it is your responsibility to
take care of that.
If you can not handle the amount of bugreports there are better options
available. Team maintained packages, either officialy or non-officialy,
are one way of doing that which has been working great for a lot of
packages.
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a service or certication mark would be useful, not a
trademark (IANAL and all).
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Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]It is simple to make things.
http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.
Previously Richard van den Berg wrote:
Is it possible to set up a mirror somewhere for the time being?
There are a number of unofficial mirrors available. If you need one in .nl
try this one:
deb http://ftp.debian.nl/debian-security woody/updates main contrib non-free
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Previously Jonathan Corbet wrote:
Here is what I would like to see: how about if one or more of the companies
that benefit from the Debian distribution team up to buy a group
subscription for the project? We would make that subscription as cheap as
we possibly could (I don't have a number at
Previously Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Le Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 04:21:19PM +0300, Volkan YAZICI ?crivait:
there are currently 9 logos, 13 banners, 3 vertical banners,
5 cd covers, 2 workouts
adress is http://www.linuks.mine.nu/volkany/
They are really nice, I like them.
Wow, I just looked
Previously Noel Koethe wrote:
please support secure SMTP (rfc2487) to have a secure and
private communication on none-official mailinglists.
FWIW, SPI already supports this :)
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Previously Martin Loschwitz wrote:
The IRCNet can run on a free basis because it get's sponsored by ISPs (like
Netsurf, Tisacali, NGNet, Edisontel, Stealth and so on) and universities which
can produce traffic mostly for free.
Do you think OPN is paying for its bandwidth at the moment? Do you
Previously Noel Koethe wrote:
Or maybe there are interested DD who want to setup and run a own
debian.org/SPI IRCnetwork.
OFTC is a SPI supported project now, just like Debian, so you could
argue it fullfills that desire already. For the SPI resolution see
Previously Rob Levin wrote:
I will point out that we were linpeople.org when the Debian project joined
us, and linpeople.org began in 1995, well before the boom picked up speed.
And we're still here, after the dotcoms have pretty much folded.
Which still makes it a pretty recent network :)
Previously Daniel Burrows wrote:
aptitude does exactly the same thing, but no-one has added new
packages to the archive in the last 24 hours or so. If I can trust
the wnpp list, that will change later today.
Different concept of new, I suspect Andreas meant dselect's definition
of new which
Previously Daniel Burrows wrote:
Generally I don't plug aptitude much, but this is just flat-out wrong.
aptitude handles new packages much better than dselect (IMO), and has
since day 2.
Opinions can differ, personally I have tried aptitude a couple of times
and I have always found it
Previously Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
I suggests:
* Multiple configure-make cycles
FWIW, vim is a fun example of how to do that easily.
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Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
Part I: The Debian Archive
1: DFSG and the sections of the archive (free, non-free, contrib, non-us)
non-us is a different archive.
Part II: Packages and metadata
Refer to a dpkg reference instead and document extra restrictions
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Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On the other hand, all packages must not be left to the whimsy
of the dpkg developers either; since potentially large numbers of
packages would be impacted by such changes.
I do hope you trust is to make changes sensibly. In fact the current
reference
Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a sftp server package on Debian?
Not in stable. In testing and unstable OpenSSH (ssh) includes a sftp
server.
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Previously Jonathan D. Amery wrote:
Ross Anderson has put up a page about the new export controls bill in the
UK, which would open the door to export controls much broader and stricter
than the US currently has.
Fun.. that would mean we might have to move cdimage.debian.org...
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Previously Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
I seem to recall one of the Joey's was the original creator of the
channel.
Early inhabitors included igor, che_fox and a few others iirc.
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Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
So the people who asked me to leave #debian-devel when I wasn't yet a
developer somehow had a premonition of how much of a pain in the ass I
would become? :)
Yes. We failed in stopping you though :)
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Previously Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Because the most concerned people (Wichert as #debian-devel's channel
founder and Branden as an operator) didn't want to participate in the
discussion, not even respond to simple questions that would have let us
continue the work.
Fact is that the last 2
Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
This simply is not true, as I've said over and over again elsewhere.
Ask the people who were there years ago, before you went by the nick
wiggy.
I was there when the channel was created actually (ok, maybe 1 or 2
days later).
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Always nice to see something like this. Taken from linuxpr.com
(http://linuxpr.com/releases/3809.html):
Thousands of Libranets waddle into Italy.
Jun 8th, 19:34 UTC
Libranet GNU/Linux has been chosen by the Italian magazine LinuxPro to
be included on a CD distributed with the June 2001 issue of
Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
Hrm, when Progeny posted similar information about its own distribution, it
was asked to pony up $1000.
The different is that this only stated that a Debian-derived distro
(just like Progeny) would be distributed for free to a reasonably
large number of
Previously Martin Michlmayr wrote:
Debra
Debra is short-hand for Deborah.
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Previously Colin Watson wrote:
Nancy Blachman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The name Debian comes from Debbie and Ian
(... Murdock; Ian founded the distribution.)
It's Deborah iirc.
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Previously Lindsay Addison-Jones wrote:
I found mention of your company while browsing on the internet and I would be
very interested to find the origin of your company name.
Debian was started by Ian Murdock, and he named the project after himself
and his girlfriend Deborah: Deb-Ian or Debian.
Previously Dimitar Lilov wrote:
Sorry if I troubling you, but when you are planning to build debian package
with Samba v.2.2.0 (or 2.2.x)?
