Re: Debian money

2009-09-13 Thread Pierre Habouzit
x27;re right, I totally missed that, given how obvious it was. This would be totally illegal in France too. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··Omadco...@debian.org OOOhttp://www.madism.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian money

2009-09-13 Thread Pierre Habouzit
dership and business sense so that it's mostly obvious he'll success. IOW we could only lend money to people who will already be able to find money by themselves easily enough. It's not Debian job at all, not to mention the legal complexity to do that worldwide. Sorry, but this

Re: Distributing software written by hostile upstream developers

2009-09-13 Thread Pierre Habouzit
only about shilly. Some tuomoware is not really any better. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··Omadco...@debian.org OOOhttp://www.madism.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Opera in your repos

2009-08-09 Thread Pierre Habouzit
sters have > decided this, they haven't disclosed it anywhere appropriate. Indeed, last time I checked, the requirement was that Debian is allowed to redistribute the stuff, which kind of makes sense ;) -- Intersec <http://www.intersec.com> Pierre Habouzit Tél : +33 (0)1 5570 3346 Mob :

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-06 Thread Pierre Habouzit
pstreams, I'm pretty sure you will find rotting bugs in the Debian BTS on your packages too ;) -- Intersec <http://www.intersec.com> Pierre Habouzit Tél : +33 (0)1 5570 3346 Mob : +33 (0)6 1636 8131 Fax : +33 (0)1 5570 3332 37 Rue Pierre Lhomme 92400 Courbevoie signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-06 Thread Pierre Habouzit
IMHO a faithful wording of our position (with the s/releasing/freezing/ fix ;p) -- Intersec <http://www.intersec.com> Pierre Habouzit Tél : +33 (0)1 5570 3346 Mob : +33 (0)6 1636 8131 Fax : +33 (0)1 5570 3332 37 Rue Pierre Lhomme 92400 Courbevoie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-proje

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

2009-08-06 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:02:59PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Pierre Habouzit [2009.08.06.1104 +0200]: > > You're comparing apples and oranges here, for HTML is a standard, > > and theoretically, following the standard is enough (and even that > > is

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

2009-08-06 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:52:10AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Pierre Habouzit [2009.08.05.2333 +0200]: > > But speaking from my experience as an employee of a software editor, I > > can tell that the distribution diversity is a huge problem when it comes > >

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:51:08PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Pierre Habouzit] > > It yields a really costly entry point to target "Linux" as a > > platform, and it's exactly why most Software Vendors target "RHEL" > > and not "Li

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
their funky Telco hardware work with a proprietary stack and so on. [1] quality of the support is clearly the other biggest part -- Intersec <http://www.intersec.com> Pierre Habouzit Tél : +33 (0)1 5570 3346 Mob : +33 (0)6 1636 8131 Fax : +33 (0)1 5570 3332 37 Rue Pierre Lhomme 92400 Courbevoie signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On Torvalds' POV towards freedom (Re: On cadence and collaboration)

2009-08-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
is > > true of prejudice against Ubuntu here in Debian. > > I think you're misscharacterizing Torvalds' statement. [...] > which basically amounts to: "If you speak about freedom, you're an extremist > full of hate". Nice. -- Intersec <http://www.inter

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-04 Thread Pierre Habouzit
and I welcome them. But there are way too many example of bad (or rather inexistant) cooperation, or even dirty tricks like #539950, which undermines the former tries a lot. -- Intersec <http://www.intersec.com> Pierre Habouzit Tél : +33 (0)1 5570 3346 Mob : +33 (0)6 1636 8131 Fax : +3

Re: On syncing freeze dates with other distributions

2009-08-04 Thread Pierre Habouzit
french, openSuse isn't very relevant here, I bet it's different on the other side of the Rhine. [2] le "mieux" est l'ennemi du "bien" -- Intersec <http://www.intersec.com> Pierre Habouzit Tél : +33 (0)1 5570 3346 Mob : +33 (0)6 1636 8131 Fax : +33 (0)1 5570 3332 37 Rue Pierre Lhomme 92400 Courbevoie signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: On syncing freeze dates with other distributions

