Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Yann Rouillard
Le dimanche 16 septembre 2007 à 16:26 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit : > On Sunday 16 September 2007 01:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other > > license like LGPL or BSD. > > > > The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this li

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Gregory Colpart
Hello, On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 06:19:20PM +0200, Yann Rouillard wrote: > > After Raphael's advice, I searched a bit and according to: > http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html > A pear package with php license would be rejected. > > There are already some pear packages with php licence in D

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Yann Rouillard
Le dimanche 16 septembre 2007 à 16:30 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit > Because re-doing the packaging of this is not that difficult, I'd suggest to > just leave the package for now. If someone actually wants to use the > functionality they can make the upload, especially because of the highly

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Yann, > It's one of the packages suggested by the php-image-graph package which > is already in Debian. > Graphes can optionally have their axes graduated using roman numbers by > using the Image_Graph_DataPreprocessor_RomanNumerals preprocessor. > > But in fact, I packaged it because it's a de

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sunday 16 September 2007 01:56, Raphael Geissert wrote: > I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other > license like LGPL or BSD. > > The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this license and it > may require justifying later on if they decide to get picky. I've

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Yann Rouillard
> I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other > license like LGPL or BSD. > > The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this license and it > may require justifying later on if they decide to get picky. Thanks for your advice. Indeed it seems this licence is not acc

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 15/09/2007, Yann Rouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW, if php-numbers-roman is in main, php-image-graph should rather > recommend php-number-roman, shouldn' it ? > You should take a look at section 7.2[1] of the Debian Policy and 'reconsider' that statement. [1] http://www.debian.org/d

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 15/09/2007, Yann Rouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "php-numbers-roman". > > * Package name: php-numbers-roman > Version : 1.0.1-1 > Upstream Author : David Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Klaus Guenther <[EMAIL > PROTEC

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Yann Rouillard
Hi Thijs, It's one of the packages suggested by the php-image-graph package which is already in Debian. Graphes can optionally have their axes graduated using roman numbers by using the Image_Graph_DataPreprocessor_RomanNumerals preprocessor. But in fact, I packaged it because it's a dependancy o

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Yann, On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:22, Yann Rouillard wrote: > It builds these binary packages: > php-numbers-roman - Provides methods for converting to and from Roman > Numerals Are there actual use cases for this package? From the discription it seems to be a bit of a "toy", if you know

RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Yann Rouillard
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "php-numbers-roman". * Package name: php-numbers-roman Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : David Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Klaus Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Numbers_Roman * L