Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of net-print/foo2zjs-99999999 (earlier versions are fubar)

2011-06-03 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 6/2/11 6:04 PM, Gökdeniz Karadağ wrote: I use the foo2zjs package, and because other versions are broken, have moved to the live version. But I think expecting a stable version in the tree is not too much for a user. A tarball snapshot in a ~dev space would solve the issue I presume. We

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove annoying You should enable -g (or higher) for debugging! message

2011-06-03 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 5/7/11 5:04 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Dne 7.5.2011 16:20, PaweB Hajdan, Jr. napsal(a): This is mostly a nit-like RFC. The developer profile adds a profile.bashrc, which prints the You should enable -g (or higher) for debugging! message when -g is not in CFLAGS. I wonder if we can remove

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of net-print/foo2zjs-99999999 (earlier versions are fubar)

2011-06-03 Thread dev-random
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 08:40:26AM +0200, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: ... We can't have a tarball, most of the files from the package are non-redistributable. ... Then why do ebuilds contain line LICENSE=GPL-2?

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of net-print/foo2zjs-99999999 (earlier versions are fubar)

2011-06-03 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:17:44 +0200 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 6/2/11 7:00 PM, Dane Smith wrote: I'm going to guess you've already tried this, but just in case. Did you try asking him to version things more... sanely? I've had to do that a few times and people are

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of net-print/foo2zjs-99999999 (earlier versions are fubar)

2011-06-03 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Michał Górny schrieb: You could have a 'versioned' ebuild linked to the actual SRC_URI, and bump it whenever you notice the upstream tarball changes. This would allow users to have the package upgraded automatically. I don't think this will help users much. It will just make the package

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of net-print/foo2zjs-99999999 (earlier versions are fubar)

2011-06-03 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 06/03/11 16:09, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Michał Górny schrieb: You could have a 'versioned' ebuild linked to the actual SRC_URI, and bump it whenever you notice the upstream tarball changes. This would allow users to have the package upgraded automatically. I don't think

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of net-print/foo2zjs-99999999 (earlier versions are fubar)

2011-06-03 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Patrick Lauer schrieb: On 06/03/11 16:09, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Michał Górny schrieb: You could have a 'versioned' ebuild linked to the actual SRC_URI, and bump it whenever you notice the upstream tarball changes. This would allow users to have the package upgraded

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of net-print/foo2zjs-99999999 (earlier versions are fubar)

2011-06-03 Thread ross smith
The problem (already mentioned earlier in this thread) is that some parts are not redistributable. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn I've looked through the website and the tarbell and I've not seen anything that says it's not redistributable. In the readme, there is some

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of net-print/foo2zjs-99999999 (earlier versions are fubar)

2011-06-03 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 6/3/11 4:09 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Michał Górny schrieb: You could have a 'versioned' ebuild linked to the actual SRC_URI, and bump it whenever you notice the upstream tarball changes. This would allow users to have the package upgraded automatically. I don't think this

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of net-print/foo2zjs-99999999 (earlier versions are fubar)

2011-06-03 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Paweł Hajdan, Jr. schrieb: This thread is about removing those 'versioned' ebuilds, so your response could be interpret as don't remove them. But then they're broken, and if I bump them today a few weeks/months from now they'll be broken again. I'm all for removing the non-live ebuilds.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: removal of net-print/foo2zjs-99999999 (earlier versions are fubar)

2011-06-03 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
ross smith schrieb: I've looked through the website and the tarbell and I've not seen anything that says it's not redistributable. In the readme, there is some warning that things built with JBIG1 may fall under software that is already patentable, but that doesn't say the file can't be

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2011-06-03 Thread Markos Chandras
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