2009-08-04 Thread Pierre Habouzit
roughly two years apart, which is some > indication that we can sustain the 24 month cycle, more or less. Yes. -- Intersec <http://www.intersec.com> Pierre Habouzit Tél : +33 (0)1 5570 3346 Mob : +33 (0)6 1636 8131 Fax : +33 (0)1 5570 3332 37 Rue Pierre Lhomme 92400 Courbevoie signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ia32-libs{-tools}, multiarch, squeeze

2009-07-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
you really mean to provide something like ia32-apt-get, what you ought to do is to: - help the user create and maintain a proper 32bits chroot; - let ia32-apt-get or whatever it's called be a forward to running apt-get inside that chroot; - find a way to let the user run commands

Re: so ... let's merge DAM and FD?

2009-07-02 Thread Pierre Habouzit
reaucratic? TTBOMK the split was done because it helped take some pressure of elmo's shoulder. It never worked that well in the end as it rather added more buffer effects to processing, so in the end, yes, it rather adds bureaucracy to the whole thing. OTOH, I'm not sure merging DAM and

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-12 Thread Pierre Habouzit
be a valid GR proposal, > > AIUI. All I meant was that I second the feeling, rather than a formal > > proposal. > > We're having a serious discussion, and you guys are adding noise. Priceless. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O

Re: Results of the Lenny release GR

2009-01-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
, the questions don't seem much closer to > resolution. If you can't understand the "Please postpone the bikeshedding after the lenny release so that you'll have proper answers"-bit then I can nothing for you. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O

Re: remove my post from 2001

2008-11-02 Thread Pierre Habouzit
L PROTECTED]/msg26375.html -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgp979g65egmX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:20:37PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Note that the whole point is to know that the person in question shall > > know his/her limits, and know who to ask when in trouble. Not everybody > > should be a top class program

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
on technical or trust reasons rather than a dislike of B. Updating one's own key on the other hand, or replacing signatures, or... should be a task than one's should be able to do on his own. Only if the old key is invalid for some reason (key was revoked, expired, whatever) then yeah, we s

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
dates + 1) each year isn't really that of a burden. But there are really simple other way to count activity like uploads, "lastlog" on some debian machines, or even a reminder mail every year people would have to reply to with a signed mail (and a hash so that people cannot

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
wadays that I trust with their judgements to not do anything foolish, beyond what they understand. What we should test is that and only that (okay good understanding of the project, and of the people, and so on is vital too, but I suppose we're only discu

Re: Re-thinking Debian membership

2008-10-24 Thread Pierre Habouzit
formulate them, but I've a trip to the US to plan, so I don't really have the time to write about them just now. Mind to start a DEP with this proposal as a basis ? -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
> I agree, I fail to see what's bureaucratic about the proposal. After > all it's a simple 2x2 matrix with requirements for the 4 "boxes". unbelievable -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgp9gTocubDLH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
elay to be a DD. It's acknowledging that we suck, and trying nothing to fix the problem. It's unacceptable to me. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgptqtjWZXeTy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NEW queue

2008-10-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
doesn't quite excuse the regular offenders either. [0] sadly, each day of the release, we have examples of completely clueless people who still insist on breaking stuff. Just look at the unblock requests, some are totally WTF. Just a random example. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 01:28:44PM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:10:29PM +, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >> This was initially written by me, then discussed within DAM (so take > >> us t

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
imes. [0] Yes there are no pure translators atm in Debian, though there are quite a few DDs that work in l10n efforts, I've seen *none* of them do NMUs because they felt like it. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpjZnmTyWXqo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
#x27;t the nm-committee involved, and the DEP process completely ignored ? -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgptpXGfmouzr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:48:51AM +, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 23 octobre 2008 à 10:37 +0200, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : > > So when the > > *constitution* gives him the right to do what he just did (yeah, sadly > > he can and we have to be 2:1 to overrule that y

