Bug#347509: ITP: kdnssd-avahi -- Zeroconf library for KDE using Avahi as backend

2006-01-11 Thread Isaac Clerencia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Isaac Clerencia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kdnssd-avahi Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Jakub Stachowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://helios.et.put.poznan.pl/~jstachow/pub/ * License : LGPL Description

Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-11 Thread Frank Küster
Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:44, Miles Bader wrote: >> Juergen Salk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > According to their package descriptions, we seem to have exactly >> > six powerful text editors in Debian. These are elvis, jove, >> > mined, ne, ned

Re: Bug#344538: hppa dependency problems on build of pdns

2006-01-11 Thread Frank Küster
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:24:47PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Historically such >> > problems were unpleasantly frequent on buildds due to a combination of >> > buggy >> > postrm scripts, and a bug in

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-11 Thread Henning Glawe
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:15:58PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > These are all necessary, and debconf is an essential package which is > not subject to the circular dependency postinst ordering problems afaik. > [...] > The bug report for these does not give any concrete reasons why a > circular depend

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Thomas Bushnell writes: > No, I think it's because Ubuntu doesn't cooperate well with Debian, > while pretending to cooperate. Does Debian want to cooperate with Ubuntu, and how well does Debian do? What steps could Ubuntu and Debian reasonably take to improve cooperation? Jan. -- Jan Nieuwen

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 11 janvier 2006 à 10:10 +0100, Henning Glawe a écrit : > a) explicitely forbid circular dependencies in policy At the very least, I think they should be treated like pre-depends, with a request on this list being mandatory before adding a circular dependency. Until now, all circular de

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-11 Thread Henning Glawe
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:15:35AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 11 janvier 2006 à 10:10 +0100, Henning Glawe a écrit : > > a) explicitely forbid circular dependencies in policy > > At the very least, I think they should be treated like pre-depends, with > a request on this list bei

Re: hppa dependency problems on build of pdns

2006-01-11 Thread Matthijs Mohlmann
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:37:53PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >>Matthijs Mohlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>I don't know where to send this else, so forgive me if this is the wrong >>>mailinglist. > > >>>See: >>>http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=pdns&ver

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 1/11/06, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Bushnell writes: > > > No, I think it's because Ubuntu doesn't cooperate well with Debian, > > while pretending to cooperate. > > Does Debian want to cooperate with Ubuntu, and how well does Debian > do? What steps could Ubuntu and

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread jeremiah foster
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:25 +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: Thomas Bushnell writes: > No, I think it's because Ubuntu doesn't cooperate well with Debian, > while pretending to cooperate. Could you be more explicit? I know there has been concern about Ubuntu amongst debian d

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:49 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:43:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Dishonesty is *not* an equivalent substitute for respect. If you're > > > being nice to somebody even though you don't like them, that doesn't > > > make you a better person,

Re: D8915

2006-01-11 Thread Dorogi, Roger
Other than 48 D8915 monitors that I have in stock...any other Hp or SUN 21" monitors needed ?   Please reply.   Thanks,   Roger Nova Star

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:43:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Manners/politeness is social lubricant. It makes society run > smoother and less violently. I'm pretty sure that people who always take the path of least resistance are *precisely* how the world got so fucked up in the first place.

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:44:28PM +0100, jeremiah foster wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:25 +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > > Thomas Bushnell writes: > > > > > No, I think it's because Ubuntu doesn't cooperate well with Debian, > > > while pretending to cooperate. > > > Could you be mor

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:07:43AM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 1/10/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:22:03AM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > > I don't[sic] the same rant over others Debian related companies > > > > Have you ever actually subscribe

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:41 +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:43:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Manners/politeness is social lubricant. It makes society run > > smoother and less violently. > > I'm pretty sure that people who always take the path of least > resistanc

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:49:25AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:41 +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:43:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Manners/politeness is social lubricant. It makes society run > > > smoother and less violently. > > > >

Bug#347581: debian-policy: Explicitly permit *-headers binary package created from library source package

