Re: Support for non-free-firmware in project webpages

2023-01-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
e used starting with bookworm. Also, it /might/ be time to retire debian-non-US, obsolete since Sarge (2005). Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

2021-10-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
nswer a few questions, then proceed to restoring the bootloader. This should do the trick. Please direct further questions to debian-user@ (in copy). Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org)<https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

2015-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Steve and others, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com (2015-08-18): We called our main installer images distribution site cdimage.debian.org a long time ago, when that was all it published and most people downloaded images of CDs. Ummm. Things have moved on in the intervening years, and this

Re: Package search function bug

2015-07-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Vlatko Šurlan vlatko.sur...@prijevodi-online.net (2015-07-08): Dear all, the package search function atnbsp;https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents gives nothing for when 'convert' alone but when searcinh '/usr/bin/convert' there are results. Sounds like some sort of a

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2015 Results

2015-05-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Enrico Zini enr...@enricozini.org (2015-05-24): I have also implemented audit tracking of all changes to Person records on nm.debian.org, which in turn allowed me to change the nightly maintenance scripts to do more aggressive imports of changes from keyrings and LDAP. I have also done

Re: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

2015-04-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de (2015-04-19): I wonder about a commented entry for backports. This way people can easily enable it. I saw Ubuntu using this for some repos. Feel free to open a wishlist bug report for it, that seems entirely reasonable. Looking at apt-setup and

Re: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

2015-04-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Rhonda D'Vine rho...@deb.at (2015-04-19): * Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org [2015-04-19 18:26:30 CEST]: Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl (2015-04-19): Op 19-04-15 om 18:01 schreef Michael Gilbert: On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, I saw

Re: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

2015-04-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl (2015-04-19): Op 19-04-15 om 18:01 schreef Michael Gilbert: On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello, I saw backports has been removed as default setting from sources.list in Jessie RC3. I am very disappointed by this last

Re: Doubt.

2015-04-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(It looks like keeping Daniel in the loop would have been a nice idea, cc-ing accordingly.) Hi, Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org (2015-04-15): On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:08:04AM -0300, Daniel Lucena wrote: I would like know if between download images of Debian 8 (after became stable) the

Re: Reflecting on users and security updates

2014-05-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org (2014-05-09): On 05/09/2014 16:15, Stuart Prescott wrote: == sources.list Many users of stable releases don't have security.debian.org in the sources.list. I can only wildly speculate as to how this happens... if the installer doesn't find a network

Re: Updating the Policy Editors delegation

2014-01-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (2014-01-03): I think that the current policy maintenance approach is too bureaucratic and relies too little on the technical judgement of the policy editors. I would like to see the policy editors assess proposals not only for consensus and

Re: Updates in stable releases

2013-12-31 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org (2013-12-31): Where do I send the diffs for prior review to? And where do I upload to (stable-proposed-updates?)? http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable Make sure your changes already hit unstable (possibly testing) if

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Steve, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org (2013-10-26): Was discussing with one of the listmasters (Alexander Wirt) on IRC today about mailing list bans, because it turns out that someone I was just about to ask the listmasters to ban from debian-devel had just been blocked in response to a

Re: Upcoming stable point release (7.2)

2013-09-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk (2013-09-22): The next point release for wheezy (7.2) is scheduled for Saturday October 12th. Stable NEW will be frozen during the preceding weekend. So there's a new linux kernel for that one:

Re: Revising the Code of Conduct

2013-05-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org (21/05/2013): I've noticed the same pattern as Steve, and it bothers me too, which means I probably should say something rather than letting this look like something between you and him. Your interactions on debian-devel when you do post there, which indeed isn't

Please communicate with your fellow developers!

2012-08-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, while I'm pretty happy to see development happening on the dak side, it would have been immensely helpful to have notifications of the planned downtime. There are plenty of things depending on the migration of packages to testing, and having known about the planned downtime today (along with

Re: Please communicate with your fellow developers!

2012-08-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (12/08/2012): while I'm pretty happy to see development happening on the dak side, it would have been immensely helpful to have notifications of the planned downtime. There are plenty of things depending on the migration of packages to testing, and having

Re: delegation for the Press Team

2012-03-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org (21/03/2012): Dear Developers, the Press Team is changing! Francesca Ciceri and Neil McGovern have accepted the promotion from assistants to press officers. At the same time, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl and Meike Reichle have decided to step down from

Re: delegation for the DSA team

2011-10-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org (17/10/2011): Dear Developers, given that they managed to survive the training period started at DebConf11, I'm happy to announce that the Debian System Administration (DSA) team has now two new full members: Faidon Liambotis and Tollef Fog Heen. \o/

Re: new DSA trainee

2011-07-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org (27/07/2011): Debian Sysadmins added a new trainee: Please welcome Faidon Liambotis (paravoid) and load him with work! Welcome! Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: new DSA trainee

2011-07-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Martin Zobel-Helas zo...@debian.org (28/07/2011): as we are on that topic, please also welcome Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) and load him with work! Also welcome! Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: what is the new name for testing

