Re: Help for openmeca copyright
Hi,
I have seen this mail just now and I see that it's a bit old.
On 05/04/17 21:59, dada wrote:
> Hello all,
> With the help of Andreas Tille (thanks to him), I packaged a first version of
> openmeca software.
> Unfortunately the package was rejected by the ftp team because the copyright
> file does not respect the debian policy.
>
> In fact, the openmeca package embeds third party libraries and I just mention
> "the xxxx team" (where xxxx is the name of the related library)
> in the copyright file. The problem is that the copyright file must mention all
> the author names.
>
> These libraries represent more than two thousand files with many authors... and
> collecting manually all the author names
> represents a very very very long and fastidious task !
Use tools to do it. decopy, debmake, etc. Not need to use it manually.
> Andreas Tille advise me to remove all the third party libraries. I can remove
> some of these libraries excepted :
> 1- The boost C++ library. For technical reason, I prefer to keep a frozen
> version of the boost library inside the openmeca package.
> Because the boost library is used by openmeca to make input/output files
> (*.omc). If different versions of boost are used
> the interoperability of the *.omc is broken and openmeca users can't share
> their files.
I don't agree with you. Your folder are almost equal that my boost installation.
IMHO It's not a good idea to use custom versions of Boost.
> 2- The chronoengine C++ library because it is not packaged by debian.
Package it!!! Another users will benefit of it. Don't worry, it's an interesting
package and the Debian Science team will help you.
I'm sorry to answer lately,
Leopold
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