Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 16 September 2007 01:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other license like LGPL or BSD. The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this license and it may require justifying later on if they decide to get picky. I've

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Yann, It's one of the packages suggested by the php-image-graph package which is already in Debian. Graphes can optionally have their axes graduated using roman numbers by using the Image_Graph_DataPreprocessor_RomanNumerals preprocessor. But in fact, I packaged it because it's a

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Yann Rouillard
Le dimanche 16 septembre 2007 à 16:30 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit Because re-doing the packaging of this is not that difficult, I'd suggest to just leave the package for now. If someone actually wants to use the functionality they can make the upload, especially because of the highly

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 06:19:20PM +0200, Yann Rouillard wrote: After Raphael's advice, I searched a bit and according to: http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html A pear package with php license would be rejected. There are already some pear packages with php licence in Debian

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Yann Rouillard
Le dimanche 16 septembre 2007 à 16:26 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit : On Sunday 16 September 2007 01:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other license like LGPL or BSD. The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this license

RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Yann Rouillard
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package php-numbers-roman. * Package name: php-numbers-roman Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : David Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED], Klaus Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Numbers_Roman *

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Yann, On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:22, Yann Rouillard wrote: It builds these binary packages: php-numbers-roman - Provides methods for converting to and from Roman Numerals Are there actual use cases for this package? From the discription it seems to be a bit of a toy, if you know

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Yann Rouillard
Hi Thijs, It's one of the packages suggested by the php-image-graph package which is already in Debian. Graphes can optionally have their axes graduated using roman numbers by using the Image_Graph_DataPreprocessor_RomanNumerals preprocessor. But in fact, I packaged it because it's a dependancy

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 15/09/2007, Yann Rouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package php-numbers-roman. * Package name: php-numbers-roman Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : David Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED], Klaus Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 15/09/2007, Yann Rouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, if php-numbers-roman is in main, php-image-graph should rather recommend php-number-roman, shouldn' it ? You should take a look at section 7.2[1] of the Debian Policy and 'reconsider' that statement. [1]

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Yann Rouillard
I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other license like LGPL or BSD. The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this license and it may require justifying later on if they decide to get picky. Thanks for your advice. Indeed it seems this licence is not