Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
Anthony Towns has been arguing that the non-free archive really *is*
part of Debian, that while it isn't part of the "Debian Distribution",
it is obviously a part of the system as a whole.
This disregards the current text of the Social Contract section 5,
which is ve
Sam Hartman wrote:
I ask you to be responsible in looking at the results of this
election. If the results make it clear that most of the voters have
made up their minds and are done with the discussion, then let the
issue rest.
I hope that the above can be one of the unwritten laws. Here in Ca
Hi, Raul Miller wrote:
> The key issue here is that different people have different takes at
> different times on "actually fullfilling that responsibility".
True. But that's not the same as stating theat there is no responsibility
there in the first place.
I don't have hard-and-fast answers eit
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:07:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:56:36PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:26:39PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:34:11AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > > I don' think it's a prof
On 09 Mar 2004 18:51:38 -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> In other words, do you perceive a concrete need for such process
>> now? If not, do you think we are facing an imminent or serious
>> threat of abuse of power on someon
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:43:21 +0100, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>> _If_ I do, however, simply not showing up in an emergency or two
>>> (as opposed to resigning properly) will have a _very_ different
>>> result WRT both to my standing in the community
I, being a man, am also scarried when interacting with Debian webpage or
mailing list. I'm not too confident about my skills, and I feel
something like "we know the way, please don't tell us Your opinion"
around Debian. Maybe I feel wrong, but if this is what does scare You
too, than maybe some
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:55:36AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> So I have a few questions for you:
Anthony if you answer can we consider that as a signal you are finally
entering the DPL race?
[snip - long list of interesting questions]
Perhaps these set of questions can be re-posted to e
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:50:35PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> I think that's a decent objective. But we have historically had
> things in non-free even when we did have alternatives. Things that go
> in main have to meet the DFSG, and the maintainers say-so is not
> enough to satisfy th
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:41:31AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > The compromise to which that message referred is the compromise
> > > embodied in the social contract.
> >
> > Oh ? I thought this is the one you are wanting to drop.
>
> You'r
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:42:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:06:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I believe it is well possible that some third party, after having
> > examined the particular licence of every package, do indeed at non-free
> > to the CD set, as th
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:10:07PM +0100, Markus wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 20:10:13 +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Well, spim may be an exception, but as soon as you speak about
> > libraries, and different versions from different sources of those, you
> > are starting to do into the .rpm depende
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:15:42PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:48:20PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > What about recomends and suggests of contrib or non-free packages from
> > debian/main ?
>
> How should it handle it?
Well, i would say that recomends and suggests fr
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:45:40AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:42:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:06:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > I believe it is well possible that some third party, after having
> > > examined the particular lic
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:30:03AM +, Adam Majer wrote:
> I hope that the above can be one of the unwritten laws. Here in Canada,
> a few years ago one of the provinces thought it would be a good idea to
> separate so there was a big referendum in that province. The separatists
> lost, but a
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:25:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:15:42PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:48:20PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > What about recomends and suggests of contrib or non-free packages from
> > > debian/main ?
> >
> > H
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:22:28AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:25:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:15:42PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:48:20PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > What about recomends and sugges
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:09:23AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:45:40AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:42:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:06:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > I believe it is well possibl
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:22:28AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:25:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:15:42PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:48:20PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > What about recomends and sugges
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:21:43PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Does this mean that you would support the removal of all of non-free
> with the exception of those packages necessary to support closed
> hardware?
Why is closed hardware so special? What about our Japanese, Chinese and
Korean
A couple of small points that seem interesting to me:
On 2004-03-10 07:33:06 + Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
But we already have the possibility to do this. The technical comitte
has the power to override the maintainers decision, it is just that
upto
now, nobody cared enough t
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:36:49PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> [-devel and -vote CCed. Please respect the Mail-Followup-To -project.
> You should really subscribe to -project, it's not that big. In any case,
> I will try read and reply to any comment]
I think this is relevant to debian-vote too,
#include
* Sven Luther [Wed, Mar 10 2004, 12:28:11PM]:
> > > Ok, they add parts of it. Thanks for clarifying my impressise
> > > terminology. Still part of non-free remains non-free :)
> >
> > That does not make it 'semi-official' though, or what was your point?
>
> Well, semi-official is vague
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:38:47PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I suspect some of our users might not want to use packages from a
> less trusted source. I would have concerns myself.
Of course, and this was indeed one the prime design requirements. Do
you feel your concerns are adequately addr
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:28:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Well, semi-official is vague enough to encompass many things
> ...[snip]... it would be partially official, and so : partial, semi,
> ...
Semi-official implies that there is a blessing of "OK-ness" involved.
By the merit of the content
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:32:15AM +0100, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
> Does somebody know what I'm talking about?
Yes.
