Bug#835368: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone!

2016-08-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger



Am 2016-08-25 um 06:52 schrieb Tobias Frost:

Am Mittwoch, den 24.08.2016, 22:06 +0200 schrieb Elmar Stellnberger:



   The license in use, C-FSL v1.0 will still need to be reviewed. A
predecessor license C-FSL v0.8 had already been discussed on
debian-legal some time ago. However v1.0 has been reworked basing
on the input I had received from there and should now hopefully be
without issues.


I think one recommendation has not been followed. If not, I *strongly*
recommend:
PLEASE Do not run your own license. See https://people.debian.org/~bap/
dfsg-faq.html §5

I took me some time to locate this license (please put it somewhere and
link to it).


  The license is online under https://www.elstel.org/license. The URL 
may be a bit hard to find and if you like I can link it from 
https://www.elstel.org/software/. You are right; the URL should probably 
be referred to in the license itself.
  If you have any further improvements towards locating the license 
then please let me know.



I located it then in the header of the xchroot script, and as I only
had 5 minutes to take a look, I come only to this sentence:

"If a specific version number is mentioned then usage rights include
this version as well as any newer version which will always be similar
in spirit to this license. The term Convertible Free Software license
may be abbreviated as C-FSL."

- This will fail the the tentacle of evil test.
- What happens if there is no version number attached? Choose any?
Choose latest?


  It should not fail the tentacle of evil test as the user of the 
program may choose which version of the license to execute: the version 
mentioned with the programme or any newer version. It quasi gives any 
new author the right to re-license within C-FSL. As the original author 
never looses his/her copyright he can always re-license (whatever the 
previous license may look like: BSD/GPL/...); i.e. you can never (fully) 
shield against the case of an evil author re-licensing proprietarily 
under any given license of the universe - with BSD that is not even 
intended.
  The right to switch to a newer version is up to anyone who receives a 
program under C-FSL and it does not forbid to keep an elder version of 
the license if you prefer that. This is due to the principal of legal 
certainity taking precedence over correctness of law and it is a basic 
principle in any legal system I know.
  The clause has just been invented to alleviate me from the pain of 
having to re-publish existing programs with a newer version of the 
license (in which case both versions can be applied forever).


  no version number attached: you have a good point in it as we had 
already discussed v0.8 of the license which was never meant to be 
executed in practice; I should have included the version to default to 
1.0 at least; not sure what it would take to make this good.




"3. It is your obligation that the changed version of your sources will
be available to the public for free within the time frame of a month at
least if there is no undue hindrance by the authors to make it
available. "

As distribution is not limited to the people using the stuff, this is
non-free. Fails Desert Island Test and Dissident Tests.


  You have a good point in this! Thanks for your input. I should 
mention: "You may always distribute a product under C-FSL in unchanged 
form. ..."; otherwise if you change or execute the term 'use' would 
clearly apply to my believe.




(I have stopped here... Above is not a complete analysis of any
section, also not up to 3.I)


PLEASE do not run your own license.


  Yes, I know that usage of an own license is discouraged due to the 
many issues that may arise. However I do certainly have a point in 
creating this license as I wanna keep the right to re-license which is 
not included by GPL. BSD on the other hand has no provisions against 
making software licensed under BSD non-free be it by the application of 
patents, DRM or other stuff. I do also know that the KDE team had a 
problem with their license when Apple came to publish their respective 
amendments in the sources of Safari. They do not run and will never run 
on OSS and this makes Apple publishing their sources rather useless to 
the OSS community. Another issue is that I do not want to 'register' 
i.e. sell my personal data to a company I do not trust just in order to 
fetch their GPL-ed sources.



--
tobi



  If anyone here would be ready to further investigate C-FSL I will 
highly appreciate your effort in doing so. Why not have a discussion at 
debian-legal? I`d personally like to get the issues with it resolved as 
soon as possible. Otherwise if you believe that I do not have sufficient 
stance to do so by the software I have currently released then I would 
need to wait ...


