James --
Everyone's getting all worked up about the delay in breezy-backports. I've already asked mdz recently about it, but he hasn't replied within 23 seconds...
Do you have any word on how long it'll be?
On 11/9/05, Stephan Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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