Re: Chromium on Debian 11

2022-04-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
phil995511 - - 17.04.22, 14:17:11 CEST: > My post is trying to bring your attention to a major issue, nothing > more, if you're too tired take a vacation, but respect my request and > make sure to fix issues of Chromium on Debian Stable updates that > aren't sufficient as it is. There is nothing w

Re: Chromium on Debian 11

2022-04-17 Thread Martin Steigerwald
phil995511 - - 17.04.22, 13:18:25 CEST: > > Replying off-list. I replied off list for a reason. *sigh* -- Martin

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Dr. Bas Wijnen - 24.03.22, 10:50:47 CET: > There is work to be done. Uneasy work. But important to do, > nonetheless. > > There was work to be done. It has been done. The result is that > Norbert was sanctioned. Please accept that and stop pretending that > the debate is still ongoing. Just one t

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
No CC needed. Thanks. Pierre-Elliott Bécue - 24.03.22, 00:34:25 CET: > > I am astonished to see, again, how people here seem to project all > > badness in the world onto a single former, cause expelled, Debian > > developer. Especially one with whom I had zero problems with and one > > who contrib

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Ulrike Uhlig - 23.03.22, 17:02:14 CET: > On a sidenote, I would like to urge the people who did so in this > thread to stop using the word "toxic" to describe that someone is > being called out for bullying, abusive behavior, discriminatory, or > (passive-)agressive remarks. This is victim reversal

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Adam Borowski - 23.03.22, 16:46:48 CET: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:37:27PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > You're not the first one with the same reaction, so here's why. > > > > Norbert publicly lies, writting he's not packaging in Debian "thanks > > to the da-manager", why should we care? Qui

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald - 23.03.22, 08:54:12 CET: > Jonathan Carter - 23.03.22, 07:38:02 CET: > > On 2022/03/22 22:01, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > In his latest post, Norbert wrote: > […] > > > I agree that his posts aren't appropriate for planet (I didn't pay

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

2022-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Jonathan Carter - 23.03.22, 07:38:02 CET: > On 2022/03/22 22:01, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > In his latest post, Norbert wrote: […] > I agree that his posts aren't appropriate for planet (I didn't pay > close attention but noticed at least one post recently where he > blames politics for not being pa

Re: NVC or other Training at DebConf

2021-04-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Cc'd to you as you cc'd me. I do not really need a Cc though. Sam Hartman - 11.04.21, 12:44:17 CEST: > >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Steigerwald writes: > Martin> I remember that at the recent KDE Academy meetups, I think > Martin> the last two, there

Re: Abusive language on Debian lists

2021-04-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Dear Tomas, dear Debian community, to...@tuxteam.de - 11.04.21, 11:46:02 CEST: > So in the end, I think the only real way is to raise awareness, with > the goal tha /we all/ try to help keeing a friendly tone. > > It's a fine line to walk, between intervening (good) and vigilante > (perhaps too m

Re: Package request

2020-03-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Dear Justin. Justin - 26.03.20, 01:15:10 CET: > Hello guys, I am inquiring if you make a package which would like > onenote for microsoft. Do you have a interactive package that would > be used just like onenote or similar? Also do you make a package like > a virtual machine or similar where you c

Re: Asking for Calm

2020-01-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Sam Hartman - 01.01.20, 15:59:31 CET: > >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Steigerwald writes: > Martin> Dear Sam. > > Martin> Sam Hartman - 31.12.19, 15:37:09 CET: > >> folks, emotions are very high at the moment. It would really >

Re: Asking for Calm

2020-01-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Aron Xu - 01.01.20, 12:22:49 CET: > On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 7:09 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Dear Sam. > > > > Sam Hartman - 31.12.19, 15:37:09 CET: > > > folks, emotions are very high at the moment. It would really help > > > if > > > you

Re: Asking for Calm

2020-01-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Dear Sam. Sam Hartman - 31.12.19, 15:37:09 CET: > folks, emotions are very high at the moment. It would really help if > you could let the discussion die down. If there are issues that you > need to address, please reach out to da-manager, the listmaster, DPL, > the community team, or anyone els

Re: Be nice to your fellow Debian colleagues

2020-01-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Aron, hi everyone, Aron Xu - 31.12.19, 15:57:22 CET: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 5:00 AM Ondřej Surý wrote: > > the init systemd GR is over and we have reached the results in a > > democratic way by following Debian Constitution. However following > > the process is orthogonal to our opinions, p

Re: farewell

2019-07-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Dear Marc. I can certainly relate to your frustration. Also with Plasma certain things are broken, like some applications that use Qt WebEngine, IMHO partly due to only a few people dedicating their time to do all the packaging for Qt/KDE, which is a lot, a huge lot of work. Marc Munro - 23.07

Re: Pride Month Discussion has Run its Course

2019-07-06 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Alexander Wirt - 06.07.19, 20:00: > On Tue, 02 Jul 2019, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > On 15451 March 1977, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > > > The tone is absolutely civilized. > > > > And yet, the cost to people who have to do this education again > > > > and > > > > again is really high. > > > > > > Thats

Re: Debian supports pridemonth?