2006-01-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Version: 3.6.2.2 Hi, Could Policy be amended slightly to explicitly permit library source packages to create a -headers package containing include files? I am thinking that something like the following could

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 1/11/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:07:43AM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > On 1/10/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:22:03AM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > > > I don't[sic] the same rant over others De

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:56:35PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 1/11/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:07:43AM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > > On 1/10/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:22:03AM -0200,

How to debug - apachetop

2006-01-11 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi, After the actual error I got with apachetop: debian:~# apachetop -f /var/log/apache/access.log *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7da08c8 *** Aborted I want to learn how to debug and see what went wrong. How can I learn to debug this kind of things or how can I enable some deb

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 1/11/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:56:35PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > On 1/11/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:07:43AM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > > > On 1/10/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-11 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Monday 09 January 2006 19:20, Bill Allombert wrote: > Here the lists of packages involved in circular dependencies listed by > maintainers. Just wondering why this wasn't mentioned yet: aren't circular dependencies causing more work for RM's, too, because the testing migration script can't h

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:44:28PM +0100, jeremiah foster wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 10:25 +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > > Thomas Bushnell writes: > > > > > No, I think it's because Ubuntu doesn't cooperate well with Debian, > > > while pretending to cooperate. > > Could you be more e

Re: How to debug - apachetop

2006-01-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Alejandro Bonilla: > I want to learn how to debug and see what went wrong. How can I > learn to debug this kind of things or how can I enable some > debugging for this kind of things? valgrind is quite helpful for debugging such problems related to memory-management. You could also have a look

New Paid Search Engine Offer

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Re: Heimdal and openssh

2006-01-11 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Juha Jäykkä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> * Interoperate with ssh-krb5 << 3.8.1p1-1 servers, which used a >>> slightly >>> different version of the gssapi authentication method (thanks, Aaron >>> M. Ucko; closes: #328388). > >> Perhaps thi

Re: How to debug - apachetop

2006-01-11 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Alejandro Bonilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-11 19:03]: > After the actual error I got with apachetop: > debian:~# apachetop -f /var/log/apache/access.log > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7da08c8 *** > Aborted > > I want to learn how to debug and see what went wrong. Ho

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.01.11.1644 +0100]: > > Could you be more explicit? I know there has been concern about Ubuntu > > amongst debian developers, and that Mark Shuttleworth has some doubts > > about working with DCC, although he is rather vague in my opinion. But >

Bug#347617: ITP: itrans -- Converts romanised Indic text to LaTeX, HTML & Postscript

2006-01-11 Thread Baishampayan Ghose
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: itrans Version : 5.3 Upstream Author : Avinash Chopde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/ * License : BSD Description : Converts romanised

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 16:48 +0100, martin f krafft escreveu: > What would you like to see? I think submitting bugs and patches to the BTS would already be enough. daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 11, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you think Canonical could *better* work with Debian, ignoring > whether they meet up to their promises at the moment or not. E.g. when I repeatedly say "I'd like to receive any change you make to my packages, in any form you find conve

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 1/11/06, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 11, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How do you think Canonical could *better* work with Debian, ignoring > > whether they meet up to their promises at the moment or not. > E.g. when I repeatedly say "I'd like to receive a

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 11, Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > E.g. when I repeatedly say "I'd like to receive any change you make to > > my packages, in any form you find convenient" they could actually do > > it... I'm tired of begging for patches. > http://utnubu.alioth.debian.org/scottish/by_maint/[

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 1/11/06, Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 16:48 +0100, martin f krafft escreveu: > > What would you like to see? > > I think submitting bugs and patches to the BTS would already be enough. > It was already discussed[0], and there's no consensus on this idea of "ev

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 1/11/06, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 11, Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > E.g. when I repeatedly say "I'd like to receive any change you make to > > > my packages, in any form you find convenient" they could actually do > > > it... I'm tired of begging for p

