Re: dream packaging

[Reiner Herrmann <reiner@reiner-h.de>]

Hi Julian,

I just saw that you are/were working on packaging dream.
Coincidentally I also had a short look at it today and just now
saw your posts to the mailing list.

I found something strange in a few source files of dream.
The files in src/datadecoding/journaline/ mention that they
are only licensed under GPL for non-commercial use.
I already posted about that on the upstream discussion forum:
 https://sourceforge.net/p/drm/discussion/general/thread/fe32d868/

As you are one of the upstream authors, do you know more about that?
I think this would make the whole project non-free.

Regards,
 Reiner


On 11/09/2014 06:53 PM, Julian Cable wrote:
> Thanks Iain,
> 
> all the lintian warnings are gone now so I'm on track to complete.
> 
> Julian
> 
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> *From:* Iain R. Learmonth <irl@fsfe.org>
> *To:* debian-hams@lists.debian.org
> *Sent:* Sunday, 9 November 2014, 15:32
> *Subject:* Re: dream packaging
> 
> Hi Julian,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 03:50:05AM -0800, Julian Cable wrote:
>> I'm noticing a few sillies in the upstream so I'll probably fix those and
>> do a 2.2 release before suggesting we create the Debian package. We always
>> get a surge in downloads after a release and once a year keeps the project
>> alive, even if its just a maintenance release with no new features.
>>
>> So I'll need to know how to modify the git stuff for a new 'pristine'
>> source tarball but then we should be good to go.
> 
> Its really quite simple. You just run the:
> 
>   git import-orig --pristine-tar /path/to/dream-new-release.tar.gz
> 
> again. It will import the new upstream files, but leave your existing
> debian/ directory in place when the new upstream files are merged.
> 
>> I've raised the faad/faac issue with the Multimedia folks and they don't
>> see a problem. Things are looking good.
> 
> That's good news.
> 
> Thanks,
> Iain.
> 
> P.S. Please keep your replies on the list so that they can be archived and
> so others will be able to help where I can't. I'm not sure how Yahoo mail
> works, but you should be able to do a reply to all and then just remove all
> the email addresses that aren't debian-hams@lists.debian.org. <mailto:debian-hams@lists.debian.org.>
>