Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 12:19 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [...] > Isn't that a non-issue (for now)? > > Here's my reasoning: > > 1) The non-free deb is only in apt if non-free is in sources.list. > 2) AN earlier mail stated that the kernel recommends the non-free firmware > deb. [...] Of c

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-26 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Goswin von Brederlow] > Isn't that a non-issue (for now)? > > Here's my reasoning: > > 1) The non-free deb is only in apt if non-free is in sources.list. > 2) AN earlier mail stated that the kernel recommends the non-free >firmware deb. > 3) Recommends are to be installed by default. > > Shoul

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Petter Reinholdtsen writes: > [Ben Hutchings] >> I think the plan was that any firmware package that is available >> during installation and that satisfies a firmware request will get >> installed. However, I have not worked on this and I don't know what >> has actually been implemented. > > At

Re: how to communicate removals (Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-09 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> So we should push the "removals from testing / additions to testing" mails >> to -devel instead of -testing-changes? Now that we're in freeze? > probably an extra section in the DPN during freezes would be quite useful > indeed, cc:ing -publicity for input. Something for wheezy though :) > S

Re: how to communicate removals (Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-09 Thread Josef Spillner
Am Sonntag, 9. Januar 2011, 15:35:35 schrieb Holger Levsen: > So, removals needs to be done, but they also need to be communicated _well_ > (else where then on -testing-changes, thats a dump, not communication). In addition to what you said, packages.d.o should not "forget" about removed packages

how to communicate removals (Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 7. Januar 2011, Philipp Kern wrote: > So we should push the "removals from testing / additions to testing" mails > to -devel instead of -testing-changes? Now that we're in freeze? probably an extra section in the DPN during freezes would be quite useful indeed, cc:ing -publicity

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Ben Hutchings] > I think the plan was that any firmware package that is available > during installation and that satisfies a firmware request will get > installed. However, I have not worked on this and I don't know what > has actually been implemented. At the moment hw-detect as part of d-i wi

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-07 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Very glad to hear this! Adnan Sent using Android (xperia x10) On Jan 7, 2011 12:57 PM, "Holger Levsen" wrote: Hi, squeeze will have googleearth-package, it was unblocked yesterday. cheers, Holger

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 05:58:26PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-01-07, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > This means that firmware-linux-nonfree is unlikely to be installed if not > > needed. If you were to add in some of the other firmware packages > > (-atheros, -bnx2, -iwlwifi, -ralink, -r

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-07 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-01-07, Adnan Hodzic wrote: >> And yes, this mail is mocking this whole story.  And no, you shouldn't >> go whining about your pet package on -devel to get it included. > What I don't understand is your tone by which you're conveying this message. > > If it wasn't for those "pet packages" a

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-07 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-01-07, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:38:57PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: >> On 2011-01-07, Holger Levsen wrote: >> > squeeze will have googleearth-package, it was unblocked yesterday. >> It won't have a googleearth package, though. >> And it will have literally about 17

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:38:57PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-01-07, Holger Levsen wrote: > > squeeze will have googleearth-package, it was unblocked yesterday. > > It won't have a googleearth package, though. > > And it will have literally about 17200 packages in main on i386. And >

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-07 Thread Adnan Hodzic
> And yes, this mail is mocking this whole story.  And no, you shouldn't > go whining about your pet package on -devel to get it included. What I don't understand is your tone by which you're conveying this message. If it wasn't for those "pet packages" as you call them, Debian wouldn't be what i

Re: squeeze will have googleearth-package

2011-01-07 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-01-07, Holger Levsen wrote: > squeeze will have googleearth-package, it was unblocked yesterday. It won't have a googleearth package, though. And it will have literally about 17200 packages in main on i386. And about 15580 source packages. They come with a free license, too. And have