Re: Developer Status

2008-10-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
thing, I speak from experience). So when the *constitution* gives him the right to do what he just did (yeah, sadly he can and we have to be 2:1 to overrule that yeah), it's completely against the nature of Debian, and the spirit of the constitution. I'm blat

Re: Probleme sur le site

2008-03-24 Thread Pierre Habouzit
ssé à la page > > Bonjour Michel, > > le site www.debian.fr n'est pas géré par Debian. To be complete, www.debian.fr is cybersquatted, and the content shown is a very old mirror from www.fr.debian.org, far from complete, and ser

Re: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections

2008-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
ng I feel this project is > seriously lacking in. seconded \o/ -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpitq7Hnp2Ht.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-29 Thread Pierre Habouzit
er/use-utf-8-for-mails.patch I'm not 100% sure it's enough, but it shoudln't hurt. It applied to dak at the time. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpqXAAdogwp1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: linhdd concerns

2007-11-29 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:08:33AM +, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Thursday 29 November 2007, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I know, but maybe (but that's sad if we need to do that) we should > > &

Re: linhdd concerns

2007-11-29 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:49:37AM +, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:19:21PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > or we could disallow the override of >= E: errors in lintian, and make > &g

Re: Please help me remove this

2007-11-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
ame. Yeah, good idea, whereas you could have argued that the former was a spam, now you will have a hard time thanks to this one, that I'm sure will rank as the second hit for your name. way to do :D -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O

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

2007-11-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:54:39PM +, Michael Banck wrote: > 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 bit

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

2007-11-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Another thing we could do is alert sponsors about checking for lintian > overrides when they review a package. 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 yo

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-24 Thread Pierre Habouzit
to them they aren't ready. It's your role as a sponsor to be sure the guy you sponsor is ready and gets things right. Cheers, -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-22 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 09:50:57AM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 06:10:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:10:41PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > Here is the current list. > > When psql on merkel gets updated to a v

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-22 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 08:10:42AM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:10:41PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > I note that the 4th package made an interesting choice indeed. > > The Dm-Upload-Allowed: field is only relevant for DM when there're non-D

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-21 Thread Pierre Habouzit
; Package: libphp-adodb Maintainer: Cameron Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package: torrentflux Maintainer: Cameron Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package: tumiki-fighters Maintainer: Debian Games Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uploaders: Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter De Wachter <

Re: Updated Debian Maintainers Keyring

2007-11-21 Thread Pierre Habouzit
, it would be nice if these mails could also specify which > packages the DMs are allowed to upload. OTOH this is a moving target, as the DM-keyring maintainers are not the ones dealing with that, but the sponsors. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O

Re: Making Debian work: a question of trust indeed

2007-11-21 Thread Pierre Habouzit
w every bit of current work of every team or > developer. However the project as a whole needs to know where its core teams are headed. The DPL looks like a relevant information hub for that purpose. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: New Debian Maintainer Jose Parella

2007-11-17 Thread Pierre Habouzit
the new DM keyring admin was discussed ? -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpVJBppsHnGx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: do all of MJRs subjects sound like they were ripped from the Daily Mail? [was: Re: Is debian profiting from forced child labour?]

2007-11-07 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:19:07AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > If MjR has issues with the company Debian-UK (or any other alike > > organization) he buys his t-shirts from, then he should mention it to > > this organization

Re: do all of MJRs subjects sound like they were ripped from the Daily Mail? [was: Re: Is debian profiting from forced child labour?]

2007-11-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
also because it meets ethics requirements that I feel are important. Though I tend to dislike proselytism and sanctimonious attitudes. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpadPtYThmcn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Is debian profiting from forced child labour?

