Re: Request to Mini DebConf Montreal Organizers: Fight Israel not the DC20 Team

2020-02-20 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:02:53AM +0100, Ansgar wrote: > the BDS movement, a movement that is uncontroversially seen as > antisemitic. Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions?

2019-12-28 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 09:49:22AM +, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu 26 Dec 2019 at 11:29am -05, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > One interesting thing about this is that I have often wondered if it > > would be beneficial to have checks on debian/copyright during the life > >

Re: GR proposal: mandating VcsGit and VcsBrowser for all packages, using the "gbp patches unapplied" layout, and maybe also mandating hosted on Salsa

2019-07-23 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 07:31:11PM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > This probably has been floating around for some time. IMO, enough time > so that we start to discuss $subject. Why is this a GR and not a policy proposal? Michael

Re: Reminder: Removing 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-11-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 02:35:55PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh dijo [Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 07:11:14PM -0200]: On Sat, 08 Nov 2014, Richard Hartmann wrote: Interpretation is in the eye of the bee holder, but I am considering to attach this list to my weekly bug

Re: Reminder: Removing 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-11-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 06:33:28PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: AIUI, you need to have at least one(?) additional signature on your new 2048+ RSA key on top of your old DSA key, correct? I meant on top of the signature from your old DSA key. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Sponsoring a Tails hackfest?

2014-05-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 08:43:07AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Hi, The Tails project is a Debian-based live system focusing on privacy and anonymity. For more information about Tails and their relationship with Debian, see: https://tails.boum.org/

Re: working with FSF on Debian Free-ness assessment

2013-12-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 07:49:37PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: Correct. Unfortunately I haven't heard much else either. Discussions went on on the fsf-collab-discuss list on alioth, but the state of the art is still that we're waiting for the FSF to refine current freeness assessment into

Re: working with FSF on Debian Free-ness assessment

2013-12-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 08:13:29PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: Just out of curiosity: What's their definition of freedom anyway? You don't know what their definition of freedom is, but continue to assess their religious views? This doesn't look very useful to me. I know very well

Re: Presentation of iso downloads - simpler like Fedora?

2012-08-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:59:45PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On ven., 2012-08-10 at 14:01 +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: some binary software forced me into downloading a RedHat flavour, so I went for Fedora. I found it very easy

Re: Greaat disappointment

2011-10-01 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 11:38:01AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Installing(!) an IRC client and diving into the world of IRC is an investment. Totally, but please also honor the (huge!) investment by the people doing first-level support in #debian (both on irc.debian.org and

Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf9/10[/11] accounting summary

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 08:35:36PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: DebConf10 had €59716.21 of income, and €130300.76 of expenses, for a net loss of €34584.57. [...] [dc10-bal] http://rkd.zgib.net/http/debconf/dc10/ JFTR, according to that balance sheet, the income was EUR 95716.21 instead

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 01:04:47PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 05/10/2010 01:50 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: Right. It works, but it is an annoying extra step to do. And I had more than one customer asking me why Debian is

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 01:05:19PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 05/10/2010 08:33 AM, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Freitag, 7. Mai 2010, Paul Wise wrote: What makes it problematic to modify the install media (initrd I guess) you downloaded and add the firmware? For quite some

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:27:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: I would like us to provide non-free firmware blobs that may be required during installation in tarballs that can be downloaded or - if this is not possible - be loaded via USB sticks, floppies or cdroms. I thought this was

Re: Squeeze, firmware and installation

2010-05-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:59:57AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 05/06/2010 07:22 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: 2) Having the non-free firmware in the regular CD image sets; firmware which is not loaded by default, but that can be selectively enabled by the user, pretty much as users

Re: Welcome to our 2010 Debian Google Summer of Code students!

2010-05-09 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:12:55PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 26 avril 2010 à 21:40 +0200, Obey Arthur Liu a écrit : == Debian High Performance Computing on Clouds == by Dominique Belhachemi, mentored by Steffen Moeller The project paves a way to combine the demands in

Re: let's add news.debian.net to planet.d.o (!?)

