Re: Categorially refusing to exercise DPL powers (was: ITN procedure?)

2025-05-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[follow-ups should probably go to -project; this issue is non-technical] Hi Andreas, Thank you for your prompt follow-up. At 2025-05-08T10:14:57+0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Am Thu, May 08, 2025 at 02:54:47AM -0500 schrieb G. Branden Robinson: > > At 2025-05-08T09:07:48+0200, Andr

Categorially refusing to exercise DPL powers (was: ITN procedure?)

2025-05-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
date disclose which powers of the office they categorically refuse to exercise. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Dropping awk?

2025-04-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
helping us to have AWK scripts that don't exercise extensions to POSIX. (But maybe the newer original-awk that supports CSV data--a non-POSIX extension--fixes that.) I wonder if it'd be less effort to _review_ what AWK scripts we have in maintainer scripts for satisfiability by any POSIX-c

Re: Explicitly depending on Essential packages (was: Dropping awk?)

2025-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Josh (it's been a long time since XFree86 packaging days!), At 2025-04-21T01:42:52+0100, Josh Triplett wrote: > G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > "You must not tag any packages essential before this has been > > discussed on the debian-devel mailing list and a consensus

Re: Explicitly depending on Essential packages (was: Dropping awk?)

2025-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Adrian, At 2025-04-21T01:34:56+0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 04:46:52PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Factual statements about one's run-time dependencies should be as > > decoupled from the details of the set of "Essential" packages a

Explicitly depending on Essential packages (was: Dropping awk?)

2025-04-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
bly wouldn't work well, and we should update the Policy Manual to require discussion of the dropping of such a "tag" as well. ...for which achievement of the goal you propose is a prerequisite. One of the current Policy Manual editors might opine. Regards, Branden [1] https://peps.

w(1) vs. who(1) (was: utmp in trixie)

2025-04-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
for obtaining process or user session information, the different development organizations, with their divergent kernels, changed what ever they needed to in the kernel to achieve other objectives, like implementing virtual memory with demand paging, or supporting symmetric multiprocessing. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
courage developers to explore and experiment with workflows (within the boundaries of their responsibilities). It's not necessary for each individual to focus on the search for the One Workflow To Rule Them All; if such a thing exists, I think it will reveal itself organically through converging preferences. Labor-saving devices are attractors in this chaotic space. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Should uncoordinated NMUs unilaterally choose Salsa as the VCS for a package?

2025-03-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
m personally. Debian Developers are a diverse bunch and approach packaging with a variety of techniques. Not everyone will work exactly as another does; we shouldn't expect that. In high-dimensional spaces, a global optimum often doesn't exist. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Growing new FTP-masters (Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
wish > > I had read them before. > > Mmm. They sat private access only for ten years, Why? > but when I joined the FTP team I worked to get them published. Thank you! Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy?

2025-02-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
I think delegation is an entirely appropriate mechanism for achieving non-involvement given the parameters our constitution puts on delegation. See §8.2: "The Delegates are appointed by the Project Leader and may be replaced by the Leader at the Leader's discretion. The Project Lead

Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy?

2025-02-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ases are often unconscious, whereas conflicts of interest are always known to the person who has them. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy?

2025-02-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ething you didn't > bother write ? Also, this is the wrong list for the topic. To -project with this. And yes, it would be courteous to write the thing in meatspace. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: DEP-14: Default branch name 'debian/latest' objections?

2025-01-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
. I'd point out that "debian/main" also refers to the part of the Debian package archive that is not "contrib" or "non-free". I therefore perceive "debian/main" as ambiguous. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: write the fine manual (was Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch)

2025-01-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Jonathan, At 2025-01-15T22:01:28+, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed Jan 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM GMT, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > As someone who has a bit of a preoccupation with man pages > > You've reminded me that you presented 'Write the Fine Manual' i

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-01-15T14:09:03-0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "G" == G Branden Robinson writes: > G> Don't we have dpkg filters for this sort of use case? > > I honestly can't tell from your message which position you are > supporting, which I

Re: Removing manpages from libpam-modules to improve multi-arch

2025-01-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
set of "profiles" for common applications, like localization file stripping?[1] Elimination of those and man pages have been considered low-hanging fruit by producers of "minimal" variants of Debian for about as long as there have been such things _as_ variants of Debian. Regar

Re: New Delegation: tag2upload delegates

2025-01-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
/"rule-based"/"legalistic" one. I need an anthropologist to teach me how to sort out the parameters of this struggle. Does Biella Coleman have a Ph.D. student who needs a thesis topic? Regards, Branden [1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_003 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/dep-team/deps/-/merge_requests/8 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: DEP17 /usr-move: most mitigations (M18) for aliased diversions (P3) are broken

2025-01-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
e tests. As a result, I'm attaching a shell script. It > > A kind soul reminded me of actually attaching something. Happens to me (almost) every time... Regards, Branden [1] I tried to trace this quote; the best I can do is to observe that it was popularized by Michael Crichton in a

Re: Musings about Usernames in adduser and Debian

2024-12-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ch that there are no non-ugly solutions apart from "just stick to ASCII", which some people find ugly in a different way. Apologies if I missed someone bringing up and rejecting Punycode in the previous ~41 messages in this thread. I rescanned, using my fallible human eyeballs. It would be helpful to me if lists.debian.org supported a search feature. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: The advantages of splitting /bin and /usr/bin, and /sbin and /usr/sbin outweigh the disadvantages

2024-12-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
he DEC PDP-11 and VAX-11 series of computers. It's of a piece with the 640kB RAM limit afflicting the IBM PC architecture. In other words, nonsense that should be discarded with great force at the first opporunity, which arrived decades ago. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Monthly : AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-10 Thread G. Branden Robinson
y better resemble a long session in a sensory deprivation tank. Most comm majors seem to think they're writing for the J. Peterman catalog. As is often the case in matters of style, William Strunk and George Orwell knew whereof they spoke. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ious. > Those models should have been trained on different tones, as long as > we instruct it to use them. Has it got sliders for "Hunter S. Thompson" or "Christopher Hitchens"? ;-) Regards, Branden [1] or reader/writer, in which case the "negotiation" is mo

Re: Debian Monthly [debian-devel]: AI News Report 2024/10

2024-11-09 Thread G. Branden Robinson
his experiment, did anyone notice how deadly dull the prose style is? It's like the LLM had been trained solely on corporate press releases. I miss the Joeys. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: signify and signify-openbsd names

2024-10-09 Thread Branden Robinson
rom at any speed, and seems determined to hang on to like grim death. ...which makes sense since what they're clinging to is a corpse. So how about openoffice-httpd? Regards, Branden FoobarOn Wed, Oct 9, 2024, 12:43 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:On Wed, 2024-10-09 at 10:2

Re: Why does Salsa use reCAPTCHA?

2024-09-07 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Jonas, At 2024-09-07T08:37:45+0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting G. Branden Robinson (2024-09-07 05:47:17) > > On a less sarcastic note, I am taken aback by the fact that this > > project can have a ~100 message thread proposing a DEP > > > > "Enable true

Re: Why does Salsa use reCAPTCHA?

2024-09-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
pen" collaboration tool (cough) should bring the whole initiative to a dead stop until and unless it's fixed. It certainly leaves me feeling queasy about having already (lightly) used salsa for Debian work. This seppo thanks you for bringing the problem to people's attention, Ceppo. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

2024-08-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ar in two different paths is a higher priority than > keeping systems working. "Move fast and break as much stuff as possible, or Debian will be doomed to irrelevance. I'll be SABDFL someday!" The creed of the _impactful_ developer. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed

2024-04-11 Thread G. Branden Robinson
when adopting a release of new software. Possibly I should be making that association with someone else, though. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-03-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ject that way. But I think that procedure serves an audience that is distinguishable in some ways. Regards, Branden [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=822fef56e9ab7cbe69337b045f6f20e32e25f566 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Is it allowed to remove attribution in public domain "licensed" source code? (and pondering about ftp-level reviews)

2024-03-30 Thread G. Branden Robinson
for packages in NEW queue, and there is probably no automation in > place to flag subsequent copyright changes for re-review? That was my understanding 20 years ago; I can't competently speak to the status quo. Regards, Branden [1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-ma

