Re: copyright files

1999-02-02 Thread John Hasler
I am working on a package that is GPLed, but the author pre-pends his own disclaimer just before the GPL. If I just copy the copyright file into the package's doc dir, lintian emits an error. (obviously). Should I prune the GPL from the copyright file and say that the software is

Re: copyright files

1999-02-02 Thread Shaleh
On 02-Feb-99 John Hasler wrote: I am working on a package that is GPLed, but the author pre-pends his own disclaimer just before the GPL. If I just copy the copyright file into the package's doc dir, lintian emits an error. (obviously). Should I prune the GPL from the copyright file and

the package source directory

1999-02-02 Thread A . J . Gray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- How pristine does a package's source directory have to be? Currently, the source comes from a 'zip' file, and I would like to make the following 'tidying up' jobs: - remove two 'zip' files, containing Dos and Windows binaries - move the

Re: the package source directory

1999-02-02 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:07:12AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How pristine does a package's source directory have to be? As pristine as is possible, IMHO. - remove two 'zip' files, containing Dos and Windows binaries This is OK. - move the documentation into a separate

Re: Including both `production' and `alpha' releases of a package

1999-02-02 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 1 February 1999, at 18 h 16, the keyboard of Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an alpha version of the long-awaited majordomo 2.x available in a CVS-tree, which I'd like to package if possible. On the pciutils package: ... As said, I'd like to include both the

Re: Including both `production' and `alpha' releases of a packag

1999-02-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 01:24:17PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: Several games ship the game as game.real and game as a shell script which sets up needed parameters. Perhaps you could have app.alpha and app.stable and either a) symlink or b) provide a script which calls one or the other based on