Bug#762638: metaconfig source control/distribution and Debian's DFSG

2015-08-17 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 02:41:58PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: I will propose within Debian that we package up the modified dist package and metaconfig units, and include documentation in the perl source package about this. After discussions with Helmut at Debconf, it seems like all we

Bug#762638: metaconfig source control/distribution and Debian's DFSG

2014-11-01 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Hi all, Apologies for another long delay in replying; other matters have taken up most of my recent energy. I'm replying to both H.Merijn Brand and Andy Dougherty's most recent messages on the subject here. I've snipped some quoted parts for brevity, but kept what I hope are the most pertinent

Bug#762638: metaconfig source control/distribution and Debian's DFSG

2014-10-06 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 05:50:51PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:07:59PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:16:32PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: The way it's set up now, we encourage people to simply patch Configure. If someone wants

Bug#762638: metaconfig source control/distribution and Debian's DFSG

2014-10-05 Thread Helmut Grohne
Dear Perl maintainers, On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 05:50:51PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: I'm including Helmut, the submitter to the Debian bug report, as a CC, in case he can help provide additional context that I'm missing. Yes, I do have additional context. I don't have the exact

Bug#762638: metaconfig source control/distribution and Debian's DFSG

2014-10-04 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Hi, I'm including Helmut, the submitter to the Debian bug report, as a CC, in case he can help provide additional context that I'm missing. On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:07:59PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:16:32PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: Hi, The Debian

Bug#762638: metaconfig source control/distribution and Debian's DFSG

2014-10-04 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 17:50:51 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves d...@earth.li wrote: Hi, I'm including Helmut, the submitter to the Debian bug report, as a CC, in case he can help provide additional context that I'm missing. On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 09:07:59PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Thu,