Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Rockai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : app-install-data Version : 0.1.32 Upstream Author : Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Niran Babalola Sebasitan Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : n/a * License : GPL (but see below) Programming Lang: n/a Description : Application Installer Data Files This package contains the data files for user-oriented application installers. Currently used by adept-installer and gnome-app-install (the latter is not part of debian archive currently, though). Notes: The package is basically a compilation of .desktop files and icons from Ubuntu archive. This basically reflects pretty well on Debian archive as well. The very few inconsistencies are handled gracefully by the application(s) using the data. These would be adept-installer (to be uploaded shortly pending upload of this package) and gnome-app-install (if anyone volunteers to upload it to archive, it is currently available in ubuntu dapper). The license is GPL because that is what the upstream authors put on both the software and data compilation. However, the data itself is copyrighted by wide variety of authors and covered by different licenses. To my best knowledge, all of these are DFSG-compliant, for most of them, the upstream source for the compilation is Debian itself. On the rationale for the package, the data is used to present an user-friendly list of applications available through APT. The list can be (and by all current applications is) structured to reflect the desktop environment menu structure. The applications are shown with their icons if those are available in this package or otherwise on the system. This package is a temporary measure until a better solution is implemented. However, it is not likely that this happens in time for Etch. This is why i would prefer to have app-install-data in, so that Etch can ship with at least adept-installer (if noone steps up to upload also gnome-app-install). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]