Re: Peter Miller memorial page

n't figure out how to best put this link in without it looking snarky, truely it's not meant to be snarky, just the first thing that came to mind. One interpretation of this is to set up redirects as required from old pages to new ones, even if it's a redirect to the mailing list arch

Re: Möchte Debian in Qubes OS Installieren aber es funktioniert nicht.

cases it will work fine with newer laptops. https://backports.debian.org/ With regards, Paul -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer Groningen https://vandervlis.nl

Re: How to create a custom Debian ISO

On Sat, 2024-05-11 at 08:21 +, Aditya Garg wrote: > 1. I want to add a custom kernel that supports my Hardware. > 2. I want to add my own Apt repo which hosts various software > packages to support my hardware. Please consider adding that hardware support to the mainline Linux kernel and to t

Re: List of libraries not ported to RISC-V

On Mon, 2024-02-26 at 17:59 +0500, Moiz Hussain wrote: > I'm interested in porting python libraries to RISC-V. Is there a list > of python libs that need to be ported to RISC-V but haven't been > ported yet? Thanks. Take a look at the build/test links on the port wiki page: https://wiki.debian.o

Re: List of libraries not ported to RISC-V

On Mon, 2024-02-26 at 16:13 +, Colin Watson wrote: > This doesn't tell you whether previous versions of the same packages > worked, though; some of those are going to be failures across multiple > architectures rather than just on riscv64, and you have to click through > to find more informati

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

ntent in violation of project norms as seriously as we treat nonfree? Paul -- :wq

Re: debian image questions

On Thu, 2023-08-03 at 08:41 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > What is the "modern" way to install an operating system on hardware There are some potentially more modern future options: Plug in the device to a USB port, visit the installer web page, click the button to install the OS, done. This can be

Re: Debian versions

On Tue, 2023-08-01 at 13:50 -0600, Alan Serrano Peña wrote: > Is there a commercial version of Debian? > Any version with technical support? The Debian project provides the Debian operating system for free and provides technical support for free by volunteers. In addition, there are a number of

Re: package sury.org and php

On Sun, 2023-04-23 at 10:27 +0200, hassan driss wrote: > We have a number of questions concerning the maintenance and evolution > of php under the debian operating system and particularly debian 11. The > version of php which seems to be maintained under debian 11 is the > version 7.4.3. Howeve

Re: dymo drivers

On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 07:46 -0500, Jeremiah wrote: > How soon will there be a dymo labelwriter 5xl series driver available I suggest that you ask the Debian printing team about this: https://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/ https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Printing Debian's support for Dymo devic

Re: Brief update about software freedom and artificial intelligence

On Mon, 2023-02-27 at 01:45 +0100, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > Because the principle of the copyright existence is about protecting > the authors' exclusive of that {business, commercial, marketing} > rights. The purpose of copyright is allegedly (in the USA) "To promote the Progress of Science

Re: Brief update about software freedom and artificial intelligence

On Fri, 2023-02-24 at 11:37 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > As a general principle, as a free software advocate, I approve of an > expansive definition of fair use and believe that far more uses of > copyrighted material should be fair use than are normally considered fair > use today.  Expansive def

Re: thanks.debian.net

On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 13:45 +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > Thomas Hochstein wrote: > > says > > > Last Modified: Sat, May 26 00:37:36 UTC 2012 ... > Is this listing of debian.net domains something that is useful to > keep published and have the listin

Re: New Contributor Interested in Joining the Debian Project

On Fri, 2023-01-13 at 11:16 +0530, Rupesh Dubey wrote: > I hope this email finds you well. My name is Rupesh and I am new to > the open source community. I am currently learning Python and I am > excited to start contributing to open source projects. Welcome to the community! > I came across Deb

Re: disabling boot time automatic rootfs resize

On Wed, 2022-12-14 at 10:17 +0200, Johnny de Villiers wrote: > Thank you for the response... have attempted the dummy partition > method previously and the system would reach the listing of connected > devices and basically hang there forever. Found a work around however > it involves shuffling ar

Re: disabling boot time automatic rootfs resize

On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 12:06 +0200, Johnny de Villiers wrote: > Have been trying to disable the root boot time automatic rootfs > resize for devices running arm such as the RPi, Odroid, RockPi etc... > with little to no success. Normal Debian installs do not alter the rootfs size after installatio

Re: update SystemDowngrade wiki page

On Sat, 2022-11-19 at 19:18 +0300, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: > I want to suggest a change to the wiki page mentioned above. Feel free to register an account and add the content, it seems to fit with the page just fine. PS: in case you want to package the tools you mentioned: https://mentors.debia

Re: Question about contributing to debian financially.

