Looking for a sponsor for multimc/0.5.1-1 -- A free, open source launcher for Minecraft

[James Cowgill]

Hi,

On 02/05/17 16:17, Zebulon McCorkle wrote:
> Dear Debian Games Team,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "multimc"
> 
>  * Package name    : multimc
>    Version         : 0.5.1-1
>    Upstream Author : Petr Mrázek <peterix at gmail.com>
>  * URL             : https://multimc.org/
>  * License         : Apache-2.0
>    Section         : games
> 
> It builds those binary packages:
> 
>   multimc    - A free, open source launcher for Minecraft
> 
> To access further information about this package, please visit the
> following URL:
> 
>   https://mentors.debian.net/package/multimc
> 
> Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this
> command:
> 
>   dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/multimc/multimc
> _0.5.1-1.dsc
> 
> More information about MultiMC can be obtained from https://multimc.org
> /.
> 
> Also, MultiMC isn't really made for this type of distribution, so I'd
> love critique on how my packaging job is.

I've only had a very brief look at this, but a few comments:

This probably depends on Minecraft being installed? If so, the package
should go into contrib instead of the main archive (change the section
to "contrib/games"). The main archive is only supposed to contain
packages which depend on free software.

Your debian/copyright says:
Files: *
License: Apache-2.0
[...]
Files: libraries/pack200/*
License: GPL-2

The Apache and GPL-2 (only) licenses are incompatible so if pack200 is
liked into the final executable, then the binaries are not legally
redistributable.

You also have chosen to license the packaging under the GPL-3. While
this is perfectly allowed, I recommend you license the packaging under
the same license as upstream (Apache 2). This makes it easier for other
people to reuse / submit upstream the patches you've applied.

Are you aware of the lintian tool? Please run "lintian -I" on the
.changes file you get after building the package and fix all the errors
and warnings it produces. mentors.debian.net does run lintian for you so
this page will contain a similar list of issues:
https://mentors.debian.net/package/multimc

Finally, if no one from the games team gets around to sponsoring your
package, filing a bug against the sponsorship-requests package is often
the way to go.

Thanks,
James

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