On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 07:25, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoel...@iem.at> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2011-11-21 03:26, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:49, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoel...@iem.at> wrote: >> >>> right, makes sense. >>> i adapted pd-zexy accordingly, pushed and now hope for an successfull >>> upload. >> >> Looks like there is a strange thing with the install-sh section in >> debian/copyright. The license name contains spaces, and doesn't match >> any License: paragraph. >> I'm not quite sure what is the dep5 way to deal with this. Most likely >> the exception should be moved into the license paragraph and the >> qualificators to the name (with X exception) removed. >> > > it seems that all those problems only come from the autotools generated > stuff, which is something where i have the feeling that it should not > create problems at all. > > i'm therefore wondering, what is the best way to deal with autotools > generated files in general. > so i asked at #debian-mentors (see end of this mail), with the > conclusion (as i read it), that it might probably be best to leave out > generated files from debian/copyright alltogether. > > would this be acceptable? for you? what do other think?
Due to lack of answers, the irc log you copied and a quick google found bug#435070, I think it is acceptable (at least it is current practice) and will upload. Given all the time it has taken to do this, I will just change it myself and upload now. > would it be a good idea to add a section about howto handle autotools > generated files to the wiki? This is of general interest. It should probably not be in the team's page. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers