a hidden
> thing)
Spoken like a man who has never accidentally deleted an architecture :-)
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time he complains about James being the Secret
Master of Everything. This leaves me confused.
Richard Braakman
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:42:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Go ahead and do it. I could frankly care less if your users get owned.
In that case it seems safer to avoid using any software you helped
to develop.
Richard Braakman
the rest of
the world expects libraries to be in /usr/lib).
Thus, this approach breaks the best way in which compatibility CAN
be preserved.
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plish that.
"workalike"? sed is a workalike for the real editor.
:%s/ /::/g
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or example a package "silly-game" (100kB) that
depends on a monstrous "silly-game-data" (800MB). Still, it's a start.
--
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There's still time to save Europe from software patents.
EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.internautas.org
probably also missed all the noise about Verisign abusing
the registry for .com and .net.
Maybe you live in a happier world than I :)
Richard Braakman
d this sentiment. I also don't like it
that there are zillions of spams out there purporting to come from
me, and I wish I could do something about it.
Richard Braakman
virus is really nasty.
Are you sure? Looks like ordinary spam to me. And this cease & desist
was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then forwarded to us -- by the
person who sent it?!? Some very broken mail agents are involved here.
Anyway, I don't think we're being addressed at all.
Richard Braakman
would be right.
You're assuming that executables make up the bulk of most packages,
and that compression rates for those executables are similar. I highly
doubt both of those assumptions.
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etent to recognize a mail as Sobig.F, which is
known to fake the sender, and then reply to it anyway. (And yes, I
get a lot of "notifications" that mention Sobig.F by name.)
Richard Braakman
If, on the other hand, you lean back in preparation for the accolades
and gratitude that you expect will follow, and you're already trying
to decide what kind of beer to accept, then your package is probably
ready for stable.
Richard Braakman
ng as much volunteer work as you think they
should be doing. That's rude.
Richard Braakman
ckage
> which fixes some specific bug but leaves the package unmaintained.
> That's irresponsible.
That just doesn't make sense. Is it somehow more responsible to
skip the NMU and leave the package with an extra bug that you
could have fixed?
Richard Braakman
FSG, are the real
> consensus view.
???
The survey asks whether the GFDL _does_ satisfy the DFSG, not whether
it needs to. Did you misspeak here?
Richard Braakman
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:28:52AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Jérôme, please use "darn cabal of debian-legal zealots" next time.
>cu and- triple reading the original mail, stil smiling -reas
And don't forget to call them "licensing geeks"!
Richard Braakman
laudable goals and you
want to contribute?
"Sure," you say, "then contribute. We'll just sit here and tell you
you suck. If after 6-48 months of being told you suck you still haven't
gone away, we'll think about officially (though grudgingly) accepting you."
t; messages are really pretty good, if you know how to filter for the key
> words.
No need to know that -- you can let google do it :) I often
paste whole error messages into the search field. It tends
to work.
Richard Braakman
2. A person may hold several posts, except that the Project Leader,
Project Secretary and the Chairman of the Technical Committee must
be distinct, and that the Leader cannot appoint themselves as
their own Delegate.
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ams/ for later examination...)
Tab completion is fine in contexts where it works.
Richard Braakman
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:42:27PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> And of the users? Please read the social contract.
I read it every day, just before bedtime.
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ted for it afterwards, when the need for it has been demonstrated.
Richard Braakman
, not the rule.
Of course, these days we have gnome and kde depending on every library
they can possibly find, and every other package depending on gnome
or kde (or both, if they can manage it), so the terrain may have
shifted somewhat...
Richard Braakman
ges before we had
dpkg-statoverride.
Richard Braakman
seem much less effective now than when they started.
This might be because they're not eagerly being annotated anymore, though.
Richard Braakman
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:59:59PM +0200, Martin Godisch wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 14:59:50 +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
>
> > One of the packages I "maintain" is cgoban. I packaged it ages ago when
> > I was a fanatical Go player. Nowadays I only get Go
act me and I'll happily
accept your offer to maintain it...
(If you're in the new maintainer queue, I'll also sponsor your
uploads as long as you don't make a mess of them.)
If I hear nothing about it in a week or two, then I'll assume
that everyone hates hextype and I'll ask for it to be removed.
