Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Ansgar
is not something new: a camera or microphone records data, but we use the captured data (and not the original source) as the preferred form of modification. Sometimes even after generous preprocessing by (non-free) firmware. (We don't include human neural network data as part of the preferred form of modification either ;-)) Ansgar

Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

2024-05-02 Thread Ansgar
er tool should be different. Ansgar

Re: SUMMARY [Was Re: Fortunes-off - do we need this as a package for Bookworm?]

2022-11-23 Thread Ansgar
sing to send certain mail on the other hand would be. Ansgar -- "He [Hitler] is an extreme masochist who derives pleasure from having a woman squat over him while she urinates or defecates on his face." -- Walter C. Langer: A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend

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

2022-11-20 Thread Ansgar
On Sun, 2022-11-20 at 16:44 +0600, Judit Foglszinger wrote: > fortune-mod has no bugs that prevent testing migration, > it just needs a source-only upload. Hah, an easy bug to fix :-) I did that just now (1:1.99.1-7.3). Ansgar

Re: Multi-package projects

2022-10-07 Thread Ansgar
-- I trust their | judgement) and assuming everyone will then accept this decision. Ansgar

Re: Multi-package projects

2022-10-07 Thread Ansgar
am just decide all of this and everyone will accept this? I don't think that would work from past experience... Ansgar

Re: Distrowatch

2022-06-17 Thread Ansgar
Hi, On Fri, 2022-06-17 at 10:37 -0400, steve wrote: > Distrowatch has broken links to download Debian. Hope this is the > right way to report it. Please contact Distrowatch for problems with their web site. They seem to have a contact address in their web site's footer. Regards, Ansgar

Re: Re: A quiet reminder: please be considerate.

2022-03-26 Thread Ansgar
am filter on lists.d.o then you would not see it this way. One would have to contact listmaster with date and message-id. Ansgar

Re: Debian and GitLab Open Source Partnership

2021-07-26 Thread Ansgar
On Mon, 2021-07-26 at 16:56 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2021/07/26 15:50, Ansgar wrote: > > It is indeed very explicit about including non-free packages if > > possible: > > > > +--- > > > We encourage CD manufacturers to read the licenses of the

Re: Debian and GitLab Open Source Partnership

2021-07-26 Thread Ansgar
pose no problem for their inclusion on Debian's CD images. Ansgar

Re: Keysigning in times of COVID-19

2020-08-20 Thread Ansgar
reat is probably not worth worrying about. If a fire alarm wasn't triggered by a fire for some time, should it be removed? Maybe the procedures just work reasonably well. Ansgar

Re: Debian hardware support and enablement for newer devices (was ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux)

2020-06-05 Thread Ansgar
years out. Currently I no longer administrate desktop systems with stable, but when I did so in the past it was sometimes a problem to fully support recent hardware. Ansgar [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

"From" at beginning of line gets escaped (was: Re: Testing Discourse for Debian)

2020-04-15 Thread Ansgar
ks like the lists setup somehow breaks this... I reported this problem as https://bugs.debian.org/956806 Ansgar

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-15 Thread Ansgar
robably something I could mostly live with. So to summarize, I think technically Discourse is okay. The "rewards" and related systems would however probably not make me use the system much. Ansgar Likes per Day: 12*π Total Views:∫₋∞ᵀ viewrate(t) dt ≈ 1.3 flocks Aver

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-15 Thread Ansgar
e same? > > > > Could you elaborate on that? Ansgar seems to use > > "User-Agent: Evolution 3.36.1-1" > > (While I'm using mutt.) How do such UAs track reading behaviour? > > Evolution tracks how long you've looked at a message in order to mark it > read.

Re: Testing Discourse for Debian - Moderation concepts

2020-04-14 Thread Ansgar
the moderation team? That seems to be something different from the trust levels? I would also expect Discourse to have some way to entirely remove messages, or at least remove the original content fully and replace it with a notice that the message was removed; who can do that? Also the moderation team? Ansgar

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Ansgar
micah anderson writes: > Ansgar writes: >>> The crux of my strong disagreement is here: as DPL, you just _framed_ the >>> Montreal miniDebConf as a protest. >> >> I think the announcement by the organizers framed the conference as >> being organized s

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Ansgar
On Thu, 2020-02-20 at 17:11 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > But my main point is this: Ansgar asserted that it is uncontroversial > that the BDS movement is antisemitic. Obviously that was not true. As I wrote it's only as uncontroversional as, say, climate change or usefulness of va

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Ansgar
Michael Banck writes: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:02:53AM +0100, Ansgar wrote: >> the BDS movement, a movement that is uncontroversially seen as >> antisemitic. > > Only a Sith deals in absolutes. So you are a Sith? But yes, some people also find climate change or usefulnes

Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Ansgar
rio in 2016 passed a motion condemning BDS as well, because "The motion was necessary because of growing concern on Ontario’s university campuses where members of BDS movements have harassed and targeted Jewish students under the guise of free speech"[3]. The two largest parties supporti

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2020-01-01 Thread Ansgar
Philip Hands writes: > Ansgar writes: >> So what is the "I wish I could say I would have charged against him" >> supposed to suggest to the reader? [...] > That being the case, I suggest you check that what you're complaining > about wasn't just a typo. Even t

