Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2008-05-29 kello 20:53 -0400, Kevin Mark kirjoitti: > This talk of the licensing of DEPs is a bit of a confusion. I suspect you meant to write that sentence as "I am confused by copyright license requirements for DEPs, could someone please clarify?". I will answer accordingly. * DEPs are doc

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 29/05/08 at 17:47 -0700, Richard Hecker wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> On 26/05/08 at 09:55 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >>> I miss one thing in these guidelines: they sort of give you the idea you >>> can NMU someone's packages off as long as you go by the book, and that >>> you

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 30/05/08 at 09:15 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > When doing an NMU, you must always send a patch with the differences > > between the current package and your NMU to the BTS. If the bug you > > are fixing isn't reported yet, you must do that as well. > > > > {+After you upload an NMU

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-29 Thread Richard Hecker
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 26/05/08 at 09:55 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: .. I miss one thing in these guidelines: they sort of give you the idea you can NMU someone's packages off as long as you go by the book, and that you have the RIGHT to do it no matter what. I m

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:51:33PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > to, 2008-05-29 kello 12:46 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum kirjoitti: > > If you could recommend a default license, that would make future work > > (like a package containing all DEPs) easier... > > I'm not sure what would be the best practic

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 30 May 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > Are you sure that the BTS can not operate without the changelogs? The BTS needs the changelogs in order to know that the next version is a descendant of the NMU, instead of a descendant of the previous non-NMU, so you either need to include the NMU chan

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Lucas, hi all, Le Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:27:49PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > > When a package has been NMUed, the maintainer should acknowledge it in > the next upload. This makes clear that the changes were accepted in > the maintainer's packaging, and that they aren't lost agai

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 26/05/08 at 09:55 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2008, Bas Wijnen wrote: > >3. NMUs are often received with angry comments from maintainers. > > [...] > > > This Debian Enhancement Proposal has two goals: > > 3. We try to encourage a responsible approa

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 27/05/08 at 20:28 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > Quoting Charles: “In order to acknowledge the NMU, it would be necessary > > to revert the current work, apply the NMU patch, merge the reverted work > > and resolve the conflicts.” > > > > I think I wrote about the 3rd paragraph of 5.11.2, maybe I

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:51:33PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I'm not sure what would be the best practical license for DEPs, so I'm > hesitant to recommend one at this point. Perhaps one of the Creative > Commons ones? The current batch has some free ones, right? If we really want to provide

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2008-05-29 kello 12:46 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum kirjoitti: > If you could recommend a default license, that would make future work > (like a package containing all DEPs) easier... I'm not sure what would be the best practical license for DEPs, so I'm hesitant to recommend one at this point. Perha

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 29/05/08 at 12:36 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:12:51PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > The DEP must have a license that is DFSG free. > > > > I've just pushed that to http://bzr.debian.org/dep/dep0/trunk/ (I didn't > > think that needs any discussion; i

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:12:51PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > The DEP must have a license that is DFSG free. > > I've just pushed that to http://bzr.debian.org/dep/dep0/trunk/ (I didn't > think that needs any discussion; if I was wrong, it's easy enough to > revert). > > I'm not sure

DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2008-05-29 kello 13:09 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum kirjoitti: > Zack, Dato, Lars, could you do something about that? Yeah. License --- The DEP must have a license that is DFSG free. I've just pushed that to http://bzr.debian.org/dep/dep0/trunk/ (I didn't think

Re: DEP1: Clarifying policies and workflows for Non Maintainer Uploads (NMUs)

2008-05-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/05/08 at 09:12 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > This is the second call for comments (long overdue) on DEP1. > > Hi! Please specify the license for the DEP1 text. Is it DFSG free? > > I suggested earlier [1] that DEP0 should say tha

Re: DEP1: who should be allowed to do QA uploads ?

2008-05-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 25/05/08 at 15:35 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Ralf Treinen wrote: > > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:50:45AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > > >> * QA upload. > >> > >> If you want to do an NMU, and it seems that the maintainer is not > >> active, it is wise to check if the package is orphaned. When do