Thanks,
Richard Braakman
greporter rudely pointed
out. Packaging that version would be a productive way to take over
this package :)
If you want it, please let me know, and (to avoid collisions) wait
for me to confirm before you actually make an upload.
Richard Braakman
y useful? We already have the "Essential" flag to indicate
which packages are really required. We could just fold these
levels into one to simplify things.
Richard Braakman
s if fixing bugs is some kind of privilege. These
people are *contributing* to Debian, despite the roadblocks we've
set up. The least you could do is show a bit of courtesy when they
complain that the roadblocks we've set up are inconvenient.
Richard Braakman
pload of a new package)
If you never got that email, then it's likely that there was something
wrong with the upload and the ftpmasters never saw it. Was it properly
signed, etc? Did it have a valid .changes file?
Richard Braakman
s it's generally
a bad idea, but the health of a free system depends on it being
potentially possible.
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ate it when
other developers do it. If the upstream changelog is verbose and
detailed (like the GNU ones tend to be) then it's nice to have the
major changes as a short list.
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n't have an interactive
configuration interface), I want to do it by creating a small,
human-editable file that contains the _differences_ from the defaults.
So even then I have no use for a copy of the default configuration.
(If I want an example, I can look in /usr/doc/$foo/examples, which is
a
omething harmless
that reports the same errors.
Richard Braakman
ss_ work for the user if you can have one xplot program
which replaces both of the current ones.
Richard Braakman
lly:
Package: snmpd
Description: NET SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Agents.
The NET SNMP agent allows remote monitoring of various network and
system information.
This is a good enough explanation for me.
Richard Braakman
ould
pay me to. It's just not safe. Don't let that stop you from holding
a conference, though -- if you already live there, it's no extra risk :)
Richard Braakman
-specific instructions; they are
> only (currently) of benefit to assembly programmers.
Note that uses asm statements to do byte swapping,
and it has separate cases for i386 and i486. This file is used
by which defines htonl() and friends, and by
which defines bswap_32() and friends. Compiling for the i486 will
make a difference here even if GCC doesn't care itself.
Richard Braakman
makes a little penguin
dance around your screen if you press the right key combination would
be "not harmful". Easter eggs are usually in that category.
> Although, was the behavior to do it at a specific
> "time" or at startup everytime?
At startup everytime, after a certain date.
Richard Braakman
priately
> but this is a rather onerous task when replying to a large number of emails.
If you're not sure, you should just follow list policy and not Cc.
It's also nice to attribute your quotes, btw.
Richard Braakman
sn't care much about
internationalization, no matter what they say", then they should be told
to go away. That kind of shit just demoralizes the people who are doing
the work.
Richard Braakman
tem
in the day-to-day running of the system.
(Example: if I'm installing and configuring a firewall, I'd like to be
able to delete the dpkg files from the final image before flashing it.)
Richard Braakman
erved bad name among
precisely the people we hope to convert.
Richard Braakman
ited to hardware detection.
Richard Braakman
t the string ". " indicates the end of a sentence, and ". " does
> not.
I was about to say that, but then I realized that it doesn't help if
a period is at the end of a line. I use two spaces between sentences
myself (old emacs habit), but it irks me that that's not a complete
solution.
Richard Braakman
t;, but does
not say what that format is, and refers to a section that does not
describe it.
Richard Braakman
ess on unixy lists,
so you might not have noticed on debian-*.
Hmm, if I understand it right, your plan will mean that anyone operating
such a broken mail system will get DoSed by spammers? Then maybe there's
something to it after all :-)
Richard Braakman
a surprise.
I don't think he meant that at all. You're confusing "may" with "should
expect to be able to". The whole "provided..." clause misses the point.
Laws do not define morality.
Now, why do you think that it would not be a good thing for the text of
the text of the Unicode license to be free? Your only answer so far
seems to be "because it currently isn't".
Richard Braakman
the data in
> the email non-free just because of that?
On the other hand, if you change the program, you would like to change
the documentation along with it, yes? And in an entirely free system,
doing so would either destroy the images or leave them incorrect.
Losing a feature just bec
| as separators instead of :, should do
> the trick.
