Re: ITR: xmlrpc-epi

2008-05-05 Thread Neil Williams
Hi Robin, I'm ready to do the final tests on this package. > I have finally had time to update upstream and produce a new Debian > package that hopefully resolves the previous issues. You've chosen 'extra' for all packages - that's OK as long as that is what you intended. Only the -dbg package ha

Re: ITR: xmlrpc-epi - copyright issues

2008-04-30 Thread Robin Cornelius
Hi Neil I have finally had time to update upstream and produce a new Debian package that hopefully resolves the previous issues. I have been sitting on sending this mail for a while as I wanted some testing of the library which is now happened and testing caught two packaging mistakes. For the

Re: ITR: xmlrpc-epi - copyright issues

2008-04-05 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Williams wrote: > Copyright issues: > 1. The machine-interpretable copyright format is meant to be > hierarchical - Files: * should not appear before any other more specific > matches. i.e. exclude all the awkward files explicitly in turn, then the > last stanza is "everything else". That's n

Re: ITR: xmlrpc-epi - copyright issues

2008-04-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 10:47 +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote: > 1) It probably would be a very good idea to remove the expat source code > from upstream completely and ensure the code builds with the latest > expat from expat's upstream instead of carrying a specific copy. Agreed. > > Files: src/expa

Re: ITR: xmlrpc-epi - copyright issues

2008-04-05 Thread Robin Cornelius
Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 12:12 +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xmlrpc-epi". Hi Neil, thanks for your time on this. > > 2. expat - debian/copyright quotes this as being dual-licenced MPL or > GPL but does not note

Re: ITR: xmlrpc-epi - copyright issues

2008-04-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 12:12 +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xmlrpc-epi". Copyright issues: 1. The machine-interpretable copyright format is meant to be hierarchical - Files: * should not appear before any other more specific matches. i.

Re: ITR: xmlrpc-epi

2008-04-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 12:12 +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xmlrpc-epi". Hi Robin, I'll review this tonight. There are one or two things I've seen already: http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianGuide#head-7d381311f6972e4d3a4853bd96485e508fb6