Elmar



Bug#835368: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone!

2016-08-25 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi,



>   Yes, I know that usage of an own license is discouraged due to the 
>many issues that may arise. However I do certainly have a point in 
>creating this license as I wanna keep the right to re-license which is 

>not included by GPL.

I don't want to start a new thread, because I really try to avoid licenses
issues, and I have really little knowledge on the topic, but what about:
GPL-2+-with-relicense-exception.

I see many GPL-2 similar-looking licenses, with some special exceptions, e.g.
"In addition to the above license, you can relicense this software in whatever
form you want, with a special exception: you can't do foo and bar if you change 
the
license"

or whatever, IANAL

G.



Bug#835368: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone!

2016-08-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger

Am 2016-08-25 um 10:45 schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna:

I see many GPL-2 similar-looking licenses, with some special exceptions, e.g.
"In addition to the above license, you can relicense this software in whatever
form you want, with a special exception: you can't do foo and bar if you change 
the
license"


  The problem about additional GPL-2 clauses seems to be that they can 
be dropped at any time. An unpleasant contributor can do so any time and 
I would not be able to incorporate his changes if I wanna keep the 
additional freedoms I wanna guarantee for the upstream version.




Bug#834322: RFS: phatch/0.2.7.1-3.2 [NMU] [RC]

2016-08-25 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 16/08/16 12:15, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>   I am looking for a sponsor for my package "phatch"
>>   Changes since the last upload:
>>
>> * Non-maintainer upload.
>>   * debian/patches:
>> + Add fix-loading.patch to fix load with latest version of 
>> python-imaging
> 
>> and python-pil. (Closes: #811184, LP: #1567827)
> this looks good to me
> 
> 
>>   * Drop debian/phatch.menu>   * debian/control:
>> + Use secured links for VCS.
>> + Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8. (no changes needed)
>>   * Drop debian/phatch.lintian: it is useless.
> 
> 
> usually out of an NMU scope, but since the package is team maintained, I think
> we can also get them in, with a cc of the maintainers in this email
> (note: I sponsored in deferred/15, please Emilio or Piotr ack the changes!)
> 
> thanks for the nice contribution to Debian, and for bringing the package back
> into a good shape :)

Ack, thanks! Feel free to directly upload this. Bonus points if you commit the
changes to the repo.

Thanks,
Emilio



Bug#834322: RFS: phatch/0.2.7.1-3.2 [NMU] [RC]

2016-08-25 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 25/08/16 12:04, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 16/08/16 12:15, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>>   I am looking for a sponsor for my package "phatch"
>>>   Changes since the last upload:
>>>
>>> * Non-maintainer upload.
>>>   * debian/patches:
>>> + Add fix-loading.patch to fix load with latest version of 
>>> python-imaging
>>
>>> and python-pil. (Closes: #811184, LP: #1567827)
>> this looks good to me
>>
>>
>>>   * Drop debian/phatch.menu>   * debian/control:
>>> + Use secured links for VCS.
>>> + Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8. (no changes needed)
>>>   * Drop debian/phatch.lintian: it is useless.
>>
>>
>> usually out of an NMU scope, but since the package is team maintained, I 
>> think
>> we can also get them in, with a cc of the maintainers in this email
>> (note: I sponsored in deferred/15, please Emilio or Piotr ack the changes!)
>>
>> thanks for the nice contribution to Debian, and for bringing the package back
>> into a good shape :)
> 
> Ack, thanks! Feel free to directly upload this. Bonus points if you commit the
> changes to the repo.

