Re: backports.org updates

2006-08-14 Thread Sven Mueller
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > this night I updated bpo to use the latest dak version, which means it > now has the ~ support. Great, thanks. > Another little difference that should help users is that backports > Release file now features a "NotAutomatic: yes", making it behave > similar to experimental.

Re: NMUs and (auto-)subscription to the PTS

2006-08-11 Thread Sven Mueller
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 06:35:57AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: >> ISTR a discussion about automatically subscribing NMUers to the PTS for >> the package, and dropping the subscription with the next upload of the >> package (be it a maintainer upload or not). > > I think

Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-25 Thread Sven Mueller
Wouter Verhelst wrote on 18/07/2006 11:37: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 05:04:18PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > >>On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:48:05PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: >> >>>If there WERE anything that said that modified versions of Debian must >>>be "avavilable for free download", it wo

Re: Call for a new DPL mediation ... This will be the only thread i will reply to in the next time about this issue.

2006-07-07 Thread Sven Mueller
MJ Ray wrote on 07/07/2006 13:38: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Have you seen the Geek Social Fallacies? >> >>I think Fallacy #1 sheds quite a bit of light on this particular situation >>and the reactions

Re: Donations

2006-06-12 Thread Sven Mueller
Wouter Verhelst wrote on 11/06/2006 09:54: > On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 02:39:45PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >>This should refer to another text listing the vetted organizations. >>One outside the constitution so it can be changed as needed. > > > That's usually bad practice in a constit

Re: network configuring in debian question

2006-05-16 Thread Sven Mueller
Jila Zakizadeh wrote on 16/05/2006 16:14: > We have two routers in different places that have own LANs. We are > connected to the machines through the gateways of these routers. Now, I > want to move one of these gateway to another place with different > provider. I would like to know what are the

Re: [SUMMARY] About terminology for stable/testing/unstable and related issues

2006-05-16 Thread Sven Mueller
Tapio Lehtonen wrote on 16/05/2006 08:14: > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 06:29:52PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > If stable/testing/unstable are branches (or suites), what are Ubuntu, > DeMuDi, SkoleLinux et al Debian based distributions? I would have > called them branches, from a version control

Re: debian and UDEV

2006-05-16 Thread Sven Mueller
Marco d'Itri wrote on 15/05/2006 14:03: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>You can't wait for an hotplug/udev event to be done processing. That >>is always done asynchron without any feedback of completion. > > This is not correct. Look at the while loop in the init script and and > the udevsettle so

Re: [SUMMARY] About terminology for stable/testing/unstable and related issues

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Mueller
Christian Perrier wrote on 12/05/2006 18:29: >>Though AJ is correct in saying that "suite" is by several tools in >>Debian (apt-utils and dak he mentioned - I don't know about their use of >>suite - as well as reprepro), I think that from a non-native-english >>user perspective, "branch" is easier

Re: [SUMMARY] About terminology for stable/testing/unstable and related issues

2006-05-12 Thread Sven Mueller
Christian Perrier wrote on 10/05/2006 07:00: >>If there are no strong objections in -project, I'm opened to suggestions >>about the Right Way to handle the further life of this proposal, to >>make it alittle bit more "official": >> >>-conclude it and post in -devel-announce...:-) >> >>-make the dis

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Mueller
Sven Luther wrote on 01/05/2006 08:21: > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:20:09AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > >>The reason that I did not inform you was because things were already very >>heated at the moment and because you were at that time still very >>concerned about the welfare of your mother. I th

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-25 Thread Sven Mueller
Panu Kalliokoski wrote on 25/04/2006 13:29: > I hoped the proposal I was making would allow us to eat the cake and > keep it too: offer an open upload area but keep the main archive under > strict quality criteria. I expect it to be easier to check package > quality, too, if they're being autobuil

Re: Private copies of list replies

2006-03-22 Thread Sven Mueller
Michelle Konzack wrote on 18/03/2006 22:28: > Am 2006-03-13 16:02:18, schrieb Margarita Manterola: > >>Thunderbird is a very respected MUA. There's a big group of people >>who don't feel comfortable writing mails from mutt (or the like), and >>I don't think it's such a good idea to take into acco

Re: Private copies of list replies

2006-03-17 Thread Sven Mueller
David Weinehall wrote on 17/03/2006 08:53: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:33:18PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: > >>David Weinehall wrote on 13/03/2006 18:32: >> >>>you can also do a little prefs hackery: >>> >>>http://www.semergence.com/archives/200

Re: Private copies of list replies

2006-03-16 Thread Sven Mueller
David Weinehall wrote on 13/03/2006 18:32: >>Thunderbird, as well as many other MUAs doesn't allow you to set >>arbitrary headers, including M-F-T. > > There are plugins for Thunderbird that solves that (mnehy, for > instance); Would like to _any_ extension/plugin which really solves that (or, b

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Mueller
Wouter Verhelst wrote on 09/03/2006 19:28: > [...] saying > that James is The Problem(TM) here sounds like overreaction to me. It might be. > Though I'll acknowledge that there is a problem if James is slow in > response on one of the many hats he's wearing, I urge you to respect him > for the hu

Re: Private copies of list replies (Was: Re: buildd and experimental)

2006-03-08 Thread Sven Mueller
Bernhard R. Link wrote on 07/03/2006 18:39: > * Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060307 14:46]: > >>I don't say that the idea behind MFT is a bad idea (actually, many >>aspects of it _do_ make sense), but until it is accepted as a standard, >>it is (IMHO) stupi

Re: Private copies of list replies (Was: Re: buildd and experimental)

2006-03-07 Thread Sven Mueller
Glenn Maynard wrote on 07/03/2006 01:05: > It is your job to set MFT if you want my mailer to treat you differently > than everyone else, such as if you want to receive CCs on list posts. Why? MFT isn't an accepted standard. It also isn't implemented in too many MUAs (mozilla/thunderbird just bein

Re: 1 question

2006-03-04 Thread Sven Mueller
Tomasz Kaźmierczak wrote on 04/03/2006 12:12: > Hi. Is the software (kernel, packets, etc.) in testing distribution of Debian > compiled in debug mode or in release mode? Though this question hit the wrong mailinglist (-user or even -devel would have been more appropriate), the answer is simple:

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2006-02-27 Thread Sven Mueller
Andreas Schuldei wrote on 27/02/2006 23:06: > * Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-27 14:52:16]: > >>* Andreas Schuldei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-08 21:08]: >> >>>Intel is so generous to provide Debian with ten notebooks (besides >>>some server hardware), which we would like to give

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-19 Thread Sven Mueller
(dropping debian-devel, this is really not a technical issue) Matt Zimmerman wrote on 17/01/2006 20:44: > I would very much appreciate if folks would review > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00260.html and consider the > points that I raise there. I put some effort into collating

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-09-23 Thread Sven Mueller
Don Armstrong wrote on 19/09/2005 23:04: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Anthony Towns wrote: > >>On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:27:59PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >> >>>So, it's been three weeks, without any word that I've seen. >> >>Now it's been four weeks since the delegation, a month since I >>suggested

Testmail

2005-08-19 Thread Sven Mueller
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Re: Bad press related to (missing) Debian security

2005-06-27 Thread Sven Mueller
martin f krafft wrote on 27/06/2005 20:02: > [cc'ing -project] I currently see two problems which require different levels of confidence in the people involved: 1) People monitoring security lists (including non-public ones), fixing security bugs and uploading the fixed packages, handing the

Re: Branden's mail policies

2005-06-23 Thread Sven Mueller
Manoj Srivastava wrote on 22/06/2005 07:07: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:35:31 +0200, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >>On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:35:50PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: >> >>>1) The Internet is peer-to-peer. You want to break that? >>> >>>2) Some of the ISPs I've used refuse t