[bug#73769] [PATCH] automake: distribute local gnulib directory modules

2024-10-13 Thread Michael Pratt via Patches for Automake
Hi all, thanks for the detailed response, I had been discussing this with Pádraig, to at least do this manually, and he shared with me an older letter discussing the packaging of tools that use gnulib and how that affects, for example, debian maintainers. I believe many of you have read this al

[bug#73795] [PATCH] Add support for the bzip3 compression tool to automake.

2024-10-13 Thread Kamila Szewczyk
Hi Karl, Thank *you* for the quick response. The AND implies that the package contains both LGPLv3.0 and BSD-licensed code (in particular e.g. Rich Felker's getopt shim) - it is not dual-licensed. However, for all intents and purposes I hereby grant the GNU Project permission to use it in any G

[bug#73795] [PATCH] Add support for the bzip3 compression tool to automake.

2024-10-13 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Kamila - thanks much for the patch. % wc -c *tar* 1885428 automake-1.17.0.91.tar.bz2 1500817 automake-1.17.0.91.tar.bz3 2456935 automake-1.17.0.91.tar.gz 1641112 automake-1.17.0.91.tar.xz That is an impressive compression ratio. LGPLv3-licensed I searched for bzip3 on

[bug#73795] [PATCH] Add support for the bzip3 compression tool to automake.

2024-10-13 Thread Kamila Szewczyk
bzip3 (https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3) is a free and open-source LGPLv3-licensed data compression utility that excels at compressing text and source code. Compression ratio tests for the automake distribution tarball: % wc -c *tar* 1885428 automake-1.17.0.91.tar.bz2 1500817 automake-1.17.