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Comment Re:So much for democracy (Score 1) 137

To the contrary, I think you don't understand in fact both politics and English. So I'll write it again.
Absolutely NO party are advocating for getting out of Europe in France. Not to the left, and not on the right either. I do not consider myself a "leftwing" (or even rightwing by the way), I think we get fooled by the same politic each times, and that this left-right has lost all meaning.
I believe there's more people where I live than where you do (unless you live in a place with more than 20 millions ...). I don't believe in "decroissance" which is pure greewashing, but really, I don't see at all why this has a relation to what I wrote about.
I thank you for the "idiotic", but I might as well return it to you, because writing about "anarcho-communist" is pure stupidity. You can't be both communist and believing in anarchy (probably you just tried to write as many words you don't understand as you could in a single sentence?). Anyway that's too much to understand from someone who's left brain has nothing right, and right brain has nothing left.

Now, somebody calling someone else "idiotic leftwing anarcho-communist" that "lives in a wooden cabin with no modern equipment" because of a call for more democracy is either a dangerous fascist or a dictator in my book.

Comment Re:So much for democracy (Score 1, Insightful) 137

Many European citizens still think Europe will bring more democracy

Can you point at a single citizen that still thinks this way? Oh, sorry, I misread. You wrote "will", as in, perhaps one day in the future... Yeah, maybe there's still some people with hope, but I believe the number of such people is getting smaller and smaller.

Seriously, Europe is all but about democracy. In fact, it has stolen democracy from once sovereign states. And when the people vote no for Europe, it still goes forward with more Europe. What's even more sad, is that despite people's discontent, in a country like France, absolutely zero party are proposing that this stops. (Well, in fact, there's one, called UPR, but nobody heard about them as there is not a single mass media that let them talk, and they were not allowed to run for presidency, so it's almost as if there were none.)

Comment Re:Foxconn (Score 0) 115

I'd suggest at this stage Apple is probably amongst the best of the consumer electronics brands as regards worker conditions. Because they're pretty much all manufacturing in the far east, and Apple, given all the bad press they got on the issue, is the one who's doing the most to counter bad practices. And they are also not trying to compete in the bottom end - where there is no margin for improving worker conditions.

Bad suggestion. Come over in Zhengzhou, Henan, and see the weekly queue of 300 workers in the iPhone factory, that are replacing those who left because 2k RMB isn't enough to accept such working conditions (and we're talking about very poor people here for who 2k RMB is quite decent). It seems Apple is really successful with it's PR about all this, but reality is really different.

Comment Re:Depressing: no reference to Debian, f**k that!! (Score 1) 202

This is just not truth. Packages in Ubuntu are first uploaded to Debian SID and then imported to Ubuntu before they freeze the next release. So if you want to stay on the edge, use Debian SID. And if that's too much "on the edge" for you, then use Debian testing. This is where bugs are fixed first. The only thing who are updated separately and maintained by Canonical used to be popular packages like Gnome, PHP, and the like. Just to stay on these examples, nowadays, Canonical focuses on Unity, and their PHP package is still using PHP 5.3 because of compatibility problems. Things they don't care of are first fixed in Debian (for example: XCP).
The distro who is behind is Ubuntu, not Debian. And that's truth because of "their general process", who didn't change.

Comment Depressing: no reference to Debian, f**k that!!! (Score 5, Insightful) 202

When I read:

when someone prefers XFCE to Unity, they are still benefiting from enormous efforts by hundreds of people to make the core Ubuntu platform

I feel truly depressed. A quick look at some Debian packages with apt-get showsrc xfce4-terminal shows 2 uploaders, and the work being done mostly by Yves-Alexis Perez. Then having a look at the Ubuntu package shows that there's almost no work at all from Ubuntu on that package, but the rework of 2 patches, AND THAT'S IT.

So, instead of a self-satisfying self-congratulation, and telling about the "hundreds of people" behind it, Marc should truly thanks the thousands of Debian Developer doing the real work FOR FREE (and the other thousands of maintainers who aren't DD and get their package sponsored). These are the real persons that makes it possible.

If you’ve been arguing over software licenses for the best part of 15 years then you would probably be fine with whatever came before Ubuntu.

If what Marc is saying here is that Ubuntu doesn't care anymore that software should be free (as in Freedom), then yes, it's time that everyone stops using Ubuntu. By the way the recent global search spyware finished to convince more and more people.

Whether you’re building out a big data cluster or a super-scaled storage solution, you’ll get it done faster on Ubuntu than any other platform, thanks to the amazing work of our cloud community.

With all the due respect Marc, I believe my Folsom packages of Openstack, which I'm slowly uploading to Debian experimental (but also available on a non-official repo), are both better and more easy to use than the ones currently in Ubuntu. You'd better stop touching yourself, and remove these lintian warnings which are all over the place on the Ubuntu packaging.

Consider it a gift from all of us at Ubuntu.

That's it, now I want to slap you in the face... We are talking about COMMUNITY SOFTWARE, not Canonical. Neither XFCE or Openstack are (c) Canonical. If you want a list of the top committers in each project to show you are wrong, I can do that, no pb.

Comment Re:Obvious answer.. (Score 1) 514

Right, but not everyone goes to school, that's the problem. In some (very) remote area, it's quite common that kids don't go to school because it's too far, and they can't physically go. Also, sometimes, the teacher also has a strong accent, or uses the local dialect, which doesn't help.