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-03-30 Thread G. Branden Robinson
uot;, but "often" seems fair enough; it's true of groff. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/INSTALL.REPO?h=1.23.0#n15 Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Proper handling of Lintian warnings due to other packages

2024-01-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
package libghc-pandoc-dev tag 1053777 + fixed-upstream thanks Hi Jonas! At 2024-01-31T08:43:18+0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting G. Branden Robinson (2024-01-31 05:49:00) > > Well, the version of pandoc that resolved the issue was 3.1.7, > > released in August 2023.[1] But

Re: Proper handling of Lintian warnings due to other packages

2024-01-30 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ill catch up at some point soon. Those warnings from groff can arise under other circumstances, and they do mean that a font change requested by the document has not been honored,[3] so I do not recommend masking them in general. Regards, Branden [1] https://pandoc.org/releases.html [2] https://tracker.deb

static linking, modularity, and community (was: Proposal for how to deal with Go/Rust/etc security bugs)

2024-01-24 Thread G. Branden Robinson
nstream distributions might not make the same choice. For instance, Ubuntu's own decision makers may have greater sympathy with the attitudes of the "Masters of the Universe", for reasons obvious and less so. But when the security wheels fall off the cart of an important statical

Debian package signing and integrity (was: RFC: advise against using Proton Mail for Debian work?)

2023-11-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
tive correlation with one's status as an administrator of a centralized repository, such that only the last link in the chain of custody is considered important. With that threat model, there's no need to compromise any packager's or uploader's key; you conduct an injec

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
e/PROBLEMS?h=1.23.0#n82 I also shifted the line address a little to make it more obvious how old this issue really is. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-10-23T11:17:07-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Would someone be willing to send me a subscriber-sponsored link to it? Thanks to the three fleet-fingered folks who supplied me with one. I am amply equipped to resume my crusade against ignorance and misinformation...except... Now t

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
sue, which quietly died down a week ago, and should therefore have aged out of the current window of "weekly" news. Regards, Branden [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2023-07/msg1.html signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: AltGr+ not working anymore on most Desktop apps in Gnome

2023-10-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
to arise from cargo-cult practices, start behaving differently, or stop behaving at all. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1041731: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
he -devel list even after several hours; I suppose it was blocked due to my inclusion of a PDF attachment. Those who are curious about the issue can read it at <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041731#138>. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1041731: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Russ, At 2023-10-15T12:06:14-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Minor point, but since you posted it No worries! > "G. Branden Robinson" writes: > > > ... > > > \- Minus sign or basic Latin hyphen‐minus. \- produces the > > Uni

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
and I'd prefer not to see additional cargo cult techniques piled on top of it. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/PROBLEMS?h=1.23.0#n82 Regards, Branden [1] Just like the omission of bounds checks on array types. What a brilliant efficiency that was. Jean Ichbiah saw

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
2C6 (modifier letter circumflex accent) or similar. \(rs Reverse solidus (backslash). The backslash is the default escape character in the roff language, so it does not represent itself in output. Also see \e above. \(ti Basic Latin tilde. Some output devices format “~” as U+02DC (small tilde) or similar. > Hope that's helpful. I hope this message goes some way toward relieving your frustration. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-14 Thread G. Branden Robinson
79), this is a bigger challenge to achieve with HTML than you might suppose. If you want only a rough approximation thereof, my guess is that there are many straightforward and valid approaches one could take. The challenge would then be in persuading others to adopt your one obviously optimal soluti

Re: debian/copyright format and SPDX

2023-09-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
X's license list and the (plain text) tagging convention that has grown up around it is of great value, and not at all incompatible with Debian's documentary conventions. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

2023-09-10 Thread G. Branden Robinson
risk as long as people continue to follow packaging practices that Debian has applied with little objection from our upstreams for 25+ years.[2] > So while auto-generating this would probably create compliant binary > packages, it would leave the source package without the licens

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
p--with respect to particular infringements. This is a U.S.-centric observation, but so is the music publishing rights industry--never diverse, but a tall oligopoly today. > (Although I guess we could now add a complete set of Tom Lehrer!) Thank you for bringing this unalloyed happy news to the thread. :) Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
in solidarity with striking garbage workers. At 2023-08-18T21:09:11+, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > As the person who raised this on debian-project in November 2022 - see > the archives for debian-project for November/December 2022 [...] > There was unfortunately no consensus on remo

