Re: question

2005-07-13 Thread Sven Luther
There is mol, which is packaged in debian, which should allow you to run your OS X install in a separate screen on the debian install apt-cache show mol for details (doesn't work with OS X 10.4 yet though) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: consultant entries that will be removed unless they "pong"

2005-07-15 Thread Sven Luther
fer to hide they do debian work. That would be fair to everyone, and people may chose a consultant who is more supportive of debian over those who don't want to advertize debian. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: consultant entries that will be removed unless they "pong"

2005-07-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:32:36PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:27:06PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Maybe we could do it both way, and split the listing into two lists, those > > consultants that are ready to aknowledge debian, and those that pref

Re: "Debian" Core Consortium

2005-08-04 Thread Sven Luther
ky, though. > (There may be some fun areas for Ian Murdock personally, if US > law grants similar rights to one's own name as English law.) I think the problem here is with the word "Core", which has some connotation we cannot exclusively let to a random subgroup, independentl

Re: Bug#321701: bug handling is a maintainers job

2005-08-08 Thread Sven Luther
it, and many > are of the same opinion). Do you really think people will be so > discouraged that they'll give up all together instead of just filing > the Debian bug. What about a mechanism for transparently forwarding a bug report to upstream instead, in such a way that the link

Re: Bug#321701: bug handling is a maintainers job

2005-08-08 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:59:58AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Lun 8 Août 2005 09:33, Sven Luther a écrit : > > What about a mechanism for transparently forwarding a bug report to > > upstream instead, in such a way that the link between the debian bug > > report an

Re: Bug#321701: bug handling is a maintainers job

2005-08-08 Thread Sven Luther
uch a bug, where to send it, and I request a CC to the > #NNNN-forwarded address. Problem is for upstream BTS, which don't support email CCs though, but i believe even bugzilla can do that, altough in one of the ugliest way possible. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-24 Thread Sven Luther
but as in "core of > several distributions based on Debian". Well, the simple fact that it can and has been misinterpreted should make you consider something else. The core as in "core of debian" seems more natural and intuitive in any case. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
hatever, and go speak with each other and stop making yourself ridicoulous in front of the wider debian community. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 06:30:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:12:44PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > We would be most glad then if you would stop trying to harm it by > > > > invo

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:30:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This doesn't strike me as much different than loads of other inon-profit > > associations > > (maybe thisis a frenchisism though ?) do in all legallity, and i

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Luther
- a business. > > > > More assertions. > > Assertions? > That DUS is an enterprise? What exactly is this DUS thingy you are all speaking about ? Is it the same as Debian-UK under another name, or something else ? If you insist on spamming the whole world with this, at least provid

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
ght help to point out that I'm not in the UK.. He, thanks, i didn't know that. Anyway, if you are serious about getting this stuff cleared out, make a policy proposal, but please stop this name calling non-sense. If the proposal is good, it will either be adopted, or we can vote on this, b

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:03:03AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:30:39AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > > The debian trademark policy says no businesses get to use > > > the mark. Why should this selling

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
fe. > > > Either Debian's going to be a commercial entity or it's not. > > > > Debian is not a commercial entity just because it _also_ sells T-Shirts > > and other stuff. > > Selling things is exactly what being a commercial entity means. :( Bullshit. Please educate yourself. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:58:59AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:52:40AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > What makes it even worse is that on debian.org websites we claim to not > > > sell product

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:11:25AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Nope, if you are really from the US, then your view on this is limited by > > the > > way you think there, and if not, no idea if you ever participated in > >

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
ll in the same > > category). > > No, they don't, but that's not what's at issue here and claiming it is > shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue... I have seen the word Trademark mentioned in a subject of a subthread here, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:11:25AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Let's say your paroquial association or housewife get-together association, > > start to sell house-made cakes in order to finance the repainting or fixing > >

Should debian formalize t-shirt sales at events (Was Re: Debian-UK).

