Re: [Gnewsense-dev] cleaned section in Parkes.yaml

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:08:02 -0400
schreef dww <address@hidden>:

> I investigated the list of packages in the cleaned section Parkes.yaml
> with Wheezy source. Next to the package name I indicated yes if fixed
> in Wheezy, no if not and commented where there were complications.
> Sam, you may want to respond to those comments.

Many thanks.

>     batik:  I believe yes based on the changes in debian/new-upstream
> in Wheezy, you may want to double check,
> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/batik/batik_1.7
> +dfsg-3.debian.tar.gz

Looks good.

>     db4.7: appears no, I guess you have not heard from Oracle about
> mt19937db.c yet about upgrading the Artistic licenxe
>          # savannah 29840
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: 29840
>          info: null

I haven't. I will ask them again.

>     db5.1 was added in Wheezy same issue as db4.7 and db4.8.

OK.

>     debian-faq: apparently no, I found no
> http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/gnewsense/packages-parkes/debian-faq/
> page as indicated in the debian/control file.
>          # savannah 37992
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: 37992
>          info: null

I must have forgotten to push it to the bzr repo. I'll fix that.

>     doc-linux:  I cannot find the doc-linux package in Wheezy or the
> name of the package that contains the content but I presume it is not
> fixed.
>          # savannah 40741
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: 40741
>          info: null

Was removed after Squeeze release. See news in QA page [1]

>     doc-linux-fr was updated in Wheezy, so it will need to be fixed if
> it builds.

Ack.

>     iceweasel: no, but I did not quite understand the discussion in
> the bug, is there a direct patch to getting icecat?
>          # savannah 28177
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: 28177
>          info: null

We cherrypick (some of) Icecat's changes. I believe there's quite a big
difference between Squeeze's and Wheezy's Iceweasel, so this will need
some work.

>     kdebase: no appears to be in kde-baseapps in Wheezy
>          # savannah 33695, savannah 39678 
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: [39054, 39678]
>          info: null

Ack.

>     lensfun: no, file is now in /lensfun-0.2.5/build/tibs/
>          # savannah 41007
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: 41007
>          info: null

Ack.

>     liferea: no, but they moved the location of the browser list in
> code.
>          # savannah 33639
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: 33639
>          info: null

OK.

>     linux-2.6: no, Wheezy is on linux-3.2 so I am sure it will have to
> be cleaned.
>          # ?
>          bug_ref: null
>          id: null
>          info: null
> 
>     linux-latest-2.6: no, Wheezy is on linux-3.2 so I am sure it will
> have to be cleaned.
>          # savannah 38001
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: 38001
>          info: null

I believe it's pretty clean in itself, maybe changing only the
request_firmware calls is sufficient.

>     live-build: yes, as far as I can determine
>          # savannah 38898
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: 38898
>          info: null

Cool.

>     openbox-themes: no, also Artistic License 2.0 needs to be added to
> base-files
>          # savannah 39630
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: 39630
>          info: null

And still the same in unstable last time I checked.

>     psutils: yes
>          # savannah 35791
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: 35791
>          info: null

Nice.

>     screenlets: Wheezy did a fix by adding text to debian/copyright
> however that did not fix the upstream LICENSE file.
>          # savannah 32239
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: 32239
>          info: null

Hm, sloppy.

>     texlive-extra: looks like the non free fonts are gone (30988),
> but I could not find a Debian bug for it that indicates it was fixed,
> however, looks like the IEEEtran.bst file is still installed (39679)
> and still refers to the Artistic 1.0 license.
>          # savannah 30988, savannah 39679
>          bug_ref: *sv
>          id: [30988, 39679]
>          info: null

Ack.

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/doc-linux.html