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

Zebulon McCorkle zebmccorkle at gmail.com
Tue May 2 17:17:34 UTC 2017


Alright, this time let's​ actually send it to the mailing list.

Thanks for the feedback! MultiMC downloads the game itself, but contrib is
probably the place for it to be. Good idea on the license, I'll be sure to
change it.

Pack200 has the classpath exception, so if I were to patch MMC to
dynamically link it it should be fine, right?

On May 2, 2017 10:43:56 AM CDT, James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org> wrote:
>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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