Re: Re-Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-10-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
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Re: Call for Votes - GR: Debian project members

2010-10-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
with less privileges, so that they may add second-class DDs in the hope that this will encourage more non-packagers to become DDs (albeit then second class ones). Did I guess that approximately right? If not I'd like getting some more information, too. Bernhard R. Link Please reply to debian

Re: Call for Votes - GR: Debian project members

2010-10-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org [101005 11:55]: My best guess yet is that this proposal is to tell DAM that we do not oppose second-class Debian Developers with less privileges, so that they may add second-class DDs in the hope that this will encourage more non-packagers to become DDs

What exactly is this GR supposed to do?

2010-09-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
does not have access to the infrastructure? Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100915144542.ga22...@pcpool00.mathematik.uni

Re: DPL 2010: Final call for votes

2010-04-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Mickael Profeta m...@alezan.org [100415 00:43]: - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 7efb5344-bc61-46d2-b86c-3d1b144e1236 [ 2 ] Choice 1: Stefano Zacchiroli [ 4 ] Choice 2: Wouter Verhelst [ 3 ] Choice 3: Charles Plessy [ 1 ] Choice 4:

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-28 Thread Bernhard R. Link
born dead in a commercial sense quite early), introducing amd64 could have been done thus smootly as it comparatibly was. And all those alignment issues on most architectures usually also speed up code in i386 if fixed properly... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Question for all candidates: Release process

2010-03-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
? For many peripheral leafs and branches of our dependancy tree, let's innovate and distribute them through other channels, like official backports and even the new snapshot system that is being set up. Welcome to the first circle of rpm hell... Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bits from the release team and request for discussion

2009-08-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
that to having decided an optimal solution that cannot work due to lack of support or even no longer having people doing the better solutions in charge as noone likes their decisions. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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

2009-01-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
be bad, but better having too many but to less, as the first suggestor throw out the water tank as he suggested everyone should drink salt water and there is enough of it...) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Second call for votes for the Lenny release GR

2008-12-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. Also, the tally sheet may also be viewed after to voting is done (Note that while the vote is in progress it is a dummy tally sheet). But none of the links in there seems to work. Thanks in advance and for your work, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ

Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
that changing the vote changes the output. And while the current vote might be strange, the simplified vote only makes sense if you want a very specific outcome, thus is much worse and extremly undemocratic. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ

Re: Let's restart from scratch the gr_lenny vote (in a better form this time)?

2008-12-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
everything at all is what I call un-democratic, when it is clear that the large majority of people will prefer something else than those extremes. Especially if it are not even all extremes, but just a limited number of it. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Call for seconds: DFSG violations in Lenny

2008-11-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
has no automatic reinstallment of rights) if someone of the many copyright holders brought it into a trial is much better? Because that is the current state of affairs if there are things without source in the Linux sourcecode... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: electing multiple people

2007-10-09 Thread Bernhard R. Link
by a reasonable large minority cannot become elected at all. (and that system is not vulnerable to tactical voting, which I think it most likely would be as there is no way to let people honestly distinguish between I dislike and I like the other side better). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R

Re: Re:%20Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
see them in the sponsored section on my qa.debian.org/developer.php list). At least for me the current proposal would make deciding to sponsor something much harder. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Re:%20Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
enough to maintain this type of package. Or does the advocate imply that the DM is capable of maintaining all types of packages. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: %20Re: Debian Maintainers GR Proposal

2007-06-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the package with the patch included if it is properly applied). Perhaps with the big packages as exception, but those you excluded yourself... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A question to the Debian community ... (Was: Question for Sam Hocevar Gay Nigger Association of America)

2007-05-11 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the big problem you want to resolve. Which might cause people to think the little problem needs fixing while the big problem would have been no problem without the little one. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

2006-08-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
wanting control over what their computer do. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-08-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to be not yes ready. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-08-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] having no software at all increases the pain and makes it more likely someone writes something free, but for the single person that cannot write it, this is too far reached. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

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

2006-08-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. And that it is not that dependent on some interfaces often changing on Linux. Would you also ask to include non-free drivers if they had stable interface and the kernel had a bochs included by default to run them? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link [1] Think of all that little programs speaking some secret

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

2006-08-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
the advantage to work even when the firmware-binary gets lost and the manufacturer might have tested it before. (Or introduced something to replace the firmware, which again defeats your point). Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

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

2006-08-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
that firmware is somehow magically special), that is a important thing to support. But I do not think it makes it neccessary to put non-free stuff into main any more than the need for a flash player absolutely needed to view any modern website... Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- mozilla

Re: Constitutional Amendment GR: Handling assets for the project

2006-07-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
they need for a informed decision. Changing something important like this without some statement from the people directly involved in this would otherwise look so rushed that at least my caution would default me to oppose any change. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-10 Thread Bernhard R. Link
is already quite complicated, a shortcut-cup is practically impossible. The 100 copies is only for front and back-cover texts and about a machine-readable non-opaque copy. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Anton's amendment

2006-02-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
are just convenience, why not label a small fee (like at four digits) for copying as convenience, too? Freedom is always about convienience, a freedom you are not realistically able to use is no freedom for you. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Amendment: invariant-less in main (Re: GR Proposal: GFDL statement)

2006-01-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
in that we promised not too. Hiding problems our users (and we ourself) will be faced with in the future? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR Proposal: Declassification of -private

2005-11-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
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Re: Question for candidate Robinson

2005-03-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
to only package their things in peace, and not interfer with old discussions about long ago tested and found to be good tests. Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
did, but I voted for keeping non-free. And one of my main reasons is that I want main to be free of non-free. MfG, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GR: Alternative editorial changes to the SC

2004-04-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
did, but I voted for keeping non-free. And one of my main reasons is that I want main to be free of non-free. MfG, Bernhard R. Link

dishonesty

2004-03-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. That there are still people not beeing able to control what their computers do and beeing at propiatary software author's mercy. But closing our eyes against this shame and/or not accepting it, will not make this shame go away. It will only make it growing. MfG, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

dishonesty

2004-03-08 Thread Bernhard R. Link
. That there are still people not beeing able to control what their computers do and beeing at propiatary software author's mercy. But closing our eyes against this shame and/or not accepting it, will not make this shame go away. It will only make it growing. MfG, Bernhard R. Link