On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 04:26:32PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> Hi Goswin,
>
> Am Montag, den 11.07.2016, 15:44 +0200 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow:
>
> > Package: sponsorship-requests
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Dear mentors,
> >
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ifstat"
> >
> > Package name : ifstat
> > Version : 1.1-9
> > Upstream Author : Gal Roualland <gael.rouall...@dial.oleane.com>
> > URL : http://gael.roualland.free.fr/ifstat/
> > License : GPL
> > Section : net
> >
> > It builds those binary packages:
> >
> > ifstat - InterFace STATistics Monitoring
> > libifstat-dev - Ifstat Development Files
> >
> > To access further information about this package, please visit the
> > following URL:
> >
> > https://mentors.debian.net/package/ifstat
> >
> >
> > Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this
> > command:
> >
> > dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/ifstat/ifstat
> > _1.1-9.dsc
> >
> > More information about hello can be obtained from https://www.example
> > .com.
> >
> > Changes since the last upload:
> >
> > ifstat (1.1-9) unstable; urgency=low
> >
> > * Update to debhelper version 9 (Closes: #817499, #828348).
> > * Add multiarch support.
> > * Fix bandwidth spelling in manpage (Closes: #617336).
> > * Use dpkg-buildflags for hardening.
> >
> > -- Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> Mon, 11 Jul 2016
> > 12:03:29 +0200
> >
> >
> > The changes are purely packaging (except the spelling) related and a
> > straight
> > update from the old rules file to dh. It blocks some transitions so
> > it's
> > mildly important to get uploaded soon.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Goswin von Brederlow
> >
>
> any news on your package?
>
> What I also noticed is that you have added a B-D on libssl-dev,
> but I cannot find any reference that the source is actually using it.
> Using Openssl on GPL'ed code without explicit license grant would be
> bad... Can you expand?
>
> (Note that I did a NMU on the current version in sid to fix only the
> compat level 4 bug)
>
> --
> tobi
It's using it indirectly for the crypto support. I've added the
Build-Depends to make the use more explicit and asked the upstream
author to add the linking exception for ssl. He agreed about adding it
but I don't know when that will officially happen.
MfG
Goswin