In my opinion, the most serious issue [and not one I have a good solution
for] is the state of glibc:
[1] Upstream sources generally are not buildable on older versions of the
t
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Necessary for what purpose?
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:25:51AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> You seem to be saying that there are lots of necessary things in
> non-free. It's the pro-non-free people who have been saying how
> necessary it is. I'
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Necessary for what purpose?
You seem to be saying that there are lots of necessary things in
non-free. It's the pro-non-free people who have been saying how
necessary it is. I'm assuming that you have some sense of what that
word means for you, and that
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe i am stupid or something. Please spell the exact nature of the
> compromise out for me again, and tell me how i am violating it.
The compromise was: "non-free can be on the FTP site, as long as
everybody knows and agrees that it's not part of Debian
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [3] Building the toolchains (binutils, gcc, glibc) involves a lot of
> knowledge of largely undocumented features. [And those features aren't
> designed to be independent of each other -- changing one option might
> involve changing a few others just to a
Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I think we need to get rid of paragraph 5 entirely. It's purpose has
> >long since been served; and those who would like it to remain are
> >themselves not happy with the compromise.
> >
> This is *not* up to you alone. That's why we have the voting
> thi
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > [3] Building the toolchains (binutils, gcc, glibc) involves a lot of
> > knowledge of largely undocumented features. [And those features aren't
> > designed to be independent of each other -- changing one option might
> > involve changing a few others ju
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:26:17AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Maybe i am stupid or something. Please spell the exact nature of the
> > compromise out for me again, and tell me how i am violating it.
>
> The compromise was: "non-free can be o
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:26:17AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> The compromise was: "non-free can be on the FTP site, as long as
> everybody knows and agrees that it's not part of Debian".
You'd think that if everyone were supposed to know and agree to this that
there's be some kind of exp
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Again, we were not speaking the same language, i always believed that
> when you spoke about compromise, it was about a compromise between the
> two opposing opinions on the non-free issue.
I have spoken of both. The context has made it clear in each cas
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Again, we were not speaking the same language, i always believed that
> > when you spoke about compromise, it was about a compromise between the
> > two opposing opinions on the non-free issue.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:00:20PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, B
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [a] most of the people who advocate dumping non-free do not have a
> personal need for any of it, and
Vrms reports a number of packages on my systems; the ones that I use
("need") frequently are ilisp, mpg123, jdk1.1, scsh, and xanim.
I have heard simila
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, for example, consider how --prefix= magically impacts what gets
> built.
Hrm; I guess I knew about that from the beginning because I had a role
in it, but you're right, that's an important bit of undocumented
magic.
Thomas
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:51:38PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > In other words, do you perceive a concrete need for such process now?
> > If not, do you think we are facing an imminent or serious threat of
> > abuse of power on someone's p
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:00:20PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Again, we were not speaking the same language, i always believed that
> > when you spoke about compromise, it was about a compromise between the
> > two opposing opinions on the no
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:59:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> If the dewveloper has done something horrible, why would there
> be disagreement as to what to do about them (apart from perhaps a
> difference in degree)? I think we are far better off treating the
> situation on its mer
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:03:40PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:55:36AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> >
> > So I have a few questions for you:
>
> Anthony if you answer can we consider that as a signal you are finally
> entering the DPL race?
>
> [snip - long list o
Quoting Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:42:16PM +, Stephen Stafford wrote:
> > Given that the DPL is, in many ways, the
> > representative of Debian to the world
>
> Is that *really* true, and should it be?
>
Yes, it's true. Both Bdale and Martin have worke
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:04:09PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:32:15AM +0100, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
> > Does somebody know what I'm talking about?
>
> Yes.
>
> In my opinion, the most serious issue [and not one I have a good solution
> for] is the state of glibc:
>
Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Vrms reports a number of packages on my systems; the ones that I use
> ("need") frequently are ilisp, mpg123, jdk1.1, scsh, and xanim.
After performing a vote from the ilisp developers, I've change the
license. ilisp is now DFSG-free.
> It may not be good for them in
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And i expect in future you to give back the same courtesy, and to
> distinguish from context the different meaning that are put in the word
> debian, be it the debian distribution, the debian project, the debian
> infrastructure, ..., instead of insisting
> Branden writes:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:06:40PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > Indeed. For once I am ashamed to be a member of such a narrow
> > minded, bigoted group.
> >
> > Helen, please accept my apologies; we are not quite grown up
> > enough to be able to interact with
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:40:49PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > > >hardware manufacturers (in the last instance) only. Do you think that
> > > > >they produce everything built in their devices?
> > > >
> > > > Do you really think that hardware manufacturers don't dec
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:22:27AM +1030, Ron wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, I've drunk to excess in biker pubs before, but I
> think the important part of what what Manoj was inferring was:
> Keep it in texas dude. (and if he wasn't then I am)
>
> That goes double for the 'baby kissing' bandwidth
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:47:37PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > > It's impossible to enforce a "STFU about it" option.