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 11, Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You said *in any form you find convenient* but which one do you > prefer: bug reports through Debian BTS, just email, ... ? Please, read > my reply to Daniel's message. Uploading the diffs on a web server is nice, but it's not much more differ

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 1/11/06, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 11, Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You said *in any form you find convenient* but which one do you > > prefer: bug reports through Debian BTS, just email, ... ? Please, read > > my reply to Daniel's message. > Uploading t

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-11 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:15:58PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > Here the lists of packages involved in circular dependencies listed by > > maintainers. > > > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > debconf > > debconf-english > > debconf-i18n > > These are all necessa

Re: How to debug - apachetop

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:10:51AM -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > After the actual error I got with apachetop: > debian:~# apachetop -f /var/log/apache/access.log > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7da08c8 *** > Aborted > > I want to learn how to debug and see what went wrong

Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > > So vim is in the simple, for newbies class? > > No, there's actually three classes: "Simple editors for newbies", > "not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors", and "religions". ae is the religion variety.

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell writes: > >> No, I think it's because Ubuntu doesn't cooperate well with Debian, >> while pretending to cooperate. > > Does Debian want to cooperate with Ubuntu, and how well does Debian > do? What steps could Ubuntu and Debian reaso

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It was already discussed[0], and there's no consensus on this idea of > "every Ubuntu changeset, a patch in Debian BTS" between DDs. Right. I want Ubuntu to exercise judgment, and not just give a big pile of patches, some of which are Debian-relevant

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh, it gets even better. The fun part is that the one who wants to > receive the list may not be the one who actually transmits the signal > (and hence would be at fault). That'd be the transmitting station. for > those who are having trouble follo

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:25:01PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 1/11/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:56:35PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > > On 1/11/06, Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:07:43AM -0200,

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 14:36 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG escreveu: > Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It was already discussed[0], and there's no consensus on this idea of > > "every Ubuntu changeset, a patch in Debian BTS" between DDs. > Right. I want Ubuntu to exercise judgment, and

Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Suffield
Let's take this one apart and see what it is that pisses people off so much. On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:57:35AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > There are still rather intense emotional responses to Ubuntu within the > Debian community, as evidenced in this thread and others. First a dismissal of d

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 19:54 -0300, Daniel Ruoso escreveu: > Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 14:36 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG escreveu: > > Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It was already discussed[0], and there's no consensus on this idea of > > > "every Ubuntu changeset, a patch in Debian BT

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-11 Thread Terry Dawson
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > FWIW, there's no such restriction in the Australian regulations, > as far as I can see. I concur, that's generally correct. The ACA has relaxed the profane language requirements somewhat since they were tested in court (by a commercial broadcast radio operator) some time b

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:34:31PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Ubuntu could report in the BTS all the bugs it finds, and submit patches > via the BTS. As you know, most bugs are reported by users, not discovered by developers We direct users to report those bugs to us, rather than Debian,

Re: Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 12 January 2006 00:09, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Let's take this one apart and see what it is that pisses people off so > much. What pisses me off is ppl keeping this thread alive without adding new arguments with as their main goal to widen the gap that is definitely there, but is al

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:54:10PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > This is exactly the point, what can I do with a patch if I don't know > why it's there? Which problem is it trying to address (I know, I can > read the patch and guess, but WTF), and why such solution was adopted... > Everytime I submi

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-11 Thread Terry Dawson
Ron Johnson wrote: > With beliefs like that, no wonder this world is going to hell in a > hand basket. > > Manners/politeness is social lubricant. It makes society run > smoother and less violently. I'd have thought the most polite action in the scenario you present is to acknowledge that othe

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On 1/11/06, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> No, I think it's because Ubuntu doesn't cooperate well with Debian, > >> while pretending to cooperate. > > > > Does Debian want to cooperate with Ubuntu, and how well does Debian > > do? What steps could Ubuntu and Debian reasonably

Re: Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:09:12PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Let's take this one apart and see what it is that pisses people off so > much. Hello, Andrew. I don't intend to participate in this type of email argument with you; I've yet to see it pay off for anyone involved. However, I will

