Re: My woody packages....
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On Tuesday 08 April 2003 14:15, Filippos Slavik wrote:
> On Monday 07 April 2003 19:22, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > Up until now this location held my collection of Debian packages for
> > Woody.
> Well, this is very bad situation, especially for those you have selected
> your debs for their production systems.
They are still available:
deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.1/Debian stable main
so I don't see this as a necessarily "bad" situation. I will also continue to
provide updates on those servers for KDE for the KDE releases.
> I can easily understand why is happening that... credativ is just trying to
> make money.
I did them because we needed them anyway and I wanted to have them as well. So
it was partly a necessity for our work and partly my own interest.
The result is that I put the packages in my home directory on ktown. People
started to use them, that's fine.
So in the end, credativ has nothing to do with those packages and I can
*basically* do whatever I want to. And I certainly don't want my own employer
to come under the impression that they just want to rip off people because
that is not the case. We're all Debian and KDE people here, period. We've
been doing more to help free software by developing it or working *inside*
debian to make Debian better than most people who are just taking things for
granted.
Althought you produced these packages while working for them/or
> consuming time for producing those packages that has been paid by them,
> nothing can stop you from producing them again (it's your work ; just
> supported by them).
That may be true. But matter of fact is, I just won't do that anymore except
for the KDE releases part. Everything else was optional or experimental
anyway.
> Anyway, I'm not blaming you.. it's just a very unpleasent situtation. And
> yes you're right.. I could get the debs from kde.org... but we all know,
> that packages @ ktown are more updated by your efforts ;)
Well, how is that unpleasant ? You can still get the packages over the
load-balanced servers at download.kde.org. The removal of the packages in my
home dir just reduces the load on the server and again, they are still
available as far as the pure KDE side is concerned on download.kde.org. It
also makes my life a lot easier and gives me more time for other things to do
because I only have to take care of one repository than keeping two in sync
for releases.
To make clear that my employer doesn't have anything to do with that, I
changed the README on ktown to this:
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Up until now this location held my collection of Debian packages for Woody.
Those packages aren't available anymore at this location.
Please use http://download.kde.org for the KDE packages available on the KDE
mirrors:
deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.1/Debian stable main
See http://www.kde.org/info/3.1.1.php for more information.
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which should give anyone the info that they should use download.kde.org.
Ralf
>
> Regards
> Filippos Slavik
>
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Ralf Nolden
nolden@kde.org
The K Desktop Environment The KDevelop Project
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