Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >If it comes down to "the driver, on its own, would not be acceptable for >main because it is not functional; but as a practical matter, we allow >it aggregated with the rest of the kernel because splitting individual >drivers into contrib is a pain for everyone involved

Re: Are BLOBs source code?

2004-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: (and it really was him this time -- sorry about last time; hand-quoting is tricky stuff): >Is the pseudo source file enough for BSD or Artistic license? It's enough for BSD. (Which doesn't actually require source.) >On the same subject but going in a totally differen

Re: On the freeness of a BLOB-containing driver

2004-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathanael Nerode) writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: ^^ This is wrong. Glenn Maynard? If it comes down to "the driver, on its own, would not be acceptable for main because it is not functional; but as a practical m

Re: New author/maintainer for pinfo needed

2005-01-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Bas Zoetokouw wrote: >I do actually use it, so unless anyone else wants to take it, I'd be >happy to take it over. I don't think I'm ready to "take it over" alone at this point, but I also use it heavily and would like to help work on it. Nathanael Nerode

Re: Resignation and uploads

2005-11-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ple need to be assigned the power to do these jobs. Branden? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mixing different upstream sources in one package

2005-11-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > >>From time to time, someone announces an intention to package some tiny > script or program, and people suggest including it in some other > package instead to avoid pollution of the archive with lots of tiny > packages. Although I understand the reasoning and the issues

Re: I am still on the keyring. With my old key.

2005-11-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Chip Salzenberg wrote: > Who does a developer have to fuck around here to get his key deleted? Same one he has to fuck to get a new key added, presumably. It's a pity the DPL hasn't anointed a less-busy person with authority to alter the keyring. -- ksig --random| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Secret changes for binNMUs

2005-11-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Blrgh! OK. So I was working on the problem of fixing dpkg-dev so that foo Depends: foo-data {SourceVersion}, foo-libs {BinaryVersion} or something similar actually works. By parsing the version numbers. Now it's apparently been changed under our noses, in such a way that my proposed sch

SDL producing bogus dependencies or packages misusing SDL?

2005-12-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ll. The alternative possibility is of course that each of these packages generated the bad recursive list on its own, which is just as likely. I'm wondering where to file the bugs. :-) -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft,

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
not seem to trust James' opinion on this, but why >do you not trust our beloved Release Manager, either, who said he knew >of no serious issues with buildd maintenance right now? Why should either of them know, to be perfectly frank? This is argument by authority, not an actual arg

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
requested updates. Indeed, complaining on debian-devel appears to get results, doesn't it? At least, that's the conclusion that a rational outside observer would come to. If that's an inaccurate conclusion, it indicates that there's something seriously wrong in the transpar

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ry, I'm not the buildd admin". Apologies for the thread-breaking, I'm reading on the web pages again. :-/ -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This is an omnibus reply. Sorry about the thread-breaking, but I'm on yet *another* computer, and I can't seem to find a mailer which respects the In-Reply-To headers from the web pages or lets me add my own. == I would like to note that I have made a practical and *new* suggestion for dealin

Solving recursive dependency disease in KDE-based packages

2005-12-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I license this message as if it were public domain; please copy it anywhere it might help and edit it as needed. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get me out of this fascist nigh

Re: question towards "freetype transition; improved library handlingneeded for all C/C++ packages"

2005-12-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I believe my package is affected by the issues stated by Steve, > depending on libraries which I do not directly use. Most of them are > probably pulled in through the QT library I am depending on. My package, > packagesearch, uses qmake as a build tool. The linking comma

Re: ldd -u (Re: Solving recursive dependency disease in KDE-based packages)

2005-12-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Nathanael Nerode [Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:35:41 -0500]: > > > To work out which libraries you're linked to which you don't actually need, > > ldd -u is invaluable. > > This seems like not the case _at all_ to me (the "inva

