<br><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/9/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Reinhard Tartler</b> <<a href="mailto:siretart@gmail.com">siretart@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 11/9/05, John Dong <<a href="mailto:jdong@ubuntu.com">jdong@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br>> It's understood that the sources are identical to Dapper origins. Linking to <br>> the upstream source location should definitely be valid GPL-wise.<br><br>He modified a gpl'ed program. So he has to provide the sources to the<br>binary he builds. It is not sufficient to just point to the 'upstream <br>source location' where the work is based on.</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>I don't see any evidence that any upstream file, other than the version field in debian/changelog, was modified during this backport.</div><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I'm generally not that picky. The point here is that I have no<br>possibilty to verify that there was really not anything else touched <br>than debian/changelog. Using the source package, I could debdiff it<br>against the ubuntu package and build it myself. Publishing a binary<br>package gains me nothing.</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>Right, I understand the concern. You don't gain anything from this, but the rest of the backports users are getting really restless and upset about the lack of an official breezy-backports branch. As a result, some backports team members have been releasing their own binary packages in the meantime. They're not trying to push their work to <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com">archive.ubuntu.com</a> -- that'll show up when the Breezy backports infrastructure comes up. Right now, they're just providing users some temporary appeasement while waiting for breezy-backports to appear. </div><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">--<br>regards,<br>   Reinhard<br><br>--<br>ubuntu-backports mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports</a><br></blockquote></div><br>