Re: [Gnewsense-dev] How to manage non free tickets

[Sam Geeraerts]

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]
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-dev/2013-10/msg00034.html