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

2009-07-30 Thread Frank Küster
dle and shouldn't be idled out without warning. > > Well, I've no strong objection on that. > > Still, I'd prefer not to have to write such specific details on the > text we are going to vote on. I propose to leave such details to DAM / > DSA, would you be fine wit

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

2009-07-30 Thread Frank Küster
t many DDs (and no DM so far) in the TeX team, I guess the existence of a second DD in the team is of value for the project too. Therfore, I would have appreciated a note about loosing upload rights if the rules discussed here would have already been in place. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Küster
pecial header needs to be included, and look up which in the developer's reference. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: PGP keys: advice from keyring maintainers ?

2009-05-13 Thread Frank Küster
ld be kind of aware of it... How can I find out if my key is v3 or v4? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Yet another list statistics for debian-project

2009-01-18 Thread Frank Küster
ns that the package is orphaned and doesn't have a maintainer. It's just not buggy or useless enough to delete it from the archive straight away. If you expect someone to care for the package other than fixing RC bugs, I think you're wrong. If someone from the QA team actually offe

Re: RFC: General resolution: Clarify the status of the social contract

2008-12-28 Thread Frank Küster
orking: Orthodox Debian which never releases, and a derived or related distribution which would be comparable to Debian as it is. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Happy with Debian

2008-06-17 Thread Frank Küster
Solaris doesn't currently nor has previously used the Linux > kernel: Solaris is not Linux. Of course, but if all you know is Windows, getting a course on Solaris (or Irix as in my case) helps a lot for your first Linux experience. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teT

Re: DEP1: how to do an NMU

2008-06-02 Thread Frank Küster
even that for a week. And we've already been NMUed, with good effects on the quality of the distribution. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-05-31 Thread Frank Küster
t;. > The current wording requires a notification (by sending a mail to the > BTS). I don't think that it's a good idea to additionally require that > this mail should be sent to the maintainer's private email address, > because that doesn't work well with co-maintai

Re: Multi-winner elections, soc-ctte

2007-06-30 Thread Frank Küster
uot;improving > signal:noise". Or "melting pot to a common culture" vs. "different cultures in different parts of the project". Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-30 Thread Frank Küster
considered is by selecting a committee that has a group with > diverse backgrounds. Which should be taken into account when designing the election and vote evaluation method. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-30 Thread Frank Küster
which I think is approximately what you have expressed much better as cultural differences. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
or sure not exclude merit completely from their considerations, and - by the nature of their task - are probable to consider power, too. And maybe that's not even a bad thing. I think this shows that the separation is more important here. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spec

Re: Debian release cycle for enterprise ?

2007-06-08 Thread Frank Küster
taken. The real problem in a production environment is checking your conffiles, verifying that everything still works etc. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Two GR concepts for dicussion

2007-06-06 Thread Frank Küster
een discussed or are obviously needed. It would be a pity if these people were able to upload texlive-base, but not texlive-bin because of a never-changing library in it. Other teams might face less extreme situations, but I think it's up to the team to decide which DM get Uploader statu

Re: When Debian 4.1 will arrive... will anyone care?

2007-04-21 Thread Frank Küster
le changes, and the rest is as stable (and old) as I'm used to. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: When Debian 4.1 will arrive... will anyone care?

2007-04-21 Thread Frank Küster
one. live with the decision, and quit > whining. To me it seems it's you who is whining about how bad backports is, no one else... Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: When Debian 4.1 will arrive... will anyone care?

2007-04-20 Thread Frank Küster
the > same...but in practice, they're not. practice trumps theory every time, > because it's what actually happens rather than what someone thinks might > happen. If you're so keen on practice, can you show any examples of breakages in backports, and explain how they would ha

Re: When Debian 4.1 will arrive... will anyone care?

2007-04-20 Thread Frank Küster
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:21:39PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> > 1. why is this allegedly a 'benefit'? what's so special about libraries? >> > why is a new libc6 or libssl etc more scary than a new apache o

Re: When Debian 4.1 will arrive... will anyone care?

2007-04-20 Thread Frank Küster
lease comes around. As far as the TeX packages are concerned, I can tell you at least that one of the major TeX maintainers actually used the sarge-backports (me), and that we did get feedback from backports users, but no bug reports that wouldn't have also been in testing (and most b

Re: Please expulse Frans Pop from debian

2007-04-04 Thread Frank Küster
ject, and coordinate with people in other roles if needed. By the way, I think the release team is a really good example how one can do that. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Please expulse Frans Pop from debian

2007-04-03 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 06:22:01PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Sven Luther wrote: >> >> Hi, please read the following, and this may give you more of an >> >

Re: Please expulse Frans Pop from debian

2007-04-02 Thread Frank Küster
the impression I got back then. I didn't mean to contribute it, but it seems people are not understanding. Or maybe the DAMs want to teach us how to use a killfile? Regards, Frank [1] for being insubordinate to Frans? -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: Why is there only self-nomination? [Re: Expulsion process: Sven Luther]

2007-03-02 Thread Frank Küster
quot; parties who decide internally whom they nominate. I do not want political parties in Debian. > PS: Feel free to copy my part to a public list... Done. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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

2007-02-24 Thread Frank Küster
already led to drastic measures on behalf of > the project) What measures? Can you provide any links? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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

2007-02-23 Thread Frank Küster
> you out, you shouldn't keep wasting your time. Like, trying to get packages built that fail in a way that seems to depend on the buildd environment, about which I know nothing? I should go a way and have a cup of coffee now, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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

2007-02-23 Thread Frank Küster
ld someone please look into the buildd chroot on $foo and tell me whether ...", and the people who I asked and are able to do that will not do it, *nobody* will do it. The case of buildds also seems to prove the opposite, but I'm not going into that since too much issues are mixed there

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

2007-02-23 Thread Frank Küster
nfrastructure teams? If no, I cannot understand how you can answer like you did above. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-17 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:00:25AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Are you so overworked, or are you deliberately "forgetting"? It has >> been suggested multiple times in the past to use existing or new >> hardw

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
s for i386 at all AFAIK. Moreover, the current buildd admin's apparently don't have adequate time to communicate, which could be ameliorated by adding people. Even if nobody had asked so far, we should ask people who seem capable of doing it. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-14 Thread Frank Küster
ome way to demonstrate > you're right first. That doesn't sound like a reason for prohibiting a particular persons upload rights for binary-only uploads, just like a reason for source-only uploads. >> I mean, how dare he try to help the project in this way. > > There's not

Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-17 Thread Frank Küster
happened to". It's for sale now, labeled "sarge". No, it isn't labelled "sarge". > Sorry to say such things and possibly raise conflictual feelings, but do you > really feel this is *right*? Even if it is not, it's off-topic on -legal. Please continue

Rewriting GFDL docs - where to start from? (was: GFDL again)

2004-12-23 Thread Frank Küster
ctual text of the manual (in file emacs.texi) does not say that the manual is under GPL, but still sounds DFSG free to me. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: "Linux ins Rathaus" - Linux for german city administration

2004-03-07 Thread Frank Küster
Thank you all for the many answers, also in private Mails! Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

"Linux ins Rathaus" - Linux for german city administration

2004-03-05 Thread Frank Küster
stion, but also companies from Switzerland or northeast France. Thanks in advance, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie