[arch-dev-public] Fixing licenses / sources

[Eric Bélanger]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Eric Bélanger wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Phil Dillon-Thiselton
>>>>> <dibblethewrecker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2009/3/12 Phil Dillon-Thiselton <dibblethewrecker at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2009/3/6 Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> checklist :
>>>>>>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Snowman/License_Rebuild_Checklist
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I believe I haven't forgotten anything. Some of these are trivial,
>>>>>>>> some might need more detailed explanation...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorry, I have only just seen this.  Are we still doing it in a
>>>>>>> co-ordinated fashion or has everyone just got in with it and I have
>>>>>>> missed the boat?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If this hasn't been started already then let's just go for it.  I'm
>>>>>> desperate to get into something!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It hasn't been started yet. I am waiting for Aaron to push live the
>>>>> latest git changes.  They'll fix the sourceball.{skip, force}
>>>>> grepping. They'll also make the failed.txt and errors.txt useful for
>>>>> creating a list of packages to fix. I'll use another way to make a
>>>>> list.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Pushed live and tagged!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> I've made a list of packages with missing licenses.  I still found the
>>> errors.txt too cluttered (list packages with non-(L)GPL license and
>>> for both arches) so I just used the abs tree on x86_64.  Some
>>> i686-only packages might be missing but I'll add them later as there's
>>> plenty to do for now.  The list :
>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Snowman/License_Rebuild_TODO
>>>
>>> Just add your name beside the packages you plan to do. Better take a
>>> dozen or so at a time.  Once they're done, remove them from the list.
>>> If they cause problems (soname bump, doesn't build/work, etc), skip
>>> them and replace your name with a note explaning the problem. You can
>>> try to find a patch or a fix but don't spend too much time on that.
>>> Better focus on the easy ones for now. We'll deal with the problematic
>>> ones later.
>>>
>>
>>
>> How about we just remove all the fortune-mod-<foo> packages instead of
>> rebuilding them...  They are all orphans and with low (>5%) usage.
>>
>> Allan
>>
>
> We could do that. Any objections?
>

Maybe, before starting the rebuilds,  we should first go through the
list and see if there are not other orphaned packages that could be
moved to unsupported.  I'll see if I can quickly seperate the orphans
from this list.