On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Elad Tsur wrote:
> As a user who used x3270 I am very displeased about the disappearance of
> x3270 from Debian.
No more so than I, I'm sure.
> I read here about the events that caused this and I'm amazed.
Ditto.
> It seem to me the the situation can be cleared by sending few emails
> and instead the pacage was removed.
You've only read about the most recent issue... This has been battled
for *many* years and the DFSG crew is growing more vigilant - at the
expense of the pragmatists amongs us :(
> If the package maintainer did not see for this that's his fault,
> not the users'.
There has been some progress, but I grew weary of some of the (imnsho)
BS going on in the group of late. I will re-opoen the discussion with
the upstream, who is easy to work with, but also weary of this issue.
> Somone else shoult take on himself to work ariund this problems and
> make x3270 available again.
I'm sorry, but with the current trend in Debian, x3270 may never make
it back... There still copyright issues (less so than before), and
until these folks are abated, I don't see a change.
I still need and use x3270, in fact I've just put the newest version up
at: http://people.debian.org/~cowboy/debian/x3270/dists/unstable/
That version is not well tested (just built and verified), and will
be going through some changes as I try and fix older bugs.
I intend to keep that available and maintained.
--
Rick Nelson
well I'm impressed
win98 managed to crash X from within vmware.
* gholam applauds.
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