On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 06:22:30PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > One of the dictionary packages I am preparing for use with the > dictd server is distributed as two separate .tar.gz files, so I will > have to make a combined file as _orig.tar.gz. Do I have to ask for > permission to use non-pristine sources in such a case? > > Another dictionary package contains formatting software and > datbases for five dictionaries in the upstream tarball. One of these > dictionaries - The Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing (foldoc) -is > updated almost daily, but the source package is not. I intend to > remove foldoc from the upstream package, leaving a non-pristine source > for the remaining four dictionaries, and create another source package > for foldoc, which I expect to update frequently. Do I have to ask for > permission to do this? > > Bob > -- > _ > |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com> > |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USA PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 > > I think you can consider using the get-orig-source target to make your modification, some time, upstream archive just need a little workout to remove all the unnecessary stuff in it. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fabien Ninoles Running Debian/GNU Linux E-mail: fab@tzone.org WebPage: http://www.callisto.si.usherb.ca/~94246757 WorkStation [available when connected!]: http://nightbird.tzone.org/ RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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