists.debian.org (where all > queries of this sort should be directed). If that fials, please ask on debian-lap...@lists.debian.org. Best Regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project

Re: On terminology

Hi! Am 05.07.2010 15:31, schrieb Jan Dittberner: > In my opinion there should be a clear distinction between > > - Package maintainers > - Debian maintainers (DM) > - Debian developers (DD) As they seem to be often used in a shortened version, is there any way, we can prevent "Debian maintainer

DDs, please feel free to commit to the DPN directly

Hi! The svn repository used to draft the Debian Project News just passed the sixth hundreds commit. If my calculations are correct, that's quite more than the number of edits done, back when the DPN was drafted in the wiki. I take it as a hint, that the new workflow works better than the old one

Re: Upstream guide and front desk

Hi! Am 15.08.2010 18:08, schrieb Lars Wirzenius: >> That sounds like a good idea. As long as I would not be alone, I would >> be willing to join such a list and answer questions from our >> upstreams. > > That's two of us. Anyone else who'd like to help? That sounds like a really good idea. Yo

Re: Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop

Hi! * Debian Project [100831 15:46]: > > The Debian Projecthttp://www.debian.org/ > Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop pr...@debian.org > August 31st, 2010 h

Re: Bug#595217: Please create a debian-upstream list to serve as upstream guide and front desk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Am 02.09.2010 08:43, schrieb Andrei Popescu: > Short description: Contact point for upstream developers > > Long description: A contact point for developers of software packages > already present in Debian or not who want/need to get in touch wi

Notes from a small DD (mainly publicity-based) come-together at FrOSCon 2010

Hi! As announced[1], we had a small meeting during this years FrOSCon. Attendees Alexander Reichle-Schmehl (Publicity, Partners) Bernd Zeimetz (Hardware Donations) Martin Zobel-Helas (DSA, Listmaster) Meike Reichle (Publicity, Partners) Peter Palfrader (DSA, Hardware Donations) At

Re: Dropping the .0 on release numbers?

Hi! Am 15.09.2010 17:22, schrieb Matthew Johnson: > Perhaps (as is being discussed on IRC at the moment), we could use in 6.x.y > the > y for point releases and the x for things like 'and a half' release that add > more functionality? You mean, we should do it exactly as we do now with Lenny?

Re: Debian training and code review

Hi! Am 16.09.2010 09:40, schrieb Enrico Zini: >> Random though: we could encourage people to write about different topics, >> post them to a wiki page (wiki.d.o/education//> necessary>) and then post it on a blog that is syndicated by planet (a >> personal blog should be enough, a persistent co

Re: partnership program: expiry and ordering

Hi! Am 17.09.2010 17:45, schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: > [ posting to -project as it seems to me more appropriate for the topic > I'm raising ] I don't think you have, so keeping a bit more quotes than usual. > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:40:13AM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Sch

Re: d-d-a (and/or d-announce) on planet.debian.org

Hi! Am 05.11.2010 13:57, schrieb Mehdi Dogguy: > Some people may think that this is bad since d-d-a is about only *devel* > going on in Debian and that interested persons should be subscribed, but > advertising those mails on planet could attract new readers (and maybe new > contributors). > > I

Re: commercial spam on planet

Hi! * Sune Vuorela [101110 18:19]: > >> I am annoyed by the flattr advertisement and I stayed away from the thread > >> becuase my opinion was already represented, not point in repeating them. > >> If you are going do a 'poll' based on the people participating, add > >> 1 to the list of annoy

Re: Please draft a policy for planet.debian.org

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi! Am 11.11.2010 10:56, schrieb Martin Zobel-Helas: [..] > Therefor I ask you, the maintainers of planet.d.o, to please draft a > policy or set of guidelines that will prevent such abuse. Violation of > this policy should probably be grounds for

Re: Debian Maintainers Keyring changes

Hi! For the "New Debian Contributors" section of the Debian Project News I usually look at the keyring change mails you send. However in the last report I noticed the following: > abou.almonta...@sfr.fr > Full name: Abou Al Montacir > Linked key: E1870B62BFAB87447FEDE31A8F7274F307062A38

Re: Debian Maintainers Keyring changes

Hi! Am 19.11.2010 13:09, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: >> abou.almonta...@sfr.fr >> Full name: Abou Al Montacir >> Linked key: E1870B62BFAB87447FEDE31A8F7274F307062A38 >> (formerly belonging to ma...@freepascal.org) > (And several similar changes.)

