Re: Debian money

2009-09-12 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, We have a significant amount of money, but I would not define it as a "huge amount". > There's quite a long list, in *rough* order of the priority I would > (personally) give them so far. > 1 New hardware / equipment > 2 Fund developer gatherings: My full support to spend money on thi

Debian Maintainers Keyring changes

2009-09-12 Thread Debian FTP Masters
The following changes to the debian-maintainers keyring have just been activated: andrea.ver...@gmail.com Full name: Andrea Veri Added key: D78CDED2EDC8D9BA4807E817DA8622AE93EBF6D8 benjamin.dr...@gmail.com Full name: Benjamin Drung Added key: A62D2CFBD50B9B5BF360D54B159EB5C4EFC8

Re: Sourceless but useless: how about ignoring some irrelevant files instead of repackaging?

2009-09-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Magnus Holmgren writes: > I have a different example: Upstream bundles a couple of libraries > (unmodified source tarballs + modified versions of some files), which > happen to contain some tiny non-free bits (like RFCs and GFDL-licensed > documentation with cover texts). I also find repackaging

Re: Sourceless but useless: how about ignoring some irrelevant files instead of repackaging?

2009-09-12 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On måndagen den 7 september 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:01:04PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > in one of the packages I mainatain, upstream left some zlib and ncurses > > static libraries for Win32 in the source tarball. > > IMHO it is always a good idea to remove crap

Re: Debian money

2009-09-12 Thread George Danchev
> Steve McIntyre writes: > > 4 Marketing stuff: > >a box(es) of equipment to take to stands at various shows and > > expos. Might be useful, but could be expensive. Where do we store > > it/them? Who organises shipping? > > I think this is something which we should pursue. I genera

Re: Debian money / Hardware certification

2009-09-12 Thread Michael Goetze
Hi, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Yes. There's a kindof "market point" I've been wishing on Debian for years "knowing" that it simply could happen: certifications and generally rising attention to commercial producers, both hardware and (free/open) software. I think there's right now a thread on