On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Mario Fux wrote: > Good morning > > Abstract: > I search a person (or more than one) who is interested to port Yast2 from > Novell/SuSE to Debian. I'd like to spend some money and/or hardware for this > task (I can't spend that much because I'm a student who lives from grants) > and perhaps some organizational help. >
Dear Mario, I was until recently the Debian maintainer of webmin/usermin. I have filed an ITP (Intent to Package) for Yast2. And I intend to look into it, the hold up at the moment is I am expecting the birth of a baby boy almost any day now. Certainly financial help would speed things up a little but thats the main block. The first time I brought this up there were concerns about the license iirc but according to a Novell rep I talked to once, they do intend it to be used by other distros so we can hopefully count on them to help resolve any problems. I doubt if they would contribute any money though but asking is worth a try. It's going to take a _lot_ of work to adapt yast2 to Debian, more than just tweaking a few config files. > > This (or a similar) email goes to the following mailinglists (I'm subscribed > to all of them): > - debian-desktop [3] > - debian-devel [4] > - kalyxo and kalyxo-devel [5] & [6] > - debian-cdd [7] > We should probably consolidate discussion on, say, debian-desktop. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
