Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-11-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:35:31PM -0300, calvesmit wrote: > Marc Haber, there's no need for special privileges in Debian. Nobody > is or does jobs better than others. I was talking about technical privileges, which are of course needed. Greetings Marc -- -

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-03 Thread Roland Mas
Michael Banck, 2006-11-03 02:27:40 +0100 : > Ubuntu is renaming the Maintainer: header to Original-Maintainer: > and is using their respective development mailing list as > Maintainer: for newly compiled packages for quite a while now. For values of "quite a while" less than two weeks, I suppose,

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-11-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 09:40:04AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:35:31PM -0300, calvesmit wrote: > > Marc Haber, there's no need for special privileges in Debian. Nobody > > is or does jobs better than others. > > I was talking about technical privileges, which are of cou

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-03 Thread Reinhard Tartler
Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Banck, 2006-11-03 02:27:40 +0100 : >> Ubuntu is renaming the Maintainer: header to Original-Maintainer: >> and is using their respective development mailing list as >> Maintainer: for newly compiled packages for quite a while now. > > For values of

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:07:11AM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: > Michael Banck, 2006-11-03 02:27:40 +0100 : > > > Ubuntu is renaming the Maintainer: header to Original-Maintainer: > > and is using their respective development mailing list as > > Maintainer: for newly compiled packages for quite a whi

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-03 Thread Roland Mas
Reinhard Tartler, 2006-11-03 11:43:09 +0100 : > If you insist on having your package rebuilt, feel free to contact > me privately. No, thank you. As I mentioned, the problem has already been fixed by a package rebuild. I would have insisted if it were still broken *and* in my name, but I don't

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-03 Thread Roland Mas
Michael Banck, 2006-11-03 12:08:46 +0100 : > If you grab the .deb referenced from > http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/graphics/kinoplus and look at the > control inside, you will find: > > Package: kinoplus > Version: 0.3.5-3build1 > [...] > Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers > Original-Maintainer:

Call for Talks for the Debian Devroom at FOSDEM 2007

2006-11-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, Turns out the Ubuntu people had actually only asked for a booth, not for a devroom, which is not what the FOSDEM organizers understood. That probably means we will get a full weekend after all, unless the FOSDEM organizers come up with another group they want to team us up with (I don't expect

Re: Please change the Maintainer: header when forking Debian

2006-11-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Banck, 2006-11-03 12:08:46 +0100 : > >> If you grab the .deb referenced from >> http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/graphics/kinoplus and look at the >> control inside, you will find: >> >> Package: kinoplus >> Version: 0.3.5-3build1 >> [...] >> Maintai

Re: hi..i need ur help

2006-11-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Side note: next time, please choose your subject line and the mailinglist to which you're sending your email more carefully. I *almost* filed this message as spam. I'd say questions such as this one would belong on the debian-user mailinglist, not debian-project. Please send any replies there. On

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-11-03 Thread Blu
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:35:31PM -0300, calvesmit wrote: > My name is Carlos Alberto, I come from Brazil, I'm just a Debian > user, not developer. I had used other linux distributions before until found > Debian. When other distribuition companies begins to > put money in first place, I choose

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-11-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:44:40PM -0300, Blu wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:35:31PM -0300, calvesmit wrote: > > My name is Carlos Alberto, I come from Brazil, I'm just a Debian > > user, not developer. I had used other linux distributions before until > > found > > Debian. When other distr

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-11-03 Thread Blu
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 07:15:16PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:44:40PM -0300, Blu wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:35:31PM -0300, calvesmit wrote: > > > My name is Carlos Alberto, I come from Brazil, I'm just a Debian > > > user, not developer. I had used other linu

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-11-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 03:59:48PM -0300, Blu wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 07:15:16PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:44:40PM -0300, Blu wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:35:31PM -0300, calvesmit wrote: > > > > My name is Carlos Alberto, I come from Brazil, I'm ju

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-11-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006, Blu wrote: > Well, in http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_006 the winner is > option 1 "Re-affirm DPL, wish success to unofficial Dunc Tank". > > That doesn't look very neutral to me considering that there was an option > 2 "Re-affirm DPL, do not endorse nor support his other

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-11-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Blu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, in http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_006 the winner is option 1 > "Re-affirm DPL, wish success to unofficial Dunc Tank". > That doesn't look very neutral to me considering that there was an option > 2 "Re-affirm DPL, do not endorse nor support his other

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-11-03 Thread Blu
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:28:04PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Blu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, in http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_006 the winner is option 1 > > "Re-affirm DPL, wish success to unofficial Dunc Tank". > > > That doesn't look very neutral to me considering that the

Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc "experiment"

2006-11-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Blu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, I followed the thread(s) while the proposal(s) were being > discussed. I whish I could convince myself of the contrary, but my > opinion stands. Okay. Just so long as you're aware that a lot of those voters, myself included, were not using the GR to sa