Re: New Maintainer

[sylvain . le-gall]

Sven Luther writes:

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:35:19AM +0100, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:00:57AM +0100, J�r�me Marant wrote:
> Sylvain LE GALL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Hello,
> > Hello,
> > > I want to apply this week... Is there anyone interested in my
> > application. > >
> > I could do two things for this appliance :
> > - adopt cameleon
> > - package mldonkey ( initscript, manpage, documentation... )

There are also other ocaml stuff that are not yet packaged, if you are
interrested. ensemble is one of those that come to mind, but there may
be others.

Well, ensemble is surely very useful, but i won't probably use it.
I have other fields of interest. For example, i would like to package
ocamldap. If you are interested

> I recall that someone is already working on packaging mldonkey.
> Unfortunately, mldonkey *cannot* enter Debian as long as no
> change is made to the okey license (QPL) that will make it
> GPL compatible (mldonkey is GPL). You need to fix this.
>
Yes, in fact, i think we have already talk about that. A part of the
code was hidden, it is no more. Concerning the QPL licence, i don't see
what code you are talking about, i will browse the code tonight.

There were two peoples interrested in this some time ago, check the
archive list, and there were two discutions about this, but i don't know
what came of it. Maybe you should ask the two potential packagers and
ask them about what happened.

That was me and another guy : gosdwin ... I have just send him an email
to ask him if he needs help.

> > I know that mldonkey is maybe not a good political solution ( since it > > is a peer to peer application, which is tool for hacker ).

This is no problem, we already package gnutella and maybe other such,
the licence problem is more serious.

Quoting from mldonkey/COPYING
This licence is a copy from the GPL licence, with the noticeable difference
that, in Section 3, the "preferred form of the work for making modifications
to it" does not apply to the donkey/donkey.lam file of the distribution.
I don't know it could pose a problem. I need to reread GPL and DFSG to be
sure it could be included in main ( if not contrib is a good place ).

> > If anyone want to be my AM, please contact me.
> > You first need an advocate. I don't have a lot of time for
> advocacy, but if noone else is available, I'll do it.

I can do it also, but maybe it is better that Jerome does it, i don't
know, it will depend mostly on with whome you work more about Cameleon
and other packaging, since the advocate will need to tell the AM (which
is not someone you choose but a member of the new maintainer team) what
we think about you, and that is best down if your advocate has been
working a bit with you before.

Oops my fault : advocate and not AM

Maybe i will begin to package mldonkey and then ask for an advocate ( i
already package mtink... i think i know some basis, but i need to be
more accurate, especially for packaging ocaml things ).

Maybe someone (me ?) could have a look at your mtink package ?

Yes you could have a look on it. The better way is to get the source
from the debian repository ( apt-get source mtink ). But it is written
in C/Motif. The release is not up to date, since upstream is 0.9.54 and
debian package is 0.9.52. i was working on some patch to handle dockapp
in mtink + some possible bugs. I was already sponsored by Eduard Bloch.
But mtink is just an utility program for me. I won't do heavy work on it.
I'd rather prefer to get in touch with ocaml, which i use daily in various
way ( i am still a student ).

At last a question : where can i find ocaml-packaging policy ? There is
file in /usr/share/doc/ocaml* but i am note sure that this is the most
up to date document.

Yes, this is the official document (for now) i plan to add something,
and maybe i should make it available on the web somewhere too, but this
is it. The parts missing are the bytecode/nativecode split and the
proposal from stefano. Also there are some problems with virtual
packages and the autobuilders, but i don't know what these are exactly.
Friendly,
Sven Luther

Well as a maybe futur maintainer, i could help you to maintain this
document. If you want.
Kind regard
Sylvain LE GALL

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