Note that this file _is_ part of the unicode spec. As far as I know the
character attributes are defined nowhere else. So "writing the list down
from the unicode spec" means copying the file.
Richard Braakman
;t be eager to rely on the limits of copyrightability.
CNN.com - Composer pays for piece of silence - Sep. 23, 2002
<http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/23/uk.silence/>
Richard Braakman
is or not is a topic for debian-legal).
We could be stuck with programs that we can't modify to support new
languages, for example.
Richard Braakman
documentation or programs, as long as there is an accompanying
notice indicating the source.
Richard Braakman
t-mirror
every time they configure apt. For what benefit?
Richard Braakman
xpensive.
If you're going to tinker with the specification anyway, I would
suggest one where the client states up front whose certificate it wants.
Richard Braakman
n
what to do with software that uses patented algorithms. There are just
too many patents, and just about any program infringes on at least one
of them. Even worse, it is impossible to prove that a program does NOT
infringe on any patent. We'll have to consider the details of each case
individually.
Richard Braakman
nce of it
going right if ardour is simply packaged according to Debian policy,
because that's what our upgrade plan will expect.
Richard Braakman
lder allowing
non-commercial use.
(I say "alleged" because I have not yet seen any basis for their claim
that decoding is patented. The FAQ at
http://www.mp3licensing.com/help/developer.html implicitly makes this
claim, but gives no details.)
Richard Braakman
ear in January and are fully creditable against annual royalties.
US$ 15 000.00 per calendar year
Presumably this is intended to apply to distributors, not individual users :)
They don't actually say that, though.
Richard Braakman
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:48:13AM +0200, Michael Piefel wrote:
> Perhaps I should use /usr/doc/ instead. Even shorter...
I have been a happy man since I made a /doc symlink.
Richard Braakman
27;s worth. I don't
have experience with the platform in question, but I have experience
with ugly code. The experience should be similar :-)
Richard Braakman
rt of a glyph outline, then this
operation is Intelecutal Prupperty of Apple.
(For reference, the USPTO patent search engine is at
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm
Unfortunately, it doesn't generate useful urls for individual patents.)
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"I sense a disturbanc
brasive style comes from ;-)
No... he had his style long before he became X maintainer :)
The bitterness, on the other hand... But X will do that to a man.
Imagine what it's like, not being able to browse "XXX" sites without
being reminded of the latest chipset driver bugs.
Richard
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:51:27PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Richard Braakman wrote:
> > What you're advocating is the evil twin of censorship,
> > namely forced speech.
>
> I don't think that placing restrictions on an otherwise
> completely liberal li
completely different is one of the
> reasons for the creation of the copyright in the first place.
A version of the GFDL that allowed deletion but not modification of such
sections would be perfectly acceptable to me.
Richard Braakman
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orship compatible with liberty?
What you're advocating is the evil twin of censorship, namely forced speech.
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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:30:18AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 09:01, Richard Braakman wrote:
> > On the other hand, by taking action we might be able to stop those projects
> > from taking such a misguided course of action. I think the FSF is making
> &g
rt releasing
> GFDL docs.
On the other hand, by taking action we might be able to stop those projects
from taking such a misguided course of action. I think the FSF is making
a big mistake with the GFDL.
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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 06:30:29AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> Two quotes come to mind:
[...]
You left out my favourite :)
"Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself."
- A. H. Weller, according to the first google hit.
Richard Braakman
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On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 01:53:07PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> IMHO the non-free section should be removed.
Well, go for it. In the meantime, stop antagonizing people who do nice
things for us.
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"I sense a disturbance in the force"
"As though millions o
ome.
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x27;s a draft for a new version up for
review at the FSF site.
There's also a still-open discussion about whether the GFDL is free
enough for Debian if Invariant Sections are used.
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d then we'll all throw our hats in the air.
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"I sense a disturbance in the force"
"As though millions of voices cried out, and ran apt-get."
(Anthony Towns about the Debian 3.0 release)
[*]
http://www.virtualtourist.com/m/?s=d&showpic=/p/.99868/t-159-8.jpg&a
for spelling? Arrgh.
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le with which
to prove Adam wrong, but I do remember a FAQ about such a situation,
where people were told to upgrade by installing both packages in one
dpkg invocation. Apt also has an algorithm for breaking such cycles.
