Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:48:19AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: [...] > So, I don't feel I can accept the agreement offered by the Mozilla > Foundation, because of my objections to it and because I don't feel > empowered to make an agreement like this on behalf of Debian. [...] > If the DPL does not

Bug#315791: ITP: bmp-extra-plugins -- A set of BMP plugins ported from XMMS but not included in the main BMP or XMMS sources

2005-06-25 Thread Mathias Weyland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: bmp-extra-plugins Version : 6180 Upstream Author : Artur Frysiak * URL : http://svn.pld-linux.org/svn/bmp-plugins/trunk/ * License : GPLv2, LGPL Description : A set of BMP plugins bmp-extra-plugins contain

Re: ftp-master, ftp and db .debian.org moving - hosting sought

2005-06-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 07:22:29PM -0400, sean finney wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:25:12AM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > I'm sorry to say that Debian's hosting of machines at Above.Net has > > come to an end. Michael Shields and Steve Osborn have hosted critical > sorry to be a stick in th

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric Dorland wrote: >> So, I don't feel I can accept the agreement offered by the Mozilla >> Foundation, because of my objections to it and because I don't feel >> empowered to make an agreement like this on behalf of Debian. > If you are not empowere

Re: Package distribution, a concept for a modern package distribution

2005-06-25 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:14:46PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > The concept is based on an LDAP server (or simiar) as a replacement for > the Packages file and on a P2P network for package distribution (see > http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=pkgdist.html). IMO it > would make a lot sen

Re: ftp-master, ftp and db .debian.org moving - hosting sought

2005-06-25 Thread sean finney
hi, On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:25:12AM +0100, James Troup wrote: > I'm sorry to say that Debian's hosting of machines at Above.Net has > come to an end. Michael Shields and Steve Osborn have hosted critical sorry to be a stick in the mud about this, but... why wasn't this brought up *before* it

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-25 Thread Gervase Markham
Eric Dorland wrote: The thread is petering out Only because there's only one of me, and I'm too busy to deal with the volume! It's currently ten to midnight and I just got back from speaking at a conference in Wolverhampton. Some very smart developers have come forward to say that trademar

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-25 Thread Gervase Markham
Eric Dorland wrote: * Gervase Markham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Debian already has rights that their users don't have, the most prominent among them being to label a Linux distribution as "Debian" (or "official Debian", or whatever it is you guys use). :-) When I said rights, I meant rights

Re: Soliciting keys for the debconf5 key signing party in Helsinki

2005-06-25 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:15:33PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >Hello, > >If you intend to participate in the debconf5 key signing party in >Helsinki, please send your ascii armored public key as explained at >[0] by Sunday, July 2nd, 2005. > >If you have already sent your key and haven't

Re: diverting conffiles

2005-06-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:40:54 +0200, Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:35:17 +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: >> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:08:27PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> > Be aware of the fact that diverting conffiles doesn't work. >> >> Hi, what exactly is t

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-25 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005, Bill Allombert wrote: > Following a post to Debian-Devel-Announce, I would like to > discuss getting rid of circular dependencies. FYI, I've removed the galeon/galeon-common in galeon 1.3.21-4 in may, and the gedit/gedit-common in 2.10.3-2 (pending an upload). Shame on me

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2005-06-25 Thread isabelle kone
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Bug#315754: ITP: gkrellm-pmu -- plugin for gkrellm to display battery status on Apple laptops

2005-06-25 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gkrellm-pmu Version : 2.4 Upstream Author : Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pbbuttons.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Description : plugin for

Bug#315752: ITP: tailor -- Tool to keep in sync various kinds of repository (CVS, SVN, ...)

2005-06-25 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tailor Version : 0.0.1 (upstream does not make version for now)1 Upstream Author : Lele Gaifax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor * License

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
John Hasler wrote: This means that if they don't do something legal to us now, they will never be able to do anything regarding their trademark to anyone else ever. You assume that our usage is infringing. I don't think that is established. If our usage is non-infringing, then no con

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-25 Thread John Hasler
Shachar writes: > No, it's quite worse. By ignoring the issue, we are forcing MoFo to > either sue us or lose the trademark. They are not forced to sue. They need (at most) only send us a cease-and-desist letter. They could also decide that our use is non-infringing and ignore it. > Just like w

Meta-Tag for non-free docs bugs?

2005-06-25 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
I'm currently planning to organise the removal of non-free documentation from Debian. There is not yet a timeline for when I plan to do a mass bug filing but I will try to prepare a list of affected packages soon. To be able to track the bugs automatically I propose to use some kind of meta tag in

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
I am not a lawyer. I am a consultant trying to understand the world he lives in, and as such, studied the applicable law a little. Eric Dorland wrote: So, I don't feel I can accept the agreement offered by the Mozilla Foundation, because of my objections to it and because I don't feel empowe

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Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies

2005-06-25 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:43:28PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > > 1) foo and foo-data. There is usualy no reason for foo-data to depend on > > foo. foo-data does not provide user-visible interface, only data, so it > > does not need to depend on foo. > > However, we have some users randomly f

Re: SONAME and package version question

2005-06-25 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > $ dpkg -c librote0_0.2.6-1_i386.deb > > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-06-21 22:36:21 ./ > > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-06-21 22:36:20 ./usr/ > > drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-06-21 22:36:21 ./usr/lib/ > > -rw-r--r-- root/root 13744 2005-06-21 22:36:21 > > ./usr/li