GPLv3 source code with license check for some build configuration, DFSG ok?

2018-02-14 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Hi there, TL;DR: ok to distribute GPLv3 code with license key check for an existing build configuration that does not have that license check? ultracopier's source code has a license check when built in ultimate mode. However the source code is readily available, licensed under GPLv3 and I

Bug#698317: RFS: kmess/2.0.6.1-3 (update, fixes an RC bug)

2013-01-17 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le jeudi 17 janvier 2013 00:04:08, José Manuel Santamaría Lema a écrit : Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, Hi José, recently an user reported a bug against kmess which in my opinion is serious because makes kmess unusuable to have a conversation of more than

Bug#672700: RFS: openbox-menu/0.3.6.7-1 [ITP #671862] -- Openbox pipe-menu to display menu entries from *.desktop files

2012-09-13 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Note to potential sponsor: There is no need to review this package right now. Indeed, I already sent Mélodie an email with a list of things to improve for this package. I took the responsability to mentor and sponsor Mélodie so there is no need for help now. However, when everything is fixed,

Re: package errors requiring human judgment to detect?

2011-11-02 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
. I think there is a tool for it. * Does the watch file work (if any) This requires network access but can be tested automatically, isn't it? Indeed, since the PTS can report such failure. Thomas Preud'homme signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Fwd: dpkg-source: error: expected [ +-] at start of line

2011-10-07 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 7 octobre 2011 22:41:05, Rodolfo kix Garcia a écrit : Hi, I have a problem with dpkg-buildpackage. I have three patches in the debian folder. All apply fine using quilt, but using dpkg-buildpackage I get an error: dpkg-source: info: using options from

Re: Fwd: dpkg-source: error: expected [ +-] at start of line

2011-10-07 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le samedi 8 octobre 2011 00:43:07, Rodolfo kix Garcia a écrit : On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 00:05:42 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le vendredi 7 octobre 2011 22:41:05, Rodolfo kix Garcia a écrit : Hi, I have a problem with dpkg-buildpackage. I have three patches in the debian folder. All

Re: request for pkg review (ITP #538067)

2011-08-16 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 16 août 2011 13:31:34, Hamish a écrit : Hi, it is been a while since our last review of the OpenCPN packaging, and the stable release we were working towards has now shipped. Our .deb packaging efforts await further instructions. source tarball:

Re: RFS: presage

2011-08-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
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Re: RFS: presage

2011-08-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le samedi 6 août 2011 16:51:20, Jakub Wilk a écrit : * Thomas Preud'homme robo...@celest.fr, 2011-08-06, 16:42: BTW, is there a tool I can use to check that debian/copyright is in good shape? None that I know of. Sorry. config-edit -ui none -application dpkg-copyright from the libconfig

Re: RFS: gecrit (2nd try)

2011-07-21 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
-copyright -ui none seems happy with it * Package don't FTBFS. Best regards, Thomas Preud'homme Kind regards Vincent Cheng signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Incorporating patches best practice

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 11 juillet 2011 06:52:58, Ben Finney a écrit : Gary Briggs chu...@icculus.org writes: [SNIP] 1) Obviously not appropriate in the general case, but I could do a major new release, since I've added a couple of big features since the last deiban package. A new release of the same

Re: RFS: xnoise (2nd try)

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
package, something like xnoise-plugins. It would move some of the Depends out of the main package, so that users are not forced to install them all if not needed. You may then Suggests or Recommends it from the main package. [SNIP] Best regards. Thomas Preud'homme signature.asc

Re: how to get people to run lintian on their packages

2011-07-08 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 11:13:53, Arno Töll a écrit : Hi Karl, On 08.07.2011 05:49, Karl Goetz wrote: - The -I and --pedantic options should always be used. Why is that? the manual entry for --pedantic says Pedantic tags are Lintian at its most pickiest and

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 12:55:52, Jakub Wilk a écrit : [SNIP] Don't get me wrong, in my opinion (some of) these things are good. But making a big fuss about them is not helping anybody. It only distracts attention from things that are important, and creates false impression that they

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mercredi 6 juillet 2011 14:38:36, Wolodja Wentland a écrit : Hi all, Hi Wolodja, First, thanks for posting your git workflow. It is for me very interesting to see different ways of dealing with upstream also using git. [SNIP] I know that I could just download the tarball from github and

Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
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Re: Git and tarballs

2011-07-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mercredi 6 juillet 2011 20:31:02, Joey Hess a écrit : Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:12:41PM +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Does pristine-tar work if the upstream branch contains files which have been removed during repack? Unfortunately the directory

Re: RFS: xul-ext-zotero

2011-07-04 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 4 juillet 2011 10:12:49, Charles Plessy a écrit : Le Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 09:16:20AM +0200, Kilian Krause a écrit : CDBS is no longer preferred. Hi Kilian, Hi Charles I think that it is quite a bold statement. At least, there is not formal archive-wide of deprecation of CDBS.

Re: RFS: peak-linux-driver

2011-07-01 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Hi Markus, I'm not a DD but I took a look at your package. I'm not very familiar with source for kernel module but my assumptions were that the .in files are for the binary package which will be created from the source included in your package. and here are my remarks: * Switch to source

Re: RFS: webhoneypot (4th and last try)

2011-06-29 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
there was some changes outside the debian/ directory. Note that I didn't look at your source package so this is pure speculation. Hope this helps, Matteo Best regards, Thomas Preud'homme -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Version number adjustment needed?

2011-06-23 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le jeudi 23 juin 2011 10:03:15, Stefan Denker a écrit : Hello there, I got the following situation: Upstream of a software package releases only a .zip-File containing only both source and binaries. So, I need to build my own orig.tar.gz . Now, if i build my orig-Tarball and exclude the

Re: Version number adjustment needed?

2011-06-23 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le jeudi 23 juin 2011 11:44:17, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl a écrit : Hi! * Thomas Preud'homme robo...@celest.fr [110623 11:37]: Now, if i build my orig-Tarball and exclude the binaries, do I have to append something to the version string to mark that I modified the source tarball

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-09 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le vendredi 10 juin 2011 00:38:12, David Bremner a écrit : On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:40:54 -0700, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: On Debian, you should always install into lib and never use lib64. (Eventually, you may want to use the multiarch directory, but it will still not be lib64.)