2019-07-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Jonathan Carter - 02.07.19, 10:54: > On 2019/07/02 10:35, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > How about a month of welcoming *all* contributors regardless of > > their > > skin color, their sexual orientation, their political viewpoints, > > their appearance? > > &

Re: Debian supports pridemonth?

2019-07-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Colin Watson - 02.07.19, 12:25: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 11:07:39AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Actually I felt something like similar like this myself before (not > > related to the pridemonth thing). There still a lot of oppression of > > women and a lack of prog

Re: Debian supports pridemonth?

2019-07-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Marc Haber - 02.07.19, 11:06: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 10:35:21AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > How about a month of welcoming *all* contributors regardless of > > their > > skin color, their sexual orientation, their political viewpoints, > > their appearance? &

Re: Debian supports pridemonth?

2019-07-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald - 02.07.19, 10:35: > Russ Allbery - 02.07.19, 00:26: > > Adrian Bunk writes: > > > It is also a meaningful gesture if some people are excluded from > > > being welcomed. > > > > > > Would Debian honor a month of white heterosexual

Re: Debian supports pridemonth?

2019-07-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Russ Allbery - 02.07.19, 00:26: > Adrian Bunk writes: > > It is also a meaningful gesture if some people are excluded from > > being welcomed. > > > > Would Debian honor a month of white heterosexual men? > > Do you think people with those attributes have been made > systematically unwelcome in

Re: Debian, Totalitarianism, Thought Reform, what next?

2019-03-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Robin Wheeler - 26.03.19, 07:58: > The humble & humiliating apology made by Comrade Preining last week > smells like the confessions that political prisoners > make after undergoing thought reform and coercive persuasion > programs. The State 100% right and Comrade Prisoner 100% wrong. > Of course

Re: Debain 10 release ?

2019-03-15 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Remy. remy wehrung - 15.03.19, 12:32: > Hello, I use Débian 9.x professionally, but it is necessary to use > libraries, EDI and CUDA more recent, I develloppe an ecologic system > and I must be at once up to date and to have a reliable informatic. > Débian 10 m 'is mandatory especially with the

Re: Debian Geldspenden an ffis e.V.

2019-03-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hallo Klauspeter Hauf, Hector Oron - 14.03.19, 14:59: > Hello Mr. Klauspeter Hauf, > > Missatge de l'adreça del dia dj., 14 de març > > 2019 a les 14:44: > > Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, > > > > leider muss ich Ihnen mitteilen, dass die auf der Seite des ffis > > e.V. veröffentlichte Freiste

Re: enforcement first, ask questions later?

2019-02-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Dear Gavin. Gavin Howard - 04.02.19, 17:28: > I am not a contributor, so take what I say with a grain of salt. > > I was planning on becoming a contributor to Debian recently and joined > the mailing list in preparation for doing so. And then I saw > everything that was happening. > > It made me

Re: enforcement first, ask questions later?

2019-02-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Dear Daniel. Daniel Pocock - 04.02.19, 07:29: > On 03/02/2019 11:02, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Daniel Pocock - 03.02.19, 08:38: > >> This reveals a lot about the serious problems in Debian right now. > >> Did we really sign up to be part of an experimen

Re: enforcement first, ask questions later?

2019-02-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Daniel Pocock - 03.02.19, 08:38: > This reveals a lot about the serious problems in Debian right now. > Did we really sign up to be part of an experiment like that? I > didn't. > > Why do certain people want to start out with enforcement, skipping > over normal human relations, avoiding meetings

Re: Call for experiences of Norbert Preining

2019-01-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Thomas Lange - 09.01.19, 18:17: > > This reminded me about > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/12/msg00025.html > > For easier understanding, this is the post from Daniel with subject: > > "€ 500 cash bounty for information / Debian privacy breaches" Thanks for looking it up. I do

[OT] distributions without systemd (was: Re: Censorship in Debian)

2019-01-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Miles Fidelman - 08.01.19, 18:16: > > I would have been very surprised if you had told me 6 months ago > > that > > I would be writing this, but: > > > > Please consider Devuan as an alternative. You have probably seen > > awful mails from one or two very toxic trolls pushing Devuan, but > > the

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Ian Jackson - 07.01.19, 19:00: > > For me, any code of conduct and its enforcement needs to be based on > > actual behavior, never on assuming intentions or assuming about how > > people are. > > Once again, there is a difference between *assuming* and *inferring*. > > I doubt this will really co