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:33:55AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:11:25AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Let's say your paroquial as

Re: Debian UK

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:15:17AM +0100, Brett Parker wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:50:30AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Scripsit MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Popularity contest

2005-09-16 Thread Sven Luther
arity context data for each package into the page of the package, with an "how this info was obtained" kind of link to popcon ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DPL team

2005-09-21 Thread Sven Luther
ormed about it in a timely way. This sounds a bit like a vancouver-kind meeting organisation, or gods forbid, a Debian-Uk GM reunion :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software Packages in "stable" - [security]

2005-09-23 Thread Sven Luther
le/security in your apt sources so it should be transparent for you. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: music in debian

2005-10-04 Thread Sven Luther
ebian-installer/ Notice that as i understood this, the sound would be usefull post-install to test the sound system, not during install, so the second posibility is more to the point. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-07 Thread Sven Luther
to ideas that will make it easier for Debian users to use > VMware. That's what they told me anyway. Cool, Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Approaching VMware (and others) to get Debian listed as supported ?

2005-10-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:57:48PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:06:47AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > > This may have used to be the case, but should not be a problem anymore, we > > have only one kernel per released a

Re: Debian Pure Project

2005-10-18 Thread Sven Luther
since it hads some packages of dubious legal standing, but this is only my interpretation). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 100's of mails

2005-11-03 Thread Sven Luther
ou a lot to handle this, and you should also know that you are don't necessarily need to be subscribed to post to the debian-user list, altough it is more convenient to do so. The below procmail rule (to be added to your .procmailrc) should do : :0: * List-Id: .*debian-user debian-user Frie

Re: Automated testing - design and interfaces

2005-11-17 Thread Sven Luther
a series of tests which can only be handled on powerpc64, but no powerpc32 ? I know ubuntu has only powerpc64 machines, so it is not as important to you, but debian is using 32bit autobuilders, and i geuss in both case people would like to test and build the packages on powerpc32 machines t

Re: Debian mentioned on Ethiscore

2005-11-24 Thread Sven Luther
nts out, isn't very accessible. Funny, from their email, i thought they where just the standard link exchange spammers or something. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian mentioned on Ethiscore

2005-11-24 Thread Sven Luther
i went to the linked site and found nothing obviously debian related. I didn't search long though, and deleted the email. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Sven Luther
gt; mechanism whereby useful parts of -private can be made publicly > available. Whether developers actually end up doing the work to make > it publicly available comes later. Yep. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
hes are being accessed or some other such big-brotherian thingy :) Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:57:37AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:06:51PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:57:12PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > >

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
heard of debian, and contributing back doesn't come naturally to them, the issue is less with those maintainers ubuntu subverted from debian, altough they may be hit by lack of time, which is an issue better handled by doing the modification in debian and not ubuntu though, but may be counte

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:46:41PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Every "relevant" change put into the BTS would be nice, yes. Filing > > > > > > > > Notice that it is offic

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:55:45PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is their choice to fork with (possibly) too small manpower to keep > > > up. > > > > They could just as well do their chan

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:40:37PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > That said, it may be different for ubuntu employees and random > > maintainers. > > Ubuntu does not have any employees. Those guys that get mone

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
loudly to the submitter if the URL is bogus :). Sounds like a nice idea in need of someone implementing it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:00:26PM +, Andrew Saunders wrote: > On 12/15/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ubuntu is setup internally to circumvent social charges > > I don't understand this statement. Could you please explain what you mean? I

Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:00:22PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > (I just got the mails to utnubu-discuss, so bear with me) > > Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 15:39 +0100 schrieb Sven Luther: > > The process was to be manually though, the idea is to scan incoming

Re: [Utnubu-discuss] Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:19:58PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 16:13 -0500 schrieb Joey Hess: > > Joachim Breitner wrote: > > > I don't think there is much gain - an attached patch is not much better > > > than a link, and might annoy people with limited

Re: Ubuntu/Debian cooperation [was: Complaint about #debian operator]

2005-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:26:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > I have no idea how ubuntu works internally, but my believe, since they > > (canonical) pay people all around the world, and they don't have structures > > locally to do the official hirin

Re: Your posting: Debian on one dvd?

