Package: aiccu Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Full real changelog for AICCU with lots of fixes including a lot of Debian-specific fixes: http://www.sixxs.net/tools/aiccu/changelog Biggest issue: AYIYA does not function correctly in the old release. Next to that the other problems. Also all old clients have been deprecated with the 2007 releases. As such the old client currently in Debian can't be used anymore. This is mainly to avoid the repeated problemreports of users using an old version, even though a new, working one, is available already for a long long time. But apparently the maintainer is either MIA or AWOL: - - BUG 379766 has two requests for updating to a new version => Not a single response from maintainer - - BUG 366002 requests for AMD64 build => Maintainer says that (the now old license) is not DFSG free without real valid arguments and does not want to update but according to 405606: 8<---------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The license has been discussed on #debian-release, and it's my understanding that the old license was also DFSG-compliant in intent (with the help of some clarifications from upstream that had already happened). ---------------------------------------------------------->8 Now the license is a bog standard 3-clause BSD license still no update - - BUG 405606 / 405610 requests also for updates => Not a single response from maintainer Note that due to this bug the package has been removed from etch already, the maintainer though has not done a thing in the mean time. Looking at the large amount of reports still open and the length of them: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I can only assume that either this maintainer is MIA or is AWOL. That, or his email is broken for the last 2 years, or his spam filtering is thinking that things with debian and bug are virusses or something. It is very annoying to get bug reports from old packages which have been resolved a long time ago. Notez bien that the current Debian version is from 2005, the package is thus 2 years old. Another note is that the current 'maintainer' never contacted upstream to ask if the package could be uploaded to Debian, if he would have, we could have explained him that even though several people offered it already, that due to the license unclarities this was not done yet and that we where still discussing the license with people from debian-legal to get those issues resolved properly. On this subject, the package currently in non-free contains a rewritten COPYRIGHT message and the LICENSE has been removed. The two points break copyright law in many countries and most likely can be considered a criminal offense. But I am not a lawyer and happy to not be one. As such please use the new package, without modifications. Now that the package is in non-free it is only a burden for the users as they will find a broken package, test it, notice "it is broken" and remove it again. Users don't file reports, especially not when they notice a version number from 2 years ago. Can I, as the author of the upstream code, request that a new maintainer is assigned to this package so that the users of Debian get. I suggest that the maintainer of the package is also actually a user of the package, so that the maintainer actually has an interrest in updating packages. Next to that I'd like to request a maintainer who actually response to bug reports and communicates to upstream any problems that he/she/it might have. The very simple way to upload AICCU into Debian: - Download the official tarball. - Type 'make deb' and tada you have working .deb's That is also how we build the packages and put them in our own repository. Indeed the package can be taken over verbatim! Please resolve this matter. Greets, Jeroen - -- System Information: Debian Release: ALL -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Jeroen Massar / http://unfix.org/~jeroen/ iD8DBQFFq8b2KaooUjM+fCMRAhS3AKCDGvehJ0MH37997wgcylGyleMFjACggfxj BqQhRVBTECAQ48SGlMUj8m8= =CxEj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]