Andreas Barth writes:
> * Charles Plessy (ple...@debian.org) [100913 16:25]:
>> > Is this a good way of doing that? The referred-to e-mail says that an
>> > XS-Autobuild header in the debian/control (not copyright) file is
>> > required. Is there a need for a particular header for this in
>> > deb
Clint Adams writes:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:27:43AM -0400, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> What would you think if you saw this happening only on a particular
> architecture?
>
> /usr/bin/ld: non-dynamic relocations refer to dynamic symbol fork@@GLIBC_2.0
> /usr/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic sectio
Micah Anderson writes:
> Clint Adams writes:
>> [Adding and M-F-T-ing -project]
[...]
>> Were you there? Were Debian funds spend on this endeavor? What
>> happened there? Most importantly, why is it all so secretive?
>
> Did I miss a response to these questions? I'm interested to know the
> an
Clint Adams writes:
> Okay, so when there is a mysterious release team meeting in Cambridge,
> and there is no discussion or planning of it on debian-release, or
> #debian-release, or anywhere else public that I can see
[...]
> Were you there?
No.
> Were Debian funds spend on this endeavor? Wha
Heya,
As you probably now, Andreas Barth, Martin Zobel-Helas and I have been
managing a buildd network for some services closely related to (or even
part of) Debian such as Debian non-free, volatile, experimental,
backports and debian-edu. The situation in the official buildd network
has changed i
"Haakon Flage Bratsberg" writes:
> Opera Software is investigating whether we should change our
> distribution policy to allow redistribution of our Opera Desktop web
> browser.
>
> We appreciate any advice on what you regard as acceptable license
> restriction for being included as No-Free softwa
Steve McIntyre writes:
> 4 Marketing stuff:
>a box(es) of equipment to take to stands at various shows and
> expos. Might be useful, but could be expensive. Where do we store
> it/them? Who organises shipping?
I think this is something which we should pursue. I generally have the
i
Russ Allbery writes:
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt writes:
>> How is calling update-rc.d making our maintainer scripts fragile?
> It's the things that update-rc.d doesn't support directly that are a
> problem, like moving start numbers.
True, but just using insserv
Steve Langasek writes:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:34:42PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> There is no good reason to break non-insserv setups, and it is not hard
>> to allow other configurations to live on - just moving insserv to
>> recommends woul
Steve Langasek writes:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:38:21AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
>> And that is a statement that I heavily disagree with. I think neither
>> our users nor our developers at large considers that a feature, but
>> rather a very grave bug.
> I don't presume to know what the maj
Adeodato "=?utf-8?B?U2ltw7M=?=" writes:
> (Bcc secretary@ in case he doesn't follow -project and cares about this.)
>> Debian Project Secretary wrote:
> When sending email from role addresses, I think it's better if the real
> name of the person is used, together with the role address itself,
> r
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 22/10/08 at 22:51 +, Clint Adams wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:10:29AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
>> > This was initially written by me, then discussed within DAM (so take
>> > us two for we) and then discussed with DSA, FTPMaster,
>> > K
Jared Lee - Exetel Pty Ltd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We used to see openser 1.2 on stable etch package repositories, but
> could you please explain why the apt repository now listing openser 1.1
> as stable etch? I've been using openser 1.2 and I apt-get it 4 months
> ago. Why I can't get it an
"Lars Versen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem I have with this feedback is, that you might scare those
> people away from participating, who actually understand what I was
> writing in my E-Mail, because they dont want to become your target.
I'm not scared by them. I understood your mai
"Carl-Valentin Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> can I download the sourcecodes of debian packages complete in a
> bundle???
No, you can't. A tarball containing all source packages available on
ftp.debian.org would be about 40 GB big.
> Or do I have to download the sourcecodes package by pac
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have sponsored several of Kartik's uploads as well, regarding
> xosview (for which I am the previous maintainer). Some months ago,
> yes, Kartik needed quite a bit of hand-holding. As of now, however, I
> do agree his packaging (on what I have seen - this
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [...] Your AM work was below average and created more work for
>> everyone else down the line. [...]
> In short, the above is a symptom of a misstructured NM proce
Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The "good reasons" for requesting the removal of inappropriate additions
>> to the DM keyring are
> Why is it better to introduce more work for the DM Keyring team than
> ask a simple apology?
Because the "DM
Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[DM becoming a reality without notifying the project]
> I've been more low-key (and hesitant) about implementing this than
> I would've liked to have been in order to try to avoid offending the
> people who're worried about this, but I should probably have
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BTW, I hope that Joerg realises that according to the GR, he's a member
> of the Debian Maintainer Keyring team, and thus just as responsible for
> slavishly following its rules as me and aj, and thus is presumably just
> as responsible if a rule was missed.
Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 04:43:09PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
>> If the team is functional, why would we even consider someone/something else
>> deciding it? Revoking the teams' right to decide their own membership would
>> go against all recorded history (A
Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[requiring people to pledge to be available for a team for 18+ month]
> Also I think teams very much differ in how long you have to be in them
> to make a difference. E.g. the release team has a much shorter
> time-frame (IMHO).
