archive is
certainly outside of the scope of Debians goals (otherwise one should wonder
why point 5 was included in the social contract at all).
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ction to support the social
contract points 1 to 4 while being in favour of the GR.
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from some place in the internet (take for example the Windows
world, where people not only install software they download from Microsoft).
In short, I think you are underestimating the intelligence of our users.
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Am Mon, 03 Jul 2000 11:17:45 David N. Welton Sie:
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:49:07PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> > In short, I think you are underestimating the intelligence of our
> > users.
>
> A few people at LinuxTag asked me if the updates to the ke
Am Mit, 19 Jul 2000 12:36:39 Hamish Moffatt Sie:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 02:49:11AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > For the same reason that the existing Debian mob dictates why you may not
> > upload certain packages to main. What the Project decides to do, we do.
>
> Perhaps GR supporters
Am Mit, 19 Jul 2000 16:04:57 Hamish Moffatt Sie:
> I personally see two goals for Debian:
> 1. Produce a high quality, open source UNIX system.
> 2. Introduce people to open source ideals.
Debian was founded long before the Open Source movement hit the market.
Personally, I value freedom over qu
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Hi Taketoshi Sano,
I understand you are doing the best you can, and my answer is
by no means personal. It is directed to the project.
I can't help to be extremly worried about the new maintainer
procedure.
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 01:31:22PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> (There are several appl
Am Mit, 26 Jul 2000 14:59:12 Joop Stakenborg Sie:
> If you are
> not happy with the guidelines we have set up, why don't you start a
discussion
> on nm-discuss?
> Marcus wrote:
> > I criticized the new procedure as soon as it was outlined by Wichert
> > Ackermann, and never received an answer t
Am Mit, 26 Jul 2000 15:11:08 Mark Brown Sie:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 12:57:40PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 01:31:22PM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
>
> > > (There are several applicants who
> > > does not respond at all, or hold
Am Mit, 26 Jul 2000 15:56:10 Mark Brown Sie:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:23:06PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > Am Mit, 26 Jul 2000 15:11:08 Mark Brown Sie:
>
> > > It's not about the entry in the queue - it's about the time it takes the
> > > applic
I am answering both replies in one mail.
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:13:26AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:08:23AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> >
> > > I want to repeat: The applican
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 05:48:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > And WHAT makes you think that a delay is a sign of "limited interest"?
>
> How else can a lack of reply be interpreted?
Note we a
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:58:16AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > How can this "holding up" happen? And if it indeed can happen, this
> > is an inherent problem of the process, and the process should be
> > changed to allow for such delays without holding other people up.
> >
> > They don't need to
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 12:57:40PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> I can't help to be extremly worried about the new maintainer
> procedure.
I am still, but in this particular case I obviously overreacted.
I was projecting my grief with the projects social development
on a sing
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 01:07:24PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote:
> Membership is a privilege,
The privilege to work, or what?
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:06:55PM +0200, Nils Lohner wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcus Brinkmann writes:
> >On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 01:07:24PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote:
> >> Membership is a privilege,
> >
> >The privilege to work, or w
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:21:37PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> I am rather scared by a statement that effectively assumes that being part
> of Debian is a "privilege" that needs to be protected by people who
> probably want to abuse it.[1] The only privileges y
Hello,
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:53:36PM +0200, Nils Lohner wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcus Brinkmann writes:
> >On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:06:55PM +0200, Nils Lohner wrote:
> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marcus Brinkmann writes:
> >&
n always ask if he has a
photo available.
"Show me how you flame and I tell you who you are." :)
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cal ftp hierarchy anymore.
We would have one pool for all packages, and a bunch of files describing
which package/version belongs to a certain distribution.
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On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 10:39:21AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > This makes me think about dropping the symlinks completely.
> >
> > So we can have a real, physical pool of any sort, and all distributions are
> > simply a packages file with
t
does fail on several issues already. Instead patching it, we should consider
changing it drastically internally. I think the advantages in future
maintaining are worth the one time pain resulting from a change.
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On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:42:48AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 04:22:20PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > Assuming there are issues beside the technical one, something I am not
> > convinced of at all. This has been beaten to death on another list t
e
have the constitution for. It's what we are currently trying to do.
Thanks,
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Hi,
Constitution, Immigrant restriction ("new maintainer"), Usage Policy,
...
... is this where it leads to? Are we going to tight ourselve in a
magnitude
of rules and laws, to be enforced by soldiers who work under the regime
of a
king (beheaded annually)?
Are we constantly fixing things which
y (I think),
but don't make sense on the Hurd. Bootloader will need to be recompiled even
on the same host CPU, although they likely work "over' any OS etc...
Every port has its own list of packages which are in some way classified
incorrectly.
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ool idea.
Please see http://www.debian.org/~brinkmd/arch-handling.txt
it's a bit old, but the core reflects still my idea.
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ing about emulated binaries? Port glibc to freebsd, and use it
> > natively.
>
> You still need syscall emulation, which is what the BSD linux-compat
> stuff does.
For many software, you won't, I think.
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On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 09:05:29AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 02:41:13PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > syscalls are a different issue. Software using syscalls can be declared
> > as such, and only installed on systems that provide such
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On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 10:01:32AM +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > I am not sure about BSD. It depends if you really are going to use FreeBSDs
> > libc or glibc. What I said applies mostly to the latter case. If you are
> > g
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 03:12:40 Philippe Troin wrote:
> Of course, we have nothing better to do than playing the Debian
> Democracy Game.
Indeed. For those who wonder, the game is also called Nomic and the
rules are
available at:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/nomic.htm
Marcus
hat you can't copyright legal text like this) whenever you
want.
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L, the preamble and the footer. Everything before the first ^L and
after the last ^L to be precise.
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e not exploited the possibilities here, and swinging the social club
(the one from the stoneage) will not solve any perceived (or real) problems.
Marcus
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still had 600 RC even without accepting new maintainers at all for one
year. There are plenty of technical solutions to our maintenance problems,
no need to panic about new maintainers.
Marcus
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ly. If you were consistent, you would request that
every developer is expelled annually and has to reapply. This would make
sure that everyone is still live and interested.
And of course, I would love to see Branden Robinsons answers to the quiz
test.
Marcus
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 11:14:22AM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:57:46 +0100,
> Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > And every developer has to answer such a randomly gnerated questionary four
> > time
on of ftp-master and the confusion that
arose with our sponsor of master (novare) was a jolly mess and should have
been handled more carefully?
Marcus
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ot to troll you, but to see how you think about the
situation nowadays.
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On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:17:27PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:06:45PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > No, the Hurd is only the user-extensible operating system
> > and as such potentially universal (but in that even more so then Linux
> > ever
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:48:22AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:30:38PM +0200, Lars Bahner wrote:
> > From http://www.debian.org/index.html
> >
> > Debian GNU/Linux -- The Universal Operating System
>
> Like I said. That's one of the OSes we produce. It's our front r
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hosted by neither OPN nor OFTC...?
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the subject, or have a
discussion round. More information about free software is available at
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/
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