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hello, Ian Jackson - 07.01.19, 16:57: > Miles Fidelman writes ("Re: Censorship in Debian"): > > On 1/6/19 1:38 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > [systemd stuff] > > > > [systemd stuff] > > I appreciate that the fights over systemd have been a defining > experience for many of us. Many of us are s

Re: Censorship in Debian

2019-01-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Dear Ian. Ian Jackson - 05.01.19, 18:17: > Very competently toxic people will calculate precisely what they can > get away with: they will ride roughshod over weak victims or in > situations with less visibility; when challenged by an authority who > can impose consequences, they will lie and obfu

Re: Debian's Code of Conduct, and our technical excellence

2018-12-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hello Roberto. Roberto C. Sánchez - 29.12.18, 18:12: > Suppose for a moment that a project member [… hypothetical case …] […] > The reason I use the above example is because it is a difficult case > to handle. The cases where harm is clearly intended are > comparitavely very easy to deal with. T

Re: conspiracies and character assassination in the name of Debian?

2018-12-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Dear Daniel. Daniel Pocock - 27.12.18, 05:41: > On 21/12/18 09:25, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > I agree with Russ that your framing of this is absolutely abhorrent. > > Your continued justification of it is digging a bigger hole. I beg > > you, please take a step back and reconsider your approach h

Re: Censorship in Debian

2018-12-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Dear Russ, dear Daniel. Russ Allbery - 21.12.18, 00:46: > > Having been rear ended by a utility van, thrown off a motorbike half > > way across a roundabout and having also received abusive and > > threatening messages from people within the Debian community, I > > feel that the physical pain caus

Re: Power-Management

2018-04-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Marc Haber - 26.04.18, 15:12: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:12:40PM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: > > laptop-mod-mode tools seems to put the laptop into pretty optimal > > settings without me having to touch anything, or so powertop says. > > Can Laptop-mode-tools in Thinkpads also limit charging of

Re: Power-Management

2018-04-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Marc. Marc Haber - 26.04.18, 11:00: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 09:35:45AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > > I was just Wondering if you have any considerations for issuing an > > > update or designing lets say Debian 10 with Power Management for > > > laptops in mind. > > > > Such modifications ar

Re: Conflict escalation and discipline

2018-04-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Colin Watson - 19.04.18, 01:42: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:28:44PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Did I get this right that you think that a person can be a problem > > that possibly would have to be removed from the project? > > > > If so I heavily disagree wit

Re: Conflict escalation and discipline

2018-04-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Ian Jackson - 18.04.18, 19:23: > The answer is, carrot: advertising that the alternative route has a > possibility of delivering something like what an angry person actually > thinks they want - punishment for the wrongdoer. > > And, of course, stick: if you post to d-devel anyway then your own >

Re: Conflict escalation and discipline

2018-04-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Ian Jackson - 18.04.18, 18:17: > Lars Wirzenius writes ("Re: Conflict escalation and discipline"): > > "Debian emotional support group", maybe. > > I find this suggestion very surprising, possibly even insulting. At > the very least I need to be much clearer. > > > But maybe wait with the naming

Re: Conflict escalation and discipline

2018-04-18 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Lars Wirzenius - 18.04.18, 15:08: > On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 13:41 +0100, Martín Ferrari wrote: > > I believe that a-h is the natural starting point for dealing with > > these issues. > > Most of the problems being discussed right now, and in general, seem > to be of the sort where feelings are hurt,

Re: Let's Stop Getting Torn Apart by Disagreement: Concerns about the Technical Committee

2017-12-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Martin Steigerwald - 28.12.17, 13:41: > Hello. > > This is long, it may invite disagreement, but I tried my best to avoid > triggering any hurt feelings. In case you just want to be bothered with the do not want of course. I proof read the mail several times, but this still slippe

Re: Let's Stop Getting Torn Apart by Disagreement: Concerns about the Technical Committee

2017-12-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
relive the past. Given current human experience it is also not possible to change it. But maybe there is a way toward healing wounds. Ian Jackson - 28.12.17, 11:20: > Martin Steigerwald writes ("Re: Let's Stop Getting Torn Apart by Disagreement: Concerns about the Technical Committ

Re: Let's Stop Getting Torn Apart by Disagreement: Concerns about the Technical Committee

2017-12-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hello Norbert. Norbert Preining - 26.12.17, 15:28: > On Mon, 06 Nov 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > > *This* is where I see the true source of the *ongoing* division in the > > community. It's not over the technical decision. It's not even over the > > decision-making process. It's that some people

Re: Let's Stop Getting Torn Apart by Disagreement: Concerns about the Technical Committee

