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On Monday 16 of February 2009 08:48:31 you wrote:
> Hi, I would like to try and create a package for fatrat for
> Ubuntu/Debian. Unfortunately I've stumped on two problems:
> 1) The bugzilla is not working:
> http://fatrat.dolezel.info/bugs/
> Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /bugs/ on this server.
> Apache Server at fatrat.dolezel.info Port 80

Hi,

I am well aware of this. There was a security problem in Mantis so severe I
simply cannot trust this piece of software anymore. I am quite busy nowadays,
so I haven't switched to anything better yet.

> 2) Your links should be more uwatch-friendlier. uwatch is a debian
> application that helps track down new upstream releases.
> Example:
> http://www.dolezel.info/download/download.php?project=fatrat&version=1.1
> ...should be something like one of these:
> a) http://www.dolezel.info/download/download.php?file=fatrat-1.1.tar.gz
> b) a folder with a direct link.
> c) even you could upload/host it on sourceforge, google code or berlios.

I'll put this into my TODO list. In the meanwhile take a look at
http://www.dolezel.info/download/data/

> 3) There is no COPYING file in the main source directory.
> For packagers, to be able to package it properly, the upstream author
> should include a COPYING in the root dir of the source. There's a
> GPL-2 license in the subdirectory data/, unfortunately that will not
> permit us to distribute the other directories.

Umm. There is already a guy working on Debian packages for FatRat.
Cristian Greco <[email protected]>
I am quite surprised he didn't notice this, as he scrutinized the sources
heavily.

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