Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On 5/31/2019 11:04 PM, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > Before you ask: an insecure hypervisor is an insecure buildd. Are we then looking more closely at AMD-based machines given that those had less problems around speculative attacks? Kind regards Philipp Kern

Upcoming Point Releases

2011-09-07 Thread Philipp Kern
the middle of week 39, October 1st at the latest. base-files can be uploaded now, as it will be held in NEW until closing time anyway. Kind regards and thanks for your efforts Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Question regarding Debian and CGL 5.0

2011-05-01 Thread Philipp Kern
ould mainly be marketing for those sysadmins who try to "sell" Debian as the best since sliced bread for routers and firewalls[1]. ;-) And if something's missing and subsequently added it would be helpful for others, too. Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] Maybe less for routers but mo

Meeting Minutes for the IRC Release Team Meeting on August 23, 2010

2010-08-23 Thread Philipp Kern
[assignee: faw] - upgrade-reports to be prepared and solicited [assignee: vorlon] 5) Any other business? - This item was not called as the time budget was exceeded. A full log is available on [1] (text-only version on [2]). Action and info items are also available as extracted bits on [3

IRC Release Team Meeting on Mon, Aug 23rd, 20 UTC

2010-08-17 Thread Philipp Kern
d a hard one of 1,5h. Later items on the list might be postponed to a later meeting. Kind regards, Philipp Kern on behalf of the Debian Release Team signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using project resources for blends and non-free

2010-01-11 Thread Philipp Kern
s own dak instance and which I'd like to move to=20 > ftp-master.d.o) The latter also being the plan for volatile. It's just that there's no progress towards that goal for quite some time. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ..

Re: Debian money

2009-09-10 Thread Philipp Kern
conclude from my own expiriences from webwml it's mostly a fear to overload/disappoint translators that blocks huge updates from happening. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-08-24, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:22:28 +, Philipp Kern wrote: >>> I wonder if it was always the case that when you switch to upstart you >>> get to say 'Yes, I know I'll break my system, dpkg, pl

Re: Switching the default startup method

2009-08-24 Thread Philipp Kern
27;t care very much of > Petter's work and that you prefer staying with the old system instead of > fixing the new system to suit your needs, and that's backwards. We do care and he told you. I find it very sad that you're bashing the messenger now. Kind regards, Philipp Kern

Re: To whom it may concern [was Re: Bug#541013: O: at -- Delayed job execution and batch processing]

2009-08-11 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-08-11, Sandro Tosi wrote: >>> No lp please! here is debian, we got alioth -> use it. >> Please don't tell me what to do with *my code* should I ever retrieve it. > it's not your code. > I filed the bug, so I have a bit of responsibility to hand it to capable > people. > Luckily other guys

Re: Synchronising with Ubuntu

2009-08-11 Thread Philipp Kern
spend the time on other issues. (Of course the DSA process might need some helper scripts and a reliable buildd infrastructure to consume less.) Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: The Python mess in Debian

2009-08-08 Thread Philipp Kern
cript of another package in your postinst maintainer script. Been there, don't that. And no, it's not the missing byte-compilation that triggers the failure but the missing symlink farm that's usually processed by a trigger at the end of the installation run. Kind regards, Philipp

Re: The Python mess in Debian (was: Re: On cadence and collaboration)

2009-08-08 Thread Philipp Kern
't know if Debconf changed something in this regard. Anyway I don't know how responsive he is wrt emails. I can understand that the hostility on d-python didn't help in that regard, but maybe To'ing or Cc'ing him on some mails might help. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-06 Thread Philipp Kern
the problem is almost every time. But I guess we'll get there as soon as we have debug packages in place. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-06 Thread Philipp Kern
g a bit of unstable helps us to apply some peer pressure. Kudos to all of them who helped releasing in the last freezing cycle. I just don't like the perspective of feeling alone in the next one. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debi

Re: On syncing freeze dates with other distributions

2009-08-04 Thread Philipp Kern
e honest. I rarely see Fedoras. Maybe my sample set is biased, though. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-08-03 Thread Philipp Kern
ny statement > about actively providing support to debian to make this "experiment" > something where we are both winning or not? Never ever! Nevermind teams like clamav that try it. *sigh* Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-31 Thread Philipp Kern
Of course it applies to universe where Ubuntu is heavily relying on Debian to do the work. But it's only main that's officially supported (even security-wise) anyway. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-31 Thread Philipp Kern
reezes with no coordination? Been there, done that, thank you. Well, or not fixing RC bugs during the freeze at all but complaining that the freeze is taking so long and "hurts" unstable. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debi

Re: What is preventing Debian from being fully free at this moment?

2009-07-30 Thread Philipp Kern
are diverging opinions if registry initialisation data provided in array form is something non-free that needs to be stripped from the kernel. Those people are also vocal outside the lists to market their impression that Debian is not all free despite our best efforts to keep it that way. Kind regard

Re: DAM and NEW queues processing

2009-06-25 Thread Philipp Kern
iteable. The others are all, |of course, locally world-readable but only 'install' and 'byhand' |are publicly visible on http://incoming.debian.org/ And I can't find anything in Anthony's mail to contradict this. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-15 Thread Philipp Kern
[ Forwarded on behalf of Sven Luther ] On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 09:31:40AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2009-05-13, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > , > >|5. Works that do not meet our free software standards > >| > >| We acknowledge that some o

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-14 Thread Philipp Kern
ave come up with is called "contrib" and > "non-free" areas in our archive. > Isn't that perfectly clear? Sure, but why the heck was the discussion if we should delay the release instead of moving the kernel to non-free because it's tainted with few bin

Re: Draft vote on constitutional issues

2009-05-13 Thread Philipp Kern
rs, both of which involve fixing bugs. > But section one doesn't just say it's a goal, or a priority, but says > that it is actually a *promise* not just to try hard, but *never* to > release non-free software as part of Debian. Actually, going by the word of the Social Contract,

Re: debian t-shirts

2005-06-19 Thread Philipp Kern
hats? I mean we all have our immaginary hats to put on when facing different situations. Like this we could move this into reality. :D Ciao && SCNR, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Consultant entries that will be removed unless there is an email address provided

2005-05-27 Thread Philipp Kern
Bill Allombert wrote: Given that MJ Ray has taken the trouble to check the list for sites that are still active, I think you are hitting the wrong nail[1] with the wrong hammer[2]. Actually it is hammerhead[1], as suggested by p.d.o's non-exact search. SCNR. Kind regards, Philipp Ker

Re: Debian Sarge

2005-05-22 Thread Philipp Kern
Taha Nazari wrote: what is the release date of the stable version of Debian Srage 3.1 Please refer to [1], it will be updated if anything changes. Currently May 30, 2005 is the planned release date. Kind regards, Philipp Kern [1] http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/sarge/ -- To