[Tahoe-debian] debian/copyright
bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org
bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org
Thu Jun 16 15:58:33 UTC 2011
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:29:29AM -0400, micah anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:59:13 +0200, bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 05:53:14PM -0400, micah wrote:
> >
> > Actually, the Debian package patches setup.py so that it doesn't use the
> > setuptools egg or darcsver egg shipped in the tahoe sources. I think this
> > trick was already used in the ubuntu package.
>
> Oh, I didn't look at the patches to see that. That is good!
>
> However, that means that the eggs are still being shipped in the
> orig.targ.gz, so they are technically being distributed, and the
> licenses need to be sorted out... or the upstream tarball needs to be
> repacked to not include them, which is probably the best idea.
Yeah, we should maybe consider that path rather.
> > I'm not sure the tahoe package will be rejected though, as for exmaple the
> > python-zfec package ships the same .eggs and has been accepted. Same for
> > the python-pycryptopp package. But we'll see...
>
> Yeah, the FTP master I talked to said it would get rejected due to the
> debian/copyright stuff, he also asked me about the eggs, but I'm not
> sure if that is grounds for reject or not.
Hmm ok, so seems we'll have to upload again... Would the change you made
be enough to get a new upload accepted, or shall we start to repack the
upstream tarball?
bert
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