I don't think so. The a
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 12:46:00PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> Debian is better off without you. Your behaviour has been a problem for
>> the project in the past, is one currently and will be a problem in the
>
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:14:23AM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
>> On Tue, May 29, 2007, Sven Luther wrote:
>>> then so be it, debian is better off without such persons whose behaviour
>>> will only hurt the project again one way or another, and should not be
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:26:52AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
>> After reading about various issues that arise in Debian on a social level, I
>> thought about a possible solution: a Developer BTS. This would be modeled
>> upon
>> a mixture of the packages bts
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If one considers appointing a DSA nagging assistant instead, then of
> course it's not worth doing! It seems to be miss the point, though.
> The problem is insufficient communication, not insufficient nagging.
How, exactly, will that help the fact that new bui
Anthony Towns writes:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:46:37PM +, Stephen Gran wrote:
>> It has been jokingly said that the DPL
>> could be replaced with a mailbot that just replies "That sounds like a
>> good idea. Why don't you try it?"
> Wow, that sounds like a good idea!
Why don't we try it?
"Evgeniy Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> This is not the Debian Swirl.
[...]
>
Why do you quote what I say, but don't actually react to it?
> I think that first of all somebody from Debian managers should contact
> with this shops network.
Who is a Debian manager? Apart from the fact t
"Evgeniy Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> http://home.gna.org/qemulaunch/nothing-to-see-here/deblogo01.jpg
>> http://home.gna.org/qemulaunch/nothing-to-see-here/deblogo02.jpg
>> It seems that there really is a Debian logo next to large red letters.
>> Also note a light yellow swirl in the b
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> And people tell me I am guilty of egregious abuse of power?
Bla.
> This is just a bunch of concerned developers very slowly crafting a
> resolution. I am sure I can make my resolution come to perfection
> over the course of several y
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:43:27PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>> Furthermore, I know I've spoken with a number of developers who don't
>> think you can be relied upon to handle things "reasonably", so even if
> Yeah, and i would much like that you back suc
Heya,
I just wanted to announce that I've added Christoph Berg
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to the Debian NM Front Desk team to help with the
work.
He plans to start with some infrastructure changes, which he will
present (iff they're relevant to the public) on the -newmaint list.
Please don't expect any
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
>> I agree with a lower limit, but I think it would be better of to
>> specify it in terms of "certain number of uploads" as opposed to "some
>> time limit":
>> I might have done 1 upload and just wait a 3 months, or
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> Well, the idea has been proposed some times now. It has its advantages,
>> but there are still some problems - updating a page on wiki.d.o takes
>> time [1], so
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:40:34PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> 2.1 Multiple advocates
>> --
[...]
> We discussed this a bit on IRC, and feedback seemed positive, so I'll
> c
"Margarita Manterola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 4/11/06, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 2.1 Multiple advocates
>> --
> I agree with the rest of the suggestions, but I'm not sure that I
> a
Heya,
I'm trying to only address those parts of your mail that I haven't
spoken about in other places in this thread - if you feel something is
missing, ask again, please :)
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Marc 'HE' Brocksch
Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for this initiative; I'd just decided to not get involved in the
> threads on -newmaint anymore because even though I feel strongly about
> the issue, the threads were just a repeat of themselves. However, your
> mail seems to be different, in th
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Heya,
> * Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060411 18:40]:
>> 2.1 Multiple advocates
>> --
>>
>> Ask for more than one advocate (at the moment, I'm thinking about
>> two
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> 1.1.1 Applicants [...]
> Time delays and poor communication were most annoying.
From an AM point of view, clueless and inexperienced applicants are most
annoying. They need much
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 11 Apr 2006, Marc Brockschmidt told this:
>> "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> [...]
>>> Plus sponsoring is a nice way to have experienced people look at
>>> what a applicant is doing. If done seriously sponsoring is almost
>>> as mu
Heya,
Benjamin Mesing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 2.3 Separate upload permissions, system accounts and voting rights
> Unless you are not planning to have long term "second class
> developers" (i.e. developers with restricted rights), I don't think it
> is a good idea. The additional overhead I
"Gustavo Franco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 4/11/06, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> (...)
>> 3. Conclusions
>> ==
>>
>> (..)
>> I'd like to implement the proposals I made in (2.1)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt:
>> For package maintainers, an intensive package check follows. If
>> everything went fine, these people get upload permissions for *these*
>> packages (and nothing else). If they want to adopt new packages, their
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I am not sure 6 months of sustained contributions is really necessary, I
> think "several months" or "sustained contributions" are alright, where
> both measures are up for interpretation depending on the type, quality
> and quantity of the contribu
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Le Mar 11 Avril 2006 18:40, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt a écrit :
>> I'd like to implement the proposals I made in (2.1) and (2.2) as fast
>> as possible, especially applying the rules in (2.2) to people already
>>
"Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Plus sponsoring is a nice way to have experienced people look at what
> a applicant is doing. If done seriously sponsoring is almost as much work
> as packaging a package on your own,
But only very few people take sponsoring seriously, despite
Heya,
Problems with the New Maintainer process have been a regular topic on
Debian mailing lists in the past few months. As I'm both interested
in not reading more flamewars and actually improving things, I've
summarized my experiences and tried to come up with something that is
perhaps able to fi
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...]