Yes, they were made and uploaded for unstable yesterday.
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Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
Good guidelines. One point: we must always remember to check whether
a maintainer has filled in the On vacation field in the DB.
Occasionally, developers are forced to go on extended leave (army
callups or similar).
Some maintainer also forget to remove that
Previously Chazzz Fishburn wrote:
1) Is there was a place online where I could find the debian logo (no text,
just the spiral thing)?
http://www.debian.org/logos/
2) Can you me which font was used for the debian in your logo?
No idea.. you might be able to extract it from the postscript
Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
[please follow-up to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, follow-up to debian-vote, it was created for this purpose.
I cannot at present find a canonical list of current delegates.
I'm offline at the moment and the exact URL escapes me, but this list is
on www.debian.org
Previously Wichert Akkerman wrote:
* DFSG free programs with crypto can be made and (re)distributed
from the US now, as long as you don't consciously export it to
one of 7 countries which are on a special blacklist
Extra info: those 7 are Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan
Previously Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
I was of the understanding that we would also have to notify the US of what is
on our site.
We only need to tell them that our site has crypto stuff from what I
understand.
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Previously Adrian Bunk wrote:
So for the export restrictions only a non-US/non-free will be needed.
crypto export restrictions, yes. Right.
That means if you use an algorithm that is patented in Germany the package
will be in non-us? You better rename this non-US to patented/main and
add the
This is a slightly updated changed to reflect comments from people.
Debian developers can second this proposal for inclusion in the
policy text.
Proposal is to change section 2.1.5 of the Debian policy to say:
Non-free programs with cryptographic program code need to be stored
on the
Previously Joey Hess wrote:
You could just devolve it to the maintainers of the packages in question.
It's not a great deal different from deciding if a package belongs in
non-free, main, or cannot be put in debian at all.
But ftpmaster verifies that as well, that's why it takes a while
Previously Adrian Bunk wrote:
Any examples of such countries?
See an earlier post I made, that listed them all.
* Tell all the FTP mirrors of non-US that must of them are no longer
allowed to ship non-US (e.g. ftp.de.debian.org is located in Germany
where it's not 100% forbidden to
Previously Colin Watson wrote:
When the Debian Project sits on boards like this, who represents it?
The DPL?
In this case it happens to be me, but it might be other people as well
(for example Christoph Lameter represents Debian on the LPI advisory
councel and at LI).
Are individual
Previously Taketoshi Sano wrote:
1) If you can modify the DFSG, then where do you think is adequate
to be updated ?
Do tell me what the answer to this one is, I'm curious..
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Previously Craig Small wrote:
Is that a real email address? I.am impressed!
Seems to be:
[cloud;~]-1 host -t soa i.am
i.amSOA ns.come.to webmaster.come.to (
281704 ;serial (version)
28800 ;refresh period (8
Previously Fumitoshi UKAI wrote:
Does anyone else see my pgp signature was bad?
Yes, gpg complained here as well.
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Previously Jim Westveer wrote:
However, by signing an ID, or the email, I have demonstrated
that I do infact, possess that private key.
Signing an arbitrary something proves that just as well. For example
a package, the output of fortune, etc.
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Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Neither the remainder of the old new maintainer team (Joey), nor
Wichert seemed to really want a discussion of this.
As I remember it we did have a discussion of this but at some point
I concluded we have different points of view neither of us wanted
to give
Previously Chris Lawrence wrote:
Whether or not the proposed GR passes, I believe we need to figure out
some way of coordinating the Debian-based distributions so we do not
end up in an "RPM" type of situation where supposedly common formats
lead to highly inconsistent systems.
Oh great,
I heard earlier today that www.debian.org was chosen as one of the
top 100 Linux sites in the June issue of Linux Magazine. Congratulations
to our www team!
If we want we can put a top 100 icon somewhere on our website; if
someone wants to do that please email me and I'll forward the
icon.
Previously Josip Rodin wrote:
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:45:53PM -0500, Jon Marler wrote:
I was FORCED to change the uid/gid's by the project leader.
Excuse me? First of all in my way has the fact that I happen to be
project leader anything to do with this. The fact that I also happen
to
Previously Florian Lohoff wrote:
I think the s/390 port is further than mips/mipsel - Available
glibc etc ...
It's apparently running quite well.. at least well enough for people to
port strace to it :)
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My current term as project leader is almost but and elections are close,
so I guess it's time for people to send out long boring emails about
why they want to be project leader.. and I feel compelled to join them :)
I've been doing this for almost a year now, and it has been a very
interesting
Previously Decklin Foster wrote:
And when people who subscribe to -devel to try to get *information*
have to constantly filter out this stuff, it eventually makes them fed
up (say, to the point where they write some rant to -project).
debian-devel doesn't exist to get information. It exists to
Previously Michael Stone wrote:
You apparantly missed the great ssh rename...
It was actually written before that happened.. I'll update the text
to reflect that.
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Previously Martin Schulze wrote:
Apparently I wasn't clear enough.
I had already posted by then...
The ftpmasters do their work for the project. They exist
on behalf of the project. The project does not exist as result
of the ftpmasters, it's vice versa.
True. However that doesn't always
Previously Martin Schulze wrote:
Then why? Does a proper bug report exist? Is it just slowly processing
bug report? Or is it something else?
There is indeed a bugreport, and it's old. Months at least. Last I heard
the only reason was that it was a lot of work...
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