2007-11-04 Thread Pierre Habouzit
l ? -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgp5CaLPyCpH3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Maintainers

2007-10-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
debian.org, for everyone to see and watch. I expect at least the same degree of informations to be available for DDs. I'm very pleased to see that a team as new as the DM one works already so great that only 2 of its alleged members are aware of what's currently happening. I'm

Re: Latest Stable Debian Release 4.0r1 Etch

2007-10-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
read the section: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#s-kernel-changes Here is your answer. As a general rule, release notes are worth reading. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O

Re: Planet policy?

2007-08-04 Thread Pierre Habouzit
years he'll be on-topic, no so long time ago, it was about Windows, at least Solaris is an Unix. *cough* -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgp7LcCyFyzkY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Social Contract ten years on July 5 -- celebration?

2007-06-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
t; > celebrating this a bit? What would be an appropriate way? > > By spending the day arguing about whether users or free software are the > more important priority? ;) revisionist ! SCNR -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O

Bug#292330: use UTF-8 by default

2007-06-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:46:40PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On ma, 2007-06-18 at 13:37 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:48:04AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > multi-byte one would be really really bad (as you would end up with e..g. > >

Bug#292330: use UTF-8 by default

2007-06-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:48:04AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > multi-byte one would be really really bad (as you would end up with e.g. > strings split in the middle of a point code, *brrr* you definitely don't > want that). I wasn't clear it seems, but what I mean is if

Bug#292330: use UTF-8 by default

2007-06-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
f-8 as the amount of programs running with that locale is definitely small and manageable. In a debian system ? no, it's definitely a _bad_ idea. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpxBsWl2uKOq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Kommerzielle Lizensierung von Debian-Linux -Anfrage-

2007-06-11 Thread Pierre Habouzit
in den "main" Abschnitt verteilt sind, fallen unter die "kostenlose Lizensierung". Tatsächlich, diese Software sind Frei, Sie können an [1] Erklärungen finden, um zu lernen, waß es im einzelnen bedeutet. http://www.debian.org/social_contra

Re: Another level of agression ?

2007-05-27 Thread Pierre Habouzit
ing him? Damn, how fool was I. I was completely under the impression that *he* was the one trolling our lists for months. Makes me think, he can't be alone to generate all that flood, or he uses scripting. Maybe the latter given the very high redundancy of the content, wording and anno

Re: Google SoC - Bug Triaging and Forwarding Tool

2007-03-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
ect written in Python as it is more > and more a langage of choice in Debian, and you mentionned Gtk, which > is fine in Python. > Pierre Habouzit wrote bts-link which is Python based and interfaces > with our BTS and Bugzilla, and he mentionned the idea of a bug > forwarding tool

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-16 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Attached is my ${keyid}.changes for fathi boudra, proposed for inclusion in the DM jetring. It is debsigned with my own gpg.key, just tell me if it needs any kind of tweaks in the fields syntax. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Changed-By: Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-16 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:58:40AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:47:22PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Well at first it is. One of my main sponsoree is Fathi[0]. I sponsor > > him for quite a long time now, I'd say a year at least. The

Re: Developers vs Uploaders

2007-03-15 Thread Pierre Habouzit
sponsor shall be in Uploaders, I sponsor a lot of package I never use, and I don't want to be in either of the fields. Though a Sponsor: field could be of use, yes. [0] http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] https://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=fboudra%40free.fr -- ·O· Pierre

Re: Poll on the wiki (was About terminology for stable/testing/unstable)

2007-03-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
the house is not finished. TTBOMK Christian already chosed suite IIRC, which is a good term, the discussion is from May 2006 for god's sake ! IOW: We just don't need to bring this up _again_. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[E

Re: Why is there only self-nomination?