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-31 Thread Ansgar
Ulrike, Ulrike Uhlig writes: > Ansgar, > > On 31.12.19 09:50, Ansgar wrote: >> threats of violence aren't welcome in Debian; if you cannot stop >> yourself from wishing to beat up people, I would suggest to leave the >> project. > > Stop! > > Expre

Re: Some thoughts about Diversity and the CoC

2019-12-31 Thread Ansgar
Dato Simó, threats of violence aren't welcome in Debian; if you cannot stop yourself from wishing to beat up people, I would suggest to leave the project. Thanks for your understanding, Ansgar

Re: Merry Christmas more debian private leaks

2019-12-25 Thread Ansgar
ple based on DKIM-signed mails that cannot easily be forged, but that would require to spend quite some effort on boring things :-/ Ansgar

Re: Merry Christmas more debian private leaks

2019-12-24 Thread Ansgar
get extremely angry when they don't get what they want), or people who believe in conspiracy theories either. If you really feel sending such mails would be helpful, please only send them in private mail to the concerned party. Ansgar

Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

2019-09-26 Thread Ansgar
Ulrike Uhlig writes: > On 26.09.19 08:03, Ansgar wrote: >> What does stop the recommendations to be outdated in a year or two? >> Given the long and slow process to gather them, there will probably be a >> long and slow process to change them; that discourages actually chang

Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

2019-09-26 Thread Ansgar
e a long and slow process to change them; that discourages actually changing them (too high barrier). In my opinion we already have similar problems with other standards/documentation in Debian. Ansgar

Re: Debian and Non-Free Services

2019-09-13 Thread Ansgar
"Dr. Bas Wijnen" writes: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 07:49:26PM +0200, Ansgar wrote: >> > Subject: Free Software Needs Free Tools >> > >> > No Debian contributor should be expected or encouraged, when working >> > to improve Debian

Re: Debian and Non-Free Services

2019-09-12 Thread Ansgar
GitLab or GitHub such as when they are hosted there as part of the upstream project and/or for better cooperation with upstream. I would not like to make cooperation with upstream more complicated. Ansgar

Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

2019-07-23 Thread Ansgar
em to have only the packaging information (debian/*) and not the upstream source in their version control system. So more people might be familiar with this; it also also makes tree-wide changes to packaging much easier ;-) Ansgar

Re: should debian comment about the recent 'ransomware' malware.

2017-05-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
ng until restart. Installing updates on system startup seems less risky to me, though some people seem to dislike it for some philosophical reason. Ansgar

Re: The proper place to announce GRs (was Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?))

2014-10-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
) in the Constitution makes it hard to change them. And Policy documents packaging standards for the distribution, not procedural details for the project. Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Cooperation with the FSF?

2014-09-05 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, elsewhere I heard that there was some talk (also including people from the FSF) about cooperation with the FSF. Could anybody tell a bit more what current ideas are? I just remember the fsf-collab-discuss list on Alioth with sadly died rather quickly... Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Reflecting on users and security updates

2014-05-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
for just embargoed issues and push to the main archive to release them.) Having two archives makes it possible to release updates should one break. ;) And of course all the historic reasons. Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Upstart trademark policy (was: Re: Proposed MBF - mentions of the word Ubuntu)

2013-11-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
to rename Upstart (like Iceweasel)? Ansgar [1] http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ [2] http://www.ubuntu.com/intellectual-property-policy [3] https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/upstart#Cons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Debian Maintainers Keyring changes

2013-09-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
the subkeys. The code should by now only look at the primary key fingerprint (as we don't care which subkey people use as long as it's valid). Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Can we change our position on CC BY 2.0 and 2.5 ?

2013-01-25 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
in Debian ? We don't want 2.5 in main, we want 3.0. So why? Sorry, I was mislead by the presence of 2.5 in awstats and grub2-splashimages... I filed bugs[1][2] for these two packages. The icons in awstats are even already licensed as CC-BY-SA-3.0[3]. Ansgar [1] http://bugs.debian.org/698921

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
add a command to migrate between keys to make this easier. (Should this be restricted to keyring maintainers? Or only available for ftpmaster and keyring maintainers ping us[1]?) Ansgar [1] Which would be easier to implement as dak would not need to know who is a keyring maintainer

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
in a way. I agree with zack that we shouldn't require DMs to periodically renew upload permissions for every package. We already require them to reconfirm their interest to stay DM annually. Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Ansgar Burchardt writes (Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads): Your proposal simultaneously changes two things: - It applies to all DMs listed as Maintainer/Uploaders. It is not possible to grant upload permission to only

Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
to packages the DM does not maintain (yet). This should not be abused.) Please note that we currently do not know when we might get around to implement these changes. Ansgar for the ftp team pgpkXH2CA49IE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Is there a public-facing page of the various autobuilders ? more specifically hardware specs.

2012-02-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
mirrors as well), including packages not yet pushed to the mirror network (similar to [INCOMING] but with signed Packages indices for use with APT). [INCOMING] http://incoming.debian.org Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Help

2012-02-07 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, please do not sent support requests to debian-project@, instead use one of the documented channels[1]. The how to ask questions the smart way document[2] may also be helpful if you want others to understand your problem. Regards, Ansgar [1] http://www.debian.org/support [2] http://catb.org