Re: When will KDE and Debian get together?

2000-05-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > > Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > But my impression is that not every debianized source tree can be used with > > the debuild command. For example, can you use debuild with the debianized > > pine source tree that is distributed with De

Re: When will KDE and Debian get together?

2000-05-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 10:04:30AM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [in response to Tobias Peters] > > > I can see why neither Debian nor KDE wants to change here, and it is also a > > practical impossibility for KDE. Unfortunate

Re: When will KDE and Debian get together?

2000-05-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > One current problem for Debian (unlike rpm-based distributions) is it does > > not have a standard source-package format. > > You are quite mistaken. Debian may not have a source package format that > rpm us

Re: When will KDE and Debian get together?

2000-05-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
about the url of the English translation of the interview that got this whole discussion started). On Sun, 28 May 2000, Tobias Peters wrote: > In the May 25 lwn, Alan W. Irwin writes: > > > I suspect this bad situation is a leftover from the old flame wars that > > used to erupt

Re: When will KDE and Debian get together?

2000-05-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Debian website just like for many other packages (e.g., Qt1, the source of the original controversy) that have been judged by the Debian community to be freedom impaired in some way. Alan W. Irwin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 250-727-2902 FAX: 250-721-7715 snail-mail: Dr. Alan W. Irwin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 __ Linux-powered astrophysics __