bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Mònica Ramírez Arceda
Hi, I am working on packaging a Java application called BT747 [0]. For now, I have some doubts (I think I'll have more in the future ;-)): * Licenses: this package has quite a lot of licenses, one of the licenses is GPL (without the version). Is it a problem? The exact header is: /** *

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
Yep, package any embedded code copies separately. For modified code copies, try to get the changes into their proper upstream or the Debian package if it exists. Then depend on that version. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mònica * Licenses: this package has quite a lot of licenses, one of the licenses is GPL (without the version). Is it a problem? The exact header is: This is no problem. GPL states (verbatim quote from GPL-2, still present in GPL-3): If the

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Mònica Ramírez Arceda
El dg 15 de 05 de 2011 a les 19:08 +0800, en/na Paul Wise va escriure: Yep, package any embedded code copies separately. For modified code copies, try to get the changes into their proper upstream or the Debian package if it exists. Ok, I'll try it, altough this library doesn't exist in

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Mònica Ramírez Arceda
El dg 15 de 05 de 2011 a les 13:10 +0200, en/na Arno Töll va escriure: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mònica * Licenses: this package has quite a lot of licenses, one of the licenses is GPL (without the version). Is it a problem? The exact header is: This is no

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello Monica, interesting that you're now working on bt747: I'm also using this program to download my GPS tracks and flag my photos, wanted as well to package it, and basically silently gave up as I looked into it :-P Anyway I'm happy that someone has more courage and/or time to do it! On

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mònica, On 15.05.2011 13:40, Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote: So, thinking in DEP5: If I choose GPL-3.0+, what should I write in the description of the license? (Suppose I have the GPL-3.0+ already detailed): The GPL paragraph I cited does not

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 15 May 2011 14:48:07 Eric Lavarde wrote: Hello Monica, Hi, interesting that you're now working on bt747: I'm also using this program to download my GPS tracks and flag my photos, wanted as well to package it, and basically silently gave up as I looked into it :-P I'd actually

Re: RFS: nzbget (2nd try)

2011-05-15 Thread Andreas Moog
On 05/14/2011 12:38 PM, Andreas Moog wrote: GPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address) for all files and I don't know if this will be a problem preventing the package from inclusion in the archive. I for one don't care, though I've no idea about the ftp-master position. A few days ago

Re: RFS: bubblemon (updated package)

2011-05-15 Thread Adam Sjøgren
Hi Jakub On Sun, 15 May 2011 03:15:12 +0200, Jakub wrote: I won't sponsor your package, as I'm not a GNOME user, so I'm not really qualified (BTW, did you try to contact your previous sponsor?), (No, I haven't - it came about in a roundabout way; I had a contact with someone who doesn't

Re: RFS: retext

2011-05-15 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Sat, 14 May 2011 14:05:01 +0400 Dmitry Shachnev mity...@gmail.com wrote: override_dh_auto_clean: dh_auto_clean rm -rf debian/icons rm -f retext rm -f wpgen/wpgen Dmitry Shachnev You can use the debian/clean file. No need to add any overrides ;) --

Re: Library Question

2011-05-15 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Samstag, 14. Mai 2011 schrieb Rainer Dorsch: I declared victory too early. Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2011 schrieb Rainer Dorsch: rd@blackbox:/scratchbox/users/rd/home/rd/20110506/navit-0.2.0+dfsg.1$ grep freetype debian/rules DEB_MAKE_ENVVARS = LDFLAGS=-rpath=/opt/freetype-navit

Workflow with debian/ in VCS

2011-05-15 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Hello, I'm having trouble coming up with a decent workflow for creating packages. I am managing the debian/ directory in a mercurial repository, and at the moment my steps for releasing a new version are: 1. Download the new upstream source 2. Rename to .orig.tar.bz2, extract, rename created

RFS: mpd-sima (updated package)

2011-05-15 Thread Geoffroy Youri Berret
Dear mentors, First, I want to say I'm grateful to DD, DM and others for reviews they made. Thank you Michael Tautschnig for sponsoring mpd-sima. A new upstream version has been released, I am looking for reviews and a sponsor for the new version 0.8.0-1 of my package mpd-sima. It builds these

Re: RFS: retext

2011-05-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Andrew O. Shadoura bugzi...@tut.by, 2011-05-15, 17:54: override_dh_auto_clean: dh_auto_clean rm -rf debian/icons rm -f retext rm -f wpgen/wpgen Dmitry Shachnev You can use the debian/clean file. No need to add any overrides ;) However, you can't remove

