Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-23 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 12:12 +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I disagree that having more web based discussion forums for Debian is > necessarily a good idea. The more forums you have, to more dispersed the > people discussing Debian online are, and the more work it is for people > to follow all the r

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-23 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > I've always wondered why these so-called forums are perceived as > something different than a mailing list or a news group. I've never been > able to wrap my head around why they aren't just web-based clients for > reading a set of mailing lists or news groups. > > Does so

GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-01-23 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
[ Bcc'ed to -project, -devel and -legal, any further discussion and/or seconds on -vote, please. ] After reading all the recent posts about the GFDL on debian-vote, I hereby propose the following General Resolution and ask for seconds. --8<-- The Debian Project asserts that Works licensed under

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-23 Thread Claire Connelly
"JW" == Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JW> Since binary-level compatibility is not a goal of Ubuntu JW> (nor IMO should it be; down that path lies madness), they JW> modify every package in a very important sense. Even if binary compatibility were a goal, that doesn't mean that th

Link Swapping

2006-01-23 Thread Peter Muller
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Re: Help

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 22 January 2006 13:06, Matt Jakse wrote: > I am trying to install a nvidia driver. The driver is for a nvidia > geforce 5200. Every time i go to install it i get this message: You > appear to be running an X server; please exit X before installing. > How do you exit X? and is there any

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 21 January 2006 23:38, Mark Daher wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Mark Daher, owner of LinuxForums.org , I would like to make > my site the official forums of the Debian since there aren't any, > helping people with Debian, etc. You didn't try hard, did you? The official forums are at ht

Re: Linux Forums

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 22 January 2006 11:27, David Nusinow wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 01:04:19PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > So I think we should be very careful whether we officially adopt a web > > forum as part of our support. If we did so, we will have to be present > > and mediate/moderate trou

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 22 January 2006 03:16, David Weinehall wrote: > Since all Ubuntu packages are recompiled against a different set of > libraries, the bug might not even affect the Debian package, even though > they share the same source. Hence having Ubuntu developers triage the > bugs to rule out such

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:33:33PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 22 January 2006 03:16, David Weinehall wrote: > > > Since all Ubuntu packages are recompiled against a different set of > > libraries, the bug might not even affect the Debian package, even though > > they share the same sou

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:33:33PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 22 January 2006 03:16, David Weinehall wrote: > > Since all Ubuntu packages are recompiled against a different set of > > libraries, the bug might not even affect the Debian package, even though > > they share the same sourc

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-23 Thread John Hasler
Paul Johnson writes: > Given Ubuntu hopelessly complicates everything, pretends there is > cooperation where there is none, and merely duplicates the effort of the > debian-desktop project, and contributes nothing to the community or > society... Do you have evidence to support this, or is it just

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-23 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:33:33PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 22 January 2006 03:16, David Weinehall wrote: > > > Since all Ubuntu packages are recompiled against a different set of > > libraries, the bug might not even affect the Debian package, even though > > they share the same sou