Re: Release notes

2008-10-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: > I need information where debbugs, http://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/ > moved to, similar to what is available from the READMEs in > /srv/cvs.debian.org/cvs/qa. Can you provide that? Sorry for not telling anyone about that. Don Armstro

Re: Is this really from your company or is it spam?

2008-09-26 Thread Don Armstrong
ealing with a free operating system called Debian GNU/Hurd. [It's not only not a person, it doesn't advertise, and moreover it doesn't appeal broadly to your target demographic.] Don Armstrong -- My spelling ability, or rather the lack thereof, is one of the wonders

Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

2008-08-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > Even so, why should language style be a weight-of-numbers thing? Interestingly, that's exactly what language and style is about. English is plastic, and as the usage of people who use english changes, so does the language and its style. Don A

Re: my treatment in #debian

2008-06-09 Thread Don Armstrong
ity in terms of their positive and negative aspects, and refrain from making negative contributions. Don Armstrong -- The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will

Re: DEP1: how to do an NMU

2008-06-03 Thread Don Armstrong
for an RC bug in a reasonable timeframe, they should expect an NMU. It matters little how the timeframe is enforced; it's there regardless. Non-RC bug fixes are an entirely different beast, but NMUs for them are generally discouraged anyway. Don Armstrong -- Mozart tells us what it's

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

2008-05-29 Thread Don Armstrong
NMU changelog, or you need to separately close the bugs in your changelog if you don't include it. Don Armstrong -- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: get off your ass

2008-04-24 Thread Don Armstrong
ho can convince nvidia to fix the actual bugs, since none of us have the source code to these drivers. I'm sure the nvidia maintainers would love to see patches for all of those bugs. Don Armstrong -- Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept. -- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Dem

Re: $RANDOM_GMAIL_USER wants to chat

2008-04-24 Thread Don Armstrong
/wsvn/pkg-listmaster/trunk/spamassassin_config/ and submit patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don Armstrong 1: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-listmaster/trunk/spamassassin_config/common/phrase_spam?op=diff&rev=192&sc=0 -- I'd sign up in a hot second for any cellular company who

Re: Debian Lover from Thailand

2008-03-27 Thread Don Armstrong
free is with "vrms" You can just use apt-cache policy; if you want to know. Don Armstrong -- CNN/Reuters: News reports have filtered out early this morning that US forces have swooped on an Iraqi Primary School and detained 6th Grade teacher Mohammed Al-Hazar. Sources indicate that, whe

Re: Debian Maintainers

2007-10-25 Thread Don Armstrong
hose DM-ity had not been announced according to the process were allowed to upload packages to the archive. AFAIC, if we're just at the stage where DM hasn't actually been implemented yet, no harm, no foul. Don Armstrong -- As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.

Continuing Debian Education

2007-08-15 Thread Don Armstrong
to add in talks. I'd like to aim to have a talk about once every two months if possible (or more frequently) starting in late september, early october. [If you'd like to take over and spearhead this effort, let me know too.] Don Armstrong -- If I had a letter, sealed it in a locked vau

Re: Need of non-germany-tree in Debian?

2007-07-06 Thread Don Armstrong
n mirrors; probably FSFE knows attorneys in germany who would be capable of resolving these issues.] Don Armstrong -- The beauty of the DRUNKENNESS subprogram was that you could move your intoxication level up and down at will, instead of being caught on a relentless down escalator to bargain ba

Re: Social Contract ten years on July 5 -- celebration?

2007-06-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > You are _not_ allowed to modify and redistribute my code, under any > circumstances. Too late. I've already sent my retroviruses and after your DNA. Don Armstrong -- Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. -- Robert Hei

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

2007-06-26 Thread Don Armstrong
ate if the internal discussion list is moderated or restricted to ctte members. Don Armstrong -- Information wants to be free to kill again. -- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: your mail

2007-06-14 Thread Don Armstrong
ill be able to escape heat death either. Don Armstrong -- Grimble left his mother in the food store and went to the launderette and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like colour television only with less plot. -- Clement Freud _Grimble_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Re: Change of the debian code-name base?

