dbus-1-qt3 release

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 05 June 2008, Michael Biebl wrote:

> A few comments:
>
> 1.) Although it has a bz2 file ending, the tarball seems to be gzipped.

Gah!
I uploaded a fixed one.

> 2.) configure.in.in still lists 0.7. as version:
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(dbus-1-qt3, 0.7).
> This version number should be bumped prior to release. It would also be
> nice to have a tag in SVN.
>
> 3.) the tarball name (libdbus-1-qt3) and the package name (dbus-1-qt3)
> differ. Usually the release tarball is named
> $package_name-$version.tar.(gz,bz2).
> This is e.g. how "make dist" does it.
> It would be nice to know, if I should refer to the project as dbus-1-qt3
> or libdbus-1-qt3 (in my package build files)
>
> 4.) I tried to run make distcheck. It immediately errs out, because it
> can't find Makefile.cvs. I couldn't find Makefile.cvs in EXTRA_DIST in
> Makefile.am or so, so this is a bit weird. Probably one of those
> KDE/auto* black magic.
> It's apparent, that "make dist" wasn't used for creating the dist
> tarball, otherwise 2.),3.) and 4.) couldn't have happened.
> I always find "make distcheck" particularly helpful, as it catches a lot
> of common packaging mistakes.
>
> 5.) Having an up-to-date ChangeLog / NEWS file would be really nice, to
> see what has changed.
>
> 6.) License
> COPYING only lists GPL2+ as license, but it seems *.cpp, *.h, dbus/*.h
> examples/* are dual-licensed under GPL2+ and Academic Free License 2.1.
> tools/dbusxml2qt3/* seems to be BSD style licensed.
> Could you please clarify this situation.

I will fix these other issues later this evening.
Thanks for reporting!

Cheers,
Kevin
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