Re: gnutls4win and Debian

[Simon Josefsson]

Enrico Tassi <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:15:58AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Hi Enrico!
>> 
>> Many thanks for this, I have added your script to the gnutls4win
>> repository and hooked it into the build path.  So future release will be
>> distributed as debian packages from the gnutls4win site too.  I created
>> *.deb's for 2.2.5 and 2.3.11.
>> 
>> May I ask that you release the script under GPLv2 or later?  I can add
>> the license template to the file.
>
> Yes, go for GPL, it is ok for me. 

Great, done.

>> Let me know if you want CVS write access so you can maintain the script
>> and make improvements.  
>
> no need to have CVS access, I would eventually send you patches 

Ok.

>> For example, is it possible to sign the *.deb
>
> IIRC, equivs has a -f switch, but then you will have to put a valid
> GPG identity in the Maintainer field and GPG will be called to sign the 
> .changes and .dsc files (that will be generated in that case).
>
> if you plan to make a repository, you may look at apt-ftparchive.

I'll leave this for later (or for someone else to contribute patches or
infrastructure to make this happen).

Thanks,
/Simon