On Wed, 2022-11-16 at 08:35 -0500, Zeke Williams wrote: > I have an additional question for if I were to hire someone personally > to maintain certain debian packages. What happens with the security > team if a package has no maintainer and a security vulnerability is > found? Does the security te

Re: Question about contributing to debian financially.

On Tue, 2022-11-15 at 12:22 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Debian is defined –and proud– to be a volunteer-based project, > that is, we don't hire and have never hired people to do our work, > technical or otherwise. The only exception thus far has been Outreachy internships. > If you donate funds

Re: Apt feature request / suggestion

On Thu, 2022-10-06 at 10:54 -0700, xaq xaq wrote: > Hi, how do I submit a suggestion to the Apt team? I've tried to > register on their website (https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt). You can report a bug via the Debian BTS: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > - Have an option to ignore fa

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

On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 10:13 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Most people running interactive VMs (e.g., on a desktop with a > graphical console) aren't using Xen, they're using kvm or virtualbox > or just about anything else. While the number is probably less, some people (including Debian contribut

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

On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 20:58 +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > 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 tw

Re: Debian on ia64 / HP Itanium servers

On Fri, 2022-09-16 at 22:41 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, there is still a port alive of > Debian for ia64 architecture[1,2], but support is not official > in the sense of a "Release architecture"[3,4] for contemporary > Debian version 11 bullseye. Due to the Itaniu

Re: How do you manage debian mails on your mailbox?

On Sun, 2022-08-28 at 11:07 +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > - - Do you have any sensible way to cope up with so many mails from > different mailing lists and not potentially miss out on something > important? I don't know that what I do is sensible, but am moving towards a model where I subscribe to

Re: question with the Debian Project

On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 17:13 +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. Please check out our documentation on how to create new Debian ports, it has the steps you will need to get LoongArch sup

Re: Getting a new package onto Debian

On Thu, 2022-07-21 at 12:13 -0700, Mia wrote: > Which list should I contact to try to get a new package onto the > official Debian repositories? Please review these pages: https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers/ https://www.debian.org/intro/help#coding -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.o

Re: OS

On Sat, 2022-06-25 at 19:45 +, SHIN LING wrote: > I can't get pass the debian login screen. Please ask for help using Debian on our support channels: https://www.debian.org/support -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messag

Re: Can the Debian Project ever fall?

On Mon, 2022-06-06 at 09:37 -0500, Shayan Akbar wrote: > As someone who depends on the Debian project a lot in my daily life, > I cannot seem to let this idea go... Can the linux project fall? The Linux kernel project has been around since 1991 and is supported by a large number of companies and

Re: We need to define a path for Debian to climate neutrality

On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 20:35 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Budget: We need to determine our current CO2 emissions as a project, > and then define a roadmap to carbon neutrality by an acceptable date, I would be wary of the legitimacy and effectiveness of carbon offset products. In Australia

Re: several questions /Debian Source Code build 11.3/related to Unrestricted Encryption Source Code Notification Commodity

On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 14:14 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > The review by the NSA went long ago. Debian has treated the code as being > exportable worldwide but has not normally accepted new official mirrors in > countries subject to US sanctions like Iran, Syria or Cuba. There has been an off

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

In the same way Martin Shkreli can claim the state of New York has stopped him from doing pharmaceutical research -- breaking the rules results in consequences. They were the results of your own actions. Blaming others is shirking responsibility. On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 11:51 AM Adam Borowski wro

Re: Banning Norbert Preining from planet.d.o

I was also very very surprised to hear we allow members removed because of their toxic behavior still allowed to use project resources to amplify the very things that got them removed in the first place. No idea why we wouldn't have removed the blog of anyone expelled from planet.d.o as part of th

History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes

Hello, Debianites, Allow me, if you will, to talk a bit about something that's been on my mind a bit over the last handful of years in Debian. It's something that's pretty widely circulated in particular circles, but I don't think I've seen it on a Debian list before, so here's some words that I'v