Re: Svgtune

Hi! Am 26.11.2010 11:47, schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > [Andreas Tille] >> Any link to the rejection message to learn about the reasons? >> Sounds like a cool tool. > Searching on Google for wnpp svgtune sent me to > http://bugs.debian.org/544071 >. If I remember correctly (to lazy to dig the rej

Re: Svgtune

Hi! Am 26.11.2010 13:50, schrieb Andreas Tille: >>> Searching on Google for wnpp svgtune sent me to >>> http://bugs.debian.org/544071 >. > Says: "due to its tiny size". Hmmm, I was aware that large packages > might be detected until we have solved the issue of data.debian.org. > Rejection becaus

Announcing upcoming events; something missing?

Hi! The Debian Project will be present at several larger fairs in the coming weeks, so I guess it's a good idea to announce that soonish. Our events page [1] and our wiki [2] currently list: * Cloud Expo Europe 2011 (London, UK) * Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting (Brussels,

Re: Announcing upcoming events; something missing?

Hi! Am 20.01.2011 13:10, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: > Is there anything missing? Please speak up now, so we can still add > your event to the announcement (and our website, FWIW). Announcement is ready for review at svn+ssh://svn.alioth.debian.org/svn/publicity/announcements/e

Host a Debian release party at $your_city

Hi! As you might already know, Debian is about to release Debian GNU/{Linux|kFreeBSD} 6.0 "Squeeze" very soon, on the weekend of the 5th and 6th February! So let's scratch the dust from the BBQs and start preparations for some nice release parties! So far I've heard of some preparations in Belar

Re: Results of the App Installer Meeting

Hi! Am 27.01.2011 13:45, schrieb Andreas Tille: >> If I remember correctly, DDTP got a short mention and the result was: >> "Wow, debian really has translations for package descriptions?!?" >> Other distributions seem to have only failed (=very outdated) tries if any. > > IMHO this does show two

Funny / interesting facts about Debian

Hi folks! As some of you already know, we are planing a 'live commenting' of the release process via Debian's identi.ca account [1]. What works for TV shows surely also works for us ;) However, several steps of the release process are quite boring (e.g. waiting for the CD, DVDs and blue rays for

Re: Funny / interesting facts about Debian

Hi! Am 30.01.2011 14:02, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: > As some of you already know, we are planing a 'live commenting' of the > release process via Debian's identi.ca account [1]. What works for TV > shows surely also works for us ;) Many thanks for all the he

Please review content squeeze release announement

[ m-f-t set to the publicity list; please respect that ] Hi! In the past days, we drafted an announcement text for the upcoming squeeze release. I think it is now matured enough, to get the _content_ reviewed by the involved teams. The current timelime to work on the draft is as follows: * to

Re: Please review content squeeze release announement

Hi! * Alexander Reichle-Schmehl [110202 10:43]: > In the past days, we drafted an announcement text for the upcoming > squeeze release. I think it is now matured enough, to get the _content_ > reviewed by the involved teams. BTW: You can find it at svn+ssh://svn.alioth.debia

Debian honoured with LNM award for Outstanding Contribution to Free Software

Dear Debian contributors and otherwise involved, Those who followed the live stream or read our News[1] already knew it: Debian has been honored with the Linux New Media Award in the Categories "Best Open Source Server Distribution" and "Outstanding Contribution to Open Source/Linux/Free Software"

Re: Debian honoured with LNM award for Outstanding Contribution to Free Software

Hi again! Am 07.03.2011 09:41, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: > While it is called the "Linux New Media" award, the decision of whom to > honor with them isn't done by the company themselves, but by a bigger > jury, consisting of over 300 representative communi

Re: Partnership with AddonFox

Dear Yotam, Am 28.02.2011 14:40, schrieb Yotam Elal: > We found your Linux distro and would like to offer you a cooperation > that you can benefit from. Thanks for your interest in Debian. However, the Debian project does not create just another Linux distribution, it is a software project emph

