Re: foo2zjs dispute

2008-11-04 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [081104 05:36]: > This bug isn't assigned to the tech ctte, but I'm going to go ahead and > weigh in anyway since the thread is still in my mailbox demanding a > response. :) > > Anyway, the release team has now made their decision here, so it would again > be

Processed: Re: foo2zjs: getweb script depends on non-free firmware

2008-11-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 503814 foo2zjs Bug#503814: foo2zjs: getweb script depends on non-free firmware Bug reassigned from package `tech-ctte' to `foo2zjs'. > forcemerge 449497 503814 Bug#449497: foo2zjs: getweb script depends on non-free fir

Bug#503814: foo2zjs: getweb script depends on non-free firmware

2008-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
reassign 503814 foo2zjs forcemerge 449497 503814 thanks There's no reason to have a separate bug report here assigned to the technical committee; re-merging the bugs. If this needs to be reconsidered by the TC, please reassign the bugs as a whole to both foo2zjs and the tech-ctte virtual pa

Re: foo2zjs dispute

2008-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
f the DFSG. The script is provided by >> upstream to download non-free firmware from his upstream webpage. The >> package includes documentation in README.Debian and a GUI interface >> (hannah-foo2zjs) around the getweb script for the user's >> convenience. Some p

Re: [Foo2zjs-maintainer] foo2zjs

2008-11-03 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:54:32PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > FYI, the Release Team was asked for an advice on Sun, 26 October [2]. > However, I know we (the Debian foo2zjs maintainers) decided to go to the > tech-ctte just two days later... > Indeed, hence the lack of comment.

Re: [Foo2zjs-maintainer] foo2zjs

2008-11-03 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! Can you please keep the foo2zjs-maintainer mailing list cc:ed? If you do so, no need to cc: me, I read the list. TIA. I'm sorry for the long mail: I performed more tests with the only foo2zjs printer I have [1] and I found some interesting stuff, please read below. I tried to

Re: Bug#503814: foo2zjs

2008-11-01 Thread Andreas Barth
ctually the more important issue, and that the stuff getting > downloaded should probably be packaged for non-free and possibly volatile, > in order to remove the external dependency. The package in main would > then get a "Suggests: foo2zjs-nonfree-drivers", and if the script gets >

Bug#503814: foo2zjs

2008-11-01 Thread Anthony Towns
for non-free and possibly volatile, in order to remove the external dependency. The package in main would then get a "Suggests: foo2zjs-nonfree-drivers", and if the script gets moved to contrib, that could then become "Suggests: foo2zjs-nf-d | foo2zj-nf-d-getter-script". That

Re: foo2zjs

2008-10-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Oct 31 2008, Andreas Barth wrote: > As this bug didn't get a decision from the release team yet, I'd propose > the following decision by the tech ctte: > > 1. Currently, the submitter claims that the bug is serious, the > maintainer don't think so, and there is no decision by the release

Re: foo2zjs dispute

2008-10-31 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! Can you please keep the foo2zjs-maintainer mailing list cc:ed? TIA. On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:58:21 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Does the package work in most cases without this script run? Ie. does it > have enough data to work with a majority of the printers and/or is enoug

foo2zjs

2008-10-31 Thread Andreas Barth
* Debian Bug Tracking System ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [081028 10:08]: > > reassign -2 tech-ctte > Bug#503814: foo2zjs: getweb script depends on non-free firmware > Bug reassigned from package `foo2zjs' to `tech-ctte'. As this bug didn't get a decision from the releas

Re: Bug#449497: foo2zjs dispute

2008-10-31 Thread Andreas Barth
# please read it till the end before flame! # speaking with my TC hat on severity 449497 important thanks * Steffen Joeris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [081031 14:31]: > Dear Technical Committee Members > > Currently, there is a dispute about a certain part of the foo2zjs package. > Unfortun

Bug#503814: [Foo2zjs-maintainer] Bug#449497: foo2zjs: getweb script depends on non-free firmware

2008-10-31 Thread Luca Capello
Hi Michael! Adding the d-release mailing list to cc:. On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:41:25 +0100, Michael Gilbert wrote: > i'll go ahead and start the discussion since no one else is running > with it. this matter is rather urgent since the problem is now being > considered release-critical for lenny. [

Re: foo2zjs dispute

2008-10-28 Thread Joerg Jaspert
> Currently, there is a dispute about a certain part of the foo2zjs package. > Unfortunately, we do not seem to be able to solve it and thus require your > assistance. We have tried to get a paragraph together to state the problem, > but it seems we ended up with two different par

Re: foo2zjs dispute

2008-10-28 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:41:41PM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > The "contrib" section includes (historically) also the reduced > quality package, so the uninstability of a contrib package could > be temporary accepted. contrib already contains such packages as b43-fwcutter, which look very

Re: foo2zjs dispute

2008-10-28 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
ckage includes documentation in README.Debian and a GUI interface (hannah-foo2zjs) around the getweb script for the user's convenience. Some printers need this non-free firmware to run, others don't. More information can be found in the bugreport. Could we please ask you to settle this dispu

foo2zjs dispute

2008-10-28 Thread Steffen Joeris
reassgin 449497 tech-ctte,foo2zjs thanks Dear Technical Committee Members Currently, there is a dispute about a certain part of the foo2zjs package. Unfortunately, we do not seem to be able to solve it and thus require your assistance. We have tried to get a paragraph together to state the