I should have read all the thread before replying :P

Emilio



Bug#834570: marked as done (RFS: shark/3.1.1+ds1-1 [RC])

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Severity: important

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "shark"

* Package name: shark
  Version : 3.1.1+ds1-1
  Upstream Author : Christian Igel 
* URL : http://image.diku.dk/shark/
* License : LGPL-3
  Section : science

It builds those binary packages:

 libshark-dev - development files for Shark
 libshark0  - Shark machine learning library
 shark-doc  - documentation and examples for Shark

To access further information about this package, please visit the 
following URL:


  https://mentors.debian.net/package/shark

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

  dget -x 
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/shark/shark_3.1.1+ds1-1.dsc


Successful build on debomatic:


http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#unstable/shark/3.1.1+ds1-1/buildlog

Changes since the last upload:

  * New upstream release. (Closes: #820701)
  * Bump standards version to 3.9.8, no changes required.
  * Build documentation with doxylink enabled.
  * Drop excessive patching of examples.
  * Only install API documentation to -doc package.
  * Clean artifacts from build of documentation.
  * Disable version query via svnversion.
  * Fix buggy HDF5 testcase in upstream testsuite.
  * Cherry-pick patch series fixing current FTBFS. (Closes: #831121)
  * Drop debug package in favor of autogenerated dbgsym.
  * Disable execution of slow test cases.
  * Miscalleneous changes to d/rules:
- Add comment for DH_VERBOSE.
- Remove query for DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH.
- s/CMAKE_BUILD_OPTIONS/BUILD_OPTIONS.
- Remove superfluous comments.

Regards,
Ghislain Vaillant
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Bug#835368: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone!

2016-08-25 Thread Andrew Shadura
On 25 August 2016 at 11:53, Elmar Stellnberger  wrote:
> Am 2016-08-25 um 10:45 schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna:
>>
>> I see many GPL-2 similar-looking licenses, with some special exceptions,
>> e.g.
>> "In addition to the above license, you can relicense this software in
>> whatever
>> form you want, with a special exception: you can't do foo and bar if you
>> change the
>> license"
>
>
>   The problem about additional GPL-2 clauses seems to be that they can be
> dropped at any time. An unpleasant contributor can do so any time and I
> would not be able to incorporate his changes if I wanna keep the additional
> freedoms I wanna guarantee for the upstream version.

They can be dropped (and, in fact, ignored completely) only if they
introduce additional restrictions conficting with the GPL itself. If
you're granting additional rights, you're free to grant them only
under a certain condition ("you're free to relicence this software
under a different license but you must keep this statement in tact").

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew



Bug#835368: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone!

2016-08-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger

Am 2016-08-25 um 12:39 schrieb Andrew Shadura:

On 25 August 2016 at 11:53, Elmar Stellnberger  wrote:

Am 2016-08-25 um 10:45 schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna:


I see many GPL-2 similar-looking licenses, with some special exceptions,
e.g.
"In addition to the above license, you can relicense this software in
whatever
form you want, with a special exception: you can't do foo and bar if you
change the
license"



  The problem about additional GPL-2 clauses seems to be that they can be
dropped at any time. An unpleasant contributor can do so any time and I
would not be able to incorporate his changes if I wanna keep the additional
freedoms I wanna guarantee for the upstream version.


They can be dropped (and, in fact, ignored completely) only if they
introduce additional restrictions conficting with the GPL itself. If
you're granting additional rights, you're free to grant them only
under a certain condition ("you're free to relicence this software
under a different license but you must keep this statement in tact").



  Yes, that is a good point and it certainly proves that GPL would work 
in this regard; but what about the other two issues:


> I do also know that the KDE team had a problem with their license
> when Apple came to publish their respective amendments in the sources
> of Safari. They do not run and will never run on OSS and this makes
> Apple publishing their sources rather useless to the OSS community.

  Now this is an additional restriction: you need to provide everything 
that is necessary to run your software under an OSS based system (with 
exceptions given for the kernel modules).


> Another issue is that I do not want to 'register' i.e. sell my
> personal data to a company I do not trust just in order to fetch
> their GPL-ed sources.

also not part of GPL.



Bug#835368: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone!

