Iceape progress

[Mike Hommey]

Thanks for the feedback,

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 01:49:43PM +0100, Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have not tested them as I running sarge, however I have got a couple
> of trivial suggestions.
> 
> - Drop the debian/NEWS. - The file will be displayed by
>   apt-listchanges before installation and should only be used to
>   convey urgent information to the user. The actual contents ("First
>   build try of iceape for Debian") are not necessary to read or even
>   useful.

Dammit, I thought I dropped it, thanks for noticing.

> - Stop shipping MPL in a separate file in /usr/share/doc/* and append
>   its contents to debian/copyright instead. Policy 12.5 is quite clear
>   on that the license must be *included* in debian/copyright.

The license is GPL/LGPL/MPL, and the copyright file is already huge.
Considering that, I think it is not a problem to ship one of the
licenses' text file separately. We already do the same for xulrunner and
firefox.

> - debian/copyright says:
> --------------------
> This package was debianized by HJ Heins <hjheins at gmail.com> on
> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:55:11 +0100.
> 
> It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/iceape/releases
> --------------------
> 
> It probably should say something like this instead:
> 
> Iceape is currently maintained by Mike Hommey based on the initial
> packaging by HJ Heins <hjheins at gmail.com>.
> 
> The source tarball was generated by removing the following items from
> seamonkey-<n.nn>.source.tar.gz which was downloaded from
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/
> [....]

I'll change that, thanks

Mike