2007-05-26 Thread Don Armstrong
by the codename that a release bears isn't someone whose opinion is worth even having this email exchange about, let alone actually changing how release names are chosen in Debian. Don Armstrong -- "The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether sub

Re: rsync mirror

2007-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
ftpsync , this is all done for you automatically. Don Armstrong -- Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept. -- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_] http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: > There is a reason why I do not waste my time with people on a Debian > list One wonders why you even bothered to send your original mail to us, then. I believe we'd all appreciate it if you stopped "wast[ing] [your] time&q

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-21 Thread Don Armstrong
ot or cannot be properly reviewed, and from that position act to minimize the damage such code can cause. Don Armstrong -- I'm wrong to criticize the valour of your brave men. It's important to die for one's country when it means being the subject of a king who wears a ruffl

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-21 Thread Don Armstrong
de reviews by the maintainer are not enough. It also raises the question that the time spent doing security reviews of code in Debian by maintainers of their own packages may be better spent looking for known classes of vulnerabilities distribution wide. Don Armstrong 1: I know my own u

Re: Bits from the DPL: DSA and buildds and DAM, oh my!

2007-02-24 Thread Don Armstrong
nt out of band in the footers of the messages sent out. In any event, even that isn't really a reason to not allow Debian Developers to have access to the request tracker, although it may be a reason to restrict the general public. Don Armstrong -- Tell me something interesting about y

Re: Bug#410129: installation-guide: minor fix for section 1.1 _What is Debian_

2007-02-16 Thread Don Armstrong
said, there's nothing stoping a concept from having ideals which go along with it. Don Armstrong -- You could say she lived on the edge... Well, maybe not exactly on the edge, just close enough to watch other people fall off. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch8.htm http://www

Re: Debian logos and trademarks

2007-02-07 Thread Don Armstrong
contrib. [MFT set to -legal as it's probably more on topic there if someone wants to discuss it.] Bravo though, for actually moving on this. It's nice not to have to be rediculously hypocritical when talking about licenses on distributed logos with upstreams. Don Armstrong -- Democr

Re: Debian logos and trademarks

2007-02-07 Thread Don Armstrong
A second more general question: why do we need a (semi) non-free > logo after all? Looks to me like we're currently not allowed to use > the "official use" logo in our own distribution, so *why* do we have > it? > > Does somebody actually use it for something? Business

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-11-03 Thread Don Armstrong
, lets not descend into the great American pastime of setting up strawmen and shooting them with large caliber weapons. Don Armstrong -- My spelling ability, or rather the lack thereof, is one of the wonders of the modern world. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu --

Re: Daylight Saving Time - 2007

2006-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
in sarge as of 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge1. So no, it'll all work automatically. Don Armstrong -- She was alot like starbucks. IE, generic and expensive. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch3.htm http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian 2.4.3

2006-09-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, myrddinbach wrote: > So I guess these guys are using a mythical version? > > We use Debian 2.4.3. Well, more likely that they have no idea what version they're using. Don Armstrong -- Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert

Re: Proposal: Source code is important for all works in Debian, and required for programmatic ones

2006-09-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:07:18PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > C. Reaffirms its continued support of users whose hardware (or > > software) requires works which are not freely licensed or whose > > source is not

Re: Proposal: Source code is important for all works in Debian, and required for programmatic ones

2006-09-18 Thread Don Armstrong
d the part between the === lines.) I've also attached the suggested content for the v.d.o webpages for this option in the interest of completeness. Don Armstrong 1: http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/english/vote/2006/vote_004.wml?root=webwml&r1=1.3&r2=1.4 2: http://lists.debian.org/debian-

Re: The Sourceless software in the kernel source GR

2006-09-18 Thread Don Armstrong
xert power under A.2.3 and declare that an amendment belongs on a separate ballot; but that's not (yet?) at issue here. Don Armstrong -- Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything.

Re: Proposal: Source code is important for all works in Debian, and required for programmatic ones

2006-08-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Don Armstrong wrote: > D. Requests that vendors of hardware, even those whose firmware is > not loaded by the operating system, provide the prefered form for > modification so that purchasers of their hardware are can This should read 'hardware ca

Proposal: Source code is important for all works in Debian, and required for programmatic ones

2006-08-24 Thread Don Armstrong
is clearly a desirable thing to have from our users and our perspective. Don Armstrong i: At Big Time; usually somewhere around 9:30 and Hope (outer ring) with multiple domes (big-ish to small) and a few mobile domes as well in case someone wants to find me. ;-) -- "There's nothing r

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-08-22 Thread Don Armstrong
I second this amendment with (or without) the minor corrections suggested below. Don Armstrong On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Content-Description: draft GR > > 4. The Developers by way of General Reso

Re: No more bugreports from me.