2017-10-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Dear Russ, dear Sam, dear people involved with Debian, Russ Allbery - 28.10.17, 16:13: > Martin Steigerwald writes: > > I always found that just focusing on the technical aspects of the Init > > system discussion left out… everything else. Even the issue in itself > > was

Re: Let's Stop Getting Torn Apart by Disagreement: Concerns about the Technical Committee

2017-10-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hello Sam. Sam Hartman - 27.10.17, 20:18: > As a member of the technical committee, I've grown increasingly alarmed > as I think about the impact of the issues that come to us. > Yes, we're giving answers. However, I think we are doing a lot of harm > to the members of our community in the proces

Re: Sourcing fair-trade t-shirts (was: producing, distributing, storing Debian t-shirts)

2017-05-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hello Martin. martin f krafft - 02.05.17, 07:39: > and the product we ordered was > > Stanley&Stella,STTM528/STTW006,"Leads2,"Loves",Biobaumwolle > + Fairtrade,Kids STTB938,"paints" > > at 4.79 €/piece. Printing was 2 € each, as well 30 € or so one-time > incidentals, net price. Okay, scrat

Re: producing, distributing, storing Debian t-shirts

2017-05-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Gunnar Wolf - 01.05.17, 23:44: > Martin Steigerwald dijo [Mon, May 01, 2017 at 10:13:58PM +0200]: > > > Make it fair-trade and printed by people with disabilities, like > > > we did for DC15, and it was somewhere around $8. I'd still buy > > > a shirt for $15 o

Re: producing, distributing, storing Debian t-shirts

2017-05-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
martin f krafft - 01.05.17, 21:37: > also sprach Adam Borowski [2017-05-01 21:33 +0200]: > > Note the data mentioned in this thread: > > * decent printed shirts cost $0.60 in a large batch (including the > > manufacturer's profit) > > > > * "very good quality" printed shirts made in a small bat

Re: Debian Wiki

2016-12-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hello Daniel. Am Samstag, 24. Dezember 2016, 09:32:16 CET schrieb Daniel Landre: > I recently installed Debian Jesse on an old desktop, but I am not allowed > to access the Debian Wiki from www.debian.org. > > Exactly why is that? As a new user of thee Debian Linux Desktop I try to > find informa

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
On Samstag, 21. Mai 2016 10:53:34 CEST Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 21 mai 2016 10:24 +0200, Martin Steigerwald : > > Still, the turn around time between upstream and debian release would be > > quite high for Debian stable users, but maybe part of such a > > collaboration cou

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
On Samstag, 21. Mai 2016 11:13:41 CEST Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:07:43AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I wonder about a landing page for upstreams interested in working with the > > Debian project to provide packages within the official Debian repos

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
On Samstag, 21. Mai 2016 10:24:22 CEST Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I wonder about some kind of adopt an upstream within a Debian team kind of > approach. A landing page and mailing list where upstream can write in for > getting help and advice and voicing their needs. And when there a

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
On Samstag, 21. Mai 2016 10:24:06 CEST Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Et cetera. Debian has one set of quality factors it particularly cares > about, and some upstreams think differently. Yes, I seen all those reasons you mentioned. I just wonder how about if upstreams can learn easily how to work toget

Re: third-party packages adding apt sources

2016-05-21 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hello Paul, On Samstag, 21. Mai 2016 14:07:53 CEST Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > Totally agree. Our standards are far too high for many upstreams. > > I don't understand the disconnect here. Are upstreams not interested > in software quality to the

Re: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

2015-04-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 19. April 2015, 20:15:04 schrieb Paul van der Vlis: > Op 19-04-15 om 19:44 schreef Martin Steigerwald: > >> Also, it would be nice to avoid starting threads in various places. I > >> already answered in: > >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?

Re: Backports removed from sources.list ;-(

2015-04-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 19. April 2015, 18:26:30 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: > Paul van der Vlis (2015-04-19): > > Op 19-04-15 om 18:01 schreef Michael Gilbert: > > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I saw backports has been removed as default setting from >

Re: debian for elderly

2013-11-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Thomas! Am Samstag, 30. November 2013, 18:32:19 schrieb Thomas Koch: > I'm just sitting with a friend of mine, a 70+ years old woman showing her a > linux Desktop. I've already manually hacked /usr/bin/startx to add "-dpi > 120"... An alternative may be setting DisplaySize : merkaba:~> cat /e

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Oktober 2013, 08:54:30 schrieb Enrico Zini: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 05:27:25PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Simply obfuscating the name on the list of banned users (or not posting > > any names at all, only links to the posts that led to the ban) would > > I'm in favour of not pos

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-10-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 27. Oktober 2013, 07:58:03 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 09:00:20AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Le Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > What do the rest of you think? > > > > Given how arbitrarly other bans have been proposed, I