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:51:49AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > similarly, it's impossible to enforce a "Further Discussion" option yet
> > it's there on the ballot.
>
>
On 2004-03-11 01:08:00 + Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
it would be nice if everyone would just shut the fuck up about it.
You first.
Fortunately, "Swears like a sailor" Sanders is not the most reasoned
of the keep-non-free supporters.
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> the point, for those of you to stupid to work it out for yourselves
> even after being told TWICE what it is, is that it makes a very nice
> suggestion that it would be good if people just shut the fuck up
> about this subject. that's it.
I guess it's
Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And yet still its not short enough to already know your preference for
> a public flogging over any exercise involving self restraint.
Despite all that Branden has ever done, Craig Sanders just unleashed a
stream of unacceptable noise. If we want to make Debian
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:27:24PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > the point, for those of you to stupid to work it out for yourselves
> > even after being told TWICE what it is, is that it makes a very nice
> > suggestion that it would be good
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[ 1 ] Choice 2: Re-affirm support for non-free
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:59:20PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> I have heard similar statements from other people who support the
> removal of non-free from the Debian archive. So who is it that fits
> your description?
I'm referring to the sub threads where people ask what non-free has t
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> in a class or a conference the idiocy that provoked it would not
> have happened - or, more precisely, would not have continued for
> month after month.
No matter how much someone pisses you off here, it doesn't warrant the
kind of language you choose.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> So, all those folks who were so sure (and I agree with you) that we
> need to do something about the tone, and about the way that it puts
> off women (and others too)--are you going to join me here and tell
> Craig that this is
On Thursday 11 March 2004 03:18, i wrote:
> Please Cc me, i'm not subscribed to this list.
No longer, i am subscribed now.
> [ 1 ] Choice 2: Re-affirm support for non-free
> [ ] Choice 3: Further Discussion
I apologize, i propably should have ranked this positively.
Have a nice day, martin
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > in a class or a conference the idiocy that provoked it would not
> > have happened - or, more precisely, would not have continued for
> > month after month.
>
> No matter how mu
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm referring to the sub threads where people ask what non-free has that
> anyone needs.
Oh, I figure they're just ignorant--and likely to be unaware of what
vrms would say on their own system.
Incidentally, so it was recently pointed out to me that I
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> tell you what - you write YOUR words however you like according to YOUR
> standards, and i'll write my words according to mine.
That's funny, given that your unacceptable words were an effort to try
and tell people that they should stop talking about so
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:03:40PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:55:36AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > So I have a few questions for you:
> Anthony if you answer can we consider that as a signal you are finally
> entering the DPL race?
No; there are a few reasons why
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:42:46PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > So, all those folks who were so sure (and I agree with you) that we
> > need to do something about the tone, and about the way that it puts
> > off women (and oth
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:01:57PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> In the case of [0], Enrico certainly doesn't seem to have been satisfied
> at the outcome and that frustration seems to be resulting in him
> expressing some outrage at communications issues on my behalf [4],
> and you seem to have be
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm trying to figure out if there's anything constructive I can say in
> > the context he's created, and I'm not coming up with any good ideas.
>
> Yes -- this seems to be the problem with Craig.
The only thing that it takes for evil to flourish is
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:37:20PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > I'm trying to figure out if there's anything constructive I can say in
> > > the context he's created, and I'm not coming up with any good ideas.
> >
> > Yes -- this seems to
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:29:22PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Despite all that Branden has ever done, Craig Sanders just unleashed a
> stream of unacceptable noise.
Sorry, you'll have to be more specific, all that he has ever done to
Craig, or all that he has ever done for the project?
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:55:36AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > > > I don' think it's a professional attitude if the RM has given up
> > > > > talking to the maintainer of xfree86. Please, Anthony, adjust your
> > > > > attitude, or ask someone else to be the RM.
> > > > Ah, what I love abo
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:26:17AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Maybe i am stupid or something. Please spell the exact nature of the
> > compromise out for me again, and tell me how i am violating it.
> The compromise was: "non-free can be on the
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Then don't swear. It's rude, it's unacceptible, and it needs to stop.
Well, you have it within your power to do what Craig asks, which he
indicates will stop him from swearing. Do you find those requests --
ie, to talk about
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> it's somehow OK for you to complain about my occasional, in-context and
> grammatically-correct use of certain English words, but it is *NOT OK* for me
> to make any complaint about the constant petty idiocy and pedantic
> spitefulness
> on this list.
Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:29:22PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Despite all that Branden has ever done, Craig Sanders just unleashed a
> > stream of unacceptable noise.