2006-08-16 Thread Don Armstrong
lained before. > Now I suggest that that a script change all e-mail addresses, in all > incoming bugreports, to links that hide the e-mail address. This is #63995, which has been marked 'wontfix' for the explanation contained within for quite some time. Don Armstrong -- "B

Re: Procedure for expelling developers for violating Social Contract?

2006-08-03 Thread Don Armstrong
ess because you felt that a developer looked at an e-mail that you wrote funny. [1] Don Armstrong 1: Someone better start the procedure against me then... I've been making faces at messages all day. -- Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to be the HP-48 s

Re: Donations

2006-06-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:51:02PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I think that's the very case where we need the time to examine the > > private vetting process, since there may be no external communication > > before t

Re: Donations

2006-06-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On 14 Jun 2006, Don Armstrong said: > > My fear is that some newly founded organization is veted by some > > future Evil DPL, assets are transfered and dispersed wihtout > > allowing some lead time for people to examine the sit

Re: Donations

2006-06-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On 13 Jun 2006, Don Armstrong uttered the following: > > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> 9.1. Authority > >> > >> +3. Debian Developers are not agents or employees of such > >> +

Re: Donations

2006-06-13 Thread Don Armstrong
y have made in order to do so. [I think even deleting the list of obligations of SPI and placing that elsewhere may be useful because it's not particularly germane to the constitution.] Don Armstrong -- No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free [...] You can'

Re: Donations

2006-06-11 Thread Don Armstrong
bian's assets be announced publicly some period of time (2 weeks?) before the changes take effect. [This would allow the DPL's decision to be overriden without unecessary asset flapping.] Don Armstrong 1: Although I agree that we have far more serious problems to deal with if this ever happe

Re: Debian-based miniVDR violates GPL (FYI)

2006-05-23 Thread Don Armstrong
his sort of case, it's probably easiest for them to just handle it, so I'd suggest just allowing their process to occur normally.] Don Armstrong 1: Assuming that cd actually has a CDD on it; I haven't chacked myself. -- Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some pr

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-05-13 Thread Don Armstrong
e? If you get enough participtation, and there's a reasonable open project to point jabber.debian.org to, I'd imagine it would be an easy case to make. Don Armstrong -- Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p250 http://www.do

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-05-03 Thread Don Armstrong
/#debian-release [+nsc] 11:56:57 -!- Channel #debian-release created Sun Feb 6 18:55:01 2005 Don Armstrong -- She was alot like starbucks. IE, generic and expensive. -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch3.htm http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-05-03 Thread Don Armstrong
27;t seen a client that had a problem with it... but given the way that some IRC clients are written, it wouldn't suprise me much. Don Armstrong -- The beauty of the DRUNKENNESS subprogram was that you could move your intoxication level up and down at will, instead of being caught on a rel

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-05-01 Thread Don Armstrong
r networks. Switching networks really won't cause the splits to go away; it'll just change which network the majority of the conversations happen on in the few cases where that hasn't changed already. Don Armstrong -- The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion ... ref

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-04-30 Thread Don Armstrong
because their IRC client points them at irc.debian.org/#debian (the default in many cases) will join. Beyond that, I don't really have an opinion either way. Don Armstrong -- DIE! -- Maritza Campos http://www.crfh.net/d/20020601.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Re: Debian Subscription

2006-04-13 Thread Don Armstrong
against eachother, they're constant driving eachothers costs down to a reasonable level, and/or making the amount that they donate to SPI (or similar) in the name of Debian more prevalent. In the end, if you want to donate to Debian, donate. Your time is more useful than your money, but both a

Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006

2006-04-12 Thread Don Armstrong
ly devolve back to the standard problems that we've been fighting with forever; we're all volunteers, and we're all very busy. 1) Not enough AMs 2) NMs who aren't ready/not obviously involved/busy 3) DAMs who are very busy 4) FD who are likewise busy 5) AMs who are busy Don Arm

Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006

2006-04-08 Thread Don Armstrong
enance then (and still am) so that's what I was tested on primarily. [I was asked to assist with a few DFSG/FOSS understanding issues, but I didn't think of that as part of the NM process.] Of course, since that was part of my contribution to Debian at that point in time, my AM and later t

Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006

2006-04-06 Thread Don Armstrong
bit more time consuming for the AM, but it's ideal for applicants who are involved in non-traditional roles in Debian. Don Armstrong 1: This is nm_ts.doc.txt in the nm-templates repository for those following along at home 2: Well, beyond being involved in the licensing aspect of things,

Re: Uninstallation of GRUB with windows or use of xwindow system

2006-03-23 Thread Don Armstrong
te, debian-user@lists.debian.org is the proper list to request user support. This list is primarily for discussions relating to the project itself. Don Armstrong -- "There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off, deleting their files, closing their account and

Re: Inquiry for proposal to establish #debian-newbies

2006-03-21 Thread Don Armstrong
etting people who are willing to help answer questions, and letting others know that the channel is there to help. Good luck! Don Armstrong -- Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p242 http://www.donarmstrong

Re: About expulsion requests

2006-03-19 Thread Don Armstrong
s does fail, it would simplify matters > > for the individual if they did not have to try to explain this to > > people in the future. > > I don't want future employers to be able to google about my bugs. Too late. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abugs.donarmstrong.com%20Ha

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-12 Thread Don Armstrong
of source is the best definition of source we have, and as such is the place to start for determining whether or not a work supplies source.] Don Armstrong -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of

Re: Debian etch

2006-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
world, so perhaps it's better if folks simply put the > name in its correct context: that of a Toy Story character. Considering the fact that we had no problems with a release codenamed "woody", I think some incidental indecency is not something to worry about. Don Armstrong

Re: Your posting: Debian on one dvd?

2005-12-20 Thread Don Armstrong
do this manually. You can get packages to your machine using apt-zip on Debian as well;[1] you just have to have bandwidth available somewhere. [Which is a slightly different problem than the one facing users in places where the nearest network connection of any type is outside of the range of sn

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-13 Thread Don Armstrong
hat you're going to show up on the top 50 (or at least in the "didn't make it to the top") if you're actually actively involved in helping people on #debian. Don Armstrong -- Q: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience o

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, MJ Ray wrote: > Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > (A +q silences the individual in question, while allowing them to > > remain on the channel.) > > +q is a bizarre "half-ban" flag which doesn't appear in many (any?) > IRC newb

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-10 Thread Don Armstrong
now it is not permanent and everybody knows what's going > on. Yeah, I've thought about extending the script that does that with a NOTICE, I just haven't had a chance to do it yet. [Other parts of it have notices, but I haven't set one up for the timeout part.] Don Armstrong

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-10 Thread Don Armstrong
[Clearly, #debian isn't the appropriate place for such a complaint; I'm not even convinced that -project is.] Since at the time, I was the only op around, and had other things to do, I couldn't leave the situtation unresolved. Silencing a user who has stopped contributing to the channel

Re: Complaint about #debian operator

2005-12-10 Thread Don Armstrong
free to modify the "why debian" factoid, or perhaps create a "why not debian" factoid on the bot that points to a website or something that goes into this topic in depth.] Don Armstrong -- It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong -- C

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Don Armstrong
om my perspective, all we're doing is putting in place a mechanism whereby useful parts of -private can be made publicly available. Whether developers actually end up doing the work to make it publicly available comes later. Don Armstrong -- Grimble left his mother in the food store and went

Re: DCCA name change and remaining issues

2005-11-01 Thread Don Armstrong
n Core" in the FAQ.) Don Armstrong -- It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong -- Chris Torek http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu signature.asc Description: Digital signature

DCCA name change and remaining issues

2005-10-17 Thread Don Armstrong
rossed into the trademark loonie bin. Don Armstrong -- "A one-question geek test. If you get the joke, you're a geek: Seen on a California license plate on a VW Beetle: 'FEATURE'..." -- Joshua D. Wachs - Natural Intelligence, Inc. http://www.donarmstrong.com

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-09-19 Thread Don Armstrong
at's > happening here. The few dozen e-mails that I have sent between myself and the representatives of the DCCA are reasonable evidence of Debian's desire to protect the Debian mark. Don Armstrong 1: Concrete in this situtation being a final resolution of the issues with

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:28:11AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > But beyond that, yes, when there's something to report, I plan on > > making either -private or -project as appropriate aware of what is > > being done, ju

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 05:18:50PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I plan on working with both the leadership of the DCCA, the SPI > > trademark group, and Debian Developers to resolve this issue as > > amicably as possible, a

Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-21 Thread Don Armstrong
Developers to resolve this issue as amicably as possible, as rapidly as possible. Please feel free to e-mail me at any time if you have questions or wish to make a comment on the usage of the trademark; I will (as usual) be participating on -project and -legal. Don Armstrong -- [this space for rent

Re: consultant entries that will be removed unless they "pong"

2005-07-15 Thread Don Armstrong
add themselves on their own website without placing any information about Debian anywhere. Don Armstrong 1: If you think you don't, then you must never reject patches. -- [insert something here] http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is RFP useful anymore?

