Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 01:28:46AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> >> I'm convinced enough. Some time ago, I was playing around with an
>> >> emulator for Texas Instruments calculators. It obviously required a
>> >> ROM image to be useful, and the only
Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think I'm starting to understand your point of view. So _any_ use of
> the software without using non-DFSG data makes it free, right?
Any reasonable use. Printing out a "firmware not found" message
doesn't count!
> But what if loading the firmware
I'll try to address the Specht case and summarize, and we can call
this an end to the discussion if that's what you want.
Bruce> You can read a case on the nature of consent such as Specht v. Netscape,
Bruce> which might convince you that we don't necessarily get
sufficient consent on
Bruce> the
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 01:28:46AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> >> I'm convinced enough. Some time ago, I was playing around with an
> >> emulator for Texas Instruments calculators. It obviously required a
> >> ROM image to be useful, and the only legal way of obtaining one was
> >> dumping it f
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:45:15 -0800, Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> 'ISV' is just another name for 'Software Hoarder'.
>>
> Please keep in mind this portion of Debian's Social Contract:
>/We will support our users who d
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:51:54 -0800, Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:25:38PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>> Op do, 16-12-2004 te 14:46 -0500, schreef Ian Murdock:
>> > We've heard directly from the biggest ISVs that nothing short of
>> > a common binary core w
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:36:09PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> > To me, that seems much like arguing that because an emulator (such as
>> > one for a console system) provides a GUI, and because it can run and
>> > display that GUI without needing a RO
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:23:54 +0100, Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>> Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Is your name input for a state-machine?
>> You should see what it does to TECO. My name is a killing word.
> :-)
>>> [data == software
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:52:56 -0800, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:07:31AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
>>> No, a definition of "software" was never decided upon. The vote
>>> was about removing the word "software" i
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:53:51 +0100, Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>> Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> And now you consider it software just because the method of
>>> storage is different? How can the nature of the bytes change
>>> because t
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:49:13 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
[...]
> The idea behind
> initscripts is that they do what they are told when they are run.
> sysv-rc and file-rc implement two different schemes for
> determining when they are run and with what arguments. I don't
> see why people keep trying
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:36:09PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > To me, that seems much like arguing that because an emulator (such as
> > one for a console system) provides a GUI, and because it can run and
> > display that GUI without needing a ROM, the emulator should go to main.
> > I don't
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:07:31AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
>> No, a definition of "software" was never decided upon. The vote was
>> about removing the word "software" in certain places from the DFSG,
>> regardless of its definition.
>
> However, the
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:30:02 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Try to install xdebconfigurator,
> http://packages.debian.org/xdebconfigurator>, and see if it work
> for you? To test it, install the package and run
> xdebconfigurator && dexconf
> This will replace your c
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: kbandwidth
Version : 1.0.1
Upstream Author : Niko Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=18939
* License : GPL
Description : Network interface monitor in KDE tray
Peter Van Eynde wrote:
> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>> Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>[data == software ?]
>>
>> Bingo. Debian had this debate last year. There was a giant vote over
>> it. Then another debate and another vote.
>
> Hmm. I remember we had an "editorial change"
Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Is that really JPEG? Or JTAG?
That's all we need, lossy ROM image compression :-) Yes, JTAG.
Thanks
Bruce
So, I did this a few days ago, and ddcprobe was not in any Debian
package. Also, it got the mouse as /dev/input rather than
/dev/input/mouse, and the resulting X configuration didn't work. It
would be really nice if it worked.
Thanks
Bruce
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Do you want a working
Do you want a working XFree86 configuration out of the box, without
having to answer questions about your hardware?
Try to install xdebconfigurator,
http://packages.debian.org/xdebconfigurator>, and see if it work
for you? To test it, install the package and run
xdebconfigurator && dexconf
T
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:26:01 -0800, Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The LGPL requires that the creator of a derivative work provide the object
> code for relinking, and not prohibit relinking and reverse engineering. It
> does not, however, require that creator to take other necessary ste
Michael K. Edwards wrote:
Hopefully this continues to be interesting to debian-devel readers.
