Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Edward Welbourne
Hi debian-devel, > The web of trust gave me Mr Johan Herland as the only member of strong set > and I took the freedom to place him on the CC line. Johan forwarded you to me. For reference, dpkg -s, or the package's control file, would have told you: Maintainer: Opera Packaging Team <[EMAIL PR

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Edward Welbourne
Steffen: >> So, the Debian community would have someone (and sadly only one) who can >> inspect your source and fix issues that arise. The benefit I see for Opera >> is >> a further decreased footprint. Bernd: > if opera would be come open-source, I'd be willing to co-maintain and > check packag

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Edward Welbourne
> you can at least use linda and lintian (-iI) to check your packages, > that should help a lot. Indeed - I've been using lintian, and linda's on my set of things to try during my next binge of package work. Eddy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Edward Welbourne
Lionel: >> (Explicitly CCing Edward in the assumption he's not subscribed to this >> list. Thank you - I am, indeed, not subscribed. It would actually be best if you could address me as [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that various of my colleagues see the discussion, too. >> ... The message I'm answering to

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-07 Thread Edward Welbourne
> Can we still hope that there are requests from the Opera developers that a > certain set of LGPL libraries are out there that should be distributed with > Debian (which they are currently not or in a "wrong" version or missing > patches) that would help to further reduce the footprint of the

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-07 Thread Edward Welbourne
> One thing which would help is if you made use of the Bugs: filed in > debian/control. That is you do something like this: > Bugs: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ah ! OK, thanks for that ... packaging script revised :-) > This allows people to send bug reports to you directly using the > reportbug

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-07 Thread Edward Welbourne
> I am not seeking for a violation of some license. I didn't think you were. > It is "missed opportunities" for optimisation that I am after. That's what I understood you to mean. > You have the source, you seek for them :o) I really don't think there's anything that fits the bill. > Please cons