On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:20:26PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Betts) writes:
> > Why not just wind Branden up in retaliation?
> > Look it is easy:
> >
> > X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS
> > X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOWS, X-WINDOW
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:07:20PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> You could make a task- package to do this. That would be cool. Then
> people could try it both ways and see which they prefer.
>
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Tomasz Wegrzan
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 01:58:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > What about relase goal for woody :
> > with woody one will be able to have (/bin /usr/bin /usr/X11R6/bin
> > /usr/games) stuff in one directory, (/sbin + /usr/sbin),
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:30:24AM +, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Or GNU theirs. If GNU was involved in FHS discussions, there are
> probably good reasons why the FHS didn't take their views on board.
> If they weren't, then they should aim to follow the FHS anyway or aim
> to get involved in chang
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 01:00:11PM +0100, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Matthew Vernon wrote:
>
> > It's tricky to write a decent manpage if you know no nroff.
>
> You don't have to learn all the nroff macros to write a simple man
> page! Have a look at the manpage-HOWTO
> (http
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 07:52:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.1.1.1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Semantic revisions.
[snip]
Does anybody know when Harmony or whatever will be ready to be
the same to qt as lesstif was to motif ???
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 09:50:43AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > I have already made a little (ok, very little) effort in this way,
> > and Ive sent patches to xearth 1.1 so the future version of xearth
> > may be finaly free (+jpeg, +png, -gif)
>
> You can read gifs freely. Writing them is cla
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:48:55PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Tomasz" == Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Tomasz> SERIOUS SUGGESTION FOR WOODY : we should get rid of all
> Tomasz> gif-making packages except 1 pa
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 07:58:33PM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> One can argue that some advertising requirements fail DFSG #6. I went
> through this with the Zope license draft (they fixed it). First, it
> discriminates against commercial-free web sites, and then if many people
> had the same requi
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 11:55:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 08:02:05PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 07:29:58PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> > > Since I started working on the ftp archive, I've found at least
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:20:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:41:34PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > I read through the policy document today, trying to nitpick and find
> > > things
> > > that have changed in current practice. Here's what I fou
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 12:15:55PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> > > By the time woody is released, it's likely the gif patent will have
> > > expired.
>
> On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 03:34:58PM +0100, Nils Jeppe wrote:
> > Patents are good for 17 years or so. Wh
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 07:29:58PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since I started working on the ftp archive, I've found at least three
> packages in incoming which come with a licence like this:
>
> This library is free software; you can redistribute it
> and/or modify it under the
package: debian-policy
version: 3.1.0.0
severity: wishlist
beacause any otherwise DFSG-compatible package can possibly
force you to include something like :
`This software contains code made by Fooniversity of Somewhere'
in advertisement of your distro ( even of official Debian ) :
--- policy.sgm
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 09:42:09AM -0800, Don Marti wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 11:24:52PM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote:
>
> > You are entirely right that programs prohibited by patents
> > in some countries should not be treated like programs
> > restricted by their authors.
> >
> > gimp-n
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 01:36:14PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > consider package that has no dep, rec nor sug field.
> > now it was possible to simply select and install it
> > but with ench field the whole database has to be scaned
> > one
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 11:57:53AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > btw: this make dpkg even slower than it is now
>
> What do you have to support this statement? I can see ways that Enhances:
> could be implemented internally in dpkg as a form of Sugge
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:06:39PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Chris Waters wrote:
> > The problem with the "Enhances" idea (which several people, including
> > me, mentioned at the time) is that it puts the responsibility on the
> > wrong package.
>
> Yes and no. It's actually a n
On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 07:16:19PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) writes:
>
> > > Policy says that any binary must come with a manpage. I would like to
> > > have the same for packages.
> >
> > For every package? You must be kidding!!
> >
> > > I just looked for
Our `extra' definition is not complied by packages.
Policy says that package which conflicts with `optional'
package should go to `extra'. No httpd nor ftpd respects this.
And I dont see any reason of chosing the only proper {ht,f}tpd
--- cite ---
`extra'
This contains all packages
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 01:45:29PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> According to Tomasz Wegrzanowski:
> > > But the source might contain a buffer overflow exploit, or another
> > > exploit. Yes, I wrote the code myself, and there is even a comment
> > > in the
> > I see some possibilities to make a mess with suid shutdown but not
> > much more mess than with turning power off by button
> > but if you know any exploits of suid shutdown of which I dont know
> > please tell me (Ive found nothing in manpages)
>
> Well it would be a bit weird if root-exploit
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