Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Adam McKenna
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:03:56AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > They can consider it, obviously. They cannot overrule ftp-masters on this > matter, however. OTOH, ftp-masters may decide to listen to whatever the > ctte recommends, but they don't *have* to. They can consider it ind

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > The Section: field of a Debian package's control file is a technical detail > of the package, as is the location of a package on the Debian mirror. You > may consider that a particular decision has political motivations, but this > may be true of many t

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:52:49PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:05:16PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > The correct way to proceed would seem to be a ruling by a body > > authorized to make authoritative interpretations of the Social Contract, > > or, failing t

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:05:16PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I hereby appeal to the technical committee to reject to rule on this > request, on the grounds that this is not a technical matter, and > therefore falls outside the authority of the technical committee. The Section: field of a De

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:05:16PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > The correct way to proceed would seem to be a ruling by a body > authorized to make authoritative interpretations of the Social Contract, > or, failing that (since I believe we have no such body), a General > Resolution. You (or wh

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Michael! [Cc'ed Manoj, as he's the authority on the constitution...] You wrote: > > Wouldn't the ftp-masters be the right authority for this issue? It is > > them who decide if the package can go into main or not. > > The package is already in main. The person who filed this bug thinks > t

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:45:00AM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: > Bas Zoetekouw writes: > > > Hi Wouter! > > > > You wrote: > > > > > The correct way to proceed would seem to be a ruling by a body > > > authorized to make authoritative interpretations of the Social Contract, > > > or, failing tha

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Poole
Bas Zoetekouw writes: > Hi Wouter! > > You wrote: > > > The correct way to proceed would seem to be a ruling by a body > > authorized to make authoritative interpretations of the Social Contract, > > or, failing that (since I believe we have no such body), a General > > Resolution. > > Wouldn't

Re: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-02-28 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Wouter! You wrote: > The correct way to proceed would seem to be a ruling by a body > authorized to make authoritative interpretations of the Social Contract, > or, failing that (since I believe we have no such body), a General > Resolution. Wouldn't the ftp-masters be the right authority for