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Re: RFS: wizznic



El Thu, 4 Aug 2011 15:15:53 -0500
Edgar Antonio Palma de la Cruz <xbytemx@gmail.com> escribió:
> El Wed, 3 Aug 2011 22:52:54 +0200
> Kilian Krause <kilian@debian.org> escribió:
> > Hi Edgar,
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 04:53:44AM -0500, Edgar Antonio Palma de la
> > Cruz wrote:
> > > El Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:21:23 +0200
> > > Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> escribió:
> > > > Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> writes:
> > > > > Right, I missed the .o and .dll files, counting only
> > > > > wizznic-x86-precompiled and
> > > > > tools/releaser/data/win/curl/curl.exe (the ones mentioned by
> > > > > lintian).
> > > > >
> > > > > The dlls are libjpeg, zlib, libogg, SDL, openssl -- all DFSG
> > > > > free with source already in main.
> > > > 
> > > > The source would need to be included in the same (source)
> > > > package to make sure that it is the same version and that we
> > > > will still include source even if another package is removed
> > > > from the archive.
> > > > 
> > > > Ansgar
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I get a little confused about what I do with the dfsg, I should
> > > remove the binaries or add a the source of them? 
> > 
> > There seems to be somewhat different oppinions on this. Mine is:
> > remove all binary files whether they can be compiled from source or
> > not and strip the source down to the largest set of source files
> > that can still reliably build your binaries. Problem with the
> > binary files is that it's close to impossible to reliably know how
> > and by whom they were built and what license they come with. The
> > problem of people being able to run potentially malicious code is
> > another (usually for this conext minor) problem.
> > 
> > If you can - with respect to ensuring a DFSG-free license - leave
> > them in the tarball and document them (and potentially put a check
> > into d/rules looking after them not being "tainted" - how ever that
> > may look like) that'd be an option. Yet as said IMHO it's
> > practically close to impossible to debug a windows binary set with
> > regards to libraries linked into there etc. at build time of a
> > Debian package.
> I remove all the prebuild binaries.
> 
> > > Also, I need to modify the d/copyright, d/changelog, d/watch
> > > make README.debian-source, orig.tar.bz2 and add a rule
> > > get-orig-source to d/rules to make a _good_ dfsg repackage?
> > 
> > Yes, that should do it.
> 
> Done.
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wizznic
> - dget
>   http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wizznic/wizznic_0.9.2-preview2+dfsg-1.dsc
> 
> 

Sorry, I forgot to cc the list.

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