On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 16:47:55 (CET), Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to update the milkytracker package to the latest upstream > version (0.90.85). > > The orig tarball of the current version in Debian has been modified by > removing the directory "platforms/" which contains some compressed files > for various building environments and systems (xcoder fo Mac OS x, > devcpp and Visual Studio for Windows, ...) and the "+dfsg" string has been > added to the source tarball. > All of the files comes with no copyright/license, so I was wondering if > it makes sense to remove them and add +dfsg to the source tarball since > they don't infringe the DFSG (in addition the maintainance of the package > would be much simpler without this step). > What do you think? (you can check out the upstream tarballs here [0]).
The lack of copyright and license is the reason for the removal. > Also, the package is in the 1.0 format, do you think is it ok to switch to > 3.0 (quilt) and convert the diff.gz patch to quilt (as for Debian > Multimedia Team policy)? I think so. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers