Newsgroup: it.fan.marco-ditri
Titolo: [BLOG] On compromise, and updated packages (2004-07-13)

(#43) On compromise, and updated packages
MJ Ray is still unclear on the concept of compromise[0]. The important
issue being discussed is not if sarge should be released now or next
year, but if the new interpretations of the SC are acceptable or not.
This is why the only relevant options on the last ballot were "reaffirm
the changes" and "rescind the changes": the others are only different
shades of the first, which in the end would still reaffirm the new,
clarified social contract.
Another usually forgotten point is that pragmatism is hard to reconcile
with matters of principle: people usually do not compromise on moral
issues.
I'm happy to see that people like Matthew Garrett[1] and Florian Weimer
started posting something sensible to debian-legal[2] and asking the
right kind of questions. I hope others will follow.
In the last two days, I uploaded a few new packages: 
 * whois[3]: I reviewed most domains and added a few new servers for
countries most people have never heard of. As usual, for many domains
my data is more up-to-date than the official records in the IANA ccTLD
pages[4]. I'm proud of the my research ability, but the code is ugly
and after years of organic growth badly needs to be rewritten. 
 * tin[5]: I packaged the new release. 
 * speedtouch[6]: ditto. 
 * inn[7]: I fixed a few bugs, among them a FTBFS exposed by the new
gcc 3.4. Maintaining a code base which was orphaned eight years ago is
fun. 
 * libberkeleydb-perl[8]: recompiled against libdb4.2[9]. 
 * udev[10]: I packaged the new release and fixed a few bugs. The next
upload will probably have better handling of the /dev/cdrom and
/dev/dvd symlinks. 
 * ppp[11]: after checking out a new CVS snapshot which fixed a few
bugs, I fixed some others myself. Looks like it's again time to push
some patches upstream. In hindsight, I should probably have accepted
the offer of commit privileges. 
I had no time yet to work on the USB coldplugging code in hotplug[12],
but I have a few good ideas and have just bought a 9.90€ ADSL modem
to test them.
[0] 
http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2004-6.html#zeal-gr004
[1] 
http://www.advogato.org/person/mjg59/
[2] 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/
[3] 
http://packages.debian.org/whois
[4] 
http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm
[5] 
http://packages.debian.org/tin
[6] 
http://packages.debian.org/speedtouch
[7] 
http://packages.debian.org/inn
[8] 
http://packages.debian.org/libberkeleydb-perl
[9] 
http://packages.debian.org/libdb4.2
[10] 
http://packages.debian.org/udev
[11] 
http://packages.debian.org/ppp
[12] 
http://packages.debian.org/hotplug
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I'm proud of the my research ability,
Eri molto stanco quando l'hai scritto, vero? :-D

Eri molto stanco quando l'hai scritto, vero? :-D
Era tarda notte, me la sono cavata ancora con poco.
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Eri molto stanco quando l'hai scritto, vero? :-D
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Marco d'Itri  scripsit:
: >>I'm proud of the my research ability,
: >Eri molto stanco quando l'hai scritto, vero? :-D
: Era tarda notte, me la sono cavata ancora con poco.
in questa stagione, anche nell'ovest dell'Italia, doveva già essere
albeggiato.
ciao, .mau.
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albeggiato.
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Posted at 03:08:26. [
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