On 15Nov2010 20:52, Asheesh Laroia <paulprot...@debian.org> wrote: | There's a bug filed in Debian against adzapper because the SWF files | in the source tarball you ship don't have source code available. I'm | emailing you to explain the problem in further detail, and to | explain to you that we have a solution. | | Take a look at | http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591193 , in | particular the comment toward the top by Gerfried Fuchs (Rhonda) | that explains what it means to have source for SWF files. | | Do you happen to have the .FLA or .AS files that were used to | generate the SWF files you have in the adzapper package?
Alas, no. They were donated. I could find the author. I think... | It's actually quite okay if not -- the extraordinary Chris Butler | submitted a patch to the adzapper package (toward the bottom of the | discussion) that uses a Perl library to generate the SWF files. So | if you want, you can use that recipe to regenerate the SWF files you | ship in your tarball. | | The reason I bring all this up is that since Debian is committed to | only shipping software compliant with the Debian Free Software | Guidelines, it's considered a release-critical bug if we package and | distribute things for which we do not have source code. So I wonder: | | Is this something where you'd be willing to do a new release that | uses SWF files generated by Chris Butler's code? Absolutely. As long as they closely resemble what's there now it's all good. | If you're willing to do that soon, then Debian will likely ship that | version in squeeze, the upcoming release. If not, then Debian will | likely carry a patch to use Chris's SWF files instead of the ones | that you distribute in the tarball. | | Hope you're well, and thanks for making and sharing adzapper! Sahll I grab his patch from the bug and update my sources? BTW, how are you staying up to date with this? I ask because SourceForge broke my rsync-to-adzapper.sf.net and I haven't yet found a way to update that page that doesn't involve a manual password entry for the ssh:-( In consequence the web page is somewhat out of date and I need to fix that. I can punt you the latest zapper by hand if you want it, also. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ You can be psychotic and still be competent. - John L. Young, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law on Ted Kaczynski, and probably most internet users -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
