Please backport pmount

James --
 Everyone's getting all worked up about the delay in breezy-backports. I've
already asked mdz recently about it, but he hasn't replied within 23
seconds...
 Do you have any word on how long it'll be?

 On 11/9/05, Stephan Hermann <sh at sourcecode.de> wrote:
>
> Please please,
>
> not again. Forward the request to elmo to open the breezy backports.
>
> Actually I don't trust packages comeing from questionable sources.
>
> So the source packages are a must.
>
> Pitti could provide a package as well..but he is so keen and asks for a
> backport.
>
> Thx,
>
> \sh
>
> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 13:58 -0500, John Dong wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 11/9/05, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11/9/05, John Dong <jdong at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > It's understood that the sources are identical to Dapper
> > origins. Linking to
> > > the upstream source location should definitely be valid
> > GPL-wise.
> >
> > He modified a gpl'ed program. So he has to provide the sources
> > to the
> > binary he builds. It is not sufficient to just point to the
> > 'upstream
> > source location' where the work is based on.
> >
> > I don't see any evidence that any upstream file, other than the
> > version field in debian/changelog, was modified during this backport.
> >
> > I'm generally not that picky. The point here is that I have no
> > possibilty to verify that there was really not anything else
> > touched
> > than debian/changelog. Using the source package, I could
> > debdiff it
> > against the ubuntu package and build it myself. Publishing a
> > binary
> > package gains me nothing.
> >
> > Right, I understand the concern. You don't gain anything from this,
> > but the rest of the backports users are getting really restless and
> > upset about the lack of an official breezy-backports branch. As a
> > result, some backports team members have been releasing their own
> > binary packages in the meantime. They're not trying to push their work
> > to archive.ubuntu.com <http://archive.ubuntu.com> -- that'll show up
> when the Breezy backports
> > infrastructure comes up. Right now, they're just providing users some
> > temporary appeasement while waiting for breezy-backports to appear.
> >
> > --
> > regards,
> > Reinhard
> >
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