Re: [Gnewsense-dev] How to manage non free tickets

[gNewSense Live user]

On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 00:22 +0100, Loïc Vaumerel wrote: 
> 1st, sorry to be late on my reply.
> 
> 2nd, my mistake,I missed your welcoming message. Sorry about that.
> 
> I read the content of those pages. It seams quite clear to me.
> 
> I will try to make a patch as soon as I have enough free time.
> 
> 
> Just to be sure to understand : Quilt tool is used to generate
> patches. right ?
Yes.
> 
> Is this kind of patch can be reused for the next version of the
> package ? or do we need to produce a patch again ?
Each time we modify a source package, we use quilt to generate one more
patch for the next version. So the source package contains a collection
of patches for each version.
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> 2013/11/13 Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden>
>         Op Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:09:44 +0000
>         schreef Loïc Vaumerel <address@hidden>: 
>         
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         > There are a lot of opened bugs regarding freedom problems
>         with
>         > references to non free programs (in the help for example).
>         e.g. :
>         > #40193 libfreetype6 documentation has ambiguous reference to
>         non-free
>         > software
>         >
>         > I am wondering how to manage those problems.
>         > I should be able to uncompress the DEB file, make the
>         change, zip the
>         > DEB again, test it ... How should I submit my changes in the
>         > repositories ? How we manage new version of the same
>         package ? Do we
>         > have to do the change manually to package for each version ?
>         What
>         > happen with this package in the next gNewSense version ?
>         >
>         > I will try to help you on those. Just tell me what to do ?
>         >
>         > Thanks
>         > Loïc
>         >
>         > PS : Karl Goetz answered me that Sam Geeraerts has posted
>         information
>         > on similar request in the development list. Unfortunatelly,
>         I go
>         > through a few post and didn't see any info on this. If a
>         such post
>         > already exists, please let me know which one.
>         
>         
>         I referred to such a post [1] in my welcoming message to you.
>         Please
>         read it and the accompanying links and ask if anything's not
>         clear.
>         
>         [1]
>         
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2013-10/msg00032.html
>         [2]
>         
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2013-10/msg00034.html
>         
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