Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries
2011-03-15 21:24 Austin English austinengl...@gmail.com: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 13:52, Jari Aalto jari.aa...@cante.net wrote: - does not depend on external programs outside of Debian. ...vast majority of its uses requires downloading things from outside of Debian, typically with a potentially non-DFSG license (Microsoft redistributable dlls being one of the most common). But that does not conern Debian. The winetricks itsef is LGPL and DSFG compliant. - has nothing to do with WINE package itself, so bundling it would not be good. Winetricks update schedule is different from WINE. Actually, we're looking at making the release schedule match Wine's (every other Friday), to make it easier to package. That said, it's not a huge deal at the moment, since Debian hasn't updated Wine in ages (still waiting on mingw64 to build wine-gecko, last I checked, but I'm not intimately familiar with the situation). If I understand correct, there are no obstacles left with proceeding with the packaging of winetricks? Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d3licmna@picasso.cante.net
Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries
On 2011-03-23, Jari Aalto jari.aa...@cante.net wrote: 2011-03-15 21:24 Austin English austinengl...@gmail.com: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 13:52, Jari Aalto jari.aa...@cante.net wrote: - does not depend on external programs outside of Debian. ...vast majority of its uses requires downloading things from outside of Debian, typically with a potentially non-DFSG license (Microsoft redistributable dlls being one of the most common). But that does not conern Debian. The winetricks itsef is LGPL and DSFG compliant. Ew, you certainly know what contrib is about, right? Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrniojeif.h5j.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de
Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:52:05 +0200 Message-ID: 87k4g0fc8a@picasso.cante.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain --text follows this line-- Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org I agree that starting with the current scripts is for starters. But we should do it in a way that is prepared for doing it right, and then starting with the easier parts of replacing the scripts with the right libraries. Obviously there are some very low hanging fruits within the winetricks-scripts (basically everything that is downloaded from an open source site). What is the status of this ITP opened 2010-10-03, 6 months ago? To my understanding winetricks: - is DFSG compliant. The current license is GPL. - does not depend on external programs outside of Debian. - is a single utility that helps quite a bit to install WINE related software much easier. - has nothing to do with WINE package itself, so bundling it would not be good. Winetricks update schedule is different from WINE. - There is no sense of making integration packages for WINE like those of Perl and Python, because WinE/Windows is too unstable platform to target at. Could we just package it as is for the benefit of the users? Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipvkfc86@picasso.cante.net
Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries
* Jari Aalto (jari.aa...@cante.net) [110315 19:57]: What is the status of this ITP opened 2010-10-03, 6 months ago? To my understanding winetricks: - does not depend on external programs outside of Debian. - is a single utility that helps quite a bit to install WINE related software much easier. downloaders are typically considered contrib. - has nothing to do with WINE package itself, so bundling it would not be good. Winetricks update schedule is different from WINE. Agreed. - There is no sense of making integration packages for WINE like those of Perl and Python, because WinE/Windows is too unstable platform to target at. I still think that building the packages winetricks downloads (and installing them by normal debian means) would be helpful. However, I agree with you that Could we just package it as is for the benefit of the users? that's still better than nothing. Splitting things off could be a second step. Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110315190734.gj2...@mails.so.argh.org
Re: Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 13:52, Jari Aalto jari.aa...@cante.net wrote: - is DFSG compliant. The current license is GPL. Nitpick, but winetricks is LGPL (same as Wine). - does not depend on external programs outside of Debian. Winetricks can do some things without external help (change the emulated windows version, change graphics settings, etc.), but the vast majority of its uses requires downloading things from outside of Debian, typically with a potentially non-DFSG license (Microsoft redistributable dlls being one of the most common). - has nothing to do with WINE package itself, so bundling it would not be good. Winetricks update schedule is different from WINE. Actually, we're looking at making the release schedule match Wine's (every other Friday), to make it easier to package. That said, it's not a huge deal at the moment, since Debian hasn't updated Wine in ages (still waiting on mingw64 to build wine-gecko, last I checked, but I'm not intimately familiar with the situation). -- -Austin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=ytf3yr4m+uau8+zrrdapu4njy0qwafj-ts...@mail.gmail.com