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:07:04AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Since a while now, Ana has been doing a great job in providing the news.debian.net service [1]. Ack, though personally, I see two things (unrelated to the discussion at hand) which Ana might want to consider: 1. Some

Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:41:34PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: At the end some possible changes were proposed: * Defining On-Topicness more sharply, e.g. * Packaging Issues which pertain to more than one package * Non-packaging Development of Debian * Reconsider CCs * Maybe

Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:34:37AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: What proportion of devel is wnpp email? Roughly 20%, based on rough statistics over first half of 2009. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:44:14PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Michael Banckmba...@debian.org wrote: at Debconf9, there was a BoF about the debian-devel list and how we could possibly make it more attractive. Was this recorded (I can't find it in the initial

Re: Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 03:17:55PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Allowing these logical fallacies to stand, and not refuting them, lead to a discussion that goes nowhere, or floats off into sub optimal directions if not scotched in the bud. Indeed, leaving logical

Summary of the debian-devel BoF at Debconf9

2009-08-17 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, at Debconf9, there was a BoF about the debian-devel list and how we could possibly make it more attractive. At first some small research was presented on what other projects/distributions (mostly Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSUSE and GNOME) are doing, the slides are here:

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-07 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:55:36AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:38:56 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: How does Ubuntu want to do a proper (commercial) support for their packages if they don't even have the time/manpower to take care of their bugs? Taking care

Re: Opera in your repos

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 11:44:00PM +0200, Ilya Shpan'kov wrote: I will inform our lawers about your opinion. Really, it have a very big sense. I can say, that here in Opera we had discussions about being Free Software every year. Unfortunately, we have a lot of agreements with other

Re: the role of the LSB (was: On cadence and collaboration)

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:52:10AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: I think it's the job of something like the LSB to ensure a necessary baseline across distros on which vendors can build. Well, maybe; however the LSB is *very* baseline, so not very useful. Besides, it is heavily geared towards

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:04:12AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Yes, but OTOH we strongly support copyleft softwares versus the BSD- like softwares, because we expect to have back the works and because we expect to behave as a big community. No we don't. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

On syncing freeze dates with other distributions

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, I have been thinking a bit about the proposed syncing of the freeze date with LTS recently. I do not think it is a bad thing in general, but I do think a freeze sync with a 10.04 LTS would be premature. The other concern I have is lengthening our release cycle to 2 years - I think this is

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:11:39PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:40:30AM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Sune Vuorela wrote: We also need to coordinate such things with the larger packaging teams to see wether it fits their schedules and their upstream schedules. For

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:00:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 02:04:34AM +0200, 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

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:52:59AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: In the former case FTP masters are wasting their time, in the latter case their role is indeed useful to defend our mirror tenants, but then copyright reviews must be *intensified*. I would prefer a more real-time mirroring of

Re: Creating an operating system

2009-06-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:13:55PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: 1. There is precisely one mail (ITP bug from November) from 2007 in the lists.d.o archive and he was advocated in January 2008. I think it would be nice to have svn.d.o/git.d.o commits and replies to bug reports available as

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:01:40PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: New maintainers usually write info about themselves during a first part of working with AM, and this info is also included in the AM report. Yeah, but that might be outdated by the time they actually become developers; when I

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:58:22PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 23/06/09 at 22:35 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Lucas Nussbaum said: I've been advocating people too early (i.e, I've advocated people so that they could start NM, while in the meantime, I

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:39:20PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Chris Lamb and Samuel Thibault both applied very late. Much too late. Before they applied, several people have been wondering why they weren't DDs yet. I'm not sure why they didn't apply earlier, but the fact that our NM process

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:56:53AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: sometimes, I look at a issue and think that the correct solution here is a package split, but I often end up working around it in other ways, just because of NEW. In my experience,

Re: Genericly-named debian.net domains for private use

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:19:31PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: i don't see grounds to stop using the git.debian.net subdomain as i currently do. i don't see grounds to stop using the backports.debian.net subdomain as i currently do. Well, I do. You are using generic .debian.net domains

Re: Twittering on planet.d.o?

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:58:29PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Well I don't intend to tweet extensively, but only as a replacement for real blogging as I'm not up to writing long blog posts. Luk: what do you think yourself? I think having a very limited amount of tweets from people that do

Re: written delegations

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:16:18PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Definitely, written delegations could be really useful to Debian to clarify prerogatives and responsabilities, and avoid misunderstandings. Sorry, but this sounds like micro-managing delegates to me. If you think sections are

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:22:58AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: You're the Secretary. You're supposed to give answers, not speculation. If the ballot was ambigous, or confusing, it is YOUR responsibility. It has to be said that at least I am taking YOU personally responsable for a lot of why

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 07:01:17PM +0100, Michael Goetze wrote: MJ Ray wrote: to reduce GRs, having another way for developers to ask a question that nearly always gets answered might help. Such as, say, writing an email to debian-de...@ldo? Eh, -devel is for technical issues pertaining

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-20 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:38:56AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: George Danchev danc...@spnet.net writes: On Saturday 20 December 2008 21:33:27 MJ Ray wrote: So, people who remain on the debian mailing lists have a poor understanding of what should appear a good mailing list, What makes

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 09:56:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Secondly, What exactly to these members of the project do, if they do not vote or upload packages? They might commit to the webml repository or sent mails to debian-news, e.g. Of course, they could just vote as well,

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 05:55:00PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: I hate in Ganneff proposal the fact that it just standardize the 6 months delay to be a DD. It's acknowledging that we suck, and trying nothing to fix the problem. It's unacceptable to me. Other projects are doing similar; e.g. I

Re: Quote from Stephen Roberts (was: Filing bug reports in Debian)

2008-10-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:22:28AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: No, that quote was not made by Sir Stephen Henry Roberts. (If you know differently, could you please provide a reference?) Uhm, why do you post in public? It seems to be entirely off-topic. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Sound servers for Debian 4.0r3 i386

2008-10-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 08:33:26PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Please post the exact error message you get (if any) when you run mpg123. It might help to turn off any KDE/Gnome specific sound handling as they sometimes block the device and may prevent each other from playing any sounds.

Re: Debian and non-free

2008-09-17 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:24:52AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Non-free is there just because the free counterparts aren't optimal. Someday these will, and non-free will just disappear from Debian :) Non-free is for GNU documentation. I think we should consider (post-lenny) splitting up

Re: DEP1: Non Maintainer Uploads (final call for review)

2008-08-14 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 09:00:25AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: I'm disappointed if the docs have been patched quietly to expand the singular they bug. There's almost no need for it. When reasonably possible, please phrase things in such a way to avoid assuming gender, or switch some examples. We

Re: About the use of epicene they in technical documents.

2008-08-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:35:56AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: But again, most persons in these environments are non-native speakers??? Mabye most persons in these environments are male. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: confusion about non-free (Re: Bits from the Debian Eee PC team, summer 2008)

2008-08-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:17:20PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: It wasn't my intention at all to hurt someone, so I said things in the kindest way I could, without getting personal. If that was the best you could do, that's troubling. But you have to see both sides of things. When I saw

Re: my treatment in #debian

2008-06-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 05:16:45PM -0400, Rahul Jain wrote: As a regular in #debian (on OPN/freenode) for over 5 years and a contributor to the debian project, one would expect that I would be treated slightly better by the ops than random newbies. Quite the contrary, Regulars are held to

Re: Debian Live (Was: Debian Logo Use)

2008-04-15 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:51:56AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: Lucas Nussbaum wrote: While Debian Live is really nice, some things could be improved about it. Each time I wanted to use it, I ran into an issue that required going to IRC to ask how to work around the problem (the problem was

Re: State of the project - input needed

2008-01-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:10:41AM +, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:35:02AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: - what are the major changes in the project and our product(s) since the etch release? I feel the release team tools are getting improved more and more

Re: State of the project - input needed

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 09:40:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: - what are some pending decisions that have to be made? Not sure about a decision, but the pending addition of GNU/KFreeBSD to the archive sounds worthwhile to me (though I don't know the current state, but I was under the

Re: RFC: Introducing Debian Enhancement Proposals (DEPs)

2008-01-16 Thread Michael Banck
This is obviously the bikeshed part of DEP0... On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 02:30:42PM +0100, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: Lars Wirzenius, Stefano Zacchiroli and myself are trying to introduce

Re: No buildd redundancy for alpha/mips/mipsel

2007-11-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:18:38PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I think you'd better look at db.debian.org/machines.cgi to have an idea of the current status... I can see the current status fine on jvw's buildd pages: those three arches only have a single active buildd listed when they're

Re: No buildd redundancy for alpha/mips/mipsel

2007-11-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:23:34AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: On 29/11/2007, Michael Banck wrote: I believe buildd redundancy does not mean having 2+ active buildds, but having at least one active buildd who can keep up, plus a possibly inactive backup buildd who could quickly be made

Re: linhdd concerns (was: Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring)

2007-11-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 06:55:10PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: aj, who'd just like to see some failure analysis / air crash investigation type conclusions out of this, rather than just foo sucks and shouldn't upload One thing we could do is have a seperate report on

Re: linhdd concerns (was: Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring)

2007-11-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:49:38PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: or we could disallow the override of = E: errors in lintian, and make lintian reboot your computer, fill your gpg with /dev/random bits, and install windows over your Debian if you override such errors. Are you routinely

Re: NM process, AMs, advocates, mentors and applicants

2007-11-20 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 02:08:41PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: Reform NM: mentor-advocates should teach their applicants and help them to produce a file demonstrating that they possess all the required DD skills; the AM should then check for any gaps (temporarily rejecting if needed) and test

