[pkg-wine-party] Bug#812750: wine: Gecko integration is broken

Jens Reyer jre.winesim at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 21:12:56 UTC 2016


On 02/10/2016 08:23 PM, Austin English wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2016 9:13 PM, "Jens Reyer" <jre.winesim at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/09/2016 09:24 PM, Stephen Kitt wrote:
>>> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 21:06:29 +0100, Stephen Kitt <skitt at debian.org>
> wrote:
>>>> * updating the licensing information for each new wine-gecko release is
>>>>   extraordinarily time-consuming, on the order of 150-200h per release
> (and
>>>>   even then I miss issues) – TBH I've stalled on this, I'm thinking of
>>>
>>> Just to be clear, I haven't spent that amount of time on any release
> yet,
>>> that's just what 2.40 feels like (I'm about a quarter of the way
> through).
>>
>> When you've adapted the new approach, and still need help, I'd help
>> reviewing the licenses. I think that's a workload that can be
>> distributed to several people.
> 
> I take it this is a manual process? Could it be automated at all (in whole
> or in part)?

There are several tools in Debian to assist in this job, however no way
to blindly use them. I assume Stephen is already using the best (TM)
tool for that job. I don't have enough experience here to propose a best
practice.

Greets
jre



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