-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I would love to adopt this package and try to make that changes that you suggests.
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > Hi People, > > i now go and O: all the lg-* packages from the Linux Gazette. > That are about 111 packages right now, I wont upload them all just to > set the email address to the qa-group. :) > > If someone wants to take them please consider the following points: > > - They have a license that is considered to be non-free, so you need to > move them out of main or try to get upstream to use a better > license. That could be hard, as there are a lot of contributors to the > gazette. > > - Many people dislike them, so if you want to keep them in the current > way - have a thick skin. > But I would propose to change it to some of the following: > - A package that just contains the latest version, so interested > people always have that, and there arent hundreds of lg-issue* > packages. > Advantage: Small, easy to follow. Disadvantage: Only last issue > available. > - Provide a installer-like package that does the work of monthly > fetching the new issues and putting them in the right location for > the user. As that would be written by you it wouldnt have a license > problem, so could go into contrib/. > Advantage: Small, easy to follow. Disadvantage: Either needs a > monthly upload to provide the right url, or needs to run on multiple > days at the beginning of the months to be sure new issue is there > upstream. Or needs to be run manually by admin. > Also you would need to think about what to do with older > issues. Keep? Delete? > > If noone volunteers to take this packages and deal with them I will go > and request their removal from Debian within the next 3 weeks. > > If you go and take them - contact me, I can give you at least the script > I used to update to newer issues. :) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC9jvkck+9o1+pmjMRAh+JAKCEpIXsdJOS0cTwxVjqQJQGf9Ac2QCeI8Ng SpSMxImiJEQe7IHEGt7ttvs= =uaQF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