It's not even interesting to me, and I hope that someone of greater
legal competence sets you right and ends the discussion.
The LGPL requires that the creator of a derivative work provide the
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:39:46AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:37:45AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >> Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > No, there's a very concrete reason: given an installation of De
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:23:54PM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote:
> Hmm. I remember we had an "editorial change" that then turned into
> something completely different, followed by 6 damage limitation options and
> 1 hard line option. A damage limitation option won, but I if I read the
> matrix c
Hi Peter,
> In fact I've already done that. The *.h goes to /usr/include/ossp/ and
> library
> name is libossp-uuid.so. There is no problem with names as far as I've
> modified /usr/bin/uuid-config.
Ok. I did not upload my packages until now. I will change the library and
package name to libossp
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:07:31AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> No, a definition of "software" was never decided upon. The vote was
> about removing the word "software" in certain places from the DFSG,
> regardless of its definition.
However, the S in DFSG means "software"; the SC was adjusted to
On re-reading the sequence of events, it looks like I was the one who
switched the context of the hypothetical "reproducible build tools"
obligation from GPL to LGPL. Bruce, my apologies for implying that
you were the one who switched contexts. So we seem to agree that the
support for this requir
Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>>> Architectural plans for a house, shipped in a Debian package, are
>>> software.
>>
>> I'm stunned. So anything in a Debian package is software. With alien I
>> can co
Hopefully this continues to be interesting to debian-devel readers.
Perhaps replies should go to debian-legal; GMail doesn't seem to let
me set Followup-To, but feel free to do so if you think best.
I have copied Eben Moglen (General Counsel to the FSF) at Bruce's
suggestion. Mr. Moglen, I am no
Hello all, I've been mostly out of commission for a while, and my key
isn't currently in the keyring. I've been working with Jaqque to get it
in, but we haven't finished that yet.
But, I've had some requests for a new limewire package, and so I've
made one. My problem is that I don't have acces
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 15:34 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
> > Is that the majority or the minority of applications?
> > Take for example a web application like a forum. It requires the
> > password so it can connect to the database. It can't/won't as
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:05:00AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Op do, 16-12-2004 te 17:07 -0800, schreef Adam McKenna:
> > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:13:11AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > I think Wouter is only asking for reciprocity here. If they don't care
> > > about his concerns why sh
[didn't sent to the list...]
Andreas Tille wrote:
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:
first place. Especially the hint to "PASSIV MODE" smells like
something
has changed to the situation before.
| dput (0.9.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
Perhaps this was the reason but I should probably reo
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Severity: wishlist
* Package name: pngwriter
Version : 0.5.0
Upstream Author : Paul Blackburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://pngwriter.sourceforge.net
* License : GPL
Description : Library for plotting PNG image pixel by pixel
PNGwrite
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Indeed; however, IMO excerting the right to modify as defined by the
DFSG should never result in the loss of support, or other negative
consequences, because in that case you might as well not have it. This
type of certification does carry that kind of negative consequence.
> > if [ "$variant" == "Unicode" ]; then
> >
> > That is a bashism which will fail if /bin/sh is dash. Use
> > [ "foo" = "bar" ] instead.
>
> Thanks... are there any more pitfalls like this?
[ expr -a expr ] is a pretty common "mistake".
[ expr ] && [ expr ] should be used instead.
(The same with
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:33:41AM -0500, I clumsily wrote:
> I was talking about the API the firmware uses -- the one that the program
> contained in the API was designed to work with.
That should have read:
I was talking about the API the firmware uses -- the one that the program
contained in t
> > Why this library was suddenly deemed critical for the architecture after
> > we were already 3 months into a toolchain freeze is another question.
>
> This I'd like to know, too
>
> > FWIW, these questions seem more appropriate to debian-devel than
> > debian-mentors; these are not what I wo
> Raul Miller wrote:
> > The API that is programmed by the firmware -- which you shouldn't confuse
> > with the API used by the driver that downloads the firmware -- is not
> > known to us.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:51:22PM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote:
> I don't understand you.