Re: Rethink about who we (Debian) are in rapid dev cycle of deep learning

On Wed, 2022-01-12 at 19:00 -0500, M. Zhou wrote: > I've had some discussions with several fellow developers on suggesting Debian > to buy some GPUs to extend its infrastructures for better GPU support. Was there a plan for what to use these GPUs for? Were they needed for driver/other package bu

Re: Debian Roadmap 2030

On Sun, 2021-11-14 at 16:09 -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: > Three folks on -vote recently responded to a GR proposal that we—as a > group—have more important things to do, yet no one articulated what > those things were. With this message, I hope to collect your ideas. In case people aren't aware o

Re: Debian python package bytecode compatibility

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 8:25 AM Bastian Blank wrote: > All Python source is compiled into bytecode during installation. Scripts in the bin/ directories are not compiled into bytecode, and there are a number of packages that do not compile .py files into bytecode: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-s

Re: Inquiry regarding libncurses5 license information /#266603

On Wed, 2021-09-15 at 18:52 +0900, 赤星香菜【株式会社Cygames】 wrote: > Sorry and thanks for letting me know about support channel > information page, > and also thanks for the License information, > I'd missed checking Copyright section in the right panel. > > Thanks again for your support, > have a great

Re: Inquiry regarding libncurses5 license information /#266603

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 3:08 AM 赤星香菜【株式会社Cygames】wrote: > Hi support, This isn't a Debian user support channel, see here: https://www.debian.org/support > Here is my inquiry regarding your libncurses5 package: > https://packages.debian.org/ja/stretch/libncurses5 > > By what license is this pack

Re: Bug#273323: doc-debian: please ship typesettable version of social contract and dfsg documents

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 1:11 PM Diederik de Haas wrote: > But then the question becomes: what is the authoritative version? The other copies of it (in doc-debian and the doc directory of the Debian apt archive) are all copied/built from the version on the website. https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-tea

Re: Broken Mouse

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 7:35 PM MichaelHoots wrote: > It seems the mouse in the latest version of Debian simply doesn't work. I > tried it in a VM and it worked great. Upon trying to install from live USB, > the mouse simply doesn't move. This was the case for both net install and > offline ins

Re: I need your consultation

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 2:12 AM Информационное антифашистское сопротивление "Красная Пенза" группы "Красный саботаж" wrote: > Is it possible to get a job in the Debian community, I am a system > administrator. I use Debian-based distributions for many years. I can > not work not only by the system

Re: Working for Linux/Debian

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 3:28 PM Zayd Ahmed wrote: > I hope that you are doing well. My name is Zayd. I am currently in the midst > of a career change. A couple of years ago, I discovered Linux and realize > that I have a passion for it. I have already completed my Bachelors degree. I > recently

Re: Debian for flash usb, external hdd or ssd

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 9:49 PM caio santos da silva wrote: > My is Caio and I have a little idea for Debian system. My idea to you is the > creation of a system exclusive for Flash USB, external HDD or SSD. Already > exist the GNU/Linux Slax, such system able to install directly in a Flash > U

Re: Debian for HP 15s-eq0 (/15.6"/1920x1080) (/15.6"/1920x1080)000ur (AMD Athlon 300U 2400MHz/15.6"/1920x1080/4GB/128GB SSD/AMD Radeon Vega 3/DOS)

On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 10:36 AM Gadsden Flag wrote: > I got casual distributive debian 10, but it did not work Please ask for help on the Debian support channels: https://www.debian.org/support -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Download Options

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 2:08 PM Damian wrote: > It wouldn't be a bad idea to add a direct torrent download link on the main > page under the normal download link. I think the Debian website team has aimed for simplicity with their new design, which means downloading one file directly using the b

Re: "gr_rms" worked with mutt+gpg+ssh+sendmail (Evolution is difficult)

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 12:48 PM Osamu Aoki wrote: > Evolution PGP sign seems fragile and it doesn't work I signed my vote using Evolution's OpenPGP support and it worked fine for me. > (Maybe I should have used S/MIME sign) Debian doesn't use S/MIME signing in any context. -- bye, pabs http

Re: Questions about the Debian Project

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 1:43 PM David wrote: > Hi, my name is David and I'm a 17 years old student from Austria. Welcome! Please keep Debian in mind if you decide to join the Google Summer of Code program when you reach university. GSoC is the main paid internship program for Free Software and Op

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 9:52 AM wrote: > Surely there is some "canonical" way of dealing with "oh, this shiny > piece of hardware has just appeared; what do you want to do with > it?". The isenkram package is meant to do this, it relies on the packages containing hardware support announcing this

