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Bug#470813: Any news on ext3grep?



Rince scrisse:

I don't remember if I've already replied to this mail and can't find
the mail among other sent, so I'm resending. Sorry if this is a
duplicate.

> Hi,
> I've been rather busy of late, and as I was unsure of how to proceed
> beyond correcting the flaws in my package (specifically, in regard to
> the suggestion of others that I avail myself of the the forensic
> software packaging team), I found it all to easy to delay the matter
> until I was less caught up in affairs.

Daniel replied saying that this package is welcome in the
forensic repo. I'm quite interested in this package too, so I'd either
suggest putting it there or in collab-maint (I personally prefer git).

> I uploaded another copy of my package to Debian Mentors a bit ago - it
> contained the 0.6.0 version of ext3grep, and as far as I know, no
> errors save one - I have not yet corrected the copyright information
> for kernel-jbd.h, as I did not find a good example of how to state
> the copyright information for that file.

What's particular about that? It's a normal GPLv2 file with a
third-party author. You just have to give him his credit. 
See http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat for more complex
examples.

Anyway I still strongly object to your choice of having a -dbg package
for a simple single binary package. As I've already said, I won't
upload such a package in debian (unless I'm proved wrong or got a very
rational motivation, of course :).

> If you have any advice on either of these, I'd be more than happy to
> improve my package and re-submit it for a sponsor and comments on
> debian-mentors.

I think I will go for a co-maintenance with you after I get your reply,
as I'm quite interested in having it in place for Lenny. 

Cheers, Luca

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