Re: Debian Maintainers

2007-10-28 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:42:02PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: When a new NM gains upload rights (and becomes a DD), there is a mail on -newmaint. And it's like that for years. But not since the beginning of adding DDs to the project, it was introduced later on. It surely makes a lot

Re: Debian Maintainers

2007-10-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:59:22PM +0100, Bart Martens wrote: Beta-testing is good. But granting non-DD's upload rights requires following the rules of the voted GR. As I understand it, the people (or maybe aj individually) implementing DM currently are taking responsiblity for those uploads

Re: curl dependency problem in unstable

2007-06-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:06:49AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 25-Jun-07, 08:33 (CDT), Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:07:05PM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having this problem in unstable for a week now: I'm sorry, but I don't think

Re: Another level of agression ?

2007-05-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 07:01:38PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: For the record, i did ask on #debian-kernel, and got no reply, and when asked, Bastian Blank did say he didn't know who did it, and Stephan Gran, and Roland Mas, who are admining alioth, know, but don't want to say. Hrm, last time

Re: Plain English Please

2007-02-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:53:48AM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: Well this is due to Intel's stupidity. They created IA64 when what was really needed was something like Amd64. Then they realized that amd64 was a better design. They added it to the IA32 line under the name EM64T (without marketing

Re: Plain English Please

2007-02-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:18:12PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Did you happen to read this [0]? 'Debian is available for different computer architectures - make sure you are getting images that match your computer! (Most people will need images for i386, i.e. Intel systems.)' Of

Re: Explications needed...

2006-12-22 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 03:11:33AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: ps. it seems Aurelien was 'routing around a problem' with no malicious intension which runs contrary to the word 'rogue' which was used to describe his actions. I didn't say his actions were rogue, I said he setup a rogue autobuilder,

Re: Explications needed...

2006-12-20 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:03:35PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Aurelien mailed debian-arm, went to #debian-arm, had no response. He then warn about his intention [1] to run qemu-based autobuilders to fill the gap due to broken arm buildds. He did that on the open, and got ... zero answers.

Re: Debian on a Pocket PC

2006-11-17 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:53:11AM +0100, Antonio Lanza wrote: See http://www.handhelds.org/geeklog/index.php, Please avoid answering end-user questions on -project, this is not the right list for this. Either point them at -user or answer privately (or both). Thanks, Michael -- To

Re: Sun T2000 available for SPARC development

2006-11-17 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:03:44PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Sun has kindly donated a Fire T2000 machine to Debian. This machine is based on Sun's new UltraSparc T1 CPU, better known as Niagara [1]. The CPU has 8 cores, each with 4 threads, yielding 32 threads in total. Wow, that's

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:07:11AM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: Michael Banck, 2006-11-03 02:27:40 +0100 : Ubuntu is renaming the Maintainer: header to Original-Maintainer: and is using their respective development mailing list as Maintainer: for newly compiled packages for quite a while now

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:09:23PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: I've had problems with packages of mine living in ubuntu universe two times already, and that's tiredsome. Especially because one of those users didn't want to believe that I was not the Ubuntu Maintainer of that package, since

Re: DWN

2006-10-16 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:40:51AM +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote: BTW is there a reason why debian-publicity has the words (dead list) after it in some of the indices? (e.g. stats page) Just not updated yet? Yes, it got revived a couple of months ago, after being dead for years. Michael --

Re: Debian 2.4.3

2006-09-28 Thread Michael Banck
This question should be on debian-user. On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:04:57PM -0700, myrddinbach wrote: Ive searched around to no avail but Im actually interested in getting an i386 copy of Debian 2.4.3. No such version exists. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Rethinking stable updates policy

2006-08-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 08:43:53AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: It would be good, though, especially in order to have some support for hardware that has entered the market after the last Debian release, if there would be an outside repository for updated kernel and installer packages.

Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

2006-08-24 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:30:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: he doesn't use the leader@ address even on issues related to his DPL role, as i well know, so this is no guarantee. AFAICT, he always signs those mails with DPL in the signature. Plus, at least in this thread, he did use [EMAIL

Re: Extremadura Regional Government of Spain will switch to Debian GNU/Linux and ODF on all the computers

2006-07-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:22:53PM -0400, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: Michael Banck wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:30:21PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: According to Millan, You seem to not have introduced Mr. Millan until this point, maybe write his full name and position/involvement

Re: Minutes of an Ubuntu-Debian discussion that happened at Debconf

2006-07-01 Thread Michael Banck
if Canonical decided to do so, I think in the same way we cannot tell our volunteers how to spend their time to work on Debian, we cannot tell companies who derivate from us how to spend their money to work with Debian. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org

Re: Algemeine Frage

2006-06-25 Thread Michael Banck
debian-project is an english list, forwarding to the german support list. debian-project ist eine englischsprachige Liste, debian-user-de ist besser für diese Fragen geeignet. On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 06:35:00PM +0200, Norman Nahrgang wrote: ich wollte mal fragen was der Debian Strudel bedeutet

Re: Call for a new DPL mediation ... This will be the only thread i will reply to in the next time about this issue.