2005-06-28 Thread Don Armstrong
tions on how to reopen the bug if they are still interested in having the package packaged. That way the bugs can be closed with minimal effort, and the submitter can indicate that they still want the software packaged with minimal effort. Don Armstrong -- "I was thinking seven figures," h

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-19 Thread Don Armstrong
, they're not worth wasting any more time on. Don Armstrong 1: The black helicopters just aren't doing it for me any more... -- A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on arm

Re: agenda for Debian leadership team (a.k.a. "Project Scud") meeting on 2005-04-24

2005-04-24 Thread Don Armstrong
blic minutes,[2] as any other interested party could prepare their own. Don Armstrong 1: If needed, I volunteer to help facilitate this, but it may be best for the current members to handle it. 2: Not that they couldn't still be prepared by the attendees, of course. -- "The trouble w

Re: Poll results: User views on the FDL issue

2005-04-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 03:33:03PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > "It's the same program whether it's in C or in m68k machine code." > > For example, I may place a formal copyright notice in a comment in > every

Re: Poll results: User views on the FDL issue

2005-04-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:01:31PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > A work that only allows distribution of patches does not meet DFSG #4. > > It must also specifically allow the distribution of modified binaries > > made from thos

Re: Poll results: User views on the FDL issue

2005-04-20 Thread Don Armstrong
not be condoned, even if they are tolerated.] Don Armstrong -- "There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." -- Bach http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- T

Re: GFDL freedoms

2005-04-14 Thread Don Armstrong
the current version of the GFDL's definition of Transparent and Opaque works, yes. > I'm not sure I need to define documentation. We aren't robots, we > can make judgement calls on what is, or is not, documentation. But what, pray tell, will we base this "judgement cal

Re: Etch Release Tracking in debbugs (Was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-16 Thread Don Armstrong
mirroring the BTS while they hack away. I've set up my own[1] to test my own patches... it's really not all that difficult to do. Don Armstrong 1: http://bugs.donarmstrong.com -- There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy th

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-22 Thread Don Armstrong
DDs uploading inside of the US, as they could (or would) be exporting cryptographic software, instead of the archive itself doing that after properly notifying the BXE et al. [Ah, the joys of export controls...] Don Armstrong -- If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom

Re: Bits from the ftpmasters

2005-02-20 Thread Don Armstrong
was personally aware of #1, it's nice to hear that this is a temporary issue and that things are being done (whatever they are) to deal with the problem. Don Armstrong -- Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, poppin

Re: Bits from the DAMs

2005-02-15 Thread Don Armstrong
nt is probably a good idea. It shouldn't pose much of a problem to many applicants (at least those close to major metropolitan areas) and those where it does will probably need an exemption to the signature rule anyway. Don Armstrong -- "The trouble with you, Ibid," he said,

Re: New Front Desk members

2005-02-01 Thread Don Armstrong
of herbs.'' --Shak. 2. Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.] 3. (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. The word 'sex' has many more conno

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:53:52PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > The whole purpose of contrib (at least in my mind) is to indicate > > to users that they will need something extra from non-free or even > > something we can't

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-09 Thread Don Armstrong
peaking, they know how a package should be split, and what it should depend upon; and when they make mistakes, they fix them. Don Armstrong -- The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the chairs, and

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:43:43AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > The license must allow: > > > > 1) the distribution of "patch files" for the purpose of modifying > >the work at build time > >

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-05 Thread Don Armstrong
ocumentation with invariant sections. Furthermore, even if we were to ignore the requirement of DFSG 4 for the distribution of software built from modified source code, the "patch file"[1] would include bits of the original source as context, which is also not allowed for the invariant se

