RFS: libcolladadom and libminizip

2010-07-16 Thread Sébastien Barthélemy
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libcolladadom". * Package name: libcolladadom Version : 2.2.1-1 Upstream Author : Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/collada-dom * License : MIT Section :

purging upstream source tarball, or not?

2010-07-17 Thread Sébastien Barthélemy
Hi, I'm trying to package libcolladadom, and I get a few generic questions. I already asked them in the RFS [1], but later realized that I would get a wider audience asking them separately. So here I am. Besides collada-dom, the upstream svn and tarballs include several related programs, which I

Re: purging upstream source tarball, or not?

2010-07-17 Thread Sébastien Barthélemy
Hi Paul, On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > 2010/7/17 Sébastien Barthélemy : > >> Besides collada-dom, the upstream svn and tarballs include several >> related programs, which I do not plan to build. They are either >> - dependancies (such as pcre) wh

handling a non free test databank

2010-07-18 Thread Sébastien Barthélemy
Hello, I'm still working on the collada-dom package, and I noticed that the source tarball contains 3d assets that are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike license (no version). I believe this license is not DFSG-compatible. These files are part of the software it

Re: RFS: libcolladadom and libminizip

2010-07-19 Thread Sébastien Barthélemy
Dear mentors, I am still looking for a sponsor for my package "collada-dom". I uploaded a new version which fixes a few problems. - renamed the source package from libcolladadom to collada-dom to match the upstream name - removed non-dfsg-compliant files, sister softwares and code copies (with th

Re: RFS: libcolladadom and libminizip

2010-07-19 Thread Sébastien Barthélemy
2010/7/19 Johan Van de Wauw : > 2010/7/17 Sébastien Barthélemy : > >> - the upstream tarball includes sources for a shared library: >>  libminizip. However, the upstream minizip authors do not provide (nor >>  support) this library, but executables, which are already packa

Re: RFS: libcolladadom and libminizip

2010-07-20 Thread Sébastien Barthélemy
Hi Paul, On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > Probably the best solution to the minigzip stuff is to talk zlib > upstream into either building minigzip into a shared library by > default or building it into libz. Please let them note that it is > being copied into other programs an

Re: RFS: libcolladadom and libminizip

2010-07-20 Thread Sébastien Barthélemy
Dear mentors, I uploaded yet another version, which adds the libcolllada15dom package and fixes small glitches. Many thanks to Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo for its feedback. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/collada-dom - Source