Re: Recompilation of ALL Debian packages ...

2006-09-04 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Eliminate the wait for the buildd for the first architecture. > > Not acceptable. Rather, you would not find that acceptable. > It will cause a time window where a trojaned binary package > might be active, True. > and si

Re: Recompilation of ALL Debian packages ...

2006-09-04 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu 31. August 2006 12:47, you wrote: > > Without a binary version someone upload (and therefor should > > have tested), he could always claim his upload would have > > worked if the buildds would not have mangled it. So there is > > at least on

Re: Skolelinux and the "Debian Labs" idea

2003-09-16 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > What I suggest is that certain organizations should be allowed to use > the name "Debian Labs" in their name. Hence, Skolelinux could create > its foundation with the name "Skolelinux Debian Labs" [4]. Sounds good to me. - Jim Van Zandt

Re: will it run programs like ...

2003-01-04 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Robert Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Frustrated with Windows 98 and Microsoft, I'm looking at moving to >Linux. I've been told that Debian is a good way to go, particularly >for a Linux beginner. I'm hoping to use it on a home office computer, >using applications such as Pagemaker, Photosho

Re: A Description of Debian for a presentation

2001-06-15 Thread James R. Van Zandt
> Produce a conservative distribution > well tested before release > has relatively few bugs > those bugs that do exist are well publicized I would add: open bug management system documented policies that favor: flexibility (e.g. `alternativ

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-25 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I was looking at the Debian Machine usage policy (to be found > at http://www.debian.org/devel/dmup>), and found a number of > glaring flaws and omissions. More ominously, I think that unlike the > constitution, the DMUP places uncontrolled pow

Re: Proposal: incremental release process (the package pool)

1999-10-30 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >> This makes me think about dropping the symlinks completely. >> >> So we can have a real, physical pool of any sort, and all >> distributions are simply a packages file with the relevant >> constellation. > >This makes it impossibl