Thank you for all the replies so far! On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dropbox". This package was > > previously in Debian's repositories (its former maintainer was Ivan > > Borzenkov <[email protected]>), but it was removed due to unresolved > issues > > with licensing. I have edited debian/copyright and fixed the issues > > mentionned in a few bug reports, to the best of my abilities, and am > willing > > to fix any further issues identified in the package. > > Dropbox also provides integration with nautilus. Have you considered > including this or packaging it separately? > > Cheers, > -- > Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer > > Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) > ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) > I plan on packaging Dropbox's nautilus plugin in a separate package, which I will work on once I've fixed any remaining issues with my packaging of Dropbox itself. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Vincent Cheng <[email protected]> writes: > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dropbox". This package was > > previously in Debian's repositories (its former maintainer was Ivan > > Borzenkov <[email protected]>), but it was removed due to unresolved > > issues with licensing. I have edited debian/copyright and fixed the > > issues mentionned in a few bug reports, to the best of my abilities, > > and am willing to fix any further issues identified in the package. > > > > These are the bug reports mentionned above: > > http://bugs.debian.org/610257 > > http://bugs.debian.org/610300 > > http://bugs.debian.org/610303 > [...] > > - dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/d/dropbox/dropbox_1.0.20-1.dsc > > The package still includes software licensed under the LGPL for which no > source is provided (at least amd64/librsync.so.1, amd64/_librsync.so, > i386/librsync.so.1, i386/_librsync.so according to debian/copyright). > > Regards, > Ansgar > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > Thank you for pointing that out; I'll make sure that is fixed in my next upload to Debian mentors. Would it be all right if I simply included rsync as one of Dropbox's dependencies, instead of including rsync binaries directly in the source tarball? i.e. would I still have to provide the source code that way? Kind regards, ~ Vincent Cheng <[email protected]>
