Re: Removal of illegal packages

2008-08-17 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 08:31:51AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for letting us know, Steve. Do you have links to any references > that confirm these claims? I think it's here: http://www.happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4725&highlight= Ciao, Kili -- Ubuntu-motu maili

Re: Patch systems in packages

2008-08-17 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday 17 August 2008 01:37, Nicolas Valcarcel wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 01:27 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > For Debian, many maintainers keep their packages in their favorite VCS > > and so > > it's less relevant as a policy issue. > > Yes, but for the debian maintainers it will be eas

A blog for the MOTU?

2008-08-17 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
Some time ago, dholbach and mok0 were talking on IRC, and came to the agreement that it would be useful to have a blog for the MOTU, like the server team has one. A blog would be orthogonal to the other means of communication that we use: - Mailing list - Wiki - IRC - Launchpad bugs Each o

Re: Doubts while creating a new package

2008-08-17 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
On 17/08/2008, at 13.06, Jose Luis Blanco wrote: > Firstly, sorry if this is not the mailing list for asking these > questions. I've been packaging a new set of libraries of programs for > Ubuntu and uploaded them to REVU: > http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?package=mrpt Normally, you'd want

Re: Removal of illegal packages

2008-08-17 Thread Adna rim
I checked viruskiller. First on its offical website (http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/virusKiller.php) you can find: "Source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Resources are Non Free. This game should not be added to Linux distributions or respositories." I compaired

Re: Removal of illegal packages

2008-08-17 Thread John Dong
Thanks for the clarification, Steve. I think for Ubuntu, this will be for an archive administrator to evaluate the impact of these claims and perform the archive removal operation. John On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Stephen Sweeney < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I am the developer of the

Re: Removal of illegal packages

2008-08-17 Thread Adna rim
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:54:24 +0100 "Stephen Sweeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The offending data is music, sound effects and graphics for all packages > (blobwars, blobAndConquer, viruskiller and starfighter). > > Thanks, > > Steve Music, Sound and graphics? So everything? Could you please

Re: Removal of illegal packages

2008-08-17 Thread jdong
Thanks for letting us know, Steve. Do you have links to any references that confirm these claims? Thanks, John On 8/16/08, Stephen Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The offending data is music, sound effects and graphics for all packages > (blobwars, blobAndConquer, viruskiller and starfighter)

Re: Removal of illegal packages

2008-08-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 07:02:15PM +0100, Stephen Sweeney wrote: > It has been brought to my attention by a Happy Penguin regular, leileilol, > that the packages contain resources that are non-free and, in some cases, > ripped from other games and still copyrighted. They should all be removed > im

Removal of illegal packages

2008-08-17 Thread Stephen Sweeney
Hi there, It is with much regret that I have to ask you to remove the following packages from your repositories, blobwars (Blob Wars : Metal Blob Solid) starfighter (Project: Starfighter) blobAndConquer (Blob Wars : Blob And Conquer) viruskiller (Virus Killer) It has been brought to my attention

WinFF and Lazarus

2008-08-17 Thread Paul Gevers
Hello masters, [Please also reply to my private mail address, I am off-list.] One month ago I wrote here [1] about a package that I am making for Debian and Ubuntu. The package is called winff, which is a GUI for ffmpeg, which in turn is a program to convert audio/video to other formats. It is wr

Re: Removal of illegal packages

2008-08-17 Thread Stephen Sweeney
The offending data is music, sound effects and graphics for all packages (blobwars, blobAndConquer, viruskiller and starfighter). Thanks, Steve 2008/8/16 Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 07:02:15PM +0100, Stephen Sweeney wrote: > > > It has been brought to my attention

Doubts while creating a new package

2008-08-17 Thread Jose Luis Blanco
Hi! Firstly, sorry if this is not the mailing list for asking these questions. I've been packaging a new set of libraries of programs for Ubuntu and uploaded them to REVU: http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?package=mrpt This is my first Debian package so I have tried to follow all the rules an