Hmm...
> An API
On Wednesday 15 of December 2004 21:05, you wrote:
> I saw that you also ITP a OSSP (www.ossp.org) project for Debian:
> OSSP uuid. I intent to do the same for OSSP sa. I'm using the sa
> library successful for a small application so my intention is
> make it public for others who intent to do the
Raul Miller wrote:
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:39:26AM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote:
The API is known, otherwise there would be no Linux driver.
The API that is programmed by the firmware -- which you shouldn't confuse
with the API used by the driver that downloads the firmware -- is not
known to u
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:10:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>> Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
>> > I've sent messages to various [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses many
>> > times for various reasons, and they have all always been ignored.
>
>> Me too, for values of ign
Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Is your name input for a state-machine?
You should see what it does to TECO. My name is a killing word.
:-)
>>[data == software ?]
Bingo. Debian had this debate last year. There was a giant vote over
it. Then another debate
> Raul Miller wrote:
> > Fundamentally, the DFSG is aimed at making sure that we can provide the
> > software that we can support. Restrictions that leave us writing an
> > opaque blob of bits which drives an unknown API very much put us into
> > a context where we can't know that we're doing the
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:59:15PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> As it stands, 4 downloads for s390 appear somewhat disproportionate to
> 1,285,422 for i386.
s390 is a little special, because it's neither a desktop nor a server
architecture, but rather a mainframe one. One software installatio
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:56:43PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | * Package name: ms-sys
> | Version : 2.0.0.
> | Upstream Author : Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | * URL : http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/
> | * License : GPL
> | Description : tool
Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please at least read Policy on what "Depends" means first. If you
> also read the archives, you'll have a chance at understanding the
> position of other debaters here, and of generating original
> arguments. So far, this is all a repeat. It was
* Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
| * Package name: ms-sys
| Version : 2.0.0.
| Upstream Author : Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| * URL : http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/
| * License : GPL
| Description : tool for writing Microsoft compatible boot records
Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>> Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>And now you consider it software just because the method of storage is
>>>different? How can the nature of the bytes change because they are
>>>stored on a disk?
>> The natur
Quoting Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> But what me *really* concerns is why dput and dupload failed in the
> first place. Especially the hint to "PASSIV MODE" smells like something
> has changed to the situation before. I do not know something about
> passive mode but I'm afraid somebody
Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>> Some firmware is part of the hardware. Some isn't. It's easy to tell
>> -- either it's in the hardware or it isn't. Of course, the name
>> "firmware" should make it clear that this is an often ambiguous line.
>> But th
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
Well, see, the GnuMed bootstrapping does a lot more advanced
things regarding "the database user". There's users and groups
with varying levels of access to the database.
However, if dbconfig-common creates the admin account we just
use it. We can also de
i maintained ms-sys until the 1.1.3, i knew about 2.0 but didn't do the
update. did you see some part of mbr code is
free and some not?
you probably want to talk to upstream, as i don't intend to maintain
ms-sys anymore (i don't want non-free stuff generally).
i was pointed to the package "mbr" i
* Peter Van Eynde
| > Architectural plans for a house, shipped in a Debian package, are
| > software.
|
| I'm stunned. So anything in a Debian package is software. With alien I
| can convert a tar.gz into a debian package, so all tar files are
| software. With tar I can create a tar.gz from any
Sir/Madam,
I have Intel Mainboard 915GEV inbuilt Lan Card. Unable to install driver
for Debian Woody r3.0 ( 2.4.18 ). Please send a solution
regards
--
Soumen Biswas
Dept. of CSE,
College of Engg.& Mgmt, Kolaghat
Ph: 03228-2331217,03228-233136
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Op vr, 17-12-2004 te 01:40 -0800, schreef Steve Langasek:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:03:00AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > Indeed; however, IMO excerting the right to modify as defined by the
> > DFSG should never result in the loss of support, or other negative
> > consequences, because in t
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:
But what me *really* concerns is why dput and dupload failed in the
first place. Especially the hint to "PASSIV MODE" smells like something
has changed to the situation before.