Re: Solving recursive dependency disease in KDE-based packages

2005-12-13 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> Regenerating acinclude.m4, aclocal.m4, configure.in, and finally configure, >> can be a pain in the neck. In some packages, it's done by Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >autoreconf ? NO NO NO. That does not work for t

buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
of the webpages. Cc:ing debian-devel on the theory that publicizing such a request will prevent duplicate requests. -- Nathanael Nerode neroden fastmail.fm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Yes, ftpmaster is getting efficient at the routine processing. Congrats! Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> But it is not doing a great job with processing a few old uploads. I >> consider it a problem that no decision have been taken on the few >> really old uploads (xv

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ffmpeg code is the only issue, then it should *not* be delaying xvidcap. If it isn't, then Javier should be told. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.d

Re: congratulations to our ftp-master team

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
he case of Christian Marillat (it's documented neatly in the ITP bug trail), but you're clearly wrong in the case of Javier. Javier has stated that he's just guessing why his package has been stalled and that he really isn't sure. I don't know about the others. -- Nathanael Ner

Re: buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
did you find that url? In a random mailing list message to debian-devel in one of these threads. Not a great way to find information. :-P -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A thousand reasons. http://www.thousandreasons.org/ Lies, theft, war, kidnapping, torture, rape, murder... Get m

debian-menu vs. .desktop

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
the menu >file lacked a longtitle that is used as hint in the Debian menu.) -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

c2a transition: libraries still needing transition

2005-12-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
uploads to fix FTBFSes, RC bugs, etc.) -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Clogs on packages going into etch cleared!

2006-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Amazing! ghc6 is now the top blocker for packages entering testing, and it's only keeping 15 packages out of testing! Hooray! Now to fix those ~= 400 RC bugs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is mesa actually maintained?

2006-01-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Hello! This is one of 5 RC bugs, apparently with no maintainer response. Apparently the list which is listed as the maintainer is rejecting messages (336752), which probably contributes to the problem. Hence the Cc: to debian-devel. This bug is trivial to fix, and because it prevents mesa fr

Re: apt-torrent (WAS: Re: apt PARALLELISM)

2006-01-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> It'll take me some time to find a new, and more appropriate home for > apt-torrent. The Debian archive ("experimental" distribution) would be a *very* appropriate home. It won't provide a testbed package seeder or place to download .torrent files, but that can be done later (and by any numbe

Re: Derived distributions and the Maintainer: field

2006-01-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
In response to your request for replies to http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00260.html: >1. Most of the source packages in Ubuntu are inherited from Debian > unchanged (example: tetex-base). Then the *source* packages can legitimately use the same Maintainer: field. If they are

binNMU version detection

2006-01-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: > > Which would be totally pointless until dpkg itself is fixed to give > > packagers an alternative to ${Source-Version}. > Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I thought we had a fix-strategy in place for addressing these cases. > I'm sorry if we don't; then of course this strategy

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This has probably been covered ad nauseum, but where do we stand in >respect to getting mplayer in Debian? IIRC, the copyright issues were carefully worked out and solved after several years, finally reaching the approval of debian-legal. At which point i

Re: Apology for MIA, Retiring, RFA: x-symbol, xmix, oneko

2006-01-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>I'd like to offer these three packages for adoption: x-symbol, xmix, and oneko. I'll take oneko if Joey Hess doesn't want it. (But frankly he'll probably do a better job at maintaining it than me.) (On third thought, I'd be happy to be a co-maintainer for it.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: binNMU version detection

2006-01-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How did bin-NMU numbers work for the old numbering scheme on native > packages? In a Complicated Way. Essentially, the debian revision and NMU revision were filled in with 0s (which were, accordingly, not supposed to be used in normal version numbers). >What prohibit

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
aj@azure.humbug.org.au: > MJ Ray's already done such a summary; it's rather trivially inadequate, > due to the information its summarising being equally inadequate. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00901.html So the summary amounts to "patents". Is that right? In other wo

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Apologies to AJ and the ftpmasters. I found the *important* part of the thread, which I'd apparently missed during December, in which the ftpmasters... drumroll explain what would be needed for mplayer to go into Debian now, barring finding additional problems. Congrats Jeroen van Wolfella

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ssue and therefore at least one >reason is still true. So dont hope too much it will get through. > >-- >bye Joerg >Die d??mmsten H??hne haben die dicksten Eier. I read this as "remove MPEG encoding and it will go in." Don't you? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Read it and weep. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Right? Likewise xvidcap, I presume? And rte, as was already stated? (And sorry for not giving credit to Joerg there!) -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian

Re: Derived distributions and the Maintainer: field

2006-01-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
the Maintainer field the same, but use NMU version numbers and add a "Changed-By:" field which is different, that seems perfectly reasonable as well. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Read it and weep. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html --

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Russ Allbery wrote: > (Or is > imake going away completely?) Yep. Imake is still being shipped for the benefit of third-party packages, but it is not used by anything in Xorg 7.0 IIRC. Doing a quick check, I think very few if any other packages in Debian use imake. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Pre-Depends for Xorg 7.0

2006-01-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Russ Allbery wrote: > Here's a list of packages that install binaries into /usr/X11R6/bin and > don't have lintian overrides for it. In spot checks, about a quarter of > these packages use imake. And that's just the packages with binaries; > there are a number of other packages that don't install

Re: returning emeritus developer, no response from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-01-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] over a week > ago, as described here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/02/msg3.html > > so far not even a response telling me I'm in a queue. > Is the procedure described above still the right one? DAM is v

Re: returning emeritus developer, no response from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-01-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> > so far not even a response telling me I'm in a queue. > > Is the procedure described above still the right one? > > DAM is very slow-moving these days. Probably they haven't looked at your mail > yet. Um, just in case anyone was wondering, that wasn't intended as a criticism of DAM -- I t

BTS LDAP interface (or something) broken?

2006-02-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
bts.turmzimmer.net just went nuts: >Changes at Thu Feb 2 0:10:06 CET 2006: (all but six RC bugs are supposedly "solved" simultaneously) Obviously something broke. Perhaps the ldap interface to the BTS, since packages.qa.debian.org is giving bogus results too. -- Nathanael Ne

Re: Proposal: move /etc/{protocol,services,rpc} to base-files

2006-02-04 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ore often than the rest of netbase. I think this argues for putting them in a separate netbase-data package. In fact, this would solve in a certain sense the long argument about how many protocols/services to include in the lists: alternate packages could Provides: netbase-data if they

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I were a DD, just to get a clear vote on the actual issue on the record. Incidentally, if I ever become a DD, I *will* immediately propose a GR to amend the Social Contract to explicitly allow unmodifiable license texts in Debian, since it technically doesn't, but everyone agrees that

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
s*, this was a problem, though not a major one, and that they would introduce a special license exception dual-licensing the Doxygen comments. To date, this has not been done, and it is still technically illegal to generate that portion of the libstdc++ manual unless you're the FSF. Blech.

Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ot; people have not been willing or able to actually propose a GR which says what they *mean*. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Theocracy, fascism, or absolute monarchy -- I don't care which it is, I don't like it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This belongs somewhere else. Directing followups to -project. Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:31:43AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > Incidentally, if I ever become a DD, I will immediately propose a GR to > > amend the Social Contract to explicitly all

Improving keyring maintenance (was Re: question for all candidates)

2006-03-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ecure, and fast. That sort of work is what I'm especially good at. I could start an alioth project for "keyring-manangement-scripts" if anyone else is interested in working on this. Hmm, this is going off topic for -vote Replies to -devel please. -- Nathanael Ner

NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
esn't explain the packages listed up top. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GFDL question

2006-03-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
gt; Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.'' > > Ok, there are no invariant sections, but there is (a short) front and > back cover text. > > How do we proceed with these documents? They're non-free, per the GR. Cover Texts are unmodifiable material

Re: Regarding the NEW queue (Was: Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?)