2005-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
'sneaker-net' approach for performing upgrades. ... I was using this for a couple of years before i got internet connection at home back in the late 90s. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stable security support

2005-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
s the kernel team was seeing this the other way around, so maybe just bad communication ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:34:30PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:52:20AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > >> * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060108 11:12]: > >> > There where two fully independent issues here

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 06:46:39PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > If we are going to do this, we obviously need to find out a strong framework > > how this is supposed to work, and all need to follow the same schema. > Upstream hasn't done this. I

Re: non-free firmware

2006-01-15 Thread Sven Luther
use to believe they were > coded by hand in binary. Indeed. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
will have some trouble checking and testing any possible fix, not having a ubuntu install done. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:24:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:08:38PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > I keep hearing this, but I really don't believe it. In Debian, > &g

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:54:40AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:35:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Arg, and to make matters worse, this discussion is CCed to a > > closed-moderated-list, Matt, this is really not a friendly way to have a > >

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:46:51AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:24:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:20:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > In practice, it doesn't work out to mean the same thing, however. Most o

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-21 Thread Sven Luther
o do uploads to ubuntu also ? How many is most in this case ? Do they also know about it ? I mean i was never proposed to make ubuntu maintenance of my packages for example, so i wonder how this works. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-21 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 03:44:12AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:53:26AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>

Re: Mac project?

2006-02-06 Thread Sven Luther
random x86 box, you will probably get more from your money and better debian support. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-13 Thread Sven Luther
let-s-delay-this-for-sarge-only confirmation GR). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:37:31AM +0100, Xavier Roche wrote: > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > > Nope, but i think those who try to hide the issue of non-free material in > > main, by insisting that it is not software > > Fonts or documentations are not soft

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:55:57AM +0100, Xavier Roche wrote: > On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Fonts or documentations are not softwares, for god's sake! > > everything that is not hardware is software > > So a cat is a software, or a hardware ? Do

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:35:02AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:22:07AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > I want to remind you all, that previous to the two GRs which clarified the > > meaning of what we must consider free, we had a widely disputed GR on the

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:23:41AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:57:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:35:02AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > That's not correct. The project simply voted not to removed it at that >

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-13 Thread Sven Luther
guess that almost everyone understood what i was trying to say though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:43:27PM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:54:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > No, like chosing ati over nvidia for graphic cards, or silicon image over > > others for SATA cards. > > Wait a minute, did I miss a memo? ATI is

Re: More polls and social pressure

2006-02-22 Thread Sven Luther
ressources. Let's keep the poll for technical decisions, instead of using it for kinder-garten-like finger-pointing. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More polls and social pressure

2006-02-22 Thread Sven Luther
any kind of pressure and strategic choices can be made if they are open, not that this would be the case for us, us being all nice folk and everyone, but everyone can read those public poll information, and some of those may be less nice :) I strongly vote for this idea in any case. Friendly, Sven Lut

Re: More polls and social pressure

2006-02-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:03:09PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:43:23AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > [ Reply-to debian-project ] > > > > Hi everybody, > > > > given the size of the project, it's very difficult for any of us to

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-24 Thread Sven Luther
sfied. Furthermore, the copyright file is the canonical place where licencing and copyright information are held, so it is the natural place to hold this, and not some random subdir like you propose. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-19 Thread Sven Luther
ases like this, personal situation may also have some influence. Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About expulsion requests

2006-04-10 Thread Sven Luther
y developer who happens to dislike another one or whatever. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About expulsion requests

2006-04-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 08:15:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The only real way to handle this, is to modify the expulsion process, > > and to start the process not with a public or private lynching process, > > but w

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-05-02 Thread Sven Luther
ss vulnerable to this. I personally am on both networks, and probably won't notice much, but the private /query problem sure has been a pain. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: irc.debian.org

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Luther
is (still) less vulnerable to this. > Currently spam is not a major issue. OFTC AFAIK is currently not a > target of turkish kiddies, but this could change any day like it > happened to freenode. Indeed. The sheer size of freenode makes it a tempting target though. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:45:46PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: > Sven Luther wrote on 01/05/2006 08:21: > > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:20:09AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > >>The reason that I did not inform you was because things were already very > >>heated at t

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:52:15AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:06:32AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:45:46PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: > > > Sven Luther wrote on 01/05/2006 08:21: > > > > On Mon, May 01, 2006

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

2006-05-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:38:11PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:42:31PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:52:15AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:06:32AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > btw, it

Should this be how i am supposed to act in mailing list discussions ?

2006-05-05 Thread Sven Luther
were yours, violating your > one-email-per-day-per-thread policy. So, it is clear that you didn't read what i wrote, which in the past prompted me to repeat myself. You say this behavior is not acceptable, so, what do you propose instead ? So, is this like i am supposed to behave in

Re: Should this be how i am supposed to act in mailing list discussions ?