2007-03-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
s would be better than a plain > >> self-nomination. What do others think? > > > >Sounds better to me. > > Ditto. ditto -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOh

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

2007-02-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 11:41:11PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:09:46PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > I'm not sure what you're asking to be communicated. > > > The following of the mail looks perfect to me, I would really have &g

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

2007-02-24 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 05:14:17AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:44:55AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Do you want a Simple example ? For almost 4 or 5 months (if not more) > > there is no Alpha machine available to developers, one being restricted

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

2007-02-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 08:45:27PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:44:55AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > So sorry, but I don't buy a single word of your argumentation here. > > It wasn't an argument; it was just a statement of things are, a

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

2007-02-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
it, then I for my part don't understand how they are in those critical positions in the first place. There is plenty of people out there that I'm sure have the same set of skills, maybe work 10% slower, but communicate and reduce the project frustration to 0 wrt core teams. So sorry,

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-12 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 04:04:34PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > it's not as bad as inexistant RM's or ghost DSA or absent Buildd Admins. After a second read that sentence does not looks that good. I don't mean that our RM's are inexistant, that would not be fair to t

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-12 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:08:51PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > 10 people is the best way to ensure nothing ever gets done. That sole > > number shows that you don't really understand how hard it is to have a > > lea

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-12 Thread Pierre Habouzit
s better our own internal workings.. > If a board member goes MIA, we still have 9 others who are there. If a DPL knows he's unreliable he should be the first one to find succession, or even not nominate himself in the first place. MIA developers are

Re: Criteria for a successful DPL board

2007-02-12 Thread Pierre Habouzit
one. So _as you describe it_ I think such a DPL Board is a quite bad idea. I've no real position about a DPL Team in general, but this instance is clearly not a thing I'd like to see, for at least the two previous reasons. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O

Re: Explications needed...

2006-12-29 Thread Pierre Habouzit
t; autobuilder) just look at [1], whereas every single arch is keeping up quietly, arm and sparc seem to go to the deepness of hell. I don't know who are the sparc buildd admins, but for sure, the arm port do not seem to be that well. [1] http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph2-week

Re: Please appoint one new person to the DSA Team

2006-12-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
int new DSA or not. as a matter of a fact, like I already said in private to you, I do volunteer, especially wrt the spam issues we meet atm, for whose I do have quite an experience with. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO

Re: Explications needed...

2006-12-20 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:29:41PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > 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

Re: Debian Weekly News - November 28th, 2006

2006-12-19 Thread Pierre Habouzit
hat can do that, you can mail me privately if you need some pointers. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpyYkE6gGmk6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-02 Thread Pierre Habouzit
f renaming the Debian Maintainer: field into Debian-Maintainer: or whatever else too. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgp9ZlhOCb8K6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-10-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
d skills have left. We lost a valuable libpng maintainer, we lost a guy that understood how timezones worked, how xkb worked, and a valuable l10n team member, a weekly DWN, etc… Some of those places are vacant because there is simply nobody else to fill the gaps. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpO2nNaWo7W5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le dim 8 octobre 2006 15:36, Stephen Gran a écrit : > This one time, at band camp, Pierre Habouzit said: > > Le dim 8 octobre 2006 14:18, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > > And if the comments associated to the project proposal indicate > > > that there's some co

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
are taken or not. It always ends in bad technical solutions, so my fear is legitimate. My other concern is about how people that do the bounties are chosen, I say that chosing the known ones is unfair, and should not be done. don't mix the two in an incoherent tossed salad. > Wasn'

Re: Using money to fund real Debian work

2006-10-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
e. And nothing prevents further improvements > later in the process. Being paid doesn't mean that we stop doing free > software. did I said so ? are you trying to divert my thoughts into some lame FUD ? or did you truly not understood me to that level ? -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpEyzJu0iw7I.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Is it time for non-epatents (Was: Re: Is it time for non-us again?)

2006-10-04 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le mer 4 octobre 2006 19:47, Daniel Ruoso a écrit : > Qua, 2006-10-04 às 14:04 +0200, Pierre Habouzit escreveu: > > Le mer 4 octobre 2006 13:25, Daniel Ruoso a écrit : > > > Isn't it the time to recreate the non-us section? > > > > no, at least not for patent

Re: Is it time for non-us again?

