Re: Patch systems in packages

2008-08-17 Thread Jordan Mantha
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Nicolas Valcarcel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Currently there is no policy about how to make changes in the packages, there are some good practices and a lot of developers try to use patch systems whenever they can and don't touch the source code

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

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 by a

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

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

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

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 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 give us

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
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: 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 to

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

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 easy to

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=4725highlight= Ciao, Kili -- Ubuntu-motu mailing