Re: ITP: sagemath-database-combinatorial-designs -- Databases of combinatorial designs

[Julien Puydt <julien.puydt@laposte.net>]

Hi,

Le 12/08/2014 23:53, Tobias Hansen a écrit :
> Am 09.08.2014 12:44, schrieb Julien Puydt:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > * Package name: sagemath-database-combinatorial-designs
> >    Version: 20140630
> >    Upstream author: Nathann Cohen
> > * URL:
> > http://www.sagemath.org/packages/upstream/combinatorial_designs/index.html
> > * License: GPL-2+
> >    Description: Databases of combinatorial designs
> >
> > For the moment, the package is a single text file containing integers
> > (mutually orthogonal latin squares), coming from the Handbook of
> > Combinatorial Designs, 2ed ; but it is going to contain other data in
> > the future (at least that's what upstream has in mind).
> >
> > Notice that I'm a little annoyed by the copyright: Nathann Cohen is the
> > one who typed the data, but the book is by someone else, and the data is
> > well... like the digits of pi, probably non-copyrightable...
> >
> > I plan to package it for the debian-science project, as part of the
> > effort to get sagemath properly packaged in debian.
> >
> > Snark on #debian-science
>
> Hi,
>
> did you not use pristine-tar when you imported the tarball or did you
> just forget to push the branch?

I used git-import-orig, which comes from the git-buildpackage package, 
which is a depends of packaging-dev... nothing fancy.

Source packages are trivially generated using:
git-buildpackage -S -us -uc

> Also, where did you find the information
> that it's GPL-2+? The SPKG.txt claims it's public domain:
> http://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/tree/build/pkgs/combinatorial_designs/SPKG.txt

Sage itself is GPL-2+ ; they just started this new spkg with a single 
database, but expect to add more in the future -- which might change the 
license... so I took a safe path by using the license under which 
sage-as-a-whole. I knew there was something to discuss on the matter of 
d/copyright: notice the paragraph of my mail starting with "Notice" :-P

Snark on #debian-science