Re: RFS: jampal

2011-05-15 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Peter, please reply with the debian-mentors list in CC (at least). This helps other people to keep track. You can, but you don't need to address me personally as I'm subscribed there as well. On 15.05.2011 16:56, Peter Bennett wrote: Since I am

Re: RFS: retext

2011-05-15 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Sun, 15 May 2011 17:19:22 +0200 Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: rm -rf debian/icons You can use the debian/clean file. No need to add any overrides ;) However, you can't remove directories via debian/clean, and I assume that debian/icons is a directory. You can remove

Re: Workflow with debian/ in VCS

2011-05-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:46:00AM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Am I missing a tool? Or is a bad idea to try to manage debian/ in a VCS? Or should my repo also include the upstream source rather than just the debian directory? I've never been a big fan of having just the debian/ directory under

Re: Workflow with debian/ in VCS

2011-05-15 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:46:00AM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: Am I missing a tool? svn users use svn-buildpackage to store only debian/ in VCS, so yes. -- WBR, wRAR signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Workflow with debian/ in VCS

2011-05-15 Thread Geoff
Hi Nikolaus, mentors, Le 15/05/2011 16:46, Nikolaus Rath a écrit : Hello, I'm having trouble coming up with a decent workflow for creating packages. I am managing the debian/ directory in a mercurial repository, […] I've recently discovered mercurial-buildpackage, I'm not using it though:

RFS: dylandotnet (updated package(rules and changelog and bug close)

2011-05-15 Thread Dylan Borg
From: Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: dylandotnet (updated package) Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 11.2.7.1-3 of my package dylandotnet. It builds these binary packages: dylandotnet - This is the dylan.NET

Re: Workflow with debian/ in VCS

2011-05-15 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Geoff mxondeb...@free.fr writes: Hi Nikolaus, mentors, Le 15/05/2011 16:46, Nikolaus Rath a écrit : Hello, I'm having trouble coming up with a decent workflow for creating packages. I am managing the debian/ directory in a mercurial repository, […] I've recently discovered

Shared library incompatibilty and versioned build-dependencies

2011-05-15 Thread Matt Kraai
Hi, I'm trying to create a new package of The Unarchiver. When I build it in unstable, it generates the following warning and the resulting executables hang when run: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libobjc.so.2, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../lib/libgnustep-base.so, may

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Mònica Ramírez Arceda
Hi again, El dg 15 de 05 de 2011 a les 15:49 +0300, en/na George Danchev va escriure: On Sunday 15 May 2011 14:48:07 Eric Lavarde wrote: Hello Monica, Hi, interesting that you're now working on bt747: I'm also using this program to download my GPS tracks and flag my photos, wanted as

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Mònica Ramírez Arceda mon...@probeta.net writes: Perfect! So, thinking in DEP5: If I choose GPL-3.0+, what should I write in the description of the license? (Suppose I have the GPL-3.0+ already detailed): I would record the license as GPL-1+. That's really what that declaration means

Re: RFS: jampal

2011-05-15 Thread Jakub Wilk
On 15.05.2011 16:56, Peter Bennett wrote: Since I am the upstream developer I can make any necessary changes upstream so I thought it would be easier to make a native package. Otherwise I have to start learning quilt and other things. Perhaps I am wring in my understanding. Please don't

RFS: manaplus

2011-05-15 Thread andrei karas
Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for my package manaplus. * Package name : manaplus Version : 1.1.5.15-1 Upstream Author : Andrei Karas * URL : http://manaplus.evolonline.org/ * License : GPL v2 Section : games It builds these binary packages: manaplus - Extended client for The Mana World

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 15 May 2011 21:01:44 Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote: Hi, To be honest, I had the same problem as you with Freeplane and JOrtho, and I decided to keep JOrtho as part of the freeplane package, under the binary name libjortho-freeplane-java. The reasons were: - JOrtho was not

Re: Workflow with debian/ in VCS

2011-05-15 Thread Ben Finney
Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org writes: I'm having trouble coming up with a decent workflow for creating packages. I am managing the debian/ directory in a mercurial repository, Contrary to other replies in this thread, I find that to be a cleaner setup: manage just ‘debian/’ in a VCS

Re: Shared library incompatibilty and versioned build-dependencies

2011-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Matt Kraai kr...@ftbfs.org wrote: I'm trying to create a new package of The Unarchiver. Thanks! How are you building it? I took a look and gave up when I saw it has no makefiles, only an Xcode project and the GNUStep pbxbuild (that translates Xcode stuff to

Re: RFS: manaplus

2011-05-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:22 AM, andrei karas aka...@inbox.ru wrote: Section : games You might want to join the Debian games team and help out with other games too: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Team Jump on our IRC channel and we will walk you through the process. We are also