Re: Screw non-free.

2004-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 10:47:25AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > "not changing things" is effectively a removal of non-free: > > Some bug-free contrib and non-free packages are waiting for more than > one year to enter testing since they were not rebuilt on all > architectures. File ftp.debian.org

Re: ????? non-free.

2004-03-19 Thread Lukas Geyer
Martin Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS. Dict'ing the subject line confuses me even more. While i > certainly have fun with the software, i hope that the originator of > this subject did not mean to 'defeat expectation through trickery' > or 'oppress'? "Screw" is a synonym for "fuck", and

Re: snail mail address

2004-03-19 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thursday 18 March 2004 02.18, Dennis Bates wrote: > I need your mailing adress, for a friend; wanting to write about your > software. >Thank you, > Dennis Bates > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian does not have a dnail mail address. Please do your research and have a look at

Re: Report

2004-03-19 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thursday 18 March 2004 18.00, you wrote: > Debian Team, > > We are a company of IT directed toward research in artificial > intelligence. We are developing a project of AI in Linux, and we are > searching which the distribution of linux fastest. You have some report > of performance, if possibl

Re: Screw non-free.

2004-03-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:55:23PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:39:50PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > A package was built by the maintainer for one architecture. > > Can I be sure, that the licence allows rebuilding it on another > > architecture? > > Not without readi

Re: Screw non-free.

2004-03-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:36:44AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:55:56AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > The buildds currently ignore non-free packages. > > > How do you propose to rectify or work around that? Will passing Anthony > > > Towns's proposed amendment autom

Re: ????? non-free.

2004-03-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 08:38:55AM +0100, Martin Albert wrote: > PS. Dict'ing the subject line confuses me even more. While i certainly > have fun with the software, i hope that the originator of this subject > did not mean to 'defeat expectation through trickery' or 'oppress'? No. Michael --

Re: ????? non-free.

2004-03-19 Thread Martin Albert
> Many packages in non-free haven't had consistent versions across all > architectures in over two years. > > > > The buildds currently ignore non-free packages. > > > How do you propose to rectify or work around that? First of all, repeated (well, kind ;) requests to install needed build depende