Re: ITP: debian-backports-keyring -- GnuPG archive key of the backports.org repository

[Francesco Poli <frx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Walter Landry wrote:

> Francesco Poli <frx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> > But then, I was harshly accused of not making it clear enough that
> > I am neither a lawyer, nor a Debian developer, that I'm not providing
> > legal advice, and that I don't speak on behalf of the Debian Project.
> > Other people were similarly attacked for the same reason.
> > 
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/10/msg00133.html
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00014.html
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00038.html
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00092.html
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00106.html
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00222.html
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/06/msg00278.html
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00062.html
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00215.html
> 
> Note that all of these complaints were made by the same person:
> Anthony Towns.

There were some other people who seemed to more or less agree with
Anthony Towns.  But he was certainly the loudest one complaining about
this.
That's why the messages I was able to found out in a hurry were his
ones: I didn't manage to dig the few from other people...

> Since Anthony used to hold a number of positions of
> authority in Debian, including ftpmaster and DPL, I think that
> Francesco's response was not irrational.  Since a current ftpmaster
> has explicitly said that these notices are no longer necessary,
> Francesco can probably relent.

I am not sure: adding those acronyms is not a big deal and they use (or
waste!) really few bits.  They seem to succeed in stopping the
complaints, so maybe they are not completely useless.


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