Michael Koch a écrit : > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:49:38PM +0200, Encolpe Degoute wrote: >> Arnaud Vandyck a écrit : >>> On 10/3/07, Encolpe Degoute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Julien Cristau a écrit : >>>>> You'll need some justification if you want to make this a critical bug. >>>>> The whole system doesn't get broken just because this particular package >>>>> is a bit old. >>>> The goal was to awake mainteners... It seems to work. >>> No it doesn't, I don't consider this bug serious and I merge it with >>> two other bugs that were asking for new upstream. >>> >>> When you'll have your head in the build system and the hell >>> dependencies, maybe you'll understand how a pain it is to package >>> argouml. See the mdr license and source problem for example. >> As see with argouml developers, 0.24 is not compilable for now and >> there's no maintenance branch for it, only a unstable development branch. >> Can you envisage to drop argouml out of Debian ? >> The goal is to remove an outdated and obsolete package. Perhaps in few >> years we will have an argouml release that would be packagable. > > How does upstream build argouml when its not buildable according to you? > Perhaps using icedtea for building will solve all issues. icedtea will > (hopefully) be soon included in Debian.
The development branch can be built, but it's not usable for packaging: http://argouml.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&&msgNo=21295 The build issue for 0.24 can be fix using a part of the development branch (MDR) on which there's a license issue as Arnaud Vandyck said before. Regards, -- Encolpe DEGOUTE http://encolpe.degoute.free.fr/ Logiciels libres, hockey sur glace et autres activités cérébrales