[Pkg-mol-devel] TODO

[Aurélien GÉRÔME]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:44:15AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > > I prefer to rename the source package (not the binaries). Do you have
> > > any preference?
> > 
> > My preference goes for not touching anything in either the name of
> > the source package or the names of the binary packages. Let's rather
> > modify the version part before the hyphen Debian revision number.
> 
> I'm a bit afraid that this will not play well with the version
> comparison of apt and dpkg. Especially when changing the scheme in the
> future (eg. because we no longer have to rip apart the upstream
> tarball). Therefore I prefere to rename the source package. I think this
> will have the least side effects.

Okay, if you say so, you have more experience than me about this
anyway. :)

> > > > > - add tarballs of non-main parts to SVN
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe rather FTP?
> > > 
> > > I would rather put all things in the same location. What's the advantage
> > > of having them on FTP?
> > 
> > Well, if the source code contains non-free software, it is better to
> > have it out of the SVN. It is definitely removable in a FTP, but it
> > is not in a SVN, except if you destroy the SVN and rebuild it. From
> > experience, I had to do that when Piotr committed a non-free HFS
> > binary bootblock in the Debootloaders SVN repository.
> 
> I don't think there is any non-free software in MOL in the sense that it
> would be illegal to distribute it. So no problem there. To be relly GPL
> compliant we should probably also offer the source downloaded from the
> mol bkbits repository. 

Agreed. ;)

> Does alioth offer FTP space for projects? If yes we could use that or
> http://pkg-mol.alioth.debian.org/. I'd prefer the latter, because it is
> nowdays more common to offer downloads via HTTP and because HTTP does
> not cause problems with NAT like FTP.

Yes, Alioth offers FTP space, but also HTTP space. I agree too,
it is only a matter of personal preference.

Cheers,
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