[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: octplot_0.3.0-1_i386.changes REJECTED

[Rafael Laboissiere]

I hope someone will take care of this soon, since I can only do serious
work on that in two weeks from now.

* Joerg Jaspert <ftpmaster at debian.org> [2005-12-27 15:22]:

> rejected, as your debian/copyright doesnt have all information it needs
> to have. At least NEWs has a different (C) notice attached, you are
> missing the additional (C) holders many files have, and that at least
> src/__contourc__.cc has a different license (LGPL).
> 
> The fonts have GPL, but a different (C) holder, and an added exception.

These are easy to fix.

> Additionally your source includes FTGL, a library which also has LGPL
> as its license, different authors, etc. And it already exists as a
> debian package in ftgl[-dev]. Please use the already packaged one if
> possible.

I would also prefer to build octplot using ftgl-dev.  However, the
changes needed in src/Makefile.am are non-trivial.  Instead of forking
the project, it would be better to help the upstream author to implement
a configure option for using either the native FTGL library or the one
shipped with the sources.
 
-- 
Rafael