Report from this years CeBIT

Hi! The following report was originally intended to be sent to our debian-events-eu mailing list, but than I thought, that many parts might also be interesting for the rest of the -project, so it ended up here. Some parts (what worked as a demonstration, what didn't work) might not be interesting

Re: Report from this years CeBIT

Hi! Am 08.03.2011 14:38, schrieb Charles Plessy: > thank you for this report, it is very inspiring ! You are welcome :) >> I also noted down, that there where requests for official Debian >> packages for [..] mendeley (some sort of citing >> application, if I remember correctly) > > Sadly, Me

Fwd: Call for Participation: FHS Relaunch

Hi! While it has been mentioned on planet.debian.org already, I guess it can't hurt to also forward it here, as not all read planet regularly. Best regards, Alexander Original-Nachricht Betreff: Call for Participation: FHS Relaunch Datum: Wed, 04 May 2011 21:39:13 -0400 Von:

Re: Debian on Twitter...

Dear Miguel, * Miguel Valentin [110518 13:08]: > is Debian on Twitter?? Found 4 different Debian names but not sure which is > the correct one. Thanks!! The Debian Project has no official Twitter account; as the Twitter service is not really compatible with the philosophy behind Debian. However

Re: new DSA trainee

* Cyril Brulebois [110728 10:20]: > > Please welcome Faidon Liambotis (paravoid) and load him with work! > Welcome! ... and good luck ;) Best Regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: new DSA trainee

* Cyril Brulebois [110728 15:29]: > > as we are on that topic, please also welcome Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) > > and load him with work! > Also welcome! ... also good luck! Best Regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Press and Publicity Team seek new members

Hi! Did you ever want to help Debian, but every piece software you are interested in is already packaged? You don't consider yourself a "technical person"? You have basic skills in written English? Perfect! Have you considered joining the Publicity Team? The Publicity Team is a loosely organized

Re: Press and Publicity Team seek new members

> To: debian-public...@lists.debian.org *sigh* That should have been debian-public...@lists.debian.org. Sorry. Best Regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Your biggest achievement during past DebConfs (aka new DebConf promoting campaign)

Am 11.02.2012 16:22, schrieb Francesca Ciceri: > We'd like to have a quote from all Debian Developers and contributors > naming their most important technical and/or social achievement reached > during past DebConfs. One of the biggest achievements I made do Debian happenend during DebConf6, when

Re: xth wrap-up about statement on diversity, statement may be issued without general resolution

Hi! On 21.04.2012 17:27, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: There seems to be only two ways out of this: (1) have a GR, or (2) turn a blind eye on the Constitution recommended procedure, accepting we made a mistake (of which I'm ready to take the blame), and move on. While I still see the advantage of n

NMUing "maintainer address bounces" bugs

Hi! Long storry short: A couple of days ago, I noticed the e-mails send to one address of a maintainer could not be delivered. As that e-mail address was used in several other packages (about 12 IIRC), I opened RC bugs against these packages. Some got fixed by the maintainer, some got fixed by o

Re: NMUing "maintainer address bounces" bugs

Hi! On 17.06.2012 13:50, Willi Mann wrote: >> Please don't do that! IMHO the proper way to handle these bugs is >> to see, if the maintainer[1] is fixing them himselve. If (s)he >> doesn't, then orphan it. But NMUing to fix the mainteiner address >> of a maintainer who apparently doesn't care

Re: Bug#686481: debian-reference instructs users on how to install non-free software

Hi! Am 03.09.2012 15:14, schrieb Osamu Aoki: > If the bug reporter wishes to kill everything about non-free from Debian > related documents and archive area, I can tell him to go to the source > :-) "Debian policy" (Sure this is in our "main" area which is the real > Debian system) > > 2.2.3 Th

Re: Debian companies group

Hi! * Michael Meskes [130902 16:23]: > as you may or may not know there has been talk about starting a communiy of > companies around Debian. I'd like to get things moving now and I believe the > DPL agrees. I think it is a wonderfull idea and whish you good luck forming that group. If it succe

Re: Debian 12.5

Hi! I addition to that please also see Debians Security Advisory at https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00057.html I summary: The stable release of Debian was not affected by this security issue. Best regards, Alexander PS: The e-mail address you contacts is acutally us