On 2010-08-17 14:56, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:55:37PM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: >> ok, >> >> i think the pd-zexy package is almost ready for release. >> >> i rephrased the README.Debian, hopefully it's clearer now >> >> debian/changelog has better wording for quiltification >> >> maintainer is now pkg-multimedia-maintainers@ (at least in >> debian/control.in; how do i update debian/control from that; shouldn't >> it be done automagically?) >> >> >> comments, uploads? > > When you clean the source in cdbs "maintainer mode", control file is > updated[1]. Like this: > > DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 fakeroot debian/rules clean
right, i also found out about "DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL=1" > Would you mind me adding the CDBS copyright-check routine? i don't object, but: > > I can imagine how that may feel odd since you yourself are upstream for > the code, but it does seem to me that you missed out some copyright and > licensing pieces. Not licensing conflicts, so nothing for you to worry > about as upstream, but for Debian we care not only about that but also > of properly recognizing all upstreams - not only main ones. > > Upstream you might want to consider improving the licensing headers to > (more clearly) declare copyright years. Currently you state copyright > like this: > > * copyleft (c) IOhannes m zmölnig > * > * 1999:forum::für::umläute:2004 > > There are multiple problems with this (IANAL, so YMMV): > > * the term "copyleft" have no legal meaning but i guess that "(c)" is clear enough. > * strings are expressed in latin1 (or latin13 or similar) this is surely no legal requirement > * it is unclear if the second string is copyright years > > I recommend to instead use the following one-liner: > > * copyright 1999-2004, IOhannes m zmölnig you translated it correctly :-) the thing is, that this piece of software is also to be seen in an "art context" (phew!). the entire copyright headers are in a way a "logo". also the encoding confusion has a historic (for me) relevance. i would hate to change these. (for what it's worth, nowadays i most often use the more traditional copyright clauses) mfgasdr IOhannes
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