Re: Packaging free software with non-free data files

2010-10-17 Thread Stefan Ott
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 07:18, Paul Wise wrote: (sorry about the CC, my mail client was a little too smart) :) >> The package is pyfa [1], a fitting assistant for EVE Online. Their >> latest download URL that I managed to find that actually contains some >> sort of license information [2] is rat

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-10-17 Thread Sage Weil
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 14:33 -0700, Sage Weil wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ceph". > I was going to make a package of ceph, so I would be happy to be your > sponsor. Wonderful! Thank you :) > > The package appears to be lin

Re: Seeking advice on automounter-like daemon starting at boot

2010-10-17 Thread gustavo panizzo
> > d) Create an user "udisks", add a PolicyKit rule to allow it to mount > > device files, use that for the init script (not even sure it's > > possible) > how would it leave the file permissions on the mounted filesystems? > Would them be readable/writable by local users? i was referring to optio

Re: Packaging free software with non-free data files

2010-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Stefan Ott wrote: > The package is pyfa [1], a fitting assistant for EVE Online. Their > latest download URL that I managed to find that actually contains some > sort of license information [2] is rather old, from 2006. I guess I'll > contact them to ask whether

Re: Packaging free software with non-free data files

2010-10-17 Thread Stefan Ott
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 06:14, Paul Wise wrote: > Sounds like it belongs in contrib and the non-free data should be > packaged separately. > > Have you asked upstream to put the data under a DFSG-free license? No, not yet, but I'm pretty sure they won't do that. > If you can give some details ab

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-10-17 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: Hi Sage, On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 14:33 -0700, Sage Weil wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ceph". I was going to make a package of ceph, so I would be happy to be your sponsor. Yay! I hope this works out. The package appears to b

Re: Seeking advice on automounter-like daemon starting at boot

2010-10-17 Thread gustavo panizzo
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 07:13:52PM -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: > Hello, mentors disclaimer: i'm not a DD/DM > I could make udisks-glue run as another user (say, nobody), but that > would mean that the default config would not be able to mount devices. > That's because PolicyKit will only allow ud

RFS: sciteproj

2010-10-17 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sciteproj". * Package name: sciteproj Version : 0.3.14-1 Upstream Author : Andreas Rönnquist * URL : http://www.gusnan.se/sciteproj * License : GPLv3 Section : editors It builds these binary

Re: Packaging free software with non-free data files

2010-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
Sounds like it belongs in contrib and the non-free data should be packaged separately. Have you asked upstream to put the data under a DFSG-free license? If you can give some details about which package and what the data is, maybe we can give you a better answer. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debia

Packaging free software with non-free data files

2010-10-17 Thread Stefan Ott
Hi list I have a small question: I would like to package a piece of software that, when first launched, downloads additional non-free data files which are needed to run. I am now wondering whether a) I should just leave it at that, possibly adding a note to the package, or b) ask the upstream auth

Re: RFS: ceph

2010-10-17 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
Hi Sage, On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 14:33 -0700, Sage Weil wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ceph". I was going to make a package of ceph, so I would be happy to be your sponsor. > The package appears to be lintian clean. Actually it has some lintian warnings. The current Standards

RFS: ceph

2010-10-17 Thread Sage Weil
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ceph". Ceph is a distributed file system designed for scalability, reliability, and performance. I am the upstream maintainer and primary developer for Ceph. The current package has been reviewed by Asheesh Laroia and Clint Byrum (at

Re: RFS: packagekit (ping2)

2010-10-17 Thread Matthias Klumpp
> > [...] (lots of further info on packagekit) > > Well, I am a DD and in principle could sponsor such a package, but I just > lack > all the know how needed to properly evaluate gnome-related packages. And, > as I > already wrote in another reponse to an RFS some minutes ago, it seems that > nob