On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Georges Khaznadar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Andres, I wish you a happy new year!
Hello Georges, Happy new year to you as well! > The release dated 29/12/2011 is currently located in the subdirectory > sources/old_versions/ Ah, I see. They must have just released that newer version. > the directory http://iut-tice.ujf-grenoble.fr/cao/ provides some files > which were uploaded more recently (20/01/2012). > > My guess is that I should use either > http://iut-tice.ujf-grenoble.fr/cao/kicad-2012-01-19-BZR3256-stable-UBUNTU_10.10_full_with_components_doc.tgz > or > http://iut-tice.ujf-grenoble.fr/cao/kicad_sources-2012-01-19-BZR3256-stable.zip > > Those archives are very different in size (201 MB, 13.4 MB) and their > size is different from the size of the archive wich was packaged for > wheezy last time (97 MB). > > Which archive should I consider? Have you some documentation summarizing > the changes, and specially the changes in the components set, and the > embedded documents? I rememeber that there have been a few license issues > in the past about sourceless documents. I think we should contact upstream about this in particular. I'm registered in the kicad-users mailing list. I'll try to send a message, but perhaps it should be you since you know exactly which parts are troublesome. I am afraid without the components, kicad will be severely hindered in usability. > ... hmmm. > > I browsed both archives in a viewer. > > - The biggest one comes with sourceless executable binaries, many > documents and resources. Only a few documents come with a clearly > declared license (for example French documents are correctly > licensed), and tracking the ownership and the licenses in components > appears as quite impossible. > > - the smaller archive unfolds into a directory KiCad-sources. This one > has a valid documentation about ownership and licensing. > > I think that I should split the packaging effort in two: make the > package for KiCad's programs now, and begin an ITP (Intention To > Package) for a second package, probably named kicad-common or > kicad-share, based on > kicad-2012-01-19-BZR3256-stable-UBUNTU_10.10_full_with_components_doc.tgz > > For the second package, I shall remove many stuff due to license > incertitude, and repack its source into a file > kicad-common_2012.01.19+dfsg1.orig.tar.gz, the suffix "dfsg1" standing > for "in application of the Debian Free Software Guidelines", which > preclude the distribution of sourceless or ill licensed materials. > > Do you agree with such a proposition? I agree with your proposition. The truth is I was not aware kicad was shipping all these sourceless and undocumented components. I guess they must have removed them from the kicad-sources package, and that's why it got substantially smaller in size. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