To some degree, I would say that Simplified Chinese (eg: written Chinese) is more unifying the country than spoken Mandarin.

Comment lintian warnings (Score 0) 353

There's few issues in this package. First, it seems to be i386 only. Then, it's setting-up a repository in /etc/apt/source.list.d without warning the users... Then, it's full of lintian warnings:

# lintian -Ii -E --pedantic steam.deb
W: steam: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 3
N:
N: The given line of the latest changelog entry is over 80 columns. Such changelog entries may look poor in terminal windows and mail messages and be annoying to read. Please wrap changelog entries at 80 columns or less where possible.
N:
N: Severity: normal, Certainty: certain
N:
N: Check: changelog-file, Type: binary
N:
W: steam: debian-changelog-line-too-long line 4
W: steam: copyright-without-copyright-notice
N:
N: The copyright file for this package does not appear to contain a copyright notice. You should copy the copyright notice from the upstream
N: source (or add one of your own for a native package). A copyright notice must consist of Copyright, Copr., or the Unicode symbol of C in a circle followed by the years and the copyright holder. A copyright notice is not required for a work to be copyrighted, but Debian requires the copyright file include the authors and years of copyright, and including a valid copyright notice is the best way to do that. Examples:
N:
N: Copyright YYYY Firstname Lastname
N: Copr. YYYY-YYYY Firstname Lastname
N: © YYYY,YYYY Firstname Lastname
N:
N: If the package is in the public domain rather than copyrighted, be sure to mention "public domain" in the copyright file. Please be aware that this is very rare and not the same as a DFSG-free license. True public domain software is generally limited to such special cases as a work product of a United States government agency.
N:
N: Refer to http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html for details.
N:
N: Severity: normal, Certainty: certain
N:
N: Check: copyright-file, Type: binary
N:
E: steam: malformed-deb-archive found 4 members instead of 3
N:
N: The binary package is not a correctly constructed archive. A binary Debian package must be an ar archive with exactly three members: debian-binary, control.tar.gz, and one of data.tar.gz, data.tar.bz2 or data.tar.xz in exactly that order. The debian-binary member must start with a single line containing the version number, with a major revision of 2.
N:
N: Refer to the deb(5) manual page for details.
N:
N: Severity: serious, Certainty: certain
N:
N: Check: deb-format, Type: binary, udeb
N:
W: steam: extended-description-line-too-long
N:
N: One or more lines in the extended part of the "Description:" field have been found to contain more than 80 characters. For the benefit of users of 80x25 terminals, it is recommended that the lines do not exceed 80 characters.
N:
N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 3.4.1 (The single line synopsis)
N: for details.
N:
N: Severity: normal, Certainty: certain
N:
N: Check: description, Type: binary, udeb
N:
W: steam: extended-description-line-too-long
E: steam: description-contains-tabs
N:
N: The package "Description:" must not contain tab characters.
N:
N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 5.6.13 (Description) for details.
N:
N: Severity: important, Certainty: certain
N:
N: Check: description, Type: binary, udeb
N:
W: steam: extended-description-line-too-long
W: steam: extended-description-line-too-long
W: steam: extended-description-line-too-long
W: steam: extended-description-line-too-long
W: steam: extended-description-line-too-long
W: steam: extended-description-line-too-long
W: steam: extended-description-line-too-long
W: steam: extended-description-line-too-long
W: steam: extended-description-line-too-long
W: steam: extended-description-line-too-long
P: steam: maintainer-script-without-set-e postinst
N:
N: The maintainer script passes -e to the shell on the #! line rather than using set -e in the body of the script. This is fine for normal operation, but if the script is run by hand with sh /path/to/script (common in debugging), -e will not be in effect. It's therefore better to use set -e in the body of the script.
N:
N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 10.4 (Scripts) for details.
N:
N: Severity: pedantic, Certainty: certain
N:
N: Check: scripts, Type: binary
N:

Time to do some Q/A ? :)

Comment Re:Obvious answer.. (Score 1) 514

Freaking Chinese that you need to speak with the 1.2 billion people in china. You know what he means.

Sorry, no, I don't know what you mean... Why "Freaking" exactly? Also, the population must be closer to 1.6 billion. And not all of them can speak Mandarin (or read/write any language at all).

Comment Re:This is a good thing (Score 1) 273

Probably, you might be interested in the long threads about MATE in Debian, and the reasons why we don't have it yet. To make it short, MATE guys have forked many, many libraries, which they admit wont have the time to maintain. So many people inside the Debian community pushed them to use upstream libraries, and limit the number of forked projects.

I wouldn't use MATE just yet, it just feels too unsafe, even though it seems to work very well (I tried it too, but on plain Debian Wheezy, not with Mint).

Comment Re:This is a good thing (Score 1) 273

RMS wrote and said multiple times that freedom might have a cost. Well, that's exactly the case here! In Debian, we don't have non-free binary blobs on the "main" section, and as a consequence, on our CDs. For this, you should be complaining to your hardware vendor that he's not providing the source code. You shouldn't be complaining to Debian the fact that there are some non-free drivers. Also, I shall remind you that these drivers are (almost always) available from the (well named) non-free repositories.

I guess it all depends how much you care about freedom and privacy. Here you care more about your privacy than about your freedom, obviously.

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