Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-22 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:42:09AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote: > On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 01:10:52AM -0400 , Branden Robinson wrote: > > At any rate, this thread is moronic. > > > > 1) DFSG-free packages that depend only on packages in main should go in > > main. > > > > 2) DFSG-free packages that de

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-21 Thread John Galt
You're mostly right, but there still needs to be notification: it just has to be concurrent, not previous like I thought. There is explicit exemption of small keys, but those keys have been exempted all the time. The big issue is that it's easier to get the review--submit and go. Publically avai

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:46:11PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > Has anyone submitted the non-US tree to Treasury so that it can be > reviewed and exported legally? There is little point in doing this at the moment; the current regulations are provisional and up for review soon (next month, I believe)

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-20 Thread Raul Miller
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 07:46:11PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > Has anyone submitted the non-US tree to Treasury so that it can be > reviewed and exported legally? Unless somebody's done that, the > current export control laws still prevent export of it...They've been > LOOSENED, not eliminated. Um..

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-20 Thread John Galt
Has anyone submitted the non-US tree to Treasury so that it can be reviewed and exported legally? Unless somebody's done that, the current export control laws still prevent export of it...They've been LOOSENED, not eliminated. On Sat, 20 May 2000, Raul Miller wrote: > > > Ok, nothing illegal ab

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-20 Thread Raul Miller
> > Ok, nothing illegal about that. ... On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 12:20:38PM -0400, Daniel Martin wrote: > A common misconception. > > Under the old (1999 and earlier) encryption export controls, _all_ > encryption had to apply for an export license - even the stupid "xor > with some fixed byte" me

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-19 Thread Daniel Martin
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the hook supports, say, an 8 bit key, that means it's not a restricted > piece of munitions, right? But if a hook supports, say, a 448 bit key, > that means it's a restricted piece of munitions, right? But what about > a hook that doesn't care about k

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-18 Thread Raul Miller
On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 03:22:19AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > Are you sure about that? I remember something about programs providing > the necessary hooks to insert encryption software to be restricted > too. I, too, have heard about this. But I think it is something that people have said, rat

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-18 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > The program is not encumbered by encryption laws, so it doesn't need to go > > into non-US. Are you sure about that? I remember something about programs providing the necessary hooks to insert encryption software to be restricted too. Simon -- P

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:29:39PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > But putting it in non-US/main would be equally legal: it only depends > > on packages in main and non-US/main. Policy dates back to a time when > > non-US was not split, and I would like to argue that putting it in > > non-US/main ma

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-17 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:29:39PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > It's so sad to see something so simple turning into a policy debate. At least the argument is over what to do and not who should be allowed to do it like most Debian arguments are these days. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:55:53AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:05:08PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > I was under the impression that the partitioning between debian/main > > > and non-US/main was only due to the archive's location in the US. > > > > Excellent observa

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-17 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 06:05:08PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > I was under the impression that the partitioning between debian/main > > and non-US/main was only due to the archive's location in the US. > > Excellent observation of the obvious. And since nothing in main can depend > on anything o

Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-17 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:35:21PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:23:48PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On 17 May 2000, Christian Marillat wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've packaged seahorse a GPL front-end for gnupg. > > > > > > Source: seahorse > > > Section: contri