2006-03-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
eason my little brain didn't think of this. Mailing ftpmaster with a Cc: to debian-devel was the obviously correct thing to do, and I apologize for not doing it in the first place. For some reason my brain didn't come up with that as a possibility. :-/ -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL P

Re: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec

2005-05-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Which doesn't? Minix maybe. Even ext2/3 has hashes for dir if you > > format it that way. Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Is this the Debian default for installation? Yes, it is. I just checked and every install I've done turned this on wi

Re: More about GFDL

2005-05-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote: > El Viernes 22 Abril 2005 14:37, Maciej Dems escribió: >> I have a simple question concerning the GFDL discussion. >> >> Does the GFDL documentation which currently does not contain any >> invariant section have to go to non-free as well? Yes, until the GFDL is revi

Re: Package priorities: optional vs extra

2005-07-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Peter Samuelson wrote: >In practice, 'extra' is mainly used when Policy forces you to use it: >that is, if your package conflicts with another package which has >priority optional or higher The really sad part is that *this* isn't enforced; there are lots of "optional" packages which conflict with

Re: [Debian-uk] Sun have (probably) patented apt-get

2005-07-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
On 4 Jul 2005, at 11:44 am, Wookey wrote: > Take a look at this patent (granted this week in europe) > > http://gauss.ffii.org/PatentView/EP1170667 > > I'm fairly sure that apt-get and associated package-integratity > checking tools could be considered infringing. (Does dpkg/apt have > a modular

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

2005-07-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I suggested "Debian IV", to *really* get rid of minor version numbers, permanently. Initial release would be Debian IV r0. Point releases would be Debian IV r1, etc. Next release, Debian V, etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Recursive Dependency Disease reminder and freetype status

2006-08-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
nfig (or offers a similar tool), please fix it. I will file occasional bugs as I spot them, but given the sheer number of cases, I thought a reminder to all Debian Developers was a better move. If you have difficulty fixing this for your package, I believe several people including me are happy

Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
erhaps people could comment on other things like this which they've noticed and we could get them into the next release notes, including anything which wasn't covered on previous major upgrades? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

cdrtools alternatives (was Re: cdrtools)

2006-08-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
archival work I make CDs in DAO mode with cdrdao. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: autotools and programming style (was: Remove cdrtools)

2006-08-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
eople have such trouble understanding this. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
sed on the features detected by autoconf. I don't think I'd like to work without autoconf. The alternatives I've seen are all hideous monstrosities. Automake -- well, if you know how to write a Makefile, don't use it, just write your Makefile -- but most people don't. -

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

2006-08-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
n. > BTW. The application in question is this: http://tptest.sourceforge.net/ -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrtools alternatives

2006-08-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Weimer wrote: > * Nathanael Nerode: > >> In reality, as "user A", I switched to using cdrdao for making serious audio >> CDs and CD-RWs, and for burning disks from .iso files: this uses >> Schilling'

Re: Bits from the DPL: Freedom and etch

2006-08-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
GPL-without-source and no-license-text drivers are serious and separate issues, and affect far more drivers than properly-licensed sourceless firmware affects.) I suggest a d-d-a post adding this link: http://doolittle.icarus.com/~larry/fwinventory/2.6.17.html -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTE

The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Oddly enough nobody has proposed a GR addressing this, and Debian continues to ship 47 improperly licensed files in linux-2.6. If I were SCO, I'd buy up the copyrights to them from the original companies, and then I'd have a real case for a lawsuit. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PRO

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Joe Smith wrote: > "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:27:21AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >>> On Aug 30, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
derivative of both the firmware and the other parts of the kernel. Simply putting files side by side is mere aggregation -- what's happening with the drivers and firmware might be mere aggregation, but nobody can be sure until a court case happens. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:48:00PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >> Debian needs to make a decision on how it will deal with this legal >> minefield. That is higher priority than the entire discussion going on >> right now, because it determ