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 4:29 PM Wouter Verhelst wrote: > If it is instead installed by hardware detection (through > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect), I think that the isenkram package is meant to replace this, it relies on the packages containing hardware support announcing this

Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 9:12 PM Mark Pearson wrote: > Is there any interest, as fingerprint reader functionality is now > improving so much on Linux, to have these packages installed by default? Biometrics are almost always used incorrectly and often insecure or easily hackable, it would be bette

Re: Re: [Try] Informing point release *before* its release via SNS (Re: Upcoming stable point release (10.7))

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 1:35 AM Hideki Yamane wrote: > Thanks, that's really good but not enough to reach to our users, IMHO, > so I said "via SNS". I'm not sure what you mean by SNS, but "Social Networking Service" seems the most appropriate option: https://www.allacronyms.com/SNS I think th

Re: Question about repositories

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 1:29 PM negin jafari wrote: > I am a university Student trying to learn a lot of things about Debian. As a university student, you might be interested in participating in Debian through the Google Summer of Code or Outreachy paid mentorship programs. https://www.outreachy

Re: Documentation for Debian gnu/Hurd

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 6:07 PM NotPexel wrote: > Hello! I would like to toy around with and write documentation for Debian > gnu/Hurd and have not found an official wiki where I can write docs. The best option is probably to contribute to the upstream GNU/Hurd documentation first: https://www.

Re: Fwd: protontypes wants to support the Debian Project with LibreSelery

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 9:31 PM Tobias Augspurger wrote: > 5. After the split is done, we distribute the money to the email address via > the Coinbase API. You can define a custom note that will be attached to the > Coinbase email. If the user does not have a Coinbase account to that email > ad

Re: Ynt: Raspberry Pi - Default Language

On Tue, 2020-09-15 at 06:12 +, onurcan köken wrote: > Before mailing to you I've mailed to Raspberry Pi about the > situation. > > Here is their answer, > "The decision to offer Kurdish as a language option for Turkey is > made by the maintainers of Debian. If you are unhappy about this, > p

Re: Raspberry Pi - Default Language

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 9:10 PM onurcan köken wrote: > My name is Onurcan, from Turkey. I would like to know why "Kurdish" is a > default language when I select the region as "Turkey"? Our official language > is not "Kurdish", it is "Turkish". Kurdish is the second most-widely spoken > language

Re: Keysigning in times of COVID-19

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 3:27 PM Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > I'd rather try to solve the issue in a more sensible way : lower the > number of expected GPG signatures to 0 temporarily, and ask for two or > three advocacies from DDs. This seems like the most natural solution to the problem of COVI

Re: Using Debian OS to bundle and sell our product

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:37 PM Héctor Orón Martínez wrote: > > I'm Kamalakannan from Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd. We build cloud > > apps and we have a plan to bundle our application in a laptop with debian > > OS and sell it to custmers with our product bundle over debian OS. > > We want

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 9:47 PM Mark Pearson wrote: > I have some ideas but is there a 'wishlist' or guidance on which > platforms are the most popular? Either Lenovo specifics (makes my life > easier) or general "it should have at least ". Assume you are talking about hardware platforms here

Re: FW: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 7:46 PM Philip Hands wrote: > Of course, Grml isn't a direct output of the Debian project, so perhaps > people might take issue with having that as the "Debian Recovery > Option", but it is closely based on Debian, and includes a couple of > ways of installing vanilla Debian

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 1:20 PM Mark Pearson wrote: > I haven't so far got as far as thinking about the backporting stage so I > probably need more education there. My goal so far has been to get fixes > from upstream into sid so that Debian users can pick them up from there. It sounds like you ar

Re: Debian hardware support and enablement for newer devices (was ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux)

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 10:03 PM Hector Oron wrote: > There are more companies expecting better hardware support, this issue > is not limited to Lenovo, they are willing to pay consultancy time > and/or sponsor Debian events, however on volunteer premises, it has > been really hard to provide adequ

Re: [External] Re: ThinkPad laptops preinstalled Linux

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 7:51 PM Vincent Bernat wrote: > Then, we need the SOF firmwares, currently not in Debian. I see > you have #960788. I just got aware of it through #962134. I am happy to > help you on this package and get it uploaded. Unfortunately SOF firmware, while it has freely licensed

Re: Debian infra services and tools looking for programming contributions

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 4:28 PM Federico Ceratto wrote: > IMO a friendly interface to create, list and search for work items > would help. This is Debian's attempt at such a tool: https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Debian infra services and tools looking for programming contributions

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 7:02 PM Antonio Terceiro wrote: > I'm planning a talk titled "I'm a programmer, how can I help Debian?" in > which I intend to present contribution opportunities for people who are > programmers, but are not necessarily interested in packaging. There are a number of non-pa

Re: Using apt-get after Debian installation

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 7:24 PM Nathanael Skrepek wrote: > I want to offer a suggestion, because i was a little bit puzzled by the > following. Please file a report about this so the installer team can work on fixing it: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch05s04#submit-bug -- bye,

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 6:23 PM Bastian Blank wrote: > No, not really. The services ask the SSO service for the identity of > the user and get an attestation back. So each service needs to handle > it's own login. Hmm, the OIDC documentation I've been able to find seemed to indicate the login re

Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 3:58 PM Bastian Blank wrote: > ## Highlevel plan I'd like to learn a bit about what the effects for Debian account holders and service admins will be. > - Salsa becomes primary source of user info and authentication for secondary > services via OpenID Connect (OAuth2), f

Re: my debian box

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:33 AM kevenzone wrote: > I've been having trouble finding answers, or maybe I dont know how to ask. > I'm hoping you can help out. In future, please ask for help using Debian on our support channels: https://www.debian.org/support > 1. how is Debians anonymity? I cant

Re: The Debian Trademark Team needs Your Help

On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 6:46 PM Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Who is in the team so far? How to join? Is there a doc about their > activities? Some possibly useful links that might answer those questions: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/Trademark https://salsa.debian.org/dsa-team/mirror/email-

Re: Using Debian OS on a custom commercial device

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:31 AM Sam Hartman wrote: > License compliance is a complex field and for any mass-produced > commercial product you're going to need to retain the services of a > professional qualified in that field to succeed. Nevertheless, there are resources available to help you ac

Re: Lenovo X395 Support Latest Debian Version

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 3:39 PM Brett Lougher wrote: > To: debian-project@lists.debian.org > > I wish to install the latest Linux Debian as my main OS on my Lenovo X395 This sort of discussion is best had on Debian support channels: https://www.debian.org/support > My question is wheter or not

Re: MiniDebConf Maceió (Brazil) March 25-28, 2020

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 7:15 PM Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana wrote: > The brazilian community of Debian developers and users invites you to > the MiniDebConf in Maceió, Brazil. MiniDebConf will take place from > March 27th to 28th at Federal University of Alagoas, and it will be > preceded by a

Re: possibly exhausted ftp-masters (Re: Do we still value contributions?

Not to pile on but there's also a bit of non-license work to be done too, and NEW will still require manual work even if licensing is automated. Which would make my life in NEW easier Cheers, paultag On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 10:46 AM Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Saturday, December 28, 2019 10:14

Re: Understanding position of debian developer

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:09 PM John Lenin wrote: > I was just going through debian project in general and had a problem in > understanding what debian developers are. The phrase "Debian Developer" refers to a Debian member; someone who has an account in the Debian LDAP account directory with t

Re: Merry Christmas more debian private leaks

I'm not joking Daniel. We've met before. We all care for you. Please get help. http://www.health.vic.gov.au/mentalhealthservices/ My prayers are with you over the holidays. I know it can be tough. Please spend time with your family and relax. Happy holidays, Paul On Tue, Dec 24, 201

Re: Merry Christmas more debian private leaks

Has anyone who's friends with pocock encouraged him to get help? Very sad and disturbed by all of his behavior. I very much hope he gets the help he needs and gets well soon. Paul On Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 6:55 AM Santa Claus wrote: > You can't polish a turd > > No matter ho

Re: Sponsored Content for planet.debian.org

On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 3:25 PM Wouter Verhelst wrote: > We don't do this. Its best to get spammers banned (poke #debian-lists) instead of responding. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

Hi! On 9/28/19 11:44 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I'm posting here on behalf the Debian Ports team as we're seeking support > to finance an important development task in gcc. In particular, I'm talking > about the one-time job to modernize the m68k backend by po