Re: groff warning: TE macro called with TW register undefined

2023-08-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-08-17T01:37:52+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 07:08:18PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > [6] https://man.cx/grog > > > > I was going to link to > > https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/groff/grof.1.en.html here, but >

Re: groff warning: TE macro called with TW register undefined

2023-08-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
is message, I see that Colin covered this point.[4] I would also note that you can use the grog(1) command (new and improved in groff 1.23.0![5]) to help you figure out which preprocessors (and macro package) a *roff document needs.[6] Let me know if this helps, or does not. Regards, Branden [

Re: groff warning: TE macro called with TW register undefined

2023-08-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
to begin with `.TE` and the page author didn't realize that *roff would attempt to interpret that as a macro call). I tried to cover these bases in the diagnostic, but might have failed. Can you tell me what part of the message was confusing? Regards, Branden [1] Any *roff can handle this

Re: How do you cause a re-run of autopkgtests?

2023-07-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-07-21T13:43:05+0200, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) wrote: > On 7/21/23 12:57, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > But I see no mechanism for interacting with autopkgtests to force > > them to re-run due to the remedy of a defect in the test harne

How do you cause a re-run of autopkgtests?

2023-07-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
to be done? Should some automated mechanism for achieving this be added, and if so, where? Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
g dies of x86-{32,64} cores. You can laugh at my optimism now. Regards, Branden [1] Not all. I hope there will still be m68k machines humming away. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
tice they need to test things before deployment. And there are reasons we might not anticipate today.[2] Regards, Branden [1] Running nroff and troff on an emulated PDP-11/45 running Version 7 Unix, to resolve compatibility defects in groff and settle arguments about "authentic" U

Re: booststrapping /usr-merged systems (was: Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg)

2023-05-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ls, arising necessarily from practical experimentation rather than pure cogitation, made the nature of the problems here clearly comprehensible to me. And if I was befogged, I'll wager other people were too. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: RFC: More C errors by default in GCC 14 (no more implicit function declarations etc.)

2023-04-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ner, like we are trying to in > Fedora. Debian has little fear of sweeping transitions, but it does like them to be precisely defined in scope, and easily measured in adoption. The addition of a versioned contour flag to "DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS" or similar[3] is straightforward to measure by

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-03-26 Thread G. Branden Robinson
ations, frustrated Oracle's aims, or whether this deliberately anemic interpretation of the GPL was a perfomative weakening of copyleft to little or no commercial advantage. https://lwn.net/Articles/432012/ Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: need GBP help with groff 1.23.0 (1.23.0~rc3-1 package prepared)

2023-02-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
dpm-based repository. I was working in a big hurry, trying to make the Bullseye release but that is now looking hopeless. Thanks for responding so swiftly to my plea for help. Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#1011666: need help with groff 1.23.0 (1.23.0~rc3-1 package prepared)

2023-02-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
s or drop text from man pages that begin to embrace groff 1.23's new features. Alex Colomar, the Linux man-pages maintainer, is eager to adopt the new man(7) MR macro ASAP, so that's 2,500 man pages, many commonly used, that will be undergoing a transition in the next few months,

need GBP help with groff 1.23.0 (1.23.0~rc3-1 package prepared)

2023-02-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
(git log -r HEAD~21..HEAD). commit 3cff7c6967e89d187efb160ce7d2a09af5ea82aa (HEAD -> master) Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Sat Feb 25 22:53:06 2023 -0600 debian/changelog: Add upstream bug closers. commit 1fd80f4151713e9f1d3cb52a4b749fa643776908 Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Sa

dh_clean fails with diagnostics involving cp, checksums, and a "bucket"

2021-10-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
well-known section heading. Can someone shed some light on these matters? Please CC me on replies--many years ago I kept up obsessively with debian-devel traffic, but not any more, I'm sorry to say. Thank you in advance. Regards, Branden ...so help me, a _bucket_... https://www.hactrn.net/sra/vaxen.html signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2019-06-01T09:04:39+0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Are we then looking more closely at AMD-based machines given that > those had less problems around speculative attacks? To borrow a phrase from Christopher Hitchens, this comment gives a hostage to fortune. My team at work closely follows (and pa