>
> Sorry, you'll have to be more specific, all that he has ever done to
> Craig, or
Anthony Towns writes:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:26:17AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Maybe i am stupid or something. Please spell the exact nature of the
> > > compromise out for me again, and tell me how i am violating it.
> > The compro
Anthony Towns writes:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Then don't swear. It's rude, it's unacceptible, and it needs to stop.
>
> Well, you have it within your power to do what Craig asks, which he
> indicates will stop him from swearing. Do you find th
I, being a man, am also scarried when interacting with Debian webpage or
mailing list. I'm not too confident about my skills, and I feel
something like "we know the way, please don't tell us Your opinion"
around Debian. Maybe I feel wrong, but if this is what does scare You
too, than maybe some
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 01:55:36AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> So I have a few questions for you:
Anthony if you answer can we consider that as a signal you are finally
entering the DPL race?
[snip - long list of interesting questions]
Perhaps these set of questions can be re-posted to e
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 06:50:35PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> I think that's a decent objective. But we have historically had
> things in non-free even when we did have alternatives. Things that go
> in main have to meet the DFSG, and the maintainers say-so is not
> enough to satisfy th
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:41:31AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > The compromise to which that message referred is the compromise
> > > embodied in the social contract.
> >
> > Oh ? I thought this is the one you are wanting to drop.
>
> You'r
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:10:07PM +0100, Markus wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 20:10:13 +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Well, spim may be an exception, but as soon as you speak about
> > libraries, and different versions from different sources of those, you
> > are starting to do into the .rpm depende
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:42:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:06:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I believe it is well possible that some third party, after having
> > examined the particular licence of every package, do indeed at non-free
> > to the CD set, as th
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:15:42PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:48:20PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > What about recomends and suggests of contrib or non-free packages from
> > debian/main ?
>
> How should it handle it?
Well, i would say that recomends and suggests fr
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:45:40AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:42:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:06:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > I believe it is well possible that some third party, after having
> > > examined the particular lic
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 06:30:03AM +, Adam Majer wrote:
> I hope that the above can be one of the unwritten laws. Here in Canada,
> a few years ago one of the provinces thought it would be a good idea to
> separate so there was a big referendum in that province. The separatists
> lost, but a
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:25:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:15:42PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:48:20PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > What about recomends and suggests of contrib or non-free packages from
> > > debian/main ?
> >
> > H
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:22:28AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:25:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:15:42PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:48:20PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > What about recomends and sugges
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:09:23AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:45:40AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:42:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:06:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > I believe it is well possibl
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:22:28AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:25:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:15:42PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:48:20PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > What about recomends and sugges
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:21:43PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Does this mean that you would support the removal of all of non-free
> with the exception of those packages necessary to support closed
> hardware?
Why is closed hardware so special? What about our Japanese, Chinese and
Korean
A couple of small points that seem interesting to me:
On 2004-03-10 07:33:06 + Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
But we already have the possibility to do this. The technical comitte
has the power to override the maintainers decision, it is just that
upto
now, nobody cared enough to ta
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 02:36:49PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> [-devel and -vote CCed. Please respect the Mail-Followup-To -project.
> You should really subscribe to -project, it's not that big. In any case,
> I will try read and reply to any comment]
I think this is relevant to debian-vote too,
#include
* Sven Luther [Wed, Mar 10 2004, 12:28:11PM]:
> > > Ok, they add parts of it. Thanks for clarifying my impressise
> > > terminology. Still part of non-free remains non-free :)
> >
> > That does not make it 'semi-official' though, or what was your point?
>
> Well, semi-official is vague
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:38:47PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I suspect some of our users might not want to use packages from a
> less trusted source. I would have concerns myself.
Of course, and this was indeed one the prime design requirements. Do
you feel your concerns are adequately addr
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:28:11PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Well, semi-official is vague enough to encompass many things
> ...[snip]... it would be partially official, and so : partial, semi,
> ...
Semi-official implies that there is a blessing of "OK-ness" involved.
By the merit of the content
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 08:32:15AM +0100, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky wrote:
> Does somebody know what I'm talking about?
Yes.
In my opinion, the most serious issue [and not one I have a good solution
for] is the state of glibc:
[1] Upstream sources generally are not buildable on older versions of the
t
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Necessary for what purpose?
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:25:51AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> You seem to be saying that there are lots of necessary things in
> non-free. It's the pro-non-free people who have been saying how
> necessary it is. I'
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Necessary for what purpose?
You seem to be saying that there are lots of necessary things in
non-free. It's the pro-non-free people who have been saying how
necessary it is. I'm assuming that you have some sense of what that
word means for you, and that
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe i am stupid or something. Please spell the exact nature of the
> compromise out for me again, and tell me how i am violating it.
The compromise was: "non-free can be on the FTP site, as long as
everybody knows and agrees that it's not part of Debian
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