in there is from
upstream's website, except my own note on how I put the pieces
together. Do I need to remove that note? That seems like a really
bad idea. Anyway, I was upstream project leader for most of the last
year, up until about a week ago, when I stepped down in favor of
s
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:47:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:39:44 -0800, Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > I'm not at all sure how this rule would apply, for example, to my
> > own pilot-manager_1.107.0pre108.orig.tar.gz. Every
hoose is, or should be, irrelevant. I think the tarball I created
should be acceptable in any case. I think it's quite clear what I
created, and I don't think there's any intent to confuse our users,
and I think that should be sufficient.
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But I don't actually care enough to write a proposal myself. Unless you
guys want to wait until I _happen_ to find enough free time :)
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gtkpool is a simple simulation of the game of pool (i.e. similar to
billiards and snooker), written and copyright 1999 by Jacques Fortier,
licensed under the GPL.
Because Debian *always* needs more games.
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ting to a proposed virtual package name.
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;t think we
can really call it a logo any more. I think we have to start calling
it "a random glyph we just happen to have on all of our web pages".
But I don't really have a problem with that.
What I do have a problem with is the argument that the presence of an
actual logo (or other
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:15:17AM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
> What needs to happen to get this into policy?
The usual - see /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy-process.html
(or .txt.gz or .sgml.gz) for details.
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ng that's probably going to come up more and more
as more developers become MIA over time.
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On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:36:45PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Chris Waters wrote:
> > Just wanted to let people know that I'm going to hijack the
> > pilot-manager package. The current maintainer seems to be completely
> > MIA; he hasn't upload
ried.
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ED]) sed
I inspected these packages. Only emacs20 lacked the /usr/share/doc
directory. If that ratio holds true (which I doubt), then we've only
got 21 packages left to transition! :-)
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ant
exceptions for files that would cause breakage if they actually were
shared between different machines.
cheers
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On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:27:59PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, 6 May 2001, Chris Waters wrote:
> > Didn't we already have this discussion? The Standards-Version field
> > is not a reliable indication of much of anything. I strongly object
> Policy says:
"P
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 06:29:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Chris Waters wrote:
> > > - A change in the policy to remove the obsolete /usr/doc symlinks.
> > This is supposed to happen once enough packages make the transition.
> No, it is supposed to happen one release _afte
ish the
FHS transition." And I'm not the one who came up with a simple
two-step plan which fails to achieve that.
Yes, I have been working on the issue. No, I probably can't do it
alone. If you don't want to help, that's fine. But when someone who
has
work, which is what happened to me with the libpng2 transition.)
> In the absence of such, leaving imlib1 linked with libpng2 seems to
> me to be the wisest course of action, *especially* during a freeze.
Very much so, yes.
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do better.
I think I'd almost rather switch to Red Hat than use the "Beeblebrox"
release. I mean, what's next? Putting pictures of maintainer's pets on
the Debian web page? :-)
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elegant
(IMO) than Debian's. I'd vote for a new logo if I thought anyone would
listen to me.
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rstand
why the KDE team objects to clarifying the KDE license to explicitly
allow linking with Qt. Care to elaborate?
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'd want to be sure! (Unless I had deep enough
pockets to feel that the risk was worth it.) But then I live in the
USA, where people sue at the drop of a hat.
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people are worried that this is all some plot to get rid of him).
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d
the two don't seem to work together at this point.
I think it would really be nice to get a gnome-supporting version of
gtk-- in before the slink freeze. Is anyone working on this?
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of volunteers, why we can't do what we
do with netscape/staroffice/etc.? Even if we can't distribute it, can't
we have a loader package? (No, I'm not volunteering, I don't own a 3dfx
card either.)
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Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Chris Waters wrote:
> > I think it would really be nice to get a gnome-supporting version
> > of gtk-- in before the slink freeze. Is anyone working on this?
> Not really possible without hacking Gtk-- (which can be done, but
ussed.
In any case, I won't be able to release this until Marcus sorts out the
various flavors of gtk--, because I'll need one with gnome support.