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Will write free software for money.
See http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html
/line buffering.
This problem was solved for telnet, see RFC 1184.
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Will write free software for money.
See http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html
st useful parts of libgal and give them a stable interface
in another library. There's obviously enough need for what libgal
provides, otherwise there wouldn't be so many packages using it now.
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Will write free software for money.
See http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html
e the line as an "echo" command with
arguments "x-" and "-x", and invoke echo accordingly.
bash -c 'echo "x-${IFS}-x"'
will do what you expect.
Richard Braakman
as much
going for it these days -- it's designed for msdos file attributes
and file types. It can't represent symbolic links, for example.
So, no, I don't intend to write a compressor.
Richard Braakman
or help (I'm
having fun writing this), but if you have any unusual arj archives
lying around then I would appreciate a copy for testing.
When it's done I will release it under the GNU GPL.
Richard Braakman
changes and is
therefore a waste of bandwidth and memory. [6] [7] [8].
(Reference 7 is in fact to the TCP standard :)
Richard Braakman
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:32:42AM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote:
> Richard Braakman schrieb:
> > In that case the right "repository" could be a bugreport to the package
> > involved. That way the diff submission is guaranteed.
>
> I agree with you that _something_ has
defective, then this can be explained in that bugreport, and
a corrected diff submitted later -- and the package maintainer gets
the warm happy glow of nuclear catastrophe having been avoided.
Richard Braakman
d with an older version
of upx? The code I've seen doesn't seem to care much about that, so
I wonder if the author considers it a design requirement at all.
Richard Braakman
matter of porting. We have
lots of unix-specific packages. I don't see a problem here.
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ow the decision ended up being made, but the argument
I presented at the time is that a dependency on debhelper is far more
likely to be versioned than the others are. A package that makes use
of a new feature of debhelper is going to have to declare its own
build-depends anyway.
Richard Braakman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:12:27AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to Richard Braakman:
> > Package: gcc (debian/main).
> > Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 58412 r-base: Can't build from source
> > 59819 gcc_2.95.2-7(fr
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 03:17:17PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Richard Braakman wrote:
>
> >...
> > Package: libgd-graph-perl (debian/contrib).
> > Maintainer: Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 59442 libgd-graph-perl:
The following packages have survived the bug horizon, in some cases twice,
because they are too important to drop. These bugs will delay the release
of potato.
Package: boot-floppies (debian/main).
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team
58266 [fixed in CVS] PCMCIA network install is broken
5
database and it will be useless. 200 release-critical bugs are
already too many to deal with. (We got 21 new ones just today.
Simply reading all of them takes more than an hour.)
Richard Braakman
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 01:20:33PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> tkirc (not installable on any arch, depends on ircii, which isn't in
> potato or woody)
ircii is now in non-us.
Richard Braakman
attention to the bug in some other way. Severity
"normal" does not mean "please ignore this bug until the sun goes out".
If you mark a bug release-critical, then that means I have to worry about
it, and have to make other people worry about it. Please don't do that
unless the bug really is critical to the release.
Richard Braakman
is worth dropping the package though.
Classic mistake. The "important" severity is misnamed. It doesn't mean
"this bug is important", it means "this package is unfit for release".
The bug was fixed today, though.
Richard Braakman
rt of Debian, and does not, per
> se, get released. I don't think that bugs on non-fee packages should
> be considered RC.
They are release-critical for that package.
In any case, I think we should have at least one working Netscape to go
with a release. It is a special case.
Richard Braakman
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
> > Package: autofs (debian/main).
> > Maintainer: Justin Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 52132 autofs: Race condition when expiring autofs submounts leaves daemon
oblem specific to that version, which isn't
> in frozen (and may not even exist in unstable anymore..)
Okay, I'm excluding it from the list. Version 0.7-1 is in potato now,
and it's been compiled for all architectures.
Richard Braakman
(presumably tested) new upstream version.
However, what else has changed in quota 2.00? Are there incompatibilities?
Richard Braakman
It really isn't
> release-critical in that sense.
Then it's not release-critical at all.
Richard Braakman
, it needs someone
to actually test it on the potato version, like you did.)
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