Re: Introduction/looking for a sponsorship

2017-08-18 Thread Robert-André Mauchin
Le dimanche 06 août 2017 à 19:41:39 (-0400), Ben Rosser a écrit : > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:56 AM, Robert-André Mauchin > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My name is Robert-André and I'm looking to become a packager for Fedora. > [...] > > > > So if you like my work so far, please consider sponsoring m

Re: Introduction/looking for a sponsorship

2017-08-07 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 07:40 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 02:36:45AM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > Apparently, the way this is done in Debian [1] is that the program is > > > installed as /usr/bin/prename and provided as an alternative to the > > > util-li

Re: Introduction/looking for a sponsorship

2017-08-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 02:36:45AM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > Apparently, the way this is done in Debian [1] is that the program is > > installed as /usr/bin/prename and provided as an alternative to the > > util-linux version of /usr/bin/rename via the alternatives system. [...]

Re: Introduction/looking for a sponsorship

2017-08-06 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 10:24:21PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Matthew Miller > wrote: > > Does this package exist in other distros? Doing what they do is usually > > a good choice. Most ideally, you convince the upstream to switch to a > > compatible name. > > App

Re: Introduction/looking for a sponsorship

2017-08-06 Thread Bob Mauchin
Le 7 août 2017 04:04, "Matthew Miller" a écrit : Do the individual source files contain license information? Or is it otherwise documented? See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#License_Text for guidance on this. It is absolutely not documented anywhere, that's why I

Re: Introduction/looking for a sponsorship

2017-08-06 Thread Ben Rosser
On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 10:03 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > Does this package exist in other distros? Doing what they do is usually > a good choice. Most ideally, you convince the upstream to switch to a > compatible name. Apparently, the way this is done in Debian [1] is that the program is install

Re: Introduction/looking for a sponsorship

2017-08-06 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 03:54:42AM +0200, Bob Mauchin wrote: > I intend to package it for Fedora but I have no license file. I have > contacted the developer awhile ago and I'm still waiting for an answer. > It's based on a Larry Wall script under Perl license so there should not be > any issue. D

Re: Introduction/looking for a sponsorship

2017-08-06 Thread Bob Mauchin
I intend to package it for Fedora but I have no license file. I have contacted the developer awhile ago and I'm still waiting for an answer. It's based on a Larry Wall script under Perl license so there should not be any issue. Also I don't know if it's compatible with the guidelines but I renamed

Re: Introduction/looking for a sponsorship

2017-08-06 Thread Ben Rosser
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:56 AM, Robert-André Mauchin wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Robert-André and I'm looking to become a packager for Fedora. [...] > > So if you like my work so far, please consider sponsoring me for the > packaging team o/ > > Thank you. > > Robert-André > FAS username: ecl