POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Beta 34 startup today - 'Unknown error code' : Re: Debian packaging POV 3.7 Server Time
4 Jul 2024 12:49:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Debian packaging POV 3.7  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 4 Jan 2010 17:36:38
Message: <4b426d76$1@news.povray.org>
On 3/01/2010 7:14 AM, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>> John Coppens wrote:
>>>> I just threw out those 3 lines (same as in a patch I found for
>>>> Debian)...
>>> 
>>> Patch for Debian? Do you mean 3.7 is packaged for Debian?
>> 
>> It is:
>> http://packages.debian.org/experimental/povray
>> 
>> And indeed it gets patched to remove the expiration.
>> 
>> Doesn't this violate the POV-Ray beta restrictions in every possible way?
>> I'll consult debian-legal, but I'd like an "opinion" from the POV-Team
>> first.
> 
> I have now reported it to debian-legal and to the Debian bugtracker:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563344
> 

If they follow the source modification instructions on the source download
page then I'd probably be OK with it.

-- Chris


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