On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 03:03:37PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > I admit *personally* I lost my motivation to ask for whitelisting. If I > > tried last time (several years ago - so this might have changed) it was > > a longish process and I decided not to spent time in non-free software > > that's unfortunately a common situation in too many parts of debian :(
I would agree but strictly speaking non-free isn't a part of Debian. ;-) > > but rather spent this time in the process of freeing this software. As > > far as I see the chances for Ugene might be not that bad but the package > > itself needs more work to replace code copies of just packaged software. > > yeah, that's just plain cool, yes! > But it's something I can't afford to do, so I approach smaller tasks. Before you try you can never know whether writing a mail to upstream takes longer / is less successful than writing to [email protected]. :-P > > BTW, I'm not convinced that the less powerful architectures will be > > happy about building ugene ... > > if mips can build libreoffice and openjdk-9! :P OK, one point for you. > Anyway, given that you confirmed my fears about [email protected], I'm > building it here and I'm going to do a binary-only upload of it once > done. > This package is blocking the procps transition to complete, that is. > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-procps.html :) Ahh, OK, that's a fair reason. Thanks for your effort. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