Re: onion.debian.org sources.list

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 7:18 PM wrote: > Hi. Your team probably forgot to update onion sources.list when you > released Debian 10. It is still set to Debian 9. Please find-and-replace > "stretch" to "buster" at bottom of onion.debian.org. Updated, thanks for the notice. -- bye, pabs https://w

Re: BSP Reimbursements

On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 4:52 PM Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi wrote: > I'm also not sure that this kind of event is still considered a good > idea from a Debian-wide perspective, so maybe they wouldn't qualify > anymore anyway, and this is all moot. While I never attended them due to not being in E

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

Hi Richard! On 9/29/19 11:26 PM, Richard Z wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 11:44:26AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> As m68k is the oldest port of both the Linux kernel and Debian after i386, >> it would be a shame to see it go as there is still very good upst

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

On 9/30/19 4:53 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 1:14 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> Having said that, I'm going to unsubscribe from this list now as I realize >> that what we do in Debian Ports is still not considered useful many others, >> so

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

t-can-be-kept-in-future-releases -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

Hi Ian! Apologies for my late reply. On 9/30/19 12:40 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Paul Wise writes ("Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task"): >> To be clear, I think the work that folks are doing on the unofficial >> Debian ports is valuable and import

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 1:14 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Having said that, I'm going to unsubscribe from this list now as I realize > that what we do in Debian Ports is still not considered useful many others, > so I think it's not possible to find an agreement. T

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

his thread. Having said that, I'm going to unsubscribe from this list now as I realize that what we do in Debian Ports is still not considered useful many others, so I think it's not possible to find an agreement. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' :

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

of significant new support, there is not > sufficient interest in spending Debian funds on m68k gcc development. I don't think we have heard enough voices yet to be able to answer that question. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub..

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

On 9/29/19 12:48 PM, Hector Oron wrote: > Missatge de John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > del dia dg., 29 de set. 2019 a les 12:20: > >> I communicated the issue to multiple mailing lists, so I assume the active >> m68k people have received my mail. But I haven't heard back fro

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

Debian volunteers time and Debian resources. > Debian does not get any share of that work. If the work is being paid, it's not volunteers time. That doesn't make sense. You could argue about Debian resources being used without paying Debian. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

dishonest as well when it asks "Are machines available to buy for the general public?" while I don't think an IBM Z mainframe is available to buy for the general public. I don't think anyone outside banks, goverments and very large companies can buy an IBM Z mainframe, yet Debia

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

gt; found myself being pretty unhappy that one time I had to do some of > that for a native package, which would have had a very weird release > history otherwise. :/ Not sure what the problem with LTS is. I thought companies pay for the extra effort. I think it's a perfectly fine busin

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

On 9/29/19 3:14 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 5:44 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> Since Debian is also supporting projects for a good cause using their funds, > > Do you have any examples of this? AFAIK we don't support development > nor exte

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 5:44 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Since Debian is also supporting projects for a good cause using their funds, Do you have any examples of this? AFAIK we don't support development nor external projects using Debian funds. The only exception I can thi

Re: Standing behind GNOME Foundation against Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC?

Aye aye! We should distribute a fundraising site more widely among Debian for anyone in our community who is willing to donate to the collective defense of our tools. paultag On Sat, Sep 28, 2019, 8:28 PM Norbert Preining wrote: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2019, Chris Lamb wrote: > > that the Debian Proje

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 1:38 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > GSOC exist are the very proof that it’s perfectly normal to support one-time > development tasks through funding efforts. I think that the purpose of GSoC (and other outreach programmes) is (or should be) mainly to gr

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

> On Sep 28, 2019, at 7:57 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > >> I don’t know what “m-f-t” stands for in this context, sorry. I’m on >> mobile at the moment though so my phone might be messing up >> things. Sorry for that. > >

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

> On Sep 28, 2019, at 7:19 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >  > Please respect m-f-t, as is the custom on Debian lists? I don’t know what “m-f-t” stands for in this context, sorry. I’m on mobile at the moment though so my phone might be messing up things. Sorry for that. &g

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

> On Sep 28, 2019, at 6:19 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> >> No, it just means that the current gcc maintainer [1] for m68k backend hasn't >> worked on this particular task yet because his employer wouldn't pay for >> this particular work. Unlike the other ports like amd64, ppc64el, arm* >> and

Re: Using Debian funds to support a gcc development task

that's ok. There is a very active community around the port so there are people using it, although it's not for commercial purposes, of course. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/MAINTAINERS#L80 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :'

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