> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:16:31 +0200 > Philipp Hartwig <p...@phhart.de> wrote: > > Hi and welcome to Notion, > > > I'm moving my old ion3 install to notion. For the most part it's smooth, > > but I'm using a piece of the old ion3-scripts package, which doesn't > > yet have a notion counterpart. If this is simply a manpower issue, > > not a licensing one, I'm happy to do this. > > definitely not a licensing issue, we were just focused on getting Notion > itself into Debian. If you could start preparing such a package, that would > be > great! > > You can find the source of the most recent version of ion3-scripts > under [1] . This is probably a good place to start. > > The most recent version of the scripts is available through the contrib > submodule of our main git repository[2]. See [3] for instructions and/or > [4] for a web version. > > Note that the copyright file of the above ion3-scripts package is somewhat > lacking. However the copyright file of the current Notion package also > includes information on the scripts, see [5], so one should use this > information instead. I have made one mistake that needs fixing though. Namely > the second sentence of "A list of files in the contrib directory with > copyright holders other than Tuomo Valkonen follows. Unless otherwise > specified the files are distributed unter the same license as the Notion > package." is utterly wrong. Instead they are in the public domain. This will > be fixed in the next version of the package. > > I'll be happy to also help out, so we can do this together if you want. Maybe > GitHub or a similar site would be a good place. > > Cheers, > Philipp > > [1] http://snapshot.debian.org/package/ion3-scripts/20070515.debian-1/ > [2] git://notion.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/notion/notion > [3] http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notion/index.php?title=Development > [4] > http://notion.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=notion/contrib;a=summary > [5] > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/notion.git;a=blob;f=debian/copyright;h=1b5a7a9884bff6a6e6c754984620531bfd61c7b7;hb=HEAD
OK. I got a package. The repo is at https://github.com/dkogan/notion-scripts This is a plain git-buildpackage repository. Debian branch is "master", while the upstream branch is "upstream". I did make one patch to the upstream copy itself (updating the README and such), so please merge that in, if you can. Package looks good to me. Lintian reports a few 'I' tags that are probably worth fixing, but they're all pretty minor. Another thing to note is that I'm installing all the scripts to /usr/share/notion, NOT to /etc/X11/notion. /etc is for config files, and none of the scripts are such. I do realize that Debian doesn't conform to this standard very rigidly (/etc/X11 and /etc/init.d is full of non-config files), but no I see no reason to violate this here. Some questions/comments: - Should notion-scripts depend on any particular version of notion? I left it unversioned for now - I left the Suggests field in debian/control as it was. More scripts have been added since the last package was up-to-date, so this list is probably incomplete now - The web addresses in debian/control don't exist yet. If this package becomes hosted on Alioth next to notion itself, these will become correct - I listed myself as the maintainer. I don't have the rights to do this right now, so this assumes that somebody reading this is a DD willing to sponsor this package. Otherwise, the Maintainer field needs to change. - Since the scripts live in THIS package, not in the "notion" package, the copyright information relating to 'contrib' should be removed from notion's debian/copyright - LICENSE file says GPL3 unless otherwise stated, but some other places state "public domain" unless otherwise stated. This is a discrepancy that should be resolved. The GPL3 seems to be the wrong one between the two. - The debian/copyright had some of its licenses stated incorrectly (mostly things like GPL vs LGPL, GPL2 vs GPL2+, etc). I corrected these. If anything more needs to happen, I'm bringing it up here. - Some of the scripts had an explicit copyright, but no explicit license. How are these to be treated? I'm calling these out as unspecified in the debian/copyright. Do these revert to "public domain"? dima -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