Re: bug rates

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ng than new bugs. A release where we fixed all the (discovered and undiscovered) RC bugs from the *previous* release would be a very successful release. :-) > and finding the relative time-to-fix of each of these. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Toni Mueller wrote: > > > Hello, > > On Wed, 30.08.2006 at 09:27:21 +0200, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Aug 30, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Debian must decide whether it wants to ship BLOBs with l

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:26:56PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> Actually, letting an overworked team of four with (to my knowledge) zero >> legal expertise settle questions of legal liability is pretty absurd too. > > They are the team respon

Re: The debian boot dependency graph image

2006-09-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
is to run udev in the chroot, but I think for now probably the dependency should be specified. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't he in prison yet?... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: (proposed) Mass bug filing for debconf "abuse" by using low|medium priority debconf notes?

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
onf. Upgrades which require programs to be restarted should do it automatically. But if for some obscure reason they can't, then a high-priority note is reasonable. Upgrades from really-messed-up versions may also require people to do something manually to clean up from the messed-up ver

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
sendemail * * wallpaper-tray (There are quite a few more -perl and -ruby packages, but I'm not quite sure which ones have been picked up.) I will note that rxvt has 1234 popcon installs, so if anyone's going for brownie points -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush

Re: gnome 1 packages up for adoption

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
n-gnome, and oaf are pretty close to removable, but not quite. libglade, gnome-libs, and imlib are definitely hanging around. Adopters welcome for any of the six. :-) -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admitted to violating FISA and said he was proud of it. So why isn't h

Re: Orphaning my packages

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
gregor herrmann wrote: > On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:58:31 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >> (There are quite a few more -perl and -ruby packages, but I'm not quite >> sure which ones have been picked up.) > > The lib*-perl packages are all already in the Debian Perl

Re: (proposed) Mass bug filing for debconf "abuse" by using low|medium priority debconf notes?

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 18 September 2006 16:36, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> Frankly, the kernel's "You NEED to restart your computer SOON" message >> is a good example, if it's telling the truth. But that cheats by not >> using debconf. > &

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > >> On Aug 31, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Marco trolled again. FYI, no serious person disagrees with this >>> interpretation. >> Except every

Re: Why are all packages getting so much bigger?

2006-09-23 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I'm guessing translations. They eat up space really fast. Is there a way to compare packages after localepurge runs? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This space intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Ftpmaster bug reports are not processed nearly fast enough.

2006-11-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
To start with, congratulations to the ftpmasters for keeping up with the NEW queue. Unfortunately, this email is going to be a case of damning with faint praise I'm seeing bugs which were filed as removal requests as early as August 14 which are still waiting for processing. Unfortunately, t

Tempfile best practice vs. man pages

2006-12-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
nd opens it with O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL." I'm guessing that the dire warning on tempnam(3) is overblown. Am I right? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Correct fate for emacs20 bugs?

2006-12-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
So I'm going through the old bugs list. There are 37 bugs against emacs20. emacs20 is only in oldstable-security at this point. What is the correct fate for these bugs? -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Insert famous quote here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Can ftpmasters do ONE SIMPLE THING?

2006-12-31 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Namely, fix bug #224469. It's really trivial and it's been waiting for over three years now. This is just STUPID. Next DPL election, I want to see someone running on the platform of adding an extra ftpmaster *whether or not the current ftpmasters like it*. Someone who will get simple stuff like

Thanks to ftpmasters!

2007-01-07 Thread Nathanael Nerode
priorities bugs. I'm extremely impressed. Credit where credit is due; nearly all the "easy" longstanding bugs were fixed in a very short amount of time, and the rest had explanations of the problems added to the bug trail, which is *superb*. Thanks Ryan Murray et al! -- N

Re: dicussion about patches ... ignoring patches make motivation toprovide them fall

2006-03-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: So yes, I believe we need to work on the long-term "ignored" bugs. :) Those are essentially all I work on. It's a good thing I have a thick skin. Some maintainers are genuinely grateful for the assistance, and they're a pleasure to work with. (This includes the X

Changing the default syslogd (again...)