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-07 Thread Branden Robinson
[You didn't honor my M-F-T so I guess this will continue to go to both lists.] On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:29:29PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I believe your reasoning is faulty, because it is based on incomplete > >

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-07 Thread Branden Robinson
ot be recommending as a best practice licensing provisions which are legally void significant jurisdictions like the United States.) (Why isn't this in -legal? Followups set.) [1] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#1/1 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/msg/0946381

Re: Bug#327081: ITP: rpmstrap -- bootstrap a basic RPM-based system

2005-09-12 Thread Branden Robinson
ow, it is only 314 > > lines of code, 153 of which are lists of FC2 packages, so it doesn't > > seem likely to share any common ancestry with debootstrap. > > I have just been given permission to post the original internal tool > used at Progeny which rpmstrap is based upon,

Re: Documentation of alioth?

2005-08-30 Thread Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:56:56PM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Le lundi 29 août 2005 à 11:42 -0500, Branden Robinson / Debian Project > Leader a écrit : > > Eh? What exactly did I say? > > wiggy: if anyone from d-a is responding to any of the offers > they're get

Re: Documentation of alioth?

2005-08-29 Thread Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader
you that you're wrong in your assertion. > > I've been corrected by Wiggy on IRC too. Although what I said before was > not invented, I've read part of it in #debian-devel in the mouth of > Overfiend (Branden)... Eh? What exactly did I say? > It looks like the actual proble

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-29 Thread Branden Robinson
een. In my opinion, DFSG 4 somewhat clumsily lumps together two related but distinguishable issues -- one is a presentation format for distribution, the other is a means for the work to identify itself. -- G. Branden Robinson| Religious bondage shackles and Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24

2005-05-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:45:52PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 25 avril 2005 à 01:03 -0500, Branden Robinson / Debian Project > Leader a écrit : > > Woody Security Update Challenges and Progress > > - > > The ARM

Re: Status of 'sarge' for the amd64 architecture

2005-04-23 Thread Branden J. Moore
he space for it already allocated. Just my $0.02 - -- Branden J. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFCas+e0HulGszUTxERAriBAKCK1eLbgd8a0GOorbJSEb8JoBTtFACgxX/X qT5VasHlL1ZFS

Re: Bug#302138: incorrect Description line wrapping with bullet lists

2005-04-06 Thread Branden Robinson
ected. So here are source packages grouped by maintainer. > Data is from /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages on an i386 sid box. [...] > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > twofish Go ahead and file a bug for this one, please -- twofish sees so little activity that I'm likely t

Re: Bug 295175 followup

2005-02-20 Thread Branden Robinson
he buildd admins on this via IRC, but it is good to give this cleanup procedure broader exposure. [1] also available at http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/xfree86-common_postrm_buildd_fix.diff > -- G. Branden Robinson| The software said it requir

Re: Editing history... (about debian/changelog in experimental)

2005-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:13:57PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Branden Robinson told me that he does changelog editing of past > revisions continuously for X, for reasons of being able to correctly > lookup when a certain bug was fixed. Especially typo's in bugnumber for

having trouble with xdm/xfs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-9?

2004-12-14 Thread Branden Robinson
testing or unstable, please bookmark the following site: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/NEWS.xhtml -- G. Branden Robinson| The greatest productive force is Debian GNU/Linux | human selfishness. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
rt are intended by this message. It is meant only to advise you as to how to communicate more harmoniously with people involved with the Debian Project. Thank you for your patience with this form letter, for your respect for the Debian Project's mailing list conventions, and for your partici

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
er all, if I can't persuade the users of those MUAs that honoring people's wishes is a good idea, I don't suspect I'll make much more headway with anyone else. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | If ignorance

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:57:24AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Branden Robinson > > | On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:06:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > | > environment variables, at least, are trivial to accomplish using the > | > pam_env module. Properly setting a

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
al mail. If you can discuss this subject without indulging yourself in straw-man attacks like this, please follow-up with a more reasonable message. And, by the way: X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; do not CC me on replies. Please get an MUA that respects Mail-Copies-To:. -- G. Brand