>> you're free to submit patches. Until then, I'd prefer if you would not
>> reply in a purely polemic way, as your contribution to actually solve
>> the pro
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> That's total bullshit. If they would really care about joining, they
>> could simply start to read the documentation, which explicitly shows
>> them how to understan
JC Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 2006/04/06, at 22:50, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> And anyway, it's not like people who should consider to join have
>> nothing to do with Debian and don't know the particularities of its
>> culture - e
JC Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> (We also have plenty of people who contribute heavily to the
>> project without being recognized as members; but I think that
>> "member" is a lesser title that doesn't do justice to their
>> contributions -- I want to see these people recognized as
>> *d
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> The 'Maintainer' in NM is a misnomer, I understand it is possible to go
>> through NM as a translator or documentation writer.
> I also had replies from
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Now, if there are people like that who are not DD's, the
>> question we must ask, is wjy are they not DD's? If they are putting
>> in the work, and have the same commitment as a DD does, even if they
>> do not
Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>>Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Don't forget that we have debian-news *and* debian-announce, while
>>> only high-priority announcements are sent
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > * Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060308 09:09]:
>> >> I know that some non-Debian peopl
Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060308 09:09]:
>> I know that some non-Debian people actually ask questions like "I
>> heard Debian has split and is dead, what will happen in the future?"
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:18:32AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
[... stable point releases ...]
>> They're not really important as technical upgrade, but they give the
>> impression that Debian release
Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-27 14:52:16]:
>> * Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-08 21:08]:
>>> Intel is so generous to provide Debian with ten notebooks (besides
>>> some server hardware), which we would like to give to
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>> And Ubuntu is doing far more for us than most other derivatives that we
>> ever had.
> Provide evidence, please.
X.org, d-i, Gnome.
[Still, communication of changes for smaller packages REALLY sucks]
Marc
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Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would very much appreciate if folks would review
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00260.html and consider the
> points that I raise there. I put some effort into collating the issues
> which came up the last time and presenting them.
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 18 Dec 2005.
2 applicants became maintainers.
Matt Brubeck
I recently graduated from Harvey Mudd College (in California) with a
major was Computer Science and Mathematics. I now work as a programmer
in a small web development company in Se
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 20 Nov 2005.
7 applicants became maintainers.
Russ Allbery
I am a senior systems administrator and technical lead for Unix
infrastructure services at Stanford University, from which I also have
master's and bachelor's degrees on computer
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 18 Sep 2005.
1 applicant became a maintainer.
James Vega
I'm a recent college graduate (Electrical Engineer, minor in Computer
Science), working for EMC in the Quality Assurance and Test
Automation group. I'm one of the main developers for Su
Peter Vandenabeele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 05:18:50PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
>> 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
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> May I suggest a less controversial way to handle this would be to have a
> script that automaticly closes *new* wishlist bugs
Errr, could you explain how automatically closing bugs is *less*
controversial?
It makes a great impression if you file a bug an
Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> ["Debian Core Consortium" ideas]
[...]
> Before babbling to the press using that name [...]
Quoting Ian:
| The Debian Core Consortium (it's not going be c
Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
["Debian Core Consortium" ideas]
> No, actually, it's probably better to make sure those involved
> understand the trademark issues *before* they go off and develop
> advertising based off it, tell reporters about it, and who knows what
> else. The earlier
Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No there is something like the debian core consortium:
> http://www.golem.de/0507/39207.html [german]
> Progeny, Linspire, credativ (Deutschland),
> LinEx (Spanien), Sun Wah Linux, Xandors and other are
> involved to build a debian based business solution.
>
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 3 Apr 2005.
4 applicants became maintainers.
Fabian Fagerholm
I'm a full-time student and a part-time entrepeneur. My decision to
start using GNU/Linux and free software was a conscious choice. After
switching from the Amiga family of comp
This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 27 Feb 2005.
4 applicants became maintainers.
Volker Christian
Thats really a long story! I got my first computer nearly 20 years ago. It
was
a Sinclair ZX-81 (1 KB-RAM :-). It was fun to play with it and to learn the
basic programmin
"Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When have you ever seen Martin F. Krafft gratuitously insult anyone?
Well, almost everytime i read one of his posts to the lists.
Marc
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This is a summary of the AM report for Week Ending 6 Feb 2005.
6 applicants became maintainers.
Dave Beckett
"I am a developer primarily working on semantic web standards and
software development with lots of experience in portability,
packaging, auto* tools and developing across higher
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Martin Michlmayr:
>> Normally, I reply to advertising requests on debian.org with a polite
>> "no". However, given that google ads are widely considered different
>> to normal ads, and might even enhance a web site, I thought I'd ask on
>> -project to
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