Michael Schultheiss, 2011-08-10 10:01 UTC-0400: > The thread at > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27792791 has the > current status of Gallery3 and Debian.
Thank you. This explains the unfortunate delay. For your information I had to deal with the exact same problem (license information for third-party libraries and Flash applets) for my package dokuwiki, although it was already in Debian. For the license information I had to track these third-party libraries to get their original licenses, and to find their authors to have them re-license them when it was not clear. For the Flash applets, this appears to be a common problem with no current solution, so I chose to simply remove them (fortunately they were really secondary in DokuWiki) and document how to restore them if needed. Seen you last modifications to the copyright file, I guess the license information issue can be considerer as fixed, although it would be a good occastion to switch to the DEP-5 copyright format that seems more appropriate for complex license information. I do not know if an acceptable solution can be found for the Flash applets. The possibilities I see are: * have the Flash applets, along with their source, accepted by the ftpmaster team even though we have no tool to recompile them; * put gallery3 in contrib; * remove the Flash applets; * put the Flash applets in a distinct package in contrib. Anyway, I would like to say that there is actually a point in having gallery3 in Debian if it is possible. Indeed, people often have a Debian server and want to install Gallery on it, but I do not think the opposite situation (people installing Debian because they want to run Gallery) is as frequent. Thus I think most potential users of Gallery 3 under Debian will first try to use their regular tools to search a package to install, and perhaps go no further when they see that gallery3 is not available (this is where I failed, for instance): going to the upstream website for instructions is not such a common practice amng Debian users. Librement, -- ,--. : /` ) Tanguy Ortolo <xmpp:tan...@ortolo.eu> <irc://irc.oftc.net/Elessar> | `-' Debian Maintainer \_
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