Re: DFSG4 and combined works

2006-02-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:03:45PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > In other situations, we might want to incorporate parts of the manual > > into the source (for tooltips, help texts, usage examples, etc..). We > > certainly couldn't do that with a GFD

Re: Ending votes early

2003-05-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:10:56AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I've always taken it to mean "ignoring the slight possibility that > > > > people who have voted didn't mean what they said". > > > > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 08:02:00PM -0500,

Re: Our counting procedure

2001-03-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:53:51AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:23:02PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > >> Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Here's how people voted: > > > Can any of you guys that recounted the results (yo

Re: Our counting procedure

2001-03-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:53:51AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:23:02PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > >> Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Here's how people voted: > > > Can any of you guys that recounted the results (y

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What will happen to them, would they still be able to use the BTS for their > > packages ? Or should they make provision for having their own apt-gettable > > repository for people to download. I think not everyone has t

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What will happen to them, would they still be able to use the BTS for their > > packages ? Or should they make provision for having their own apt-gettable > > repository for people to download. I think not everyone has

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Goerzen wrote: > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Without regard to constitutionality, I believe there are technical reasons > > why non-free should remain a little while longer. Netscape is the biggest > > of them at the moment since currently Mozilla is not ready to replac

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
John Goerzen wrote: > Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Without regard to constitutionality, I believe there are technical reasons > > why non-free should remain a little while longer. Netscape is the biggest > > of them at the moment since currently Mozilla is not ready to repla

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> No. There's nothing wrong if someone feels dissapointed if "no" > wins by 80%. It would mean that a brutal majority of the > Debian developers care little about the politics of the > Project. I would not find that result very amusing, that's for > sure. Oh great. A `our-camp-is-right-and-if-t

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> No. There's nothing wrong if someone feels dissapointed if "no" > wins by 80%. It would mean that a brutal majority of the > Debian developers care little about the politics of the > Project. I would not find that result very amusing, that's for > sure. Oh great. A `our-camp-is-right-and-if-

Re: CFV: Non-free archive removal

2000-08-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Martin Schulze wrote: > Jordi Mallach wrote: > > Nearly 3 months later, a question disturbs me. > > When are we going to vote on this?! > > No vote, just rm. $ man rm NAME rm - remove files or directories - remove the proposal? remove non-free files? I just assumed the proposal origin

Re: CFV: Non-free archive removal

2000-08-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Martin Schulze wrote: > Jordi Mallach wrote: > > Nearly 3 months later, a question disturbs me. > > When are we going to vote on this?! > > No vote, just rm. $ man rm NAME rm - remove files or directories - remove the proposal? remove non-free files? I just assumed the proposal origi

Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org

1999-06-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Adam Heath wrote: > dpkg-awk 'section:.*non-free.*' -- package|sed -ne 's/\(..*\)/\1/p' This fails to pick up libforms0.88 and any other package that doesn't have the Section line. Not everyone uses: dpkg-gencontrol -isp Peter

Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org

1999-06-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Robert Woodcock wrote: > Here's an idea: > > # apt-get install navigator-smotif-46 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > netscape-base-46 navigator-base-46 > The following NEW packages will be installed: > navig

README.Why_non-free (Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org )

1999-06-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I lost track of who said what... > > > And perhaps, the README.Debian should be mandatory to > > > contain a brief explanation why this package is considered > > > non-free (often it is obvious, but often it is not, > > > especially for those new to the world of free software) > > > I think this