2006-05-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:19:18PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:49:51PM +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 2) on april 28, a week ago, i made the following proposal to Steve > > McIntyre, > > who the DPL delegated to s

Re: Should this be how i am supposed to act in mailing list discussions ?

2006-05-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:40:59PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:33:15PM +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:19:18PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:49:51PM +0200, Sv

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:38:31PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Hey all, > > As I suspect you're all already aware, on 27th April, Sven Luther asked > me to review the situation with d-i and powerpc as a result of finding > his commit access to the d-i repository had been r

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Sven Luther
s doomed in the first place, and the tone of your above mail only confirms this. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:31:09PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:56:42PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > So, three weeks of lost time, and the lack of a neutral and transparent > > meditation attempt means this was doomed in the first place, > > M

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:57:13PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-10 14:43]: > > he defaulted to follow the d-i team's position without giving any > > valable explanation, and clearly pointed that he considered the > > T

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:18:11PM -0500, Anthony Towns wrote: > Frans and Colin dropped from Cc's, -boot and -powerpc Bcc'ed only; > please avoid crossposting. Indeed, debian-project may be more adapted for this. > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:14:39AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 11:24:47PM -0500, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:40:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Altough you are wrong, aj didn't really give a official position, > > To be clear: I gave my position, as DPL. That isn't the final positio

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:59:40PM -0500, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2006, Sven Luther wrote: > > In a case of real-life situtation, i believe this could be similar to > > harcelement in order to have someone resign, and would probably not stand in > > court. H

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-16 Thread Sven Luther
o not agree with these statements for the reasons outlined in: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=366938;msg=50 /me is awaiting with impatience the fix to partman-prep on PReP and IBM CHRP machines. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 05:07:38AM -0500, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:26:09PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > The d-i team were acting under the belief that you no longer wished to > > > work on d-i after a number of conflicts in the past [0]; they then s

Re: Issues regarding powerpc and Sven

2006-05-16 Thread Sven Luther
#x27;re smoking that makes you think that. > > I was extremely sceptical about Anthony's ability to function socially > as DPL, but I have to say that what we have seen of his handling of > this case is nothing short of admirable. You must have a really strange definition of

Re: Debian-based miniVDR violates GPL (FYI)

2006-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
tly what to do an how to handle this. > > So unless someone else here knows better what to do this is probably > the best thing to do. Altho maybe it should be raised with > debian-legal@lists.debian.org first? I believe SPI may be more appropriate in this case, not sure though, as they seem to be germany-based. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BSP Marathon (or: helping releasing etch in-time)

2006-05-29 Thread Sven Luther
hat he has a kernel not supported by the new udev, and to propose to either abort the install (default, as it does now), or continue the upgrade, with the thought that udev may well be a mess until the next upgrade. This is a rather easy task for someone with the time for it, and thus perfect for a BSP p

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
nd well, it if is abused or whatever, you can take it back anytime you want. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-05-31 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:59:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 07:50:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Anthony, ... > > I would like to hear your comment on the possibility to override the need > > for > > NEW for the creation of some new bin

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-06-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:21:13AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:15:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Now, the remaining question that has me baffled is how you reconcile the > > factof waiting for NEW, with the 'vitality' part of your DPL plat

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-06-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:27:40AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:15:42AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:59:36AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 07:50:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > >

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-06-01 Thread Sven Luther
est for comment from our DPL and ftp-master about the subject. Whatever you say you meant or not, the fact alone that we had that discussion proves there is something un-neat about the NEW handling, and i wanted our DPLs opinion on this, in light of his electoral plateform. Friendly, Sven Luthe

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-06-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:06:29AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:15:35PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Maybe, or maybe not, but you cannot deny that the actual NEW situation is > > satisfactory. > > Heh. > > > And actually, what i intent

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-06-01 Thread Sven Luther
eard any real argument against it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-06-01 Thread Sven Luther
y won't work anymore with the new kernel. In this aspect, it is similar of libraries embedding their sonames. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-06-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:00:23AM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-02 08:27]: > > > I personally volunteer for this for doing kernel related NEW work, but i > > guess > > someone else can be found if you don't judg

Re: Shouldn't we have more ftp masters ?

2006-06-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:43:27PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:20:19AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > And actually, what i intented to say was that there where three points > > > > which > > > > made me consider this a g

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