2006-10-04 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le mer 4 octobre 2006 13:25, Daniel Ruoso a écrit : > Isn't it the time to recreate the non-us section? no, at least not for patent issues. we would need a debian-${COUNTRY} rather than a non-US if we begin to take that into consideration. -- ·O· Pierre Habo

Re: The Sourceless software in the kernel source GR

2006-09-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
al made by josselin mouette again, and affirm that Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was mine. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpAHSvU0eKFo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Proposal: Source code is important for all works in Debian, and required for programmatic ones

2006-08-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
of releasing etch by a GR which needs to meet the 3:1 >requirement instead of attempting to define ourselves into such a >position, especially when source code is clearly a desirable thing >to have from our users and our perspective. and I also feel that's needed. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpTnPTeJeByX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: on firmware and freedoom

2006-08-24 Thread Pierre Habouzit
s "blobs" does not makes them more free or less non-free and if they don't deserve main, those should not get in there. it's not about dropping support for contrib/non-free. And I strongly disagree with you about the contrib/non-free sections anyw

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

2006-08-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
n offician statement from the debian project. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpd1DaupAbBl.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-08-23 Thread Pierre Habouzit
DPL, it means that having such words as the DPL makes it worse. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgp4FQdINokut.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DebianTimes launched

2006-08-04 Thread Pierre Habouzit
in > following them all (or almost all) from having to keep track of them > ourselves. OH YEAH! seconded++ -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpfYzaj7c1Tj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-29 Thread Pierre Habouzit
ges either). apache[12] maintenance in debian is quite a shame in its current state IMHO. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpCOhn9oErHz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
Le ven 28 juillet 2006 23:01, Gustavo Franco a écrit : > On 7/28/06, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > do you know a thing that could benefit from that ? > > - unofficial ports (kfreebsd e.g.) for whom it's a real PITA to > > have their patches (ofte

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
k that nobody dared to because it was tbm. Would a random DD have tried the same thing, that wouldn't have been *that* easy. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpZbEQFpDtvP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: package ownership in Debian (was: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?)

2006-07-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
that integration can be easier, e.g. making so called NMU be more easily accepted, so that nobody/noone/nothing can prevent an actual enhancement of the distro to go on. But one should /still/ be responsible for that or that package, this is what makes debian special, and I will defend it. -- ·O·

Re: "Debian Powered" Logo

2006-07-03 Thread Pierre HABOUZIT
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:06:26PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006, Pierre HABOUZIT wrote: > > debian does not contains non-free software. non-free is not part of > > debian, it's only supported using the same tools. > > The differences between main,

Re: "Debian Powered" Logo

2006-07-03 Thread Pierre HABOUZIT
, contain > non-free software, and RMS has dedicated his life fighting against it. debian does not contains non-free software. non-free is not part of debian, it's only supported using the same tools. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O

Re: Why Ubuntu is different, was: Minutes of an Ubuntu-Debian discussion that happened at Debconf

2006-06-29 Thread Pierre Habouzit
n lagging. > You cannot blame Ubuntu because Debian sucks. did I ? One should note though that for the second case, the person in charge for python in debian is also a cannonical employee. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

Re: Why Ubuntu is different, was: Minutes of an Ubuntu-Debian discussion that happened at Debconf

2006-06-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
we have caught that already, or, or, ... and since we work on different versions, different svn repositories, it's just not possible to coordinate in a better way. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org pgpr6KEoY6Svp.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-06-28 Thread Pierre Habouzit
ng as basic as xorg/python/.. deviates, you can't pretend to be compatible). What I'd prefer is that big transition would be as much as possible prepared collectively. Else, we are bound to have useless crufty diffs, that I even won't bother to read, because it's only lost time.

Re: question sur les paquets debian

2006-06-16 Thread Pierre HABOUZIT
rity updates suite, meaning that flaws have been *fixed*. Cheers, -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O[EMAIL PROTECTED] OOOhttp://www.madism.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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