uploaded first pkg: pd-motex

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:11:33AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>On Aug 16, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>
>>On 16/08/10 19:03, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>>On Aug 16, 2010, at 6:22 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>>Also, there is no need to ship the GPL text in the package. It seems 
>>>>like no patch or file tries to read the license, so no need to ship 
>>>>it (we already have the copyright file).
>>>
>>>
>>>The LICENSE.txt file is part of the standard library format.
>>>
>>
>>Does anything break if we don't ship it?
>
>
>On all other platforms/distros it'll have that file there, and its 
>visible using the library browser, so it would be only on Debian that 
>you didn't see the license file.  I think that sounds like minor but 
>actual breakage.

Would that library browser tolerate a symlink?

I do the following with Sugar packages:

# Replace superfluous COPYING files with symlinks
binary-post-install/SOME-SUGAR-PKG:
	! test -f $(DEB_DESTDIR)/usr/share/sugar/activities/*.activity/COPYING \
	|| ! diff -q /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 $(DEB_DESTDIR)/usr/share/sugar/activities/*.activity/COPYING \
	|| ln -sfT ../../../common-licenses/GPL-2 $(DEB_DESTDIR)/usr/share/sugar/activities/*.activity/COPYING

Above, coupled with actually shipping full license in upstream tarball, 
should cause the file to be replaced with a symlink.


Hope that helps.

   - Jonas

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