requesting sponsorship for pd-ggee

[Felipe Sateler]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 18:03, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
> On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 15:01 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 14:16, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 16:11 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 14:23, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Nov 13, 2010, at 9:12 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 23:18, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>>>>>>>> <hans at at.or.at>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> pd-ggee is a short-form dh package that is a lightly modified
>>>>>>>>> version of
>>>>>>>>> the standard Makefile. pd-ggee in on git.debian.org/pkg-multimedia.
>>>>>>>>>  It
>>>>>>>>> is a library without depends that are new packages but a couple of
>>>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>>>> ITP'ed packages depend on it.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-multimedia/pd-ggee.git;a=summary
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm not quite comfortable with the license, and I am no legalese
>>>>>>>> person so I try to stick to standard-licensed software... Could you
>>>>>>>> please run this license through the debian-legal list to get some
>>>>>>>> input on it? My concern is specifically about the last paragraph.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yeah, the license is a bit weird, I don't know what its "officially"
>>>>>>> called, but it is the same text as the [incr Tcl] license, which is
>>>>>>> included
>>>>>>> in Debian:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/i/itcl3/itcl3_3.4~b1-2/itcl3.copyright
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The only difference is that the GOVERNMENT USE section is more
>>>>>>> verbose in
>>>>>>> the itcl license, but they reference the same regulation numbers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems to be the Tcl/Tk license:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/license.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Indeed. Please add the pristine-tar data to the repository, so I can
>>>>> generate the appropriate tarball.
>>>>
>>>> Oops, sorry, I forgot to push the tags and branches I suppose.  They
>>>> should be up there now.
>>>
>>> The changelog was not correctly dated. In order to avoid even more
>>> delays I updated it myself.
>>> Uploaded.
>>
>> Sorry for my continuing lameness on that timestamp.  Once I make updates
>> to these packages, it'll become part of the natural flow since dch is
>> the easiest way to update the changelog.
>>
>> Thanks for uploading, time to dig up a couple more! :-D
>>
>> .hc
>
> Hey Felipe,
>
> It seems that there was something wrong with the pd-ggee upload, its
> complaining about NMU stuff.  I'm guessing this is because the changelog has
> your name/email at the bottom:
>
> http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/pd-ggee_0.26-1.html#source-lintian
>
> W: pd-ggee source: changelog-should-mention-nmu
> W: pd-ggee source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number 0.26-1

Yes, I know. It is not important, though. Next upload should have your
name on it (or my name added to Uploaders, depending on how the thing
goes).

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler