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Package: aiccu
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
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Full real changelog for AICCU with lots of fixes including a lot of
Debian-specific fixes: http://www.sixxs.net/tools/aiccu/changelog
Biggest issue: AYIYA does not function correctly in the old release.
Next to that the other problems.
Also all old clients have been deprecated with the 2007 releases.
As such the old client currently in Debian can't be used anymore.
This is mainly to avoid the repeated problemreports of users using
an old version, even though a new, working one, is available already
for a long long time.
But apparently the maintainer is either MIA or AWOL:
- - BUG 379766 has two requests for updating to a new version
=> Not a single response from maintainer
- - BUG 366002 requests for AMD64 build
=> Maintainer says that (the now old license) is not DFSG free
without real valid arguments and does not want to update
but according to 405606:
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From: Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The license has been discussed on #debian-release, and it's my
understanding that the old license was also DFSG-compliant in
intent (with the help of some clarifications from upstream
that had already happened).
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Now the license is a bog standard 3-clause BSD license
still no update
- - BUG 405606 / 405610 requests also for updates
=> Not a single response from maintainer
Note that due to this bug the package has been removed from etch
already, the maintainer though has not done a thing in the mean time.
Looking at the large amount of reports still open and the length of them:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can only assume that either this maintainer is MIA or is AWOL.
That, or his email is broken for the last 2 years, or his spam filtering
is thinking that things with debian and bug are virusses or something.
It is very annoying to get bug reports from old packages which have been
resolved a long time ago. Notez bien that the current Debian version is
from 2005, the package is thus 2 years old. Another note is that the
current 'maintainer' never contacted upstream to ask if the package
could be uploaded to Debian, if he would have, we could have explained
him that even though several people offered it already, that due to the
license unclarities this was not done yet and that we where still
discussing the license with people from debian-legal to get those issues
resolved properly. On this subject, the package currently in non-free
contains a rewritten COPYRIGHT message and the LICENSE has been removed.
The two points break copyright law in many countries and most likely
can be considered a criminal offense. But I am not a lawyer and happy
to not be one. As such please use the new package, without
modifications.
Now that the package is in non-free it is only a burden for the users
as they will find a broken package, test it, notice "it is broken" and
remove it again. Users don't file reports, especially not when they
notice a version number from 2 years ago.
Can I, as the author of the upstream code, request that a new maintainer
is assigned to this package so that the users of Debian get.
I suggest that the maintainer of the package is also actually a user of
the package, so that the maintainer actually has an interrest in
updating packages. Next to that I'd like to request a maintainer who
actually response to bug reports and communicates to upstream any
problems that he/she/it might have.
The very simple way to upload AICCU into Debian:
- Download the official tarball.
- Type 'make deb' and tada you have working .deb's
That is also how we build the packages and put them in our own
repository. Indeed the package can be taken over verbatim!
Please resolve this matter.
Greets,
Jeroen
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Hi,
I think that this bug could be closed, not done by the 20070115-1
upload for some raisons.
Regards
Laurent
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