2011-02-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi. BasaBuru basab...@basatu.org (03/02/2011): Do you now what is the new code name for the new testing? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/09/msg0.html KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: commercial spam on planet

2010-11-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Holger, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org (08/11/2010): since a while, we see unsolicted commercial links and images on planet, mostly about flattr. […] How much spam do you find tolerable? Would it be ok if I sell advertisment space on my blog and syndicate this to planet? You

Re: Some thoughts on the ARM build daemons

2010-01-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Colin Tuckley co...@tuckley.org (22/01/2010): Your list of buildd machines is seriously out of date if you are talking about armel. You do realize you're answering to a mail dated “08 May 2007”, right? -- Colin Tuckley | +44(0)1223 293413 | PGP/GnuPG Key Id Debian Developer |

Re: Legal use of the Debian Logo

2010-01-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
dE . de.tec...@gmail.com (07/01/2010): No, absolutely not. I think this logo is a trademark, i.e proprietary and so the owner of the site should be warned about this. You probably should just be answering that: http://www.debian.org/logos/ Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: FTP Team changes

2009-08-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Joerg Jaspert jo...@ganneff.de (15/08/2009): everybody please welcome Alexander 'Tolimar' Reichle-Schmehl Chris 'lamby' Lamb Torsten 'twerner' Werner Barry 'bdefreese' deFreese as new members of the FTP Team. \o_ /o/ \o\ _o/ Mraw, KiBi.

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luk Claes l...@debian.org (06/08/2009): If the freeze date is well known in advance the question becomes moot unless some maintainer wants to work against the freeze AFAICS. Having a known freeze date is meant to help everyone to be able to plan better and refrain from doing high impact

Re: Opera in your repos

2009-08-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Beware sarcasm tags might be missing.) Ana Guerrero a...@debian.org (05/08/2009): Even in the case you release the opera code with a license that allow distributing opera in non-free, there is not much point on distributing it when we already have _totally free_ browsers. There is: Linux is

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org (05/08/2009): Like some people said during Debconf: freezing in December doesn't necessarily mean freezing the first day or even the first week of December; the 31 is still December, which means there are 30 days to decide many things, if necessary.

Re: Approaching non-integratable software, was: What to do with (packages like) Blender?

2009-08-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
] already. ] Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes: It's been a while and I'm now really wondering what to do with Blender. So that everyone can understand, I'm going to try and sum up what I'm facing. It seems to me that blender is not unique in this regard. There is more software than just

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de (03/08/2009): Ack ack ack. I even have the impression that the Canonical employees want to ensure that Debian gets important things much much later than Ubuntu. Obviously false, see how (e)glibc maintainers are pushed by Ubuntu people to get the next release ready,

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Patrick Schoenfeld schoenf...@debian.org (03/08/2009): That is simply not true. It might be that Ubuntu doesn't give back as much as Debian would like. Or “as they pretend to” [1]: | When a bug is reported in the Debian bug tracking system and then later | fixed in Ubuntu, the fixes are often

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Neil McGovern maul...@halon.org.uk (30/07/2009): I disagree. The images for the males are just as suggestive. I have no issue at all with these. Ditto. Thanks for the nice work, Agnieszka! Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Guido Trotter ultrot...@debian.org (30/07/2009): Personally I think it's a wonderful work, and a very interesting exercise in producing a debian marketing campain. I agree with the mixed feelings about the tout court logo changing (which, if it happens, should anyway be sanctioned by GR,

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership - take #1: inactivity

2009-07-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de (26/07/2009): See above. Also: There're a lot of teams where outsiders can help and earn trust without being able to break things. Do you mean people like Simon Paillard? With contributions in l10n, i18n, www, and mirror domains? If you didn't, I (at the very least)

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Mark Brown broo...@sirena.org.uk (25/06/2009): On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 03:46:50PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: I didn't think that using the templates was required for AMs, merely a useful tool. I think AMs should be able to check to their satisfaction in other ways as appropriate, as long

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl (24/06/2009): /me wonders whatever happened to those nice mails listing new DDs that used to be sent out periodically They still are (see debian-newmaint@, “NM Report for Week ending…”), but AFAICT there might be something wrong there, since Samuel wasn't mentioned

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org (24/06/2009): I do follow d-newmaint, but I don't think the reports that are sent there actually include the names of new maintainers. If you don't think, then check? http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2009/04/msg00054.html Excerpt: | Weekly Summary

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org (23/06/2009): Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: sometimes, I look at a issue and think that the correct solution here is a package split, but I often end up working around it in other ways, just because of NEW. In my experience, package splits go through

Re: One more upload queue

2009-05-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag app...@debian.org (15/05/2009): Should this not go to debian-devel-announce as well? Probably worth including in the next developer news issue. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: PGP keys: advice from keyring maintainers ?

2009-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Frank Küster fr...@debian.org (13/05/2009): I don't read blogs. So I'm confused by people asking here and on -private about something that sounds as if one should be kind of aware of it... How can I find out if my key is v3 or v4? From keycheck.sh: | echo Let's test if its a version 4 or

Re: PGP keys: advice from keyring maintainers ?

