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

2009-07-30 Thread Frank Küster
appreciated a note about loosing upload rights if the rules discussed here would have already been in place. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ

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

2009-07-30 Thread Frank Küster
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 with that? Agreed, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90

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

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Küster
, 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 with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: PGP keys: advice from keyring maintainers ?

2009-05-13 Thread Frank Küster
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 unsubscribe

Re: Yet another list statistics for debian-project

2009-01-18 Thread Frank Küster
. 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 offers more care, that's fine. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Debian Developer

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

2008-12-28 Thread Frank Küster
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 debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Happy with Debian

2008-06-17 Thread Frank Küster
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 (teTeX/TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DEP1: how to do an NMU

2008-06-02 Thread Frank Küster
responded to a RC bug: This seems to be cause by $foo. If anyone finds the time to verify it and NMU the package, go ahead. There might be times where we won't do even that for a week. And we've already been NMUed, with good effects on the quality of the distribution. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster

Re: soc-ctte discussion at DebConf7

2007-06-30 Thread Frank Küster
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

2007-06-30 Thread Frank Küster
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: Multi-winner elections, soc-ctte

2007-06-30 Thread Frank Küster
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

2007-06-26 Thread Frank Küster
, 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 Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian

Re: Debian release cycle for enterprise ?

2007-06-08 Thread Frank Küster
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
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 status in which packages. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich

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

2007-04-21 Thread Frank Küster
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?

2007-04-21 Thread Frank Küster
) 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?

2007-04-20 Thread Frank Küster
that wouldn't have also been in testing (and most bugs of the type upgrade scenario not considered happen to *unstable* users). 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
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 or php etc? - because it's much harder to go back

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

2007-04-20 Thread Frank Küster
happen. If you're so keen on practice, can you show any examples of breakages in backports, and explain how they would have been avoided by just installing the package and its dependencies from testing or unstable? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding

Re: Please expulse Frans Pop from debian

2007-04-04 Thread Frank Küster
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 insight about the situation. Please stop this *now* Why should he

Re: Please expulse Frans Pop from debian

2007-04-02 Thread Frank Küster
. 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
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
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
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: Bits from the DPL: DSA and buildds and DAM, oh my!

2007-02-23 Thread Frank Küster
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, and I'm not personally involved. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f

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

2007-02-23 Thread Frank Küster
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: 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 hardware and add it to the set of standard autobuilders

Re: BREAKING NEWS: Debian developers aren't trusted

2007-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
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
don't give a damn about the problems your non-attempts (to work, or to communicate cause). Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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

2006-07-17 Thread Frank Küster
conflictual feelings, but do you really feel this is *right*? Even if it is not, it's off-topic on -legal. Please continue this on -project; note that I'm not subscribed there. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian

Re: Survey on FLOSS

2005-03-30 Thread Frank Küster
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The survey seems to be broken. I get a Record not found message. The Webmaster link does nothing. It worked fine here. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: ???

2005-03-24 Thread Frank Küster
are you trying to solve? Why don't you use one of the frontends to apt-get, like aptitude, synaptic, or old-fashioned dselect? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Open Letter to Debian Community]

2005-03-17 Thread Frank Küster
| !ENTITY date-ja 01/24/05 ` I think it would fit into the Best Packaging Practices chapter, maybe after the internationalization section. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: IRC debate feedback

2005-03-16 Thread Frank Küster
, $moderator, I say that ...; As a new topic, I think X is very important, and .., but it would be much clearer. Thanks to Helen and Madduck! Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer

Re: Who cares about NEW when there are bigger issues?

2005-03-08 Thread Frank Küster
a year to fix this. While the fact itself is a big pain, the underlying reasons, the way communication and planning is done in the project, is the real big problem. Please note that I do not, and do not want to, blame any person or team for that. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f

Re: Who cares about NEW when there are bigger issues?

2005-03-08 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: * Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050308 11:30]: AFAIK, the blocker for the release is not the RC bug count, but the missing infrastructure. Both are release blockers. Well, but I guess the motivation to fix RC in packages you usually don't care

Re: Who cares about NEW when there are bigger issues?

2005-03-08 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:29:31AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: (Moving to -project, as requested by Steve Langasek) Er, that really was intended to be ironic; I wasn't meaning to encourage the continuation of this flamewar in *any* forum. I don't want

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

2004-12-23 Thread Frank Küster
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