On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:54:10PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > > Your mail fairly much appears to say nothing.
> > But that talk did say many things. And I was not the only one offended
> > by it. It was extremely sexist. Debian looked like (and probably is) a
> > boys club.
> Could you perhaps
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 01:59:09AM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> * the GR doesn't specify that, but we take out contrib so we don't
> have dangling dependencies
contrib already has dangling dependencies, even with non-free.
> * contrib gets in incorporated into main, with dangling
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:30:08PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> We covered a number of the scripts in detail, and as a joke,
> included pictures of the girls the rest were named after. That portion
> of the talk just ended up as a soft-core slideshow though, and, to my
> mind, didn't come off as
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:15:02PM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> > "HM" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> HM> To our users who were used to quality packages from
> HM> accountable maintainers even if the software wasn't 100%
> HM> DFSG-compliant: bummer, man.
>
> The
(No need to CC me.)
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 05:47:25PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> > To our users who were used to quality packages from accountable
> > maintainers even if the software wasn't 100% DFSG-compliant: bummer, man.
>
> Out of date in non-free by arch
> ---
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:15:02PM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> > "HM" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> HM> Perhaps it is, but is that important? Anyone who works on
> HM> non-free is volunteering their time to do so. Nobody is being
> HM> forced or coerced. So
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 05:47:25PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> > To our users who were used to quality packages from accountable
> > maintainers even if the software wasn't 100% DFSG-compliant: bummer, man.
>
> Out of date in non-free by arch
> ---
> alpha 72
> arm
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:32:16PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I'm undecided as to whether I would bother to contribute to non-free.org
> if Suffield's GR passes. I couldn't care less about a couple of my
> non-free packages, but I know that a few of them are quite important to
> our CJK users.
Mike Beattie wrote:
> I'll only apologise to those that are unable to take such things with
> a grain of salt.
No need to apologise, really.
The talk was probably intended to be amusing and the overall tone was
light-hearted. But I want you to realize that this puts people off.
I even felt like w
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:44:31PM +0100, Amaya wrote:
> On a side note, other real life examples.
> - At Debconf @ Toronto, BDale used grannies as examples of the worst
> kind of clueless users Debian should aim at. Susan happens to be a DD
> and a grannie, so he stood corrected, but refused m
Dear Sir;
My name is Jesus and I am spanish.I have seen your mail in internet.I would
like writting with Ziad Fazah by mail or by post.I have seen in internet
that you write mails with Ziad.Could you give me Ziad`s mail or Ziad´s
adress?I like languages and I admire to Ziad Fazah.I am not journ
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> "HM" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
HM> I don't think the removal of non-free from debian.org can be
HM> justified on the basis of time & effort alone.
Of course not. Supporting non-free and contrib also complicates all o
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:44:31PM +0100, Amaya wrote:
> - On a talk at Madrid, Miguel de Icaza who is a close friend of mine
> BTW, used female secretaries as examples of clueless users.
Well, that's probably because that's empirically proven to be correct...
it's like saying "stop only mention
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:02:54PM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> Supporting non-free and contrib also complicates all our tools and
> confuses people as to what "Debian" is.
Neither of which is as tangible as the amount of effort necessary to switch,
so you have to understand that there are peopl
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> "JR" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Me> Supporting non-free and contrib also complicates all our tools
Me> and confuses people as to what "Debian" is.
JR> Neither of which is as tangible as the amount of effort
JR> n
Josip Rodin wrote:
> One just can't escape certain truths :)
Plonk! :-)
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