Mailing List, Copyrights, Debconf

[Emmanuel Kasper]

Am 2011-05-05 17:39, schrieb Jordi Mallach:
> Hi Manu! WB!
> 
> On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 10:52:12AM +0200, Emmanuel Kasper wrote:
>> As we all agreed to scrap out our google group, I propose that everyone
>> of us subscribes to the debian-devel-games mailing lists, which is
>> relatively low traffic ( between 5 and 10 mails a day )
> 
> While I don't have a big problem with subscribing there, I'm currently not
> too interested in the rest of pkg-games discussion because I lack the
> time, and chances are I would end up missing MAME messages due to the
> signal/noise ratio. I suggest we all subscribe to the PTS
> (http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mame.html) and just use
> mame at packages.debian.org for our private communication. How does this
> sound? This way, I wouldn't even filter this email, it'd go to my inbox
> and I would not miss it. I get way too much email, unfortunately. :(
> I just subscribed myself.
> 
>> If no one speaks against it, I will close the google group in one month.
> 
> Yay!

mame at packages.debian.org is great ! I did not even know such as thing
existed. Let us use that !

> 
>> I am planning to go to DebConf in Banja Luka, in Bosnia this year, is
>> anyone of you going there as well ?
> 
> If nothing goes too wrong, I should be there too. But still not 100%
> decided.
> 
cool

>> Finally I sorted out the copyrights for mame 0.142, which includes 199
>> new files in contrast to mame.0.141. And I had the pleasure to find out
>> that mame contains some Debian originated code in its md5sum handling :)
> 
> Excellent! Do you think we're ready for an upload? If yes, is there a
> reason you just updated to 0.142 and not 0.142u2?

with the kfreebsd patch from Felix, I think we can go for an upload of 0.142

I did not update to 0.142u because the interim releases are oriented for
the developpers AFAIK, and I have seen there have been sometime broken
related to gcc compilations error.

Besides that as Mame has a short release cycle ( and stable ) of three
months, we don't lose that much by waiting for the next release.

BTW I noticed that gnome-video-arcade has an unneeded dependecy to
xmame, as it has been removed from the archive ( and the package was
called xmame-x anyway ) Would like a report in the BTS for that or are
you happy with that mail ?

Manu