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 10:30 +1100, Terry Dawson wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > With beliefs like that, no wonder this world is going to hell in a > > hand basket. > > > > Manners/politeness is social lubricant. It makes society run > > smoother and less violently. > > I'd have thought the m

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:15:35AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 11 janvier 2006 à 10:10 +0100, Henning Glawe a écrit : > > a) explicitely forbid circular dependencies in policy > > At the very least, I think they should be treated like pre-depends, with > a request on this list bei

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:48:22PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 1/11/06, Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 16:48 +0100, martin f krafft escreveu: > > > What would you like to see? > > I think submitting bugs and patches to the BTS would already be enough. > It

Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265920

2006-01-11 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:04:45PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: > * Matthew Garrett [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:50:56 +]: > > > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i've thought for a long time about how to reply to your message. > > > Let's quickly outline what's happened h

Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265920

2006-01-11 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:29:12AM +0100, Dirk Mueller wrote: > Relax, nobody is being pissed. You just have to realize that if you tell > person A about a problem, person B doesn't magically get notified about it. > This is not different than in other situations in real life. heya dirk, t

Re: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265920

2006-01-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 21:51, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > that's why one of my recommendations was to consider putting, into > certain key very popular packages, a means to either transfer the bug > to upstream (via some mad notional XMLeey are pee cee-ey common API) or > to sim

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:48:21 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What would you like to see? What would I *like* to see? Well, that they treat me like I treat my upstreams; I triage bug reports, I keep feature specific patches separate, I submit these feature requests t

Re: Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > My observations: > - almost all development effort that may help narrow the gap is done on > the Ubuntu side, not on the Debian side; I'm sorry, but I've spent quite a lot of time digging usefull things out of the dross in Ubuntu patchsets (to the point of exhaustion and extre

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 14:36 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG escreveu: >> Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > It was already discussed[0], and there's no consensus on this idea of >> > "every Ubuntu changeset, a patch in Debian BTS" between DDs. >>

Re: Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
For what it's worth, I largely agree with Andrew. Please, show some fire and some honesty or STFU. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:34:31PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> Ubuntu could report in the BTS all the bugs it finds, and submit patches >> via the BTS. > > As you know, most bugs are reported by users, not discovered by developers > We direct u

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1/11/06, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> No, I think it's because Ubuntu doesn't cooperate well with Debian, >> >> while pretending to cooperate. >> > >> > Does Debian want to cooperate with Ubuntu, and how well does Debian >>

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Gustavo Franco wrote: > I agree with "similar things being said" but i'm yet to hear about the > lack of collaboration and give Debian something back. For example: I > don't remember too much people caring about PGI (Progeny) and after > that anaconda "port" to say that they weren't contributing th

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Allombert wrote: > Is it a request I report one ? I will if you want. Shrug, I can ignore useless bug reports and/or orphan packages when things get too annoying with the best of them. (Hmm, didn't I already do that?) > I cannot point you exactly why _this_ circular dependency is going to

Re: Canonical's business model

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 06:09:25PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As you know, most bugs are reported by users, not discovered by developers > > We direct users to report those bugs to us, rather than Debian, for obvious > > reasons. > > Really?

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:41:09PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:43:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Manners/politeness is social lubricant. It makes society run > > smoother and less violently. > I'm pretty sure that people who always take the path of least > resis

Re: Dissection of an Ubuntu PR message

2006-01-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I don't intend to participate in this type of email argument with you; I've > yet to see it pay off for anyone involved. However, I will be in London > later this month and would be willing to use that opportunity to civilly > discuss your concerns fa

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 02:00 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:41:09PM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:43:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Manners/politeness is social lubricant. It makes society run > > > smoother and less violently. > > I'm

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-11 Thread Martin Meredith
Ok - I'm going to reply to the first post i found on this whole - thing, so apologies if it shows up in some weird place in threaded view. Basically the way I see it isnt the fact that ubuntu isn't giving back to debian - or debian isn't willing to have the stuff from ubuntu. The way i see it is