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Banck
from d-i SVN access. Rather, he decided that, after mediation, he should not be *put back* into SVN acces against the will of the d-i admins. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: (Debian's Two Choices) The influx of women and the outflux of men. The end of debian as a distro and it's emergance as a women's rights pulpit.

2006-06-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 05:13:59PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: [debian-women and most named people trimmed. I believe it's not wanted there.] It's not wanted on -project, either. Please discuss with this gentleman in private if you have the urge to do so. thanks, Michael -- Oracle in general

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:15:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Now, the remaining question that has me baffled is how you reconcile the factof waiting for NEW, with the 'vitality' part of your DPL plateform. Wait, we sent off the ftp-assistant on a two-week vacation in *Mexico* to relax and gain

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-05-28 Thread Michael Banck
themselves and I think they are the best in place to judge when they need help. As for the current situation of both ftp-assisstants being on leave, maybe one of the regular ftp-masters could jump in and process the NEW queue for the time being? I have CC'd them on this mail. Michael -- Michael Banck

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:56:42PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: So, three weeks of lost time, and the lack of a neutral and transparent meditation attempt means this was doomed in the first place, Maybe it was doomed in the first place, but personally I doubt this would be the fault of the

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:42:31PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:52:15AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:06:32AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: btw, it seems you violated your `one mail per thread' policy, at least as far as this thread being on

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-04-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 04:55:38PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: If the move is done, the FN channels should be kept open and the topic should redirect users to OFTC. It could just live on like it does now. Then any packages that reference the FN channel should be updated. Packages should mention

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-04-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 07:25:50PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: On 04/30/2006 05:46 PM, Frans Pop wrote: Just to prove you wrong: what the hell is Jabber? It is an Instant Messaging Client. It is not IRC though, so this point is moot. This thread is about IRC,

Re: gibc

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Banck
_dl_catch_error, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference in what a problem and how it{her} to correct? Debian-project is not the appropriate place for technical issues like these. Please ask debian-user or file a bug. thanks, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:25:28AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Could you report such sponsors, so we may take their sponsorship privileges away? There's no technical way to do this (yet), as far as I can see. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-12 Thread Michael Banck
. Also you can probably check the continous contribution through that wiki page's history quite conveniently (though other means make this possible as well of course) Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-12 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:43:22PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Michael Banck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060412 12:11]: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:25:28AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Could you report such sponsors, so we may take their sponsorship privileges away? There's

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-11 Thread Michael Banck
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 contributions. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person

Re: Keysignings and other meetups (Was: etch before vista)

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Banck
of discussions to debian-project to enhance debian-devel's signal-to-noise ratio with respect to development. thanks, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: bet there are no senior citizen developers

2006-03-22 Thread Michael Banck
. Please post non-development issues to debian-project next time. Or rethink whether your issue needs posting at all. thanks, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: uol.com.br and petsupermarket

2006-03-14 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:06:59AM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote: It only affects the contributors, which might not be a problem, though, as they may quite possibly turn into ex-contributors soon... Which exactly makes it a problem. I hope we lose no valued contributors (including you)

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-24 Thread Michael Banck
and participate if we had our own. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help

2006-01-24 Thread Michael Banck
to post their question. thanks, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Banck
trouble. It is a bit like #debian really, where at some place most DDs had left the channel to itself, which resulted in a bad reputation both for the channel and the project. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html

Re: For those who care about debian-devel-announce

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:44:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Sorry to feed again the troll, but I would like to know what is the rationale behind removing the permissions for Andrew and not for Raphaël. This has nothing to do with the technical aspects of Debian development (too bad the

Re: For those who care about debian-devel-announce

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:25:07PM +, Dave Holland wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:44:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Raphaël has also harmed the project by implicitly linking it to Ubuntu. Don't be ridiculous. Ubuntu explicitly acknowledge that they build on Debian - see

Re: Information abount packages.d.o and experimental

2006-01-07 Thread Michael Banck
, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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