please upload: pd-zexy 2.2.5

[Felipe Sateler]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 07:25, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
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> On 2011-11-21 03:26, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:49, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
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>>> right, makes sense.
>>> i adapted pd-zexy accordingly, pushed and now hope for an successfull
>>> upload.
>>
>> Looks like there is a strange thing with the install-sh section in
>> debian/copyright. The license name contains spaces, and doesn't match
>> any License: paragraph.
>> I'm not quite sure what is the dep5 way to deal with this. Most likely
>> the exception should be moved into the license paragraph and the
>> qualificators to the name (with X exception) removed.
>>
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> it seems that all those problems only come from the autotools generated
> stuff, which is something where i have the feeling that it should not
> create problems at all.
>
> i'm therefore wondering, what is the best way to deal with autotools
> generated files in general.
> so i asked at #debian-mentors (see end of this mail), with the
> conclusion (as i read it), that it might probably be best to leave out
> generated files from debian/copyright alltogether.
>
> would this be acceptable? for you? what do other think?

Due to lack of answers, the  irc log you copied and a quick google
found bug#435070, I think it is acceptable (at least it is current
practice) and will upload.
Given all the time it has taken to do this, I will just change it
myself and upload now.

> would it be a good idea to add a section about howto handle autotools
> generated files to the wiki?

This is of general interest. It should probably not be in the team's page.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler