from:"Roger Ward"

Re: source code of a java app?

2003-04-21 Thread Roger Ward

Your email wasn't clear, sorry. I might have read it wrong. -Roger Quoting martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > also sprach Roger Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.04.22.0028 +0200]: > > The license does allow > redistribution, and I do have wri

Re: source code of a java app?

2003-04-21 Thread Roger Ward

Get MIT to release the software under a freely distributable sourcecode license. It does not have to be GPL, but any OSI type license should be sufficient. Source code, in my understanding, is required for everything in Debian (of course some applications *are* their own source code). While my i

Re: Replacing a package with a newer, renamed version of itself.

2003-04-20 Thread Roger Ward

Conflict against all versions before the transition package. This should work, right? Thanks, Roger Quoting "Leo \\Costela\\ Antunes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 15:22, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > the conflicts and replaces make a new install of the package over the old >

Re: Still no sponsor for PySol

2003-04-14 Thread Roger Ward

At the risk of CC'ing too many people: Quoting David Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Roger et al, > > > Again, I would reccomend using dpkg-buildpackage, even if you only > > intend to generate the source upload. If you name the source tarball > > (upstream source) _.orig.tar.gz and are in the

Re: Still no sponsor for PySol

2003-04-14 Thread Roger Ward

Quoting Alexander Nofftz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm packaging it, adopting the debianized version of Adam Klein. The > upstream > sources can be found at: http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/pysol/ > > > How are you generating the .diff.gz files? > > I generated them manually by using diff dir

Re: Still no sponsor for PySol

2003-04-14 Thread Roger Ward

SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Roger! > > Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 00:46 schrieb Roger Ward: > > Please don't think I am suggesting your build process should involve three > > source tarballs (i'm not the expert in Debian Ways To Do Things), but

Re: orphaned package (udhcp)

2003-04-08 Thread Roger Ward

To get started, just consider two things: 1) If something breaks, do you have a reasonable understanding of how to fix it in 2) Do you have the time to maintain for upgrades, bug fixes, etc The rest of the details are simple... even packaging issues. Debian's Policy Manual describes the Way

Unpackageable RFP

2003-04-07 Thread Roger Ward

ot;IF THIS SOFTWARE WAS DOWNLOADED FROM A LOCATION OTHER THAN THIS WEBSITE AND THROUGH THE STANDARD DOWNLOAD URL OR WAS DOWNLOADED USING A METHOD TO AVOID ACCEPTANCE OF THIS AGREEMENT NO RIGHTS SHALL BE GIVEN TO THE USER. -- -Roger Ward DD sometime will be

Re: Still no sponsor for PySol

2003-04-07 Thread Roger Ward

Why are you not uploading his source, with Debian patches in a .diff? Is your package IMPOSSIBLE to deliver this way? -Roger Quoting Alexander Nofftz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Folks! > > I've still not found a sponsor for my adopted PySol packages. There are still > > arriving new bug repor