[Savannah-hackers] Re: debian-sf: GIF files

[Tim Perdue]

I'm not an active member of the project, nor am I enough of a fanatic to worry
about gif vs. png.

Tim



On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:35:09PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
>     Hi,
> 
>     Could you please remove the following GIF files from the project
> debian-sf hosted on the GNU machines ? 
> 
>     For an explanation on why there are not GIF files on the GNU
> machines read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html. This policy was
> established years ago by the GNU project and is an integral part of
> the requirements for every project registering on savannah.gnu.org
> (see http://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php).
> 
>     The home page of your project is 
>       http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/debian-sf/
> 
>     You can convert GIF files to PNG using the gif2png program.
>       http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/gif2png-2.4.2.tar.gz
> 
>     Here is a sample script to convert the GIF files that are in
> the sources of debian-sf to PNG.
> 
>     export CVS_RSH=ssh
>     mkdir tmp 
>     cd tmp
>     cvs -d address@hidden:/cvsroot/debian-sf co .
> 
>     while read file 
>     do
>       gif2png -O $file.gif
>       cvs delete -f $file.gif
>       cvs add $file.png
>     done <<'EOF'
> sourceforge/docs/architecture/stats/stats-process
> sourceforge/docs/architecture/tour/first0
> sourceforge/docs/architecture/tour/first1
> sourceforge/docs/architecture/tour/index
> sourceforge/docs/architecture/tour/last0
> sourceforge/docs/architecture/tour/last1
> sourceforge/docs/architecture/tour/next0
> sourceforge/docs/architecture/tour/next1
> sourceforge/docs/architecture/tour/prev0
> sourceforge/docs/architecture/tour/prev1
> sourceforge/www/images/OSDN-lc
> sourceforge/www/images/anvil
> sourceforge/www/images/bg-blue1-rt
> sourceforge/www/images/bg-blue1
> sourceforge/www/images/binary-code
> sourceforge/www/images/blackdot
> sourceforge/www/images/blank
> sourceforge/www/images/cfolder
> sourceforge/www/images/msg
> sourceforge/www/images/ofolder
> sourceforge/www/images/others/cosource142x31
> sourceforge/www/images/others/dmoz-cool1
> sourceforge/www/images/phorum/c
> sourceforge/www/images/phorum/i
> sourceforge/www/images/phorum/l
> sourceforge/www/images/phorum/m
> sourceforge/www/images/phorum/n
> sourceforge/www/images/phorum/p
> sourceforge/www/images/phorum/t
> sourceforge/www/images/phorum/trans
> sourceforge/www/images/sourceforge
> sourceforge/www/images/t
> sourceforge/www/images/t2
> EOF
>     cvs commit -m 'Convert GIF to PNG'
> 
> 
>       Thanks for your help,
> 
>       The GNU volunteers, address@hidden

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