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
erson? I somehow suspect that umasks predate environment variables in the misty early history of Unix, else the umask would've been made one. -- G. Branden Robinson| The Bible is probably the most Debian GNU/Linux | genocidal book ever written. [E

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:14:58AM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > >/etc/login.defs explicitly indicates that it is "Configuration > >control definitions for the login package", and many of its > >parameters are inapplicable to display manager

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-13 Thread Branden Robinson
umask is not an environment variable.) * What's the path of least resistance? * What would violate user expectations the least? * What would be a good ideal approach, if code changes weren't an issue? -- G. Branden Robinson| You could wire up a dead rat to a Debia

Jörg Schilling is damage; the community should route around him

2004-10-09 Thread Branden Robinson
/Articles/97469/ [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265546 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270060 -- G. Branden Robinson| If you want your name spelled Debian GNU/Linux | wrong, die. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for ontologies useful for debtags

2004-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
t; for other existing knowledge bases. Enrico, Casting "Eray Summoning IX" is prohibited in Debian and is a bannable offense. :-P Quick, everyone, scoot your feet across his thaumaturgic circle before he finishes his spell... -- G. Branden Robinson| Never underestima

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for December 12, 2003

2003-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
, why aren't the assistant release managers mentioned on Debian's organization page? [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200308/msg00010.html [2] http://www.debian.org/intro/organization -- G. Branden Robinson| A fun

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 04:31:42AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:12:21AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > > > I think you trimmed away content that was crucial for understanding the > > par

[OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
s liked licking the creamy center out of oreads before ingesting the crunchy carapace. -- G. Branden Robinson| Organized religion is a sham and a Debian GNU/Linux | crutch for weak-minded people who [EMAIL PROTECTED] | need st

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
t we (the U.S.) didn't even *have* federal currency until the 20th century. Historical revisionism has never been more successfully practiced than by Christians and capitalists in the United States during the 20th century. -- G. Branden Robinson| Eternal vigilance i

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
ong with many others are looking forward to seeing John Ashcroft being > kicked out. /me rises from the pew and says "Amen!" See? I can be religious. -- G. Branden Robinson| What influenced me to atheism was Debian GNU/Linux | readi

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
and stop trolling now? Oh, is *that* who Tom Ballard is? I'd heard about this guy. Stuff is starting to fall into place now. -- G. Branden Robinson|If you wish to strive for peace of Debian GNU/Linux |soul, then believe; if you w

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
|| |\ | \|\___/|/ \_/\_/ |___|_| \_| Bah, but you probably did that on purpose, invoking the Deliberate Invocation Corollary. -- G. Branden Robinson| Good judgement comes from Debian GNU/Linux | experience; experience comes from [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-bsd.] On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:33:48PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:24:04AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > | > Demons are evil, > | > | Demons don't exist. Consequently, their moral value is undefinable.

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
t. You only believe it. You've rejected both inductive and deductive arguments, so I think it's clear that you will accept no path to the stated conclusion. You're welcome to your dogmatism, but don't be surprised if no one else cares to share it. -- G. Brand

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
better Christian than those who object to my proposed naming scheme! Tee-hee. -- G. Branden Robinson|Fair use is irrelevant and Debian GNU/Linux |improper. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Asst. U.S. Attorney Scott http://people.

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:31:17AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > Somehow, I don't think Branden will mind being told his dislike of > "parochial religious fundamentalists" is showing. I suspect he'd be proud > of it. But you'll see for yourself, soon enough. I'

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:17:03AM -0800, Nunya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:31:53AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:23:39PM -0800, Nunya wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:12:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > Because

Re: Complaint

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
´t have expected that getting polemic is a necessary to > become DPL... :-// Yeah; thankfully we don't have to put up with that sort of thing since Branden Robinson wasn't elected DPL[1]. [1] If you need this sentence explained to you, please email me privately. :) -- G. Bran

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:08:44AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:54:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > No, it's probably antipathy for the Free Software Foundation driving > > this more than anything else. > > &g

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 01:12:21AM +, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think you didn't bother to read any of the parts of my message that > > you didn't quote. > > I did. But I trimmed away those that were

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