On 22 February 2014 12:42, Bart Martens <ba...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:58:39AM +0100, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am maintaining a great package - zmap. It depends, for building >> only, on gengetopt [1] to generate main.c stub for command line >> arguments handling. However gengetopt was removed from testing due to >> [2], it is only in unstable for now. This blocks new zmap versions >> going to testing. I already contacted the maintainer some time ago >> asking whether it would be fixed or he needs some help but he has not >> responded yet. >> [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gengetopt.html >> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708880 >> >> My question is, how this situation should be handled, should these >> manuals be removed and package uploaded as dfsg ? > > I suggest to add a well-tested patch to the bug, and tag the bug "patch".
Sorry, quite new to this. Patch what ? A source package, an orig tarball ? Along with the debian/ directory ? Should the patch remove the files and change the changelog to add dfsg tag ? > >> Or the best is to wait for upstream to change the licence. > > Waiting is usually not the best approach. Heh ok. > >> >> I am asking out of curiosity, and to know how to handle such >> situations in the future, I do not want hijack the package from >> Alessio. > > How to handle such situations in the future depends on the situations. :-) In > this case I suggest ... see above. > > Regards, > > Bart Martens -- Pozdrawiam, Dariusz Dwornikowski, Assistant Institute of Computing Science, PoznaĆ University of Technology www.cs.put.poznan.pl/ddwornikowski/ room 2.7.2 BTiCW | tel. +48 61 665 29 41 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGnkundPLgMUyyim=9=ubwqdxqtbsjfc_3440kye2__rlrd...@mail.gmail.com