Bug#693885: GFDL licence problem

[Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos]

Hello Ansgar,

Alexey Balakin, the upstream author of mathgl, has prepared a new incremental 
upstream version 1.11.3, after my relevant request (actually I requested that 
before asking Sebastien which might have not been technically appropriate). My 
request was based on the need for a change in some documentation license 
statements. Alexey conformed with this request in the new version. 

He also added minor changes and bug fixes. A few months ago Alexey had asked me 
whether it would be useful for Debian to have a new upstream version in the 
line of the 1.11 series, with minor changes that he had in mind to implement. 
Not having serious bugs for mathgl in testing at the time, i discouraged him 
from doing so. I encouraged him to concentrate on version 2.* which had also 
been shaped up and been worked on at the time.

I will quickly check the usability of version 1.11.3. I cannot check every 
aspect of it. If I find no serious drawbacks, I would like to have it in 
testing, such that the efforts of the upstream author for Debian are rewarded.

Is it technically impossible at this time of the release cycle to have version 
1.11.3 in testing? If the answer to the question is yes, then I will just 
change the debian/copyright file with a reference to a svn commit in the mathgl 
upstream repository. 

Best regards
Dimitris
Στις Πεμ 22 Νοε 2012 20:56:54 mathgl.abalakin at gmail.com γράψατε:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just upload v.1.11.3 with few minor changes (you can see it by diff):
> 
> 	- Changes in documentation license
> 	- Make DefColor() to be public function
> 	- Bugfix for using ids in mglData
> 	- More accurate ticks and grid-lines drawing
> 	- Bugfix for QuadPlot() memory access
> 	- Changes for novel zlib
> 	- Improve text drawing in OpenGL mode
> 	- Allow inverse (negative) ticks
> 	- Corrections in documentation
> 
> In fact there are only 3 more or less important changes -- change of
> documentation license, bugfix for mglData, and using interface for new
> version of zlib. I think this will be the last version in 1.* branch.
> 
> > Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos <eftaxi12 at otenet.gr> writes:
> >>> Should I make release 1.11.3 with new text (and with minor
> >>> changes)?
> >> 
> >> Definitely yes if you can. This has to be done in a short time from now
> >> so that we can manage to have the full 1.11.* source in the upcoming
> >> stable release. That way we will upload the whole source, including the
> >> documentation, and the packages will be included in the upcoming stable
> >> release. Otherwise we will make a new upload of 1.11.2 with a new
> >> source not including the documentation in it.
> > 
> > At this stage in the Wheezy freeze process, a new upstream release will
> > probably not be accepted. I think that having a public statement by the
> > upstream author that he has relicensed the manual is enough for us. I am
> > going to check that with Debian FTPmasters.
> > 
> > --
> > 
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