Re: [pkg-go] Bug#856139: certspotter: long description advertises commercial service

2017-08-11 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 08:03:09AM -0400, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > If a free software implementation of the remote service exists that a > package can work with, then it can remain in main. If not, it cannot. There are no free software server-side implementation of e.g. the ICQ protocol, as far

DSA Team Meeting minutes, 2013-10-11

2013-10-14 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Present: luca (Luca Filipozzi) paravoid (Faidon Liambotis) weasel (Peter Palfrader) zumbi (Héctor Orón Martínez) Mithrandir (Tollef Fog Heen) zobel (Martin Zobel-Helas) sgran (Stephen Gran) Ongoing project update o debian.org mail move status (tfheen, sgran) - big move is done, cleanup

Re: Introducing http.debian.net, Debian's mirrors redirector

2012-06-21 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Hi, On 06/21/12 23:32, Raphael Geissert wrote: After several iterations to solve problems related to Debian's mirrors network, I am happy to announce a fully-functional solution that solves many of the shortcomings of previous iterations: http://http.debian.net I have two objections if I

Re: Diversity statement for the Debian Project

2012-03-23 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 03/23/12 15:28, Francesca Ciceri wrote: So, I wrote a draft - mainly based on the one [4] created for Ubuntu by Matt Zimmerman with the help of Mary Gardiner, Valerie Aurora and Benjamin Mako Hill - and I'd like to propose it to the DPL to be official published. Thanks for doing this.

Re: On terminology

2010-07-05 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 12:14:03AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Am I the only one who has trouble -and getting laughed at- whenever I try to explain these to potential contributors? Can we _at least_ rename the NM process to be indicative of what

Re: debian-private declassification team (looking for one)

2010-06-25 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 25/06/2010 07:43 μμ, Russ Allbery wrote: I would welcome a new GR to rescind the previous one and revert d-private to what it's always been: private. That way we can stop worrying about the whole issue and we will no longer run the risk of making things public that their authors do not want

Re: PTS subscription exposure

2010-03-03 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Gerfried Fuchs wrote: For the same reason I don't play into facebook's hand with handing them all the linking informations they would like to know (even if some people seem to be personally offended when not being linked). People do contact random people that they find being attached to some

Re: PTS subscription exposure

2010-03-02 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Gerfried Fuchs wrote: This is IMNSHO a serious violation and breach of privacy. I understand the privacy concerns and not liking the fact that someone made some data public that weren't explicitelly marked as such. However, could you please bear with me for a moment and try to explain why you

Re: [RFH] ferm integration into dsa-puppet.git

2010-01-14 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to provide us with a new dsa-puppet git branch with a module ferm that we can roll out to all our hosts. It might want to use information from the other puppet modules like apache2_security_mirror or buildd to decide

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

2009-12-10 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: In the past few days I've been in touch with Christoph Berg as a DAM representative, which has been implementing the inactivity proposal starting from the sample scripts of [1]. Then, DAM also had a first run of the inactivity test (i.e. 2 years without neither an

Re: Sourceless but useless: how about ignoring some irrelevant files instead of repackaging?

2009-09-08 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Steve Langasek wrote: What is the upstream zipfile in question? http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/GFS_DIDOT_TT.zip, which seems to be the right upstream zipfile, contains only the 6 files included in the ttf-gfs-didot orig.tar.gz. http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/GFS_DIDOT_OT.zip (OT=OpenType vs.

Re: Sourceless but useless: how about ignoring some irrelevant files instead of repackaging?

2009-09-07 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Steve Langasek wrote: Sourceless PDF files are not a violation of the Social Contract / DFSG. If you are having to sink time into finding source for such files, let's put an end to this - give me the details and I'll propose a GR that reaffirms what's stated already in our founding documents,

Re: Sourceless but useless: how about ignoring some irrelevant files instead of repackaging?

2009-09-07 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Charles Plessy wrote: in one of the packages I mainatain, upstream left some zlib and ncurses static libraries for Win32 in the source tarball. Without the copy of the zlib and ncurses sources. Alternatively, I can of course ask Upstream to remove the Windows binaries, but how can I

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Steve McIntyre wrote: To be fair, I've not been doing a good enough job of talking with the project as a whole lately. I *have* been talking to a lot of people inside and outside Debian about things in that time, but a combination of a very busy day job and a new girlfriend have been keeping

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-26 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Peter Palfrader wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Faidon Liambotis wrote: Something is definitely wrong here, IMHO. Maybe it's your assumption or assertion that the only point of NEW is checking the copyright file. It is my assumption that this is the part of NEW that is the most time consuming

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11790 March 1977, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: In my experience, package splits go through in a week or two except in rare situations. That never seemed like a difficult wait to me. Ack. Same for adding debug packages and similar things like soname bumps. Those are all

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Joerg Jaspert wrote: We plan to integrate DM more closely into the NM process/system while keeping the spirit of easing entry into Debian for newcomers. At the same time we add a separate track for less-technical contributors. I have to say that I don't like *at all* the way that

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Can we please wrap part of this thread up by saying that: most of us---i.e., the participants to this thread---would BE OK with passing this proposal *with GR* (after the usual needed discussion time), whereas most of us would NOT BE OK with passing this proposal