I made a lot of changes to my packages (Thanks BTW for all the helpfull comments from everyone.
Can you please check them out now, and see if I did it right this time? deb http://digitalssg.net/debian/ stable main non-US deb-src http://digitalssg.net/debian/ stable main non-US On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:57:28AM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > Okay, the URL is working for me now. > > On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 16:53, Jess Mahan wrote: > > Hi, I would like to get a sponsor. I am new to sponsorship/manitaining > > although > > I am not new to Debian or Linux. Debian is my favorite Linux distribution > > and > > I am excited about contributing to it. > > > > Below are the packages I am requesting sponsorship for: > > > > msmtp (0.6.1 & 0.6.2 ) - An "SMTP plugin" for Mutt and probably other > > MUAs. > > - With your build-dependencies, the result is a binary linked against > OpenSSL. This is a violation of copyright to distribute, since the > OpenSSL license and GPL are not compatible. The source seems to have GNU > TLS support in it; you should make sure it uses that (via ./configure) > instead of OpenSSL. > Unfortunatly, I cannot get it to build with gnutls3 on woddy, so i created the package anyway, and made a non-US section on my repository. I did however get it to build and link under debian/testing with lingnutls7. > - "Remember to check back for new versions, apt-get update often!" (from > your README.Debian) doesn't make sense when someone is running stable. > In addition, Debian doesn't recommend apt-get as a general "end user" > tool. > I can see why that was a bad idea, so I nuked it. > - debian/rules has a lot of debhelper cruft, making it harder to read > and increasing the build time. Also, you should look into setting the > compatibility level to 4 instead of 3 (and possibly making the changes > to update Standards-Version while you're at it). > Think I got this right now, I everything from debian/ruls that I thought was not needed. > > -- > Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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