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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] How to manage non free tickets
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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] How to manage non free tickets |
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Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:30:26 +0800 |
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]
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> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2013-10/msg00034.html
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