* Jorgen Schaefer (forcer@debian.org) wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes: > > > After seven and a half years of maintaining Gnus, I am having > > to give away the package, on what I consider is a matter of > > principle. My upload removing non-DFSG bits was rejected, on the > > grounds that the upload renamed the source package name (the binary > > package name remains Gnus). > > > > I find myself unable to comply with calling the source package > > Gnus, even though we remove all documentation from the package, and > > pretending it is just a newer upstream version, since that implies to > > people looking at the list of sources that this is perhaps unreleased > > upstream source package -- even though upstream is vehemently opposed > > to this course of action. > > I'm with Manoj here - it's not useful to our users for us to fake > a new upstream version. I'm very confused as to why changing the > source package name is such a huge problem. Maybe someone could > clarify? > > Faking an upstream version number which doesn't exist, and which > is not the package that is in Debian, can't be the right solution. > Since changing the source package name seems to be inappropriate, > what would be a useful approach to this problem? > > I hope this problem can be solved so that a) our users can rely on > us not to fake version numbers, and b) Manoj can continue to > package Gnus. There is a fairly long tradition of stripping non-free things out of the upstream tarball and adding a dfsg to the version. While the documentation removal is probably some of the most intrusive DFSG-izing to date, I don't see why the dfsg in the version number is somehow worse than in the source package name. -- Eric Dorland <eric@kuroneko.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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