How to put a license (question) in preinst/debconf

2007-03-16 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hi, I have a package for a software, that is provided under an academic license - free for non-profit organisations and academic use, not free for profit organisations. So I want to put a debconf template into preinst, so the user MUST accept the license, before he installs the package (and of

Re: How to put a license (question) in preinst/debconf

2007-03-16 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 14:37 +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: Hi, Hi Daniel, I have a package for a software, that is provided under an academic license - free for non-profit organisations and academic use, not free for profit organisations. So I want to put a debconf template into preinst,

Re: How to put a license (question) in preinst/debconf

2007-03-16 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-03-16, Daniel Leidert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What would you choose and why? If there is a need for a click-wrap license - look at the sun java packages. But if the license don't require click-wrap, I would just ship it in debian/copyright. People should know that non-free stuff is

debian/prerm is executed on *reconfigure*?

2007-03-16 Thread schönfeld / in-medias-res.com
Hi mentors, hi Dpkg developers, i could need some help with a bug that has been reported to be in one of my packages. According to #408823 my package removes a configuration file when dpkg-reconfigure is invoked. I'm really wondering about this, because that means that dpkg invokes my prerm

Re: debian/prerm is executed on *reconfigure*?

2007-03-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:52:18PM +0100, schönfeld / in-medias-res.com wrote: Hi mentors, hi Dpkg developers, i could need some help with a bug that has been reported to be in one of my packages. According to #408823 my package removes a configuration file when dpkg-reconfigure is invoked.

Re: How to put a license (question) in preinst/debconf

2007-03-16 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 3/17/07, Daniel Leidert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would you choose and why? You could also write a wrapper script around the binary so that the user can see the license when they first run the program. This gets around the dpkg and debconf issues. -- Andrew Donnellan

Re: How to put a license (question) in preinst/debconf

2007-03-16 Thread Bart Martens
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 07:56 +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote: On 3/17/07, Daniel Leidert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would you choose and why? You could also write a wrapper script around the binary so that the user can see the license when they first run the program. This gets around the

RFS: yacas (updated package)

2007-03-16 Thread Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.57-3 of my package yacas. It builds these binary packages: yacas - Computer Algebra System yacas-doc - Documentation for Yacas yacas-proteus - User interface for yacas based on fltk The package is lintian clean. The

Re: RFS: yacas (updated package)

2007-03-16 Thread Steffen Joeris
Hi Thanks for taking care of this package. I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.57-3 of my package yacas. It builds these binary packages: yacas - Computer Algebra System yacas-doc - Documentation for Yacas yacas-proteus - User interface for yacas based on fltk The

Re: Claiming a binary name used in Sarge but not in Etch.

2007-03-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:09:23AM -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : A NEWS entry isn't unreasonable. Supporting the old binary might be nice; a wrapper with a warning rather than a symlink is extra friendly. Be sure to use exec as the last line of a wrapper script to remove unnecessary memory