[...]
| dput (0.9.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
|
| * More verbose error mes
> >but something to point out: dbconfig-common already performs the
> >administrative actions needed to set up the database and database user
Well, see, the GnuMed bootstrapping does a lot more advanced
things regarding "the database user". There's users and groups
with varying levels of access to
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:29:46PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:02:30AM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > If we refuse to handle non-free firmware being loaded onto devices and
> > require they come with it already inside then we get to play the "I
> > can't see it, it
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> But what me *really* concerns is why dput and dupload failed in the
> first place. Especially the hint to "PASSIV MODE" smells like something
> has changed to the situation before.
[...]
| dput (0.9.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
|
| * More verbo
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:45:07AM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
> >>Should I go on?
> >
> >
> >No, I think you've adequately demonstrated that you don't have the foggiest
> >idea what you're talking about.
>
> Ok. I'm game. Why? Where is the error my in applying your rules
John Goerzen wrote:
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:43:37PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Thus, the answer to the failure of the LSB is not "the Free Software
people should be more helpful to the non-free people"; the correct
answer is "the non-free people should be more helpful to the Free
Software peo
* Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041217 07:55]:
> When trying manual ftp I found out that dosbox_0.63-2.dsc was put to master
> but with zero bytes and I'm not allowed to remove this file.
The _only_ way to remove failed uploads is to upload a commands file,
e.g. with dcut.
Cheers,
Andi
--
On Dec 17, 2004 at 09:44, j.s.dhilip praised the llamas by saying:
>hello,
> Would you please told me how can I get source code for OSPF?
>
Makes a nice change from dualling banjos.
--
David Pashley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
It has been suggested that you install symlinks[*] but provide an
/etc/default/foo file with an environment variable that forcibly
disables the service when set to "off" or whatever, and that the
initscript be written so that it overrides this forced disabling
when run from the command line. Of co
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:21:03PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote:
> > This is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The
> > program does the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:"
> > to a floppy or FAT partition except that it does not copy any system files
hello,
Would you please told me how can I get source code for OSPF?Regardj.s dhilip chandran
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hello,
Would you please tell me how can I get source code for OSPF and distance vector ? It would be of great help to me , if u can send me some address related to linux based systems and of socket programming type. Regardsj.s dhilip chandran
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Matthew Palmer wrote:
Should I go on?
No, I think you've adequately demonstrated that you don't have the foggiest
idea what you're talking about.
Ok. I'm game. Why? Where is the error my in applying your rules?
Groetjes, Peter
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:37:09PM -0500, Ian Murdock wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 18:15 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > This sounds a bit like the government whose country had three
> > different types of power plugs. None compatible, of course. Somebody
> > then got the great idea that if t
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:37:45AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > No, there's a very concrete reason: given an installation of Debian
>> > main, the driver works. Drivers that require non-free firmware d
Raul Miller wrote:
Fundamentally, the DFSG is aimed at making sure that we can provide the
software that we can support. Restrictions that leave us writing an
opaque blob of bits which drives an unknown API very much put us into
a context where we can't know that we're doing the right thing.
The A
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:51:39AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> When the issue of binary blobs in the kernel was first discussed here,
>> if I'm not mistaken the proposed solution was to rewrite the respective
>> drivers to be able to load the blob at ru
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:03:00AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:01:16PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > You never lose the right to modify. You lose the right to claim that a
> > modified version is the certified one. I addressed this specifically in
> > DFSG section
Glenn Maynard wrote:
Hmm. A few places to draw the "dependency from driver to firmware"
line seem to be:
1: a dependency exists if the driver needs access to a copy of the firmware
(for devices that need the firmware uploaded on every boot);
2: a dependency exists if the hardware needs firmware at
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
>> I've sent messages to various [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses many
>> times for various reasons, and they have all always been ignored.
