On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:35:19AM +0100, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:00:57AM +0100, Jérôme 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. > > 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. > > > 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. > > > 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. > 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 ? > 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
