Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb

1999-09-24 Thread Ed Boraas
> Taking the risk to burn like hell: I think the "exhaustive exploration" > of ANY political theory and practice is VERY misplaced in ANY Linux > distribution. I would say the same thing about "The top 1000 FAQ on > home-made apple pie", but nobody has packaged that (yet). > > To give a positive fo

Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb

1999-09-26 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: >Some packages are "worth" more than others. Worth is often hard to define >but not impossible. Debian may not want to get into the definition >business but that doesn't mean it can't be done and circumstances may >force it too. I can't help but infe

ITP(?): Interbase 6

2000-03-11 Thread Ed Boraas
blic Field Test" has recently been released in binary-only form, and can be found at www.interbase.com. I have no plans to package any non-free releases of IB6, but if people feel strongly about it, I may be convinced to investigate the legality (not sure if redist is permitted) of it and package

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-22 Thread Ed Boraas
Hello, all. I've only just returned from spending the long weekend out of town. Of course, I've awoken to find a rather large thread on debian-devel regarding attribution issues with my packages of reiserfsprogs. You can imagine my excitement :) As a result, I've privately emailed Hans to try

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-22 Thread Ed Boraas
On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 13:57, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:58:08AM -0600, Ed Boraas wrote: > > > As a result, I've privately emailed Hans to try to resolve the issue. I > > would like to apologize to debian-devel for the traffic this has > > gen

Re: SGI's xfs

2001-05-02 Thread Ed Boraas
> Previously Matthias Berse wrote: > > Are there any plans in supporting the usage of SGI's xfs filesystem in > > debian? Are there kernel patches available and/or userspace tools > > being packaged? > > The userspace tools have been in unstable for a while already actually. And the kernel patche

Re: Interbase status (ITP #83098)

2001-09-17 Thread Ed Boraas
> Hello, > > any news from the Interbase Debian packages? It's coming, slowly. I'm also evaluating firebird packages. The problem with InterBase specifically, is the curiosities involved in doing a bootstrap build (as opposed to a build that depends on an already-installed set of InterBase binari

Re: XFS Kernel image packaging

2001-09-26 Thread Ed Boraas
> At this time being, there's no official XFS kernel images nor patches in Debian, however there is xfsprogs as far as I know in Woody & Sid. I am willing to work on an XFS kernel floppy boot disk, but it would be pointless cine a kernel image with XFS is bloated by about 300K if I'm not mistaken,

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread Ed Boraas
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, David Welton wrote: >I think we should include it, as a service to people who don't want to >download the whole thing, but attach a note saying "As 2.2 was >released just before we released slink, we are including it, but there >may be problems, it might eat your computer... w

pppd 2.3.5 (was RE: getting kernel 2.2 into slink)

1999-01-22 Thread Ed Boraas
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote: >> The issue being that there IS a problem - e.g. are we going to provide >> ppp1 and ppp2? That sounds like trouble to me. >> >Real Question (not a snipe): Is there any reason everyone couldn't use a >current pppd that would be compatible with the new k

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current >license. I think this is a good idea. If this proposal needs to be seconded, consider this my "seconded!". If it needs to be seconded somewhere else (debian-vote?) i'll do so there :)

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote: >Wichert Akkerman wrote: > >> I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current >> license. > >I very much dislike the current license. I'm a debian developer, I'd >like to put the debian logo on my home page, but I do *not* necessarily >wa

RE: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread Ed Boraas
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Darren Benham wrote: > >On 23-Jan-99 Wichert Akkerman wrote: >> I propose that we vote on accepting both the logo and the current >> license. >> > >The current license? Are you sure? It needs to be rewritten if for no other >reason but to remove the expiration date. Note t