New xvidcore package at mentors.debian.net

Fabian Greffrath greffrath at leat.rub.de
Thu Jun 25 14:49:21 UTC 2009


Loïc Martin schrieb:
> As long as I won't have to touch the packaging again, it's fine :D
> I don't use CDBS, am not confident enough to use it, and won't learn it 
> in the near future.

I like it, because for most packages -- especially those using 
autotools and even more especially those as simple as xvidcore -- it 
just works [tm]. ;)

> I deliberately left it "as is" to show the review was thorough and 
> prevent any generalisations that xvidcore package has license issues? 
> Another reason was that some files were missing copyright/license 
> headers, and upstream only added them recently. I was going to move it 
> to a saner format once the package entered pkg-multimedia, there's no 
> difference whether you or I do it.

Great!

> While the README itself can be omitted in binary-only distributions, 
> shouldn't there at least be a mention of (2) in debian/copyright? I can 
> understand that since the README is in the src/ when Debian ships the 
> source package, it might be considered sufficient, but for binary 
> distribution (even if pkg-multimedia doesn't ship any binaries) a 
> mention in debian/copyright might be nice.

Yes, maybe this should really be added to the copyright entry. Maybe I 
set the License to "GPL-2+ | other | other2" and add the additional 
license information from within the file to "other" and the relevant 
parts of the README file to "other2"...

How about the other changes? Is it OK for you if we check in my 
packaging into the pkg-multimedia GIT?

Best regards,
Fabian


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