Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-27 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 3/24/07, Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:08:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Distors are often viewed as mere packagers, but they tend to drive upstream development in variety of ways. Here's just a few of Debian's contributions to the world of FLOSS

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read the Debian mailing list archives and you will find some of the related personal atacks. I asked for references, but you seem not to be able to give me ANY of them, just telling me look in the archive. So you seem not to be able to give me

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Joerg Schilling [Sun, Mar 25 2007, 11:58:39AM]: Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read the Debian mailing list archives and you will find some of the related personal atacks. I asked for references, but you seem not to be able to give me ANY of

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 24 March 2007 19:53, Joerg Schilling wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - the fact that other Debian maintainers does not try to find a workaround for the problems caused by some outcasts causes damage to the reputation of the Debian project. I guess

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: There is a reason why I do not waste my time with people on a Debian list One wonders why you even bothered to send your original mail to us, then. I believe we'd all appreciate it if you stopped wast[ing] [your] time. Don Armstrong --

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Joerg Schilling wrote: Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the license change was definitely not the reason for the fork (the fork would have been done in a different way if the license change was the reason). And again wrong, your license change *IS* the reason, we

Re: Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Joerg Schilling wrote: - the fork does not work decently and thus annoyes them This is probably the funniest quote of the whole discussion. Thanks for making my day. BTW, who said flamewars are a nuisance to the Debian project? I've never seen developers as united as when Mr Schilling is

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: There is a reason why I do not waste my time with people on a Debian list One wonders why you even bothered to send your original mail to us, then. I believe we'd all appreciate it if you stopped

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Joerg Schilling said: If you believe you have time again, you should answer the questions I send you last year or admit that the claims from some Debian people against me and my projects are wrong. Or, better yet, we could all just stop feeding the troll. If he's

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread Daniel Stone
[Please CC me on replies: I'm not subscribed.] On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:51:04PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't buy it. The license change to XFree86 was committed on 13 February 2004:

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Sam Morris wrote: my SCSI devices being set up incorrectly (what SCSI devices? My system uses PATA!), followed by failure. Your PATA and ATAPI devices will look like SCSI devices to the system in the next Debian stable version after Etch ;-) All PATA is going under the

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-25 Thread Frans Pop
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notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Distors are often viewed as mere packagers, but they tend to drive upstream development in variety of ways. Here's just a few of Debian's contributions to the world of FLOSS during 2006: * creation of cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools, due to a change of licence which happened to be DFSG-incompatible *

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Please forgive me for feeding the troll. On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 03:20:31PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Distors are often viewed as mere packagers, but they tend to drive upstream development in variety of ways. Here's just a few of Debian's contributions to the world of FLOSS during

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10968 March 1977, Joerg Schilling wrote: * creation of cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools, due to a change of licence which happened to be DFSG-incompatible Note that there was a licence change with cdrtools but this was a change towards more freedom and the current official cdrtools are of course

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are not talking about a notable contribution but about a notable damage to FLOSS caused by people who are unwilling to cooperate in a useful way. Joerg, as a piece of friendly advice, I think it would be wise to drop it. You continue

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the license change was definitely not the reason for the fork (the fork would have been done in a different way if the license change was the reason). And again wrong, your license change *IS* the reason, we simply do not accept

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sat Mar 24, 2007 at 16:40:34 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Also note that I am not attacking people but only trying to inform about the truth while Mr. Bloch is constantly publishing personal attacks. Please point us to those. I couldn't find those, only technical base stuff with well

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 04:40:34PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, as a piece of friendly advice, I think it would be wise to drop it. You continue to do your reputation harm by going around making this claim. Does Debian's fork somehow

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sat Mar 24, 2007 at 17:28:36 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sat Mar 24, 2007 at 16:40:34 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Also note that I am not attacking people but only trying to inform about the truth while Mr. Bloch

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sat Mar 24, 2007 at 16:40:34 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Also note that I am not attacking people but only trying to inform about the truth while Mr. Bloch is constantly publishing personal attacks. Please point us to those. I

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Sam Morris
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:40:34 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: This fork harms the users of Debian in at least two ways: - the fork does not work decently and thus annoyes them I am a Debian user. cdrkit certainly *does* work decently. Far better than cdrecord, which only manages to

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Andreas Schuldei
* Martin Zobel-Helas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070324 17:45]: Read what i wrote you, and then speak again! or rather not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - the fact that other Debian maintainers does not try to find a workaround for the problems caused by some outcasts causes damage to the reputation of the Debian project. I guess you missed Aurelien's mail [0]? What about the other

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:53:43PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - the fact that other Debian maintainers does not try to find a workaround for the problems caused by some outcasts causes damage to the reputation of the Debian project.

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10968 March 1977, Joerg Schilling wrote: There is no need to refute obviously wrong claims from Mr. Bloch. If you believe his wrong claims, it seems that I cannot help you anyway. As you always and only hit on Eduard - does that mean my claims aren't wrong? Or does you not answering the

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-24 20:10]: On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:53:43PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mail not addressed to me is send py people who are not interested in an answer from me. The Code of Conduct

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:23:33PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: C'mon, you and almost everyone who replied to this thread Cc'ed Joerg so this should not be the point. I (and I imagine others) have CC'd Joerg since he has done so. To me, if someone CC's people it indicates that he wants a CC

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess you missed Aurelien's mail [0]? What about the other distros? Mail not addressed to me is send py people who are not interested in an answer from me. The Code of Conduct for the Debian lists indicates that CCs are to be

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10968 March 1977, Joerg Schilling wrote: There is no need to refute obviously wrong claims from Mr. Bloch. If you believe his wrong claims, it seems that I cannot help you anyway. As you always and only hit on Eduard - does that mean my claims

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 11:07:34AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Please forgive me for feeding the troll. No. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10968 March 1977, Joerg Schilling wrote: Or does you not answering the arguments in my mails from shortly before we did the fork simply show that you do not have anything to reply to them, as there simply isnt anything valid against them? Instead you simply told me I am a liar and still

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 09:00:20PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess you missed Aurelien's mail [0]? What about the other distros? Mail not addressed to me is send py people who are not interested in an answer from me.

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 02:08:10PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Distors are often viewed as mere packagers, but they tend to drive upstream development in variety of ways. Here's just a few of Debian's contributions to the world of FLOSS during 2006: * creation of cdrkit, a fork of

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 09:00:20PM +0100, Joerg Schilling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess you missed Aurelien's mail [0]? What about the other distros? Mail not addressed to me is send py people who are not interested in an

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10968 March 1977, Joerg Schilling wrote: Or does you not answering the arguments in my mails from shortly before we did the fork simply show that you do not have anything to reply to them, as there simply isnt anything valid against them? Instead

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not have the unlimited time to waste with useless speudo discussions. I am sorry, but this will be the last response to you unless you start to open your mind to the reality. For the same reason. this reply is shortened. - dozens of unfixed

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Clint Adams
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 05:13:04PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: They are not my guidelines. I imagine that the list guidelines and code of conduct were thouroughly vetted. However, I have not been around long enough to know. Perhaps someone who has been around longer can say for sure.

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:51:04PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not have the unlimited time to waste with useless speudo discussions. I am sorry, but this will be the last response to you unless you start to open your mind to the reality.

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GPL is known to be asymmetric (which is a problem) and even the founder of Debian does not follow your strange ideas on interpreting the GPL. http://ianmurdock.com/?p=278 (see 3rd paragraph) Umm, Ian Murdock had a problem with

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sat Mar 24, 2007 at 17:44:53 +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi, I asked you to point me to those published personal attacks and i did not ask you about your personal opinion about Mr. Bloch. Read what i wrote you, and then speak again! As Mr. Schilling answered all the other

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked you to point me to those published personal attacks and i did not ask you about your personal opinion about Mr. Bloch. Read what i wrote you, and then speak again! As Mr. Schilling answered all the other mails in this thread but

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sun Mar 25, 2007 at 01:24:39 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked you to point me to those published personal attacks and i did not ask you about your personal opinion about Mr. Bloch. Read what i wrote you, and then speak

Re: notable Debian contributions in 2006

2007-03-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 03:33:40AM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi, On Sun Mar 25, 2007 at 01:24:39 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Read the Debian mailing list archives and you will find some of the related personal atacks. I asked for references, but you seem not to be able to