Re: New section for firmware.

2008-12-23 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Hi, > > I've been thinking about this proposal for some time, and I probably > should have send this some time ago. At least some people seem to > have had simular ideas, so I wonder why nobody propsed anything like > this. > > The idea is to create a new section that contai

Re: Preparing linux-2.6 2.6.18-1

2006-09-24 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > If it is the consensus of the project that sourceless firmware doesn't > > belong in main, this is a conscious regression in DFSG-compliance relative > > to sarge. I don't think that's acceptable. We obviously do have the > > means to remove

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-20 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Christian Perrier wrote: [snip] > This is spring time (at least for half of the world...and probably for > 90% of Debian world)so take a break, go for a walk in the forest, > hear the birds singing, get one day off with no mail reading...and > remember this is all about a hobby for most of us.

Re: Question for Matthew Garrett

2005-03-16 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Synchronising security updates for several *distributions* (i.e. different > > source versions) is a pain. Sychronising for all architectures is quite > > easy as long as our great buildd network is in good shape. > > There's one area whe

Re: Questions to all DPL candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Angus Lees: > > Erm, no. Many "metric compatible" fonts aren't exactly that way. > > See http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/technotes/tfmetrics.pdf for an > > interesting comparison of Palatino. > > With well-written documents, the worst problem probably is that

Re: Questions to all DPL candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On ?? 13 ?? 2005 18:28, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > What's the compatible replacement for Times New Roman? > > Compatible in what way? Do you need just a serif font? Or do you need > some serif font that looks exact

Re: Questions to all DPL candidates

2005-03-13 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On ?? 13 ?? 2005 15:53, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > - eclipse > > - msttcorefonts > > I can't speak about the rest of this list, but kaffe is now able to > run eclipse 3.0.1, which means that eclipse will sooner or later > enter main.