> Me too, for values of ignored that include "may have resulted in some
> action, but never got a repl
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 08:13:31PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
>
>> [quoting me, Frank]
>
>> > Secondly, I'd like to learn what this libunwind is about and why
>> > tetex-bin is linked against it on some (many!) arches, but not on
>> > i386. The package
Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The libunwind issue is newer, you
> probably just have to read the corresponding bug reports.
Which bugs?
TIA, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
Some firmware is part of the hardware. Some isn't. It's easy to tell
-- either it's in the hardware or it isn't. Of course, the name
"firmware" should make it clear that this is an often ambiguous line.
But this does seem to be a good practical place: can anybody with
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:53:51AM +0100, Peter Van Eynde wrote:
> I'm stunned. So anything in a Debian package is software. With alien I can
> convert a tar.gz into a debian package, so all tar files are software. With
> tar I can create a tar.gz from any file, so all electronic data is software
Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
Peter Van Eynde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
And now you consider it software just because the method of storage is
different? How can the nature of the bytes change because they are
stored on a disk?
The nature of the bytes do not change. But my name, distributed in a
D
On Dec 16, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I refuse to accept that 'providing a common binary core' would be the
> only way to fix the issue. It is probably the easiest way, and for lazy
> people it may look as if it is the only one; but we should not dismiss
> the idea that it is pos
Op do, 16-12-2004 te 17:07 -0800, schreef Adam McKenna:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:13:11AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > I think Wouter is only asking for reciprocity here. If they don't care
> > about his concerns why should he care about theirs ? Or alternatively
> > "not caring" is a freedo
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:01:16PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> You never lose the right to modify. You lose the right to claim that a
> modified version is the certified one. I addressed this specifically in
> DFSG section 4:/
> /
>
>/The license may require derived works to carry a differe
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 08:51:52AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Ingo Juergensmann]
> > Why? To make it public what buildd admins are the worst?
> To make public the requests made regarding the autobuilders (others
> can see existing requests, and do not have to send identical requests
> aga
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Steve Langasek wrote:
See the dcut command (or the README file in UploadQueue) for information
on how to remove broken files from the ftp server.
I do not find the string dcut in
ftp://ftp-master.debian.org/pub/UploadQueue/README
but the *.commands file would probably help a
[Ingo Juergensmann]
> Why? To make it public what buildd admins are the worst?
To make public the requests made regarding the autobuilders (others
can see existing requests, and do not have to send identical requests
again), and to make sure the state of each request is available both
to the reque
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:10:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> > I've sent messages to various [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses many
> > times for various reasons, and they have all always been ignored.
> Me too, for values of ignored that include "may have resulted in some
> acti
Michael K. Edwards wrote:
What part of "normally distributed ... with ... the operating system"
is confusing?
The license requires that the source code all of the pieces that
constitute a derivative work of some original piece of GPL code
must be provided. This would be the original GPL pro
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:50:16AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> $ dput *.changes
> Uploading package to host ftp-master.debian.org
> ...
> Good signature on
> /home/tillea/debian-maintain/sponsor/dosbox/dosbox_0.63-2.dsc.
> Uploading via ftp dosbox_0.63-2.dsc: Error '553 Could not create file.'
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:10:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> > I've sent messages to various [EMAIL PROTECTED] addresses many
> > times for various reasons, and they have all always been ignored.
> Me too, for values of ignored that include "may have resulted in some
> actio
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
I don't know what the essense of Free Software is to you;
You do so. I created the DFSG. It defines what the essense of Free
Software is not only to me but to this project.
However, to me, the essense of Free Software is that it allows one to
modify the software as
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:59:15PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:34:55PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> > Although the problem is well known and the solution is obvious, nobody seems
> > to have the guts to make a change (or even to speak about it).
> Let's have
Hi,
did something changed in the upload queue?:
$ dput *.changes
Uploading package to host ftp-master.debian.org
...
Good signature on /home/tillea/debian-maintain/sponsor/dosbox/dosbox_0.63-2.dsc.
Uploading via ftp dosbox_0.63-2.dsc: Error '553 Could not create file.' during
ftp transfer of dosbo
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