Re: libmspack's debian/

2004-01-24 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi Stuart, > Usage of libmspack in OpenOffice would be internal, rather than as a > library dependancy. As long as the legal requirements of the LGPL are > respected, and the library API in mspack.h is used rather than direct > linking to internal functions, I have no problem with embedding > libm

Re: libmspack's debian/

2004-01-24 Thread Stuart Caie
Hello, I do not yet consider libmspack ready for use as a shared UNIX library, as there is still significant design work to complete before committing to a versioned ABI. Thus I have not tried to submit it to Debian or any Debian developers. The Debian rules were provided by Herdsoft for the

Re: libmspack's debian/

2004-01-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Stuart Caie wrote: > I do not yet consider libmspack ready for use as a shared UNIX library, > as there is still significant design work to complete before committing > to a versioned ABI. Thus I have not tried to submit it to Debian or any > Debian developers. Well, that's why there's onl

Re: libmspack's debian/

2004-01-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Rene Engelhard wrote: > The diff attached here fixes at least the debian/ stuff and cleans some > stuff out... Markus, if you really want to maintain libmspack you probably > have to RTFMs more. err, I of course forgot to attach it. I wrote a debian/copyright with me in it as tghe initial pa

Re: libmspack's debian/

2004-01-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > So I will be adding an "uncabinet.c" file (based on cabrip.c and cabd_md5.c > as > suggested by Stuart (thank you again!) and an OOo makefile.mk that will be > built right alongside specific files in the mspack/ subdirectory to create a > simple command line too

Re: libmspack's debian/

2004-01-24 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi All, FYI: None of this is determined yet. I am simply trying to create a prototype that can prove that the idea of a Font Installer wizard will work. Once that is done, I will ask permission from Hamburg developers if we can include it in the OpenOffice.org tree in external (Martin and Sun

libmspack's debian/

2004-01-24 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, OOo is going to use libmspack in one of their next versions as it seems [1]. So I checked out the CVS (as you told Kevin) to look over it. Sorry, but the debian/ directory is seriously broken. It a) names the package libmyspack while Debian policy requires splitting the package into