2016-08-25 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
(dropping people who reads mentors)


>   Yes, that is a good point and it certainly proves that GPL would work 

>in this regard; but what about the other two issues:


I guess so
>   Now this is an additional restriction: you need to provide everything 
>that is necessary to run your software under an OSS based system (with 
>exceptions given for the kernel modules).


I think this is a GPL-3 restriction, if you mean "Tivoization"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization

(and this is a good reason to stay away from GPL-3)

>> Another issue is that I do not want to 'register' i.e. sell my
>> personal data to a company I do not trust just in order to fetch
>> their GPL-ed sources.
>
>also not part of GPL.


what?
sorry I don't follow this sentence ;)

G.



Re: Bug#835253: RFS: steghide/0.5.1-11 [QA]

2016-08-25 Thread Fernando Seiti Furusato

Hi, Breno.


On 08/24/2016 10:14 PM, Breno Leitao wrote:

During my tests with your submission, I found that the package currently
depends on libtool binary, but it does not build-depends on libtool-bin,
which causes the build to fail (FTBFS). I opened a bug to track it under
Bug#835378. Check it for more details.

This is my fault. I removed it by mistake from the build-depends.
I don't think a bug is needed in this case, because originally the 
package had a

dependency on it.

Also, I understand that your fix also closes the Bug#535842.  What do
you think?

Indeed, it seems to be the same problem.

Thank you,
Breno


Thanks for your response. I will work on it and re-upload it.

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Bug#835274: RFS: bcron/0.10-4

2016-08-25 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
control: owner -1 !
control: tags -1 moreinfo


>bcron


>
>  * Use `dh-text' to avoid duplication in `debian/control'


ERR.

G.



Bug#801262: RFS: ppsspp/1.2.2+dfsg1-1 [ITP] -- A portable PSP emulator

2016-08-25 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi,


>04_tools.patch is updated. It's really hard to find a good replacement 

>for the fonts...  fonts-droid was dropped and noto is not really the 
>replacement for it


and fonts-droid-fallback from fonts-android?

G.



Bug#827590: RFS: lua-torch-trepl/0~20160613-g06128f9-1 [ITP]

2016-08-25 Thread Lumin
Hi,

The dependencies are present in experimental, trepl is unblocked now.
lua-torch-trepl is updated.

Debomatic-amd64: passing

http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#experimental/lua-torch-trepl/0~20160613-g06128f9-1/buildlog

https://mentors.debian.net/package/lua-torch-trepl

https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lua-torch-trepl/lua-torch-trepl_0~20160613-g06128f9-1.dsc

Please sponsor, thanks :-)

On 12 August 2016 at 14:24, Gianfranco Costamagna
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>This is due to, actually "trepl" doesn't B-D on the "lua-torch-torch7-dev"
>>package. It is a runtime dependency. I'll leave a comment there.
>>Keeping this runtime B-D there because it declares explicit dependency
>>relationship.
>
>
> oh, ok
>
>>I've thought about spliting it up -- inspece verbose dh build and
>>extract the library compilation commands into d/rules -- however this
>>makes d/rules complicated with hardcoded compiles.
>>
>>Seems that dh_lua didn't foresee such a demand, so the above method is
>>the way first came up in my mind.
>
>>
>>Now that the symlink just works fine ...
>>
>>1. split then up with hardcoded compile
>>2. create a new package that ships just a simlink
>>
>>How do you like it?
>
>
> no, seems worse. lets keep it
>
>>Suggests: lua-torch-dok, lua-torch-xlua
>
>
> they need to be packaged first.
>
> G.
>
>
>
> --
> Best,
> Lumin



-- 
Best,
Lumin



Bug#835274: RFS: bcron/0.10-4

2016-08-25 Thread Dmitry Bogatov

> >  * Use `dh-text' to avoid duplication in `debian/control'
>
> ERR.

perror? I filed RFS for dh-text, and it received neutral-to-positive
reviews.

Please, not not upload yet. I plan to finally understand piuparts
and check with it too.

