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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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)
* 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
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.)
>
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
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
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
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