On 15-Apr-2016, Stephen Kitt wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 21:53:39 +1000, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote: > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/inform6-library/inform6-library_6.12-1.dsc > > This looks good, the only potential issue I see is that the license > for infglk.h isn't clear, and its creation date is wrong (1000802).
Oof, I'd missed that. Thank you for spotting it. > I had a quick poke around but couldn't find the glk2inf.pl tool > which was used to generate it... The file ‘infglk.h’ has been updated again in ‘inform6lib’ since version 6.12, declaring that it uses a version from ‘glk-dev’. The file is a bundled inclusion from another code base; definitely non-source form. The ‘glk-dev’ code base is apparently a tool kit for Glulx <URL:https://github.com/erkyrath/glk-dev>. It is active, but it has no tagged releases, no change log. It is declared to be “in the public domain”. I see two options: * I can look at ‘glk-dev’ and maybe package that too, as a build dependency for ‘inform6lib’. This would delay the ‘inform6lib’ inclusion, by an unknown interval. * I could patch out Glulx support in this initial release of the package, while chasing the corresponding source and external dependencies needed for possible Glulx support in a future release. Do you have an opinion on that choice? -- \ “If you can't annoy somebody there is little point in writing.” | `\ —Kingsley Amis | _o__) | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
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