On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool@gmail.com> wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

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The list : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Snowman/License_Rebuild_TODO

Eric

Hi Eric,

I made a list of 90 extra-packages from your list, that also have bad mandir Please see here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13765#comment41164

Both isdn4k-utils and xinetd from core have bad mandir.

Take care.

We'll also check for mandir at the same time: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Snowman/License_Rebuild_Checklist

We'll take care or the ones with correct license and bad mandir later.

In addition to the mandir/license thing, we could also do a check for info files too.

That's also in the checklist.

This is getting ambitious :) Sounds like something that could be covered on bug day

It would be nice if other devs other than Phil and myself would try to do some license rebuild on bug day. Or at least check for these things while fixing bugs. However, on bug day, we probably don't want all devs doing license rebuild instead of fixing bugs. Most of these license rebuilds don't have bugs assigned to them; they just a been built several years ago. Also, doing all these chacks and fixes is quite time consuming. A couple of remarks for the rebuilders: - GPL vs GPL2 vs GPL3 : Remember to check if the packages is licensed for a specific GPL version or if it's licensed for version 2 or later. The best way to do that is to check the main source file. It usually have a blurb specifying that. Even if the license has been already added to trunk, better double check as sometime I need to change it form GPL2 to GPL. - ChangeLog: If there is a package ChangeLog please add an entry describing your changes. If there is no ChangeLog, don't add one unless it's a package that you maintain or want to adopt. Some devs don't use ChangeLog so it won't be updated which defeats the presence of a ChangeLog. If there are devs who wants their packages to have ChangeLog, let us know. We could add them in that case.