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ame doesn't differ. But maybe you don't care
I hope I don't care; I'll probably also rename the package and make it
conflict with gtkmm just as a quick hack so I don't break my own
system. I'll be anxiously awaiting a more official and reliable
solution, however.
reason my application hasn't arrived is that I still need to
find someone to sign my key, but I live in Silicon Valley, so I expect
that won't be difficult. I've already got feelers out.
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b2.
Unless someone objects strongly, I'd like to bump #30862 up to
important. This is a pretty visible problem IMO.
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work on Debian if they didn't agree with at least the basic outlines of
the DFSG and the Social Contract....
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t the ones we have are much better
than any of the proposals so far. We *don't* have a reasonable license
for the logo. It may not be quite as critical, but I feel it's more
urgent at the moment.
Debian is a free project to distribute a free OS. It should have a free
logo. FREE T
cluding or
excluding) the terms of the BSD license. And we can drop the patch
clause if desired. But I think this approach of listing acceptable
restrictions on our freedoms is probably the most clear. I think it
might help make the DFSG brief and to-the-point.
Comments?
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the point. Feedback welcomed. Seconds welcomed.
I would really like to see if we can avoid drowning in legalese for
once. :-)
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e, but perhaps I'm a little crazy. :-)
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de xemacs, I can determine that
gnuserv-program's plist is (saved-value ((concat exec-directory
"/gnuserv"))). When I evaluate that, it says that saved-value's
function definition is void. If I execute (concat exec-directory
"/gnuserv"), it looks fine.
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e to the 80 column rule. And if you do find some,
you'll probably find an "open source" author who gets a lot of flames
from his users. :-)
BTW, I loved your analysis of some of the other Corel Guidelines. I
nearly fell off my chair at the "passive voice should be avoided"
proposal to
-policy. I *will* support the idea of making byte-compilation
optional, even if I don't support eliminating it or defaulting to
"off".
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hen wm=$i; break
fi
done
fi
if [ -z "$wm" ]; then
panic!!! # this line may need some work :-)
fi
exec $wm
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e GNOME folks for distribution from
ftp.gnome.org. This was, in fact, one of the original motivations for
setting up the slink staging area.
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> The wnpp has become exceptionally incorrect and out of date.
> What can we do as a group to fix this?
One suggestion I just tossed out on IRC is to use the BTS
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Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> properly shows stripped/unstripped (comments from non-x86 people
> here please and non-glibc2.1)
Did you contact upstream about that flakey "fix" they made that didn't
work? See what on earth that was all about?
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tuition here. Ignorance of the law is not a valid legal
excuse for doing something. Being earnest, having puppy-eyes, and
protesting, "I was only trying to help," doesn't cut the mustard.
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e one of the *official* kernel
images, I'm all for it; there's no valid excuses for not using
make-kpkg that I've ever seen.
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the language standard.
But C has its own problems, not least of which is that it's a
primitive procedural language with no built-in OO features to speak
of. And with emphasis on "primitive".
I think an interesting approach would be to use CORBA. Make dpkg into
a networkable server for
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:25:17PM +1000, Daniel James Patterson wrote:
> > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 02:50:38AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> > > I think an interesting approach would be to use CORBA. Make dpkg into
> &
don't want to
use the packaging system. The argument that people can compile
libraries by hand doesn't hold water when it comes to library
dependencies, why should it hold for kernel dependencies? It's not
like make-kpkg is difficult to use, or limiting in any way.
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an?
Never mind. I don't care about the rest of you bums, I want those
downtrodden grovelling at *my* feet! :-)
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Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> someone (miquel, perhaps) made elvis-tiny a year or two back, and it fit
> on the boot disk. would be nice if it could be made to fit again. elvis
> isn't as good as vim, but it's much better than ae.
Better for the experts who know vi, not as good for
ust *fix* ae's most noticable problems? Surely we can do
that without doubling its size (ee is more than twice as large).
This is an *emergency* editor we're talking about here, not something
you'll end up using day after day. It really doesn't need to be
perfect, just good en
re noticable
problems of ae, and *still* come in smaller than ee, there's something
wrong with us.
I'd volunteer, but I've never had a problem with ae. And I don't know
vi well enough to address people's complaints with ae's emulation.
But I suppose I could be persuaded
hat KDE does.
And we can't distribute it at all. It needs to be licensed like Lyx
(GPL with exception for Qt).
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