Please please, not again. Forward the request to elmo to open the breezy backports.
Actually I don't trust packages comeing from questionable sources. So the source packages are a must. Pitti could provide a package as well..but he is so keen and asks for a backport. Thx, \sh On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 13:58 -0500, John Dong wrote: > > > On 11/9/05, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/9/05, John Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's understood that the sources are identical to Dapper > origins. Linking to > > the upstream source location should definitely be valid > GPL-wise. > > He modified a gpl'ed program. So he has to provide the sources > to the > binary he builds. It is not sufficient to just point to the > 'upstream > source location' where the work is based on. > > I don't see any evidence that any upstream file, other than the > version field in debian/changelog, was modified during this backport. > > I'm generally not that picky. The point here is that I have no > possibilty to verify that there was really not anything else > touched > than debian/changelog. Using the source package, I could > debdiff it > against the ubuntu package and build it myself. Publishing a > binary > package gains me nothing. > > Right, I understand the concern. You don't gain anything from this, > but the rest of the backports users are getting really restless and > upset about the lack of an official breezy-backports branch. As a > result, some backports team members have been releasing their own > binary packages in the meantime. They're not trying to push their work > to archive.ubuntu.com -- that'll show up when the Breezy backports > infrastructure comes up. Right now, they're just providing users some > temporary appeasement while waiting for breezy-backports to appear. > > -- > regards, > Reinhard > > -- > ubuntu-backports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports > -- ubuntu-backports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
