Re: Bug#254598: Name of the Debian x86-64/AMD64 port

2004-06-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris Cheney wrote: > Perhaps you haven't read my emails since the list software ate them? Likely. > thing that uses x86_64 exclusively is the _Linux_ kernel. As I mentioned > in the previous email out of the various os/dist that support the > x86_64/amd64 arch 8 out of 9 c

Bug#254598: Name of the Debian x86-64/AMD64 port

2004-06-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote: > "May the dpkg and/or apt maintainers select the name of an > architecture?" I'd say no to this. Historically the apt/dpkg folk have never done that, primarily because they have no interest in the architecture name, it is just a value in

Re: `debian-ctte@d.o' etc. blackhole

2004-06-11 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > 6. We insist that [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be an alias for > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Ok, I just did that. > > thanks. Well, I have made an error in this it seems. The rational for not having this sort of forward is pretty good. What I w

Re: `debian-ctte@d.o' etc. blackhole

2004-06-05 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Ian Jackson wrote: Well, I'll deal with some of these, since I can. Some I cannot, at least not right now: > 6. We insist that [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be an alias for > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, I just did that. > 7. We insist that [EMAIL PROTECTED] should either bou

Re: Proposed resolution Re: md5sum

2004-05-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 25 May 2004, Ian Jackson wrote: > Well, now there are four of us who've replied so it seems we're not > going to be lacking in participants, and no-one has criticised my > draft, so I hereby formally propose the resolution below. If I don't > hear any objections I'll call for a vote in a

Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge

2004-04-28 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Bdale Garbee wrote: > > [1] We need to make sure we know who is active. Maybe we should have a > > "show of hands" on who on the committee is actively reading this thread? > > I'm here, reading, and thinking. Nothing productive to inject into the > discussion yet. Me too,

Re: Versioned Symbols

2003-03-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > As an example: for SASL (which currently causes breakage encompassing LDAP > (and through it, glibc nss modules), we would have to force-feed upstream a > SASL2 enabled source of postfix and sendmail, for example. We would also > have to dr

Re: Committee members please check you got my test

2002-11-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe writes ("Re: Committee members please check you got my test"): > Perhaps it would be easier just to make [EMAIL PROTECTED] > an alias for my exploder on chiark ... Well, if you want that I can also setup [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Committee members please check you got my test

2002-11-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > > If you want I can update the dist file to your specifications, unless > > listmaster wants to.. > > Can you make the archives readable only to the committee ? Yes, I probably can, if you tell me where the archive you are having problems is located. I

Re: Committee members please check you got my test

2002-11-11 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > Raul wasn't on -ctte-private, but I'm sending copies of the mails I > receive to him using my .forward. Manoj also wasn't on the list, but > hasn't replied to my request to say which email he wants his copies > sent to, so I haven't done that yet. Well:

Re: Bug#161931: kernel-image-2.4.19-k7: VESA driver for console

2002-11-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Herbert Xu wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If VESAFB is modularised, then you would load it from the initrd just > like any other essential module. In fact, in future it may become > the modus operandi with the advent of early us

Re: Bug#161931: kernel-image-2.4.19-k7: VESA driver for console

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > So, would everyone else please vote ? If you don't have an opinion or > don't want to vote, please explicitly abstain. That will shorten the > voting period due to the `no longer in doubt' rule. I agree with Ian's assement. So count this as a 'yes' vote

Re: Gnome (#154950) (was Re: Please organize the vote)

2002-10-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > So, I hereby call for a vote on my earlier proposal to close the bug > and vote in favour. Here's a copy if you missed it: I concure. Jason

Re: Please organize the vote

2002-09-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > AIUI, there are three options: go straight to unstable, use "foo2" > package names in unstable, or use a staging area. Jeff Waugh objects > to the first option for good reasons, you object to the second for good > reasons, and no one has any major probl

Re: Bug#154950: Gnome 2 transition

2002-08-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Raul Miller wrote: > Some of these issues are subtle [for example: sawfish, where there's no > difference between sawfish in gnome1 vs. gnome2 but there is a difference > in what libraries it's (dynamically) linked against]. What is the practical consequences of using sawfis

Re: Bug#154950: (no subject)

2002-08-04 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > There's one aspect of this debate given little attention in > submissions to the bug report: It is entirely possible that both > Gnome 1 and Gnome 2 are desirable in the next Debian release. Er, how many packages are we talking about here? We have

Re: Technical committee composition and activity

2002-07-20 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think the lack of responsiveness by half of the committee is a big > problem. It undermines both our legitimacy and effectiveness. It's > OK for people to be busy occasionally and miss bits of our work. But > completely disappearing and not answering

Re: Release-critical bugs, and #97671

2002-06-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > No-one has commented to say they object to us punting on this one, so > I hereby call for a vote on the resolution I proposed on Monday. If > anyone votes against, or proposes an amendment, I'll probably withdraw > the resolution so we can talk about it.

Re: Technical Committee - ping !

2002-05-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > Are the rest of you there ? Manoj and I have been having an extensive > discussion about #119517, and about the use of the BTS, and I sent > round a number of other mails, but there have been no responses. Didn't feel like sending 'Me Too' emails. I susp

Re: Can we reject HTML mail ?

2002-04-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > Eh ? I thought we'd unmoderated the list. mmm, in that case you are probably looking at old spam that pre-dates the spamassasin setup. I haven't got any on the ctte list since then.. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Can we reject HTML mail ?

2002-04-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Ian Jackson wrote: > Is there any software on lists.debian.org that could bounce all HTML > mail sent to debian-ctte ? debian-ctte is getting a hideous amount of > spam. It's clogging our mailboxes and making the archives unuseable. Hmm. It seems I'm not getting unmoderate

Re: request for Technical Committee ruling on Bug #109436

2001-08-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Why is it that Branden and I are the only ones worried about > us violating copyright law? I haven't seen anyone say we are violating copyright law, the worst I've heard is that we have non-DFSG software in main which could mean many things..

My thought

2001-08-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
I feel this should be the juristiction of the FTP team to decide what the appropriate action is. Clearly, there is no general guideline for when a file already in the archive should be replaced or erased outside of the the normal processes. Replacing any file in the archive immediately invalida

Re: request for Technical Committee ruling on Bug #109436

2001-08-24 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Because we control the deb and the diff, but we do not control > the pristine upstream sources, which may have well known > cryptographic signatures on them outside the scope of Debian to > affect. This is a bogus argument. If anything it