2006-05-21 Thread Nathanael Nerode
e, I strongly suspect inetutils-syslogd will be the winner, even over sysklogd. I expect that most of what it needs from netbase will turn out to already be available in the installer. Given the state of sysklogd, I hope that it can be removed entirely from a future release of Debian. --

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-05 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By whom? A bunch of people with too much time on their hands. Is there an actual lawyer involved? I don't think so. This is a crazy stupid argument. By this argument, Debian should distribute absolutely anything, no matter what the license, unless a lawyer gets involv

Re: Non-DDs in debian-legal

2006-06-20 Thread Nathanael Nerode
lined posters? Those are the ones who say "Debian-legal should be ignored, listen to me instead". The regulars are generally very disciplined and mature, and treat licensing analysis like -- well, the best analogy is debugging. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bush admi

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-09 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Eduard Bloch wrote: >#include >* Kevin Bube [Fri, Jul 07 2006, 11:29:21AM]: >> Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > * Adam Borowski [Fri, Jul 07 2006, 10:38:32AM]: >> >> >> * dvdrtools, a fork of the last GPLed version, is in non-free >> > >> > Please look at dvdrtools' files, eg. cdreco

Congrats to the ftpmasters

2006-07-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
The NEW queue is down to *22* packages, which is totally unheard of. Only three packages have been waiting longer than a month -- so Javier's package is no longer in the 'endless wait' state. At the same time, the RM bugs are in fairly good shape, and clearly removals are also being processed pret

Re: small quirks setting up a cross-compile toolchain

2006-07-28 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That's exactly what I did: > > apt-get install -y \ > autoconf2.13 \ > toolchain-source toolchain-source-gdb \ > toolchain-source-newlib \ > dpkg-cross dejagnu expect gperf dpatch gobjc cdbs quilt \ > expectk patchutils equi

Re: Constitutional amendment: Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD votetallying

2003-05-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Manoj said: >Oh, as a sponsor of the GR, I suppose I should clarify that I > am not going to accept this amendment; I consider it a bad one. This > makes our vote method fail the monoticity criteria > (http://www.electionmethods.org/evaluation.htm). See Scenario 2 below. > > >I'll

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-27 Thread Nathanael Nerode
need SMP on 80386? Is there even such thing as 80386 SMP > machines? Not requiring SMP support would make the ABI change > trivial... I think there is no such thing as SMP for 80386. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ting installers, but for >your own packages it should be straightforward for you to do testing >and bugfixing even on architectures you don't personally own a machine >for. You forget, perhaps, that Jamin is stuck in the NM queue waiting for DAM approval. Since he's not an official DD yet, he does not have access to those machines... -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
king a while; s390, m68k, and arm seem to need some serious work. Good luck finding more people to work on those last three. The bugs in installer-related packages are listed at: http://bugs.qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-installer.cgi (Installer people, feel free to correct my impressions if they're wrong.) -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
rsions of the C++ interface to libdb. Why are they depending on it? This seems odd to me. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Aaargh!

2003-08-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
n be done about this kind of thing, but it's frustrating. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
lly, if something was released upstream over a year ago, and Debian releases with an even *older* version (without good reason), that's not good at all. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Matt Zimmerman said: >I disagree. If I'm not mistaken, this is the definition of an RC bug. >If >the package has an RC bug, it is not releasable. If there is an RC bug >which does not imply that the package is unreleasable, it has been >assigned >the wrong severity. So you're saying bug #1965

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-06 Thread Nathanael Nerode
ing them). Still, most of the messages are really pretty good, if you know how to filter for the key words. -- Nathanael Nerode http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html

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