Re: documentation x executable code

2005-01-05 Thread Don Armstrong
egally relevant part of it must be included, and cannot be modified. Like it or not, this is part of the legal game that must be played in order to have any free software at all. Don Armstrong 1: http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20040129.031954.8111224d.en.html -- "...Yet terrible

Re: complaint about a #debian chat operator

2004-12-16 Thread Don Armstrong
gual person isn't on FN or OFTC.] Don Armstrong -- Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming them to crisp is bad behaviour, I have not yet achieved a state of nirvana. -- Manoj Srivastava in [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Re: http://www.counterpunch.org/

2004-12-13 Thread Don Armstrong
want to report something about this host's behavior or domain, please contact the ISPs involved directly, not the Debian Project. See the Network Abuse Clearinghouse for how to do this. If you have further questions about what Debian actually is, please visit http://www.debian.org/

Re: Consumer boycott of your company

2004-11-16 Thread Don Armstrong
et.net, and ccai.com is 204.225.250.5. > I assume he means that his complaints to ccai are being bounced, > rather than that he's rejecting mail. Either that or ccai is totally ignoring it as they have nothing whatsoever to do with the spammer. Don Armstrong -- Junkies were all knitted toget

Re: list info

2004-10-28 Thread Don Armstrong
rocess. For more information on Debian, see http://www.debian.org/ As far as your other query, surely google would be more informative than randomly e-mailing totally unrelated mailing lists. Don Armstrong -- Build a fire for a man, an he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he&#

Re: Proposal of new "admin" pseudo BTS package

2004-09-24 Thread Don Armstrong
eing able to see what requests have been made of the admins and the status of those requests would be useful, if only so that people like myself don't bother them unnecessarily. [I'm sure that people on [EMAIL PROTECTED] *love* being told about the same problem over and over again. ;-)]

Re: Idea: debian representative @ conferences

2004-07-31 Thread Don Armstrong
#x27;re typically the person best able to judge that. Don Armstrong -- Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. -- Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943)

Re: licensing arrangement in Debian

2004-06-18 Thread Don Armstrong
are present in Debian must comply with the Debian Free Software Guidelines which are delineated here: http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines If this doesn't answer your question, feel free to e-mail -project again, or ask me directly. Don Armstrong -- Personally, I think my choi

Re: Report from the Debian Java developers meeting at FOSDEM

2004-03-06 Thread Don Armstrong
eing discussed. (Unless we're discussing the linking exception of Classpath, which in itself may actually be a no-op, at least as far as non-static linking is concerned.) Don Armstrong -- CNN/Reuters: News reports have filtered out early this morning that US forces have swooped on an Iraqi

Re: Debian logos

2004-02-29 Thread Don Armstrong
work placed on debian.org be released under a DFSG Free license, and that the webmasters refrain from placing anything there that is not. It doesn't matter if the work is licensed under MIT/X11, BSD 3-clause, or any other non-controvercial DFSG Free license. Don Armstrong -- Of course, the

Re: Various ideas for improving the debian project as a whole

2003-12-31 Thread Don Armstrong
n some sort of packaging. [And I have run across Debian CD's in retail stores in the same packaging.] Don Armstrong -- "...Yet terrible as UNIX addiction is, there are worse fates. If UNIX is the heroin of operating systems, then VMS is barbiturate addiction, the Mac is MDMA, and MS-D

Re: Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo

2003-10-08 Thread Don Armstrong
(FE) compliance behooves you to provide the prefered form for modification. In almost every case, that means the data files you yourself used to create the images in the first place and/or make the modifications. Don Armstrong -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One dis

Re: Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo

2003-10-07 Thread Don Armstrong
S's 4 freedoms extended to cover documentation unambigously. I like to think that our interpretation of the DFSG protects these freedoms as well... but I suppose there will always be those who don't see it that way. Don Armstrong -- Tell me something interesting about yourself. Lie

Re: Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo

2003-10-07 Thread Don Armstrong
iologist with a background in computing... everything begins to behave like walking bits of software.] Don Armstrong 1: This only includes licenses that are required by a copyright statement... random licenses included in packages don't qualify. -- "People selling drug paraphernalia ... ar

Re: Help on installing a package on Non-Debian Linux system

2003-02-11 Thread Don Armstrong
nd untar the deb package. Alternatively, you could use 'dpkg-deb -x foo.deb' assuming you have dpkg installed. Don Armstrong -- Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of entheogens; it now took very unusual circumstances to attract public attention to sighting

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