Re: RFS: Dropbox

2011-02-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: > > Fix the legal problems and have Dropbox provide the sources for the > > binaries provided by Dropbox. > > Thanks; I didn't think of that. However, I still haven't received any reply > from upstream for my initial e-mail. If Dropbox replies to my e-mail

Re: RFS: Dropbox

2011-02-20 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: > > I admit that I have no idea whether this will work, and if it is safe to > > package Dropbox like this. However, since it seems that Dropbox is > unlikely > > to ever make it into the Debian ar

Re: RFS: Dropbox

2011-02-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: > I admit that I have no idea whether this will work, and if it is safe to > package Dropbox like this. However, since it seems that Dropbox is unlikely > to ever make it into the Debian archives if it still contained pre-compiled > libraries, this was the

Re: RFS: Dropbox

2011-02-19 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Ivan Borzenkov wrote: > 19 февраля 2011 13:24:36 вы писали: > > I've uploaded Dropbox again to Debian mentors; it includes several > > suggested fixes, and it's now one step closer to possibly being accepted > > into Debian. (This isn't my final upload though.) >

Re: RFS: Dropbox

2011-02-19 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Vincent Cheng , 2011-02-19, 02:24: Dropbox now depends on the following packages: python2.5, python-dbus, libbz2-1.0, libssl0.9.8, libdbus-1-3, libdbus-glib-1-2, libpng12-0, libpopt0, librsync1, libsqlite3-0, libssl0.9.8, libstdc++6, libwxbase2.8-dbg, python-wxgtk2.8, zlib1g, python-simplejso

Re: RFS: Dropbox

2011-02-19 Thread Frank Loeffler
Hi, On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 02:24:36AM -0800, Vincent Cheng wrote: > - fastpath.so: I have no idea what this library is, or what purpose it > serves. The binary contains the string "Fast ServerPath object for Dropbox", which indicates that this is some dropbox specific library. Frank (not a DD)

Re: RFS: Dropbox

2011-02-19 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 02:24:36AM -0800, Vincent Cheng wrote: Hi, > (I've chosen python2.5 over python2.6/3.1 because python2.5 includes all the > python-related libraries that Dropbox needs, whereas python2.6/3.1 only > includes some.) Not sure if it makes sense to go with python2.5 now, consi

RFS: Dropbox

2011-02-19 Thread Vincent Cheng
I've uploaded Dropbox again to Debian mentors; it includes several suggested fixes, and it's now one step closer to possibly being accepted into Debian. (This isn't my final upload though.) The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/d/drop

Re: RFS: dropbox

2011-02-18 Thread Mike O'Connor
Vincent Cheng writes: > Dear mentors, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dropbox". This package was > previously in Debian's repositories (its former maintainer was Ivan > Borzenkov ), but it was removed due to unresolved > issues with licensing. I have edited debian/copyright and fix

Re: RFS: dropbox

2011-02-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: > Thank you for pointing that out; I'll make sure that is fixed in my next > upload to Debian mentors. Would it be all right if I simply included rsync > as one of Dropbox's dependencies, instead of including rsync binaries > directly in the source tarball?

Re: RFS: dropbox

2011-02-17 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Vincent Cheng > wrote: > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dropbox". This package was > > previously in Debian's repositories (its former maintainer was Ivan > > Borzenkov ), but it was removed du

Re: RFS: dropbox

2011-02-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dropbox". This package was > previously in Debian's repositories (its former maintainer was Ivan > Borzenkov ), but it was removed due to unresolved issues > with licensing. I have edited debian/co

Re: RFS: dropbox

2011-02-17 Thread Vincent Cheng
Thank you for all the replies so far! On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dropbox". This package was > > previously in Debian's repositories (its former ma

Re: RFS: dropbox

2011-02-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Vincent Cheng writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dropbox". This package was > previously in Debian's repositories (its former maintainer was Ivan > Borzenkov ), but it was removed due to unresolved > issues with licensing. I have edited debian/copyright and fixed the > issue

Re: RFS: dropbox

2011-02-15 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dropbox". This package was > previously in Debian's repositories (its former maintainer was Ivan > Borzenkov ), but it was removed due to unresolved issues > with licensing. I have edited