Hi to All, I am new to the list, so few words about me... I am just one in the army of Debian developers and maintainers, I also look at human brains on a daily basis, and I have 2 kids and a wife ;) and as you could guess -- I am developing in Python and live in emacs.
I decided to take over python-mode package in Debian, which was previously maintained by Matthias Klose. Since the open bug-count and outdatedness of the package in Debian grew to the level of my personal threshold, I decided to sacrifice some time and reincarnate the package with your fresh release. I hope you would not mind few questions I have, and if you are interested in the refreshed Debian package -- read on below Questions --------- I see that people are actively engaged in the discussion of the future of python.el and python-mode.el, but I hope someone would be able to clarify just few questions to me which I've not got cleared-out 1. what entity or a person is currently a copyright holder for python-mode? python-mode.el lists: ,-- | ;; Copyright (C) 1992,1993,1994 Tim Peters | | ;; Author: 2003-2009 https://launchpad.net/python-mode | ;; 1995-2002 Barry A. Warsaw | ;; 1992-1994 Tim Peters `--- so, there is no copyright statements since 1994... I see that multiple people contributed: $> git shortlog -n -s python-mode.el 247 bwarsaw 32 montanaro 9 Barry Warsaw 9 klm so there are at least 3 persons (after Tim) who contributed, are they all copyright holders, or it was transfered to Barry? I know that you are discussing about transferring copyright to FSF, but I wonder what is the current list of the copyright holders in the main trunk? 2. I guess respective authors are copyright holders of pycomplete* and doctest* files (and license is BSD), right? Debian packaging ---------------- If you are interested in the packaging I've done: I have prepared first tentative version of the package, which based on * previous packaging done by Matthias * current release which is present in your bzr trunk branch. Unfortunately I have no clue in bzr, and I am a git user, hence I cloned your bzr repository using git-bzr, and hope that it will work in the future for incremental updates ;-) You can see my repository of the tentative package at http://git.onerussian.com/?p=deb/python-mode.git;a=summary (or if you like to clone it, use git clone http://git.onerussian.com/vcs/deb/python-mode.git) 'master' branch (as well as bzr/upstream) should correspond to your development branch, branch 'upstream' is just a 'filtered' version of master, which I based actually on the tarballs which were present in debian versions of the package. So it is what you have in trunk but without website (I guess there is no reason to distribute it atm for Debian users. And branch debian is actual debian packaging on top of 'upstream' branch. Tentative package is available from http://itanix.rutgers.edu/rumba/dists/sid/perspect/binary-all/python/python-mode_5.1.0-1~pre1_all.deb As soon as 'copyright' is clarified I will upload package into Debian sid (unstable), which should close at least 7 bug reports opened in bugs.debian.org. any comments and wishes are welcome -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] _______________________________________________ Python-mode mailing list Python-mode@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode