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Bug#835274: RFS: bcron/0.10-4

2016-08-25 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
control: block -1 by 834313


>perror? I filed RFS for dh-text, and it received neutral-to-positive
>reviews.


yes, but this bug needs the other one to be fixed, or the dh-text
need reverted.

>Please, not not upload yet. I plan to finally understand piuparts
>and check with it too.


this would be nice, setting up a debomatic local instance might be trivial
and avoid a lot of troubles :)

G.



Bug#827590: marked as done (RFS: lua-torch-trepl/0~20160613-g06128f9-1 [ITP])

2016-08-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist

  Dear mentors,

  I am looking for a sponsor for my package "lua-torch-trepl"

 * Package name: lua-torch-trepl
   Version : 0~20160613-g06128f9-1
   Upstream Author : Torch Developers
 * URL : github.com/torch/trepl
 * License : BSD-3-Clause
   Section : interpreters

  It builds those binary packages:

lua-torch-trepl - REPL Package for Troch Framework
torch-trepl - REPL Package for Troch Framework

  To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/lua-torch-trepl


  Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

dget -x 
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lua-torch-trepl/lua-torch-trepl_0~20160613-g06128f9-1.dsc

  More information about hello can be obtained from https://www.example.com--- End Message ---


Bug#801262: marked as done (RFS: ppsspp/1.2.2+dfsg1-1 [ITP] -- A portable PSP emulator)

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Hey dear mentors,

Looking for a sponsor for the PPSSPP package:

* Package name: ppsspp
  Version : 1.1.0
  Upstream Author : Henrik Rydgård 
* URL :http://www.ppsspp.org/
* License : GPL-2+
  Programming Lang: C, C++
  Description : Sony PSP emulator

PPSSPP is a PSP emulator written in C++, and translates PSP CPU
instructions directly into optimized x86, x64 and ARM machine code,
using an efficient JIT compiler.

The package: http://mentors.debian.net/package/ppsspp

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Hi,


>and fonts-droid-fallback from fonts-android?


still, this seems something we can fix later.
Uploaded this one.

G.--- End Message ---


Bug#835253: RFS: steghide/0.5.1-11 [QA]

2016-08-25 Thread Fernando Seiti Furusato

Hello.

I have just addressed the points raised.

dget 
-xhttps://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/steghide/steghide_0.5.1-11.dsc

I also updated the changelog:
  
  * QA upload.

  * debian/control:
- added autotools-dev to build-depends.
- ${misc:Depends} to binary package dependency.

  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
  * debian/rules:
- added dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig and
  dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig to fix FTBFS on new architectures
  such as ppc64el. Closes: #759453, #535842

Thanks!

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Bug#835253: RFS: steghide/0.5.1-11 [QA]

2016-08-25 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi

sorry for stepping in :)

> - added autotools-dev to build-depends.
> - added dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig and
>   dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig to fix FTBFS on new architectures
>   such as ppc64el. Closes: #759453, #535842
what about using autoreconf? it should fix the issue in a better(TM) way :)
https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf

BTW converting the rules file in the new dh calls seems to be trivial too ;)

(I'm not requesting you to change anything, I might do also a subsequent upload
when I bump debhelper compat level, and refactor the packaging to be more easily
maintainable)

thanks for caring you both :)

G.



Bug#835368: RFS: confinedrv/1.7.7-3 [ITP] -- Hi everyone!

2016-08-25 Thread Elmar Stellnberger

Hi Gianfranco, Hi Tobias,
Hi all Readers of this Debian Mentor Request,

Am 2016-08-25 um 13:12 schrieb Gianfranco Costamagna:

  Now this is an additional restriction: you need to provide everything
that is necessary to run your software under an OSS based system (with
exceptions given for the kernel modules).


I think this is a GPL-3 restriction, if you mean "Tivoization"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization


Sounds good to me. Then I am going to analyse GPL-3 and see if I can 
adopt it for my programs.




