Re: Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:02:44AM +, Tristan Greaves wrote: I'm taking a look at packaging the game Cluedome: http://www.cluedome.com/ I'm wondering if there are any copyright concerns. The game advertises itself as a clone, and the source ships with an example game rules rule

Re: Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-26 Thread Tristan Greaves
Matthew Palmer wrote: [clue data files with copyrighted info] One option would be to NOT include those two data files in the package, but then it would not be a particularly user friendly installation. Producing unencumbered data files would seem to be the best option. In terms of a

Re: Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 08:40:50AM +, Tristan Greaves wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: [clue data files with copyrighted info] One option would be to NOT include those two data files in the package, but then it would not be a particularly user friendly installation. Producing unencumbered

override a package dependency (without rebuilding package)

2009-03-26 Thread Jérémy Lal
Hi, is there a way to change a package dependency without rebuilding it ? For example, gimp2.6 depends on libwebkit-1.0.1, and i want latest libwebkit-1.0.2 installed. I don't really care to break that dependency since gimp will work without libwebkit (although some stuff will be broken, but i

Re: Packaging cluedome - copyright problems?

2009-03-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 26 March 2009 03:40:50 Tristan Greaves wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: One option would be to NOT include those two data files in the package, but then it would not be a particularly user friendly installation. Producing unencumbered data files would seem to be the best option. In

Re: RFS: mecab-naist-jdic

2009-03-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
At Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:28:30 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:48:47 +0900 Junichi Uekawa dan...@netfort.gr.jp wrote: It's less easy to maintain patches. How do I patch a file inside that tarball? Okay, it's not easy to maintain patches. Yes. But upstream

RFS: mpview

2009-03-26 Thread Adam Ziaja
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package mpview. Package name: mpview Version : 0.4.1-1 Upstream Author : Martin Petricek mar...@petricek.net URL : http://mpview.sourceforge.net License : GPL Section : graphics It builds these

RFS: png-sixlegs

2009-03-26 Thread dominik . smatana
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package png-sixlegs. * Package name: png-sixlegs Version : 1.3.0-1 Upstream Author : Chris Nokleberg herbyde...@users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://www.sixlegs.com/software/png/ * License : LGPL-2+ Section

Re: RFS: mpview

2009-03-26 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:21:29 +0100 Adam Ziaja a...@ziaja.name napsal(a): I am looking for a sponsor for my package mpview. Package name: mpview Version : 0.4.1-1 Upstream Author : Martin Petricek mar...@petricek.net URL : http://mpview.sourceforge.net

distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Hi all, I've recently encountered an issue while packaging remuco (Bug #416379). Remuco is a duplex remote control application (mobile phones = media players). The mobile phone portion is written in Java, whereas the portion that runs on the media player computer is written in Python. For the

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 26 mars 09 à 17:29, Chow Loong Jin a écrit : [...] The problem begins here: The Java portion has a build-dependency on Sun Microsystem's WTK[1], and it is not free[2]. However, this is just a build dependency, and not a runtime dependency. In fact, the .jar isn't even supposed to run

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:15 +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Hi, you could provide the .jar in non-free, and the DFSG free part which actually runs on the host could Suggest this non-free package. You need to provide a mean to upload it to the cellphone from the Debian box. Then of

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 01785aaa-09b5-4cff-826b-78f31bd27...@free.fr, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Distributing non-DFSG-free software in main, even if it [...] can be considered data... All software can be considered data. That's the beauty of the Turing machine abstraction and the von realization. -- Boyd Stephen

RFS: clewn

2009-03-26 Thread Remy Dautriche
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package clewn. * Package name: clewn Version : 1.14-1 Upstream Author : Xavier de Gaye xdeg...@users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://clewn.sourceforge.net * License : GPLv2 Section : devel It builds

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Frank Loeffler
Hi, On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:29:06AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: The problem begins here: The Java portion has a build-dependency on Sun Microsystem's WTK[1], and it is not free[2]. Just to make sure, what exactly is not free? a) the Java portion (and the Sun Microsystem's WTK) b) only the

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Chow Loong Jin hyper...@gmail.com writes: Regarding the DFSG-compliance of this .jar, I've looked through the DFSG, and don't see where this could be a problem. DFSG mainly prohibits distribution of binaries without sources. This is a binary with the source, but cannot be compiled due to a

RFS: checkstyle (updated package)

2009-03-26 Thread dominik . smatana
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.4+dfsg-2 of package checkstyle. It builds these binary packages: checkstyle - checks Java source against a coding standard The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 512149 The package can be found

RFS: wbar (2nd try)

2009-03-26 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package wbar. * Package name: wbar Version : 1.3.3+dfsg1-1 Upstream Author : Rodolfo Granata warlock...@gmail.com * URL : http://code.google.com/p/wbar/ * License : GPL Section : x11 It builds these

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 10:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: That would mean it should go into contrib, which is for DFSG-free things that can't be built or used without non-free bits. I'm actually considering using a postinst script to tell the user that there is a .jar that they need to download

RFS: stardata-common (updated package)

2009-03-26 Thread Francisco M.
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6 of my package stardata-common. It builds these binary packages: stardata-common - Common framework to manage astronomy packages This package allows the installation and removal of astronomy catalogues, converting those

Re: override a package dependency (without rebuilding package)

2009-03-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jérémy, On Donnerstag, 26. März 2009, Jérémy Lal wrote: is there a way to change a package dependency without rebuilding it ? apt-cache show equivs regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Chow Loong Jin hyper...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 10:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: That would mean it should go into contrib, which is for DFSG-free things that can't be built or used without non-free bits. I'm actually considering using a postinst script to tell the user that

Re: distributing precompiled binaries

2009-03-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:37:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I'd personally tend to say that, doing the above and assuming my characterization is correct, it would be okay to put that in main. Another precedent (and quite similar, since it's also an application for a mobile phone, just symbian