2009-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org (13/05/2009): From keycheck.sh: | echo Let's test if its a version 4 or greater key | VERSION=$(gpg ${GPGOPTS} --with-colons --with-fingerprint --list-keys 0x$KEYID | awk -F : '$1 == fpr {print length($10)}') Bleh, missed the actually interesting lines

Re: PGP keys: advice from keyring maintainers ?

2009-05-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Quoting the mail fully for the added recipients. Looks like Charles was too shy to do so. Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (12/05/2009): Dear all, I am getting quite confused after reading the many blog announcements about changing PGP keys for security reasons. Is it possible to get a

Re: lenny release at epoche 1234567890 ?

2009-02-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Gebhardt Thomas gebha...@hrz.uni-marburg.de (10/02/2009): just noticed that epoche 1234567890 is at 2009-02-14. That would be a release date that is easy to remember. 49862854.1070...@googlemail.com Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Draft for lenny release announcement

2009-02-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
W. Martin Borgert deba...@debian.org (10/02/2009): On 2009-02-10 20:54, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: What about: ... and more than 23,000 other packages ready to use software packages (build from over 12,000 source packages). built? Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com (12/01/2009): And I lost count on how many times I repeated that, but will do as long as necessary. We don't need that kind of behaviour *again*. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2009-01-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop (07/01/2009): Previously, I noted that fewer than 80 people participated in even the hotly disputed lenny blobs GR discussion. That suggests to me that lots of DDs aren't participating until the vote. It's hard to prove that a group is ignoring something, but

Re: The Unofficial (and Very Simple) Lenny GR: call for votes

2008-12-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org (15/12/2008): I support the right or priviledge of a researcher to run a poll on the topic of their choosing. I further support the right or priviledge of a Debian Developer to run a poll on a topic associatied with Debian. I support this specific poll.

Re: Linux System Engineer (100%) in Zurich

2008-11-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] (26/11/2008): It's pretty unfortunate that Switzerland does not have any law in place preventing age discrimination [0], and I believe that in the spirit of Debian we should not provide a forum for posting discriminatory job offers. I suggest to have the blurb at

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Peter Palfrader [EMAIL PROTECTED] (23/10/2008): Having NMs in a keyring, maintained by keyring-maint, would probably solve this, and we could provide access to our porter machines when there is the need. That would be terrific. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Release notes

2008-10-05 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] (05/10/2008): http://cvs.debian.org/ddp/manuals.sgml/release-notes/?root=debian-doc This link is wrong. DDP uses SVN nowadays. Question is: why is that still available? I assume CVS to SVN conversion kept history. And if it didn't, that site might get a BFW

Re: iso's and everything missing?

2008-07-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] (29/07/2008): Where did you last see it? Perhaps it's behind the couch. In other words, you've not said what everything you're talking about, or where you expect to find it. Is there a specific URL you're using that doesn't lead to what you expect? Infer, doctor

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 27/05/2008, Bas Wijnen wrote: The proposal is to use the DELAYED queue as the default way to do an NMU. This means in particular that the code is already finished when the mail about the NMU is sent to the BTS. So there is no reason to allow changes to the patch after this mail; if you

Re: Making Debian work: a question of trust indeed

2008-03-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
to put two and two together, draw a conclusion, and act accordingly? -- Cyril Brulebois pgpJastguH63K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dopewars do we need such a game in debian distribution?

2008-02-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
this mail) now spent even more time in discussing issues how people should better spend their time. So could we just stop here? ad And join pkg-games to help maintain (other) games. /ad Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpX1zhdogVle.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 25/02/2008, Gunnar Wolf wrote: This time we did. And he's not running again! :-( But HE is running. :) -- Cyril Brulebois pgp4HfEX8qM3P.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: State of the project - input needed

2008-01-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpnSuAykk2ia.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFC: Introducing Debian Enhancement Proposals (DEPs)

2008-01-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
it is not a hard requirement, indeed. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpKqEHy03Mgb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: moderating spam in debian-chinese-big5 list

2008-01-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
to ask, may I be directed to the right person? If you need to contact the listmasters, [EMAIL PROTECTED] You probably want to try and contact IIRC -owner anyway, to get list-specific changes. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpwkeZodhYG6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: linhdd concerns

2007-11-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 29/11/2007, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: override files allow comments which means giving a justification is already possible. So it seems this just needs to be documented as best practice? Yes. -- Cyril Brulebois pgpwk92xgu5mY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpBuaFAkZ4YB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: No buildd redundancy for alpha/mips/mipsel

2007-11-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
buildd maintainer”, uploading packages in a timely fashion. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpwM2zbyroZ1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
positive of some sort? Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpxLoLKaMik1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
of |automatic byhand processing. | [snip] Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpddNKYPiH1Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7 [was Re: Social committee proposal]

2007-10-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(and also with s/low/high/ in the URL). 1. https://penta.debconf.org/~joerg/events/93.en.html 2. http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2007/debconf7/low/349_Solving_social_problems_via_soc-ctte.ogg Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois pgpkmGmzQweJH.pgp Description: PGP signature