(and this is a good reason to stay away from GPL-3)



... just the other way round



Another issue is that I do not want to 'register' i.e. sell my
personal data to a company I do not trust just in order to fetch
their GPL-ed sources.


also not part of GPL.



what?
sorry I don't follow this sentence ;)


some minor issues that would remain (like obtaining the sources without 
undue obstacles) ..., however likely nothing that could stop me from 
adopting GPL-3 for my programs.


>>>  The problem about additional GPL-2 clauses seems to be that they
>>> can be dropped at any time. An unpleasant contributor can do so any
>>> time and I would not be able to incorporate his changes if I wanna
>>> keep the additional freedoms I wanna guarantee for the upstream
>>> version.
>> They can be dropped (and, in fact, ignored completely) only if they
>> introduce additional restrictions conficting with the GPL itself. If
>> you're granting additional rights, you're free to grant them only
>> under a certain condition ("you're free to relicence this software
>> under a different license but you must keep this statement in tact").
> I guess so

  Anyone else who could assert me that an additional GPL-3 clause would 
do what I want: i.e. give an additional right to relicense to a group 
called original authors only; let this be called GPL-3 + relicensing by 
authors. The GPL-3 amendment would more or less be the same as #7 of 
C-FSL and a statement to tag the GPL-3 abbreviation with the relicensing 
by authors flag.
  Is it really true that this can not be interpreted as restriction 
just because any contributor would have to consent in giving the 
original authors this additional right. It means that someone who does 
not consent is not allowed to apply changes because then the whole 
license would need to turn invalid.



Finally I would like to ask anyone who knows about another issue with 
C-FSL to share it with me as the programs in question will likely be 
available under C-FSL + GPL-3 + relicensing by authors for some ongoing 
time.


up to now I have noted the following issues for C-FSL:
* explicitly allow unchanged redistribution
* version number to use as default: v1.1
* mention online URL in the license

see: https://www.elstel.org/license/C-FSL-v1.0.txt

Regards,
Elmar



Bug#835253: RFS: steghide/0.5.1-11 [QA]

2016-08-25 Thread Fernando Seiti Furusato

Hello Gianfranco.

Thanks for your input on this!

On 08/25/2016 02:56 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:

what about using autoreconf? it should fix the issue in a better(TM) way :)
https://wiki.debian.org/Autoreconf

Yes, I initially tried to add the usage of dh-autoreconf, but I rolled back
because it didn't build and clean smoothly.
Anyway I will work on it then.


BTW converting the rules file in the new dh calls seems to be trivial too ;)

Ok, let me give it a try.

Regards.

--
Fernando Seiti Furusato
IBM Linux Technology Center



Bug#835469: RFS: mairix/0.23+git20131125-3 -- indexes and searches locally-stored email

2016-08-25 Thread Sean Whitton
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for a new release of mairix.

I haven't been able to convert the copyright to DEP-5 yet because I'm
waiting on information from the package maintainer from 2002--2004.

* Package name: mairix
  Version : 0.23+git20131125-3
  Upstream Author : Richard P. Curnow 
* URL : https://github.com/rc0/mairix
* License : GPL-2+
  Section : mail

Changes since the last upload:

  * Enable all hardening.
  * Tweak & reformat description.
  * Add fix-manpage-syntax.patch.
  * Install example config to examples/ subdir.
Previously installed to /usr/share/doc/mairix
  * Install NEWS as the upstream changelog, not just as "NEWS".
  * Add Vcs-* URIs.
  * Add gbp.conf.

Download with dget:

dget -x 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mairix/mairix_0.23+git20131125-3.dsc

Or build it with gbp:

git clone https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/mairix.git
cd mairix
origtargz# obtain from archive
git checkout debian/0.23+git20131125-3
git verify-tag debian/0.23+git20131125-3 # if you have my key
gbp buildpackage

Thanks.

-- 
Sean Whitton


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