[Pkg-opt-media-team] Are patches welcome?

[Rogério Brito]

Hi, Carsten.

Thank you very much for your comments and I hope that we have a very good 
cooperation.

(As an aside, I am particularly interested in Coding Theory, but still have 
quite a lot to learn).

On 12/09/2009 05:52 AM, Carsten Gnoerlich wrote:
>> We have some patches in our tree and it would be desireable to have as
>> little difference with you as possible. Some patches seem to be quite
>> trivial, while others are a little bit less.
> Agreed; I followed the same practice when Daniel was maintainer.

Thank you very much for your work.

I do want to get rid of most of the patches and have something as faithful to 
your code as possible (I would love if other people acting as downstream treated 
some of my projects this way).

 > By looking at the patches from 72.1-1, we have:

Just for the record, Takaki has set up a repository (which seems to have been 
initiated by Daniel) and we are using that for our code. You can browse it at 
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-opt-media/dvdisaster.git if you wish.

> 01-docdir: This seems to be an incompatibility between ./configure and
> the Debian build system. The patch is a fix for the symptoms, but not
> the cause, so it will likely only fix things for Debian. I would like
> to understand why ./configure --docdir=foo --docsubdir=bar does not work
> as expected, and apply fixes there. Any ideas?

I will investigate this.

> 02-encryption and 03-dvdrom are legally unclear in some
> countries including the one I am living in. I will not
> touch them.

No problems. I didn't know that the legality of them was under suspicion in 
other countries. Do you recommend that we consult debian-legal to see if we can 
continue to distribute the software?

(Gee, this is a quite unfortunate fact, as they are just some if's on the code 
and nothing else...) :-(

> 04-manpage has just been applied to the 0.73.1 tree (not yet published)

OK, great. I will try to get some time to translate some of the messages into 
Brazilian Portuguese (which should be close and understandable for Portuguese 
users of the program).

Do you adopt any conventions of using even/odd middle versions as 
stable/development versions?

> 05-help-dialog is required to document changes from patches 02/03.

Fair enough.

> Feel free to suggest more patches ;-)

Thank you very much for your feedback. I will try to get in touch in a frequent 
fashion.


Mit freundlich Grüße, :-)

Rogério Brito.

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