Re: Fwd: Are users of Debian software members of the Debian community?

2022-09-16 Thread Steffen Moeller
Am 16.09.2022 um 15:36 schrieb Andrey Rahmatullin: On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 08:56:12AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: Russ does have point though in that if you don't like something in Debian, there are really only two things you can do to fix that situation for yourself: - Get involved as a c

Re: question with the Debian Project

2022-07-29 Thread Steffen Moeller
Am 29.07.2022 um 12:09 schrieb Andrey Rahmatullin: On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 05:13:38PM +0800, 桑猛 wrote: Hello debian,I am a user of debian system and belong to the company Loongson Zhongke. We have our own loongarch architecture. Now we want to adapt our loongarch architecture based on debian

Re: dpkg feature implementation

2010-01-05 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, dE . wrote: > The solution that I'm proposing is a super dep package. A single > 'sdebp' file which's suppose to install a singe software (mostly a > meta package for e.g kde) but contains all dependencies which might be > required by the package relative to a fresh OS install. A command t

Re: Welche Debian Version?

2009-10-04 Thread Steffen Moeller
Lieber Herr Schaudt, you chose the wrong mailing list, you probably wanted to post on http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/ Manfred Schaudt wrote: > seit längerer Zeit versuche ich auf Linux umzusteigen. Das jetzige > Betriebssystem auf meinem Targa PC läuft mit Microsoft Windows XP Home

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

2009-09-07 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, 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 from an upstream tarba

Re: CinePaint.

2009-08-21 Thread Steffen Moeller
To quickly help with a translation, this was a friendly RFP (or better a RFreP) for CinePaint, which apparently was dropped since lenny. Wrong list, wrong language, but should someone know something about it, ... . This request, if valid, reminds me of http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/column

Re: Opera in your repos

2009-08-05 Thread Steffen Moeller
Dear Ilya, Ilya Shpan'kov wrote: > Last 7 years I use GNU/Linux and know that, for example, in Russia the > Opera browser is very popular in GNU/Linux Community. Unfortunately, not > always I can see this browser in the non-free repos. Well, there is a > question: whether Opera is included to you

Re: On cadence and collaboration

2009-08-05 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Julien BLACHE wrote: >>> Debian stands out in many respects, yes. But being different for the >>> sake of it isn't a laudable goal: if there's a good idea, it deserves to >>> be considered, even if others are already considering it. >>> >> Being different and

Re: Debian redesign

2009-07-31 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, Werner Baumann wrote: > I'm using Debian for about ten years now and I use it because "Debian > is different". > While I appreciate the intention to "position Debian better" I am > concerned about the general direction, I am missing what I think the > most important values of Debian. +1 o

Freeze! Some lateral thinking here. ( was: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes )

2009-07-29 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, should we possibly think of alternatives to the current way to present releases? I was thinking about the possibility to adopt some principles from version management that we got accustomed to in programming ... My hunch is that everyone has a few tools that he/she wants to work on in da

Re: Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes

2009-07-29 Thread Steffen Moeller
Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2009, Frans Pop wrote: >>> The Debian project has decided to adopt a new policy of time-based >>> development freezes for future releases, on a two-year cycle. >> Disappointing to see such an announcement without any prior discussion on >> d-project, d-