[Mondo-devel] Call for Help (was: Re: mindi/mondo no longer, in Debian)

On 28/06/11 17:21, Bruno Cornec <Bru...@hp...> wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom said on Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:16:38AM -0500:
>
>> Too bad. The maintainer has gone AWOL...
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629585
> Andree hadn't time to deal woith this anymore :-(
>
> So is there any volunteer to jump and be the maintainer of
> mondo/mindi/mindi-busybox and maybe afio/buffer packages for Debian ?

Actually, probably the biggest problem you face with Debian is that afio 
has been removed from Debian because of licensing issues: the existing 
licenses aren't collectively clearly DFSG compliant, it isn't clear who 
the current copyright holder is, and noone knows how to contact the 
original author (Debian bug #509287).

So right now, unless afio gets back into Debian then Mondo will not make 
it in either, because of an unsatisfiable dependency on afio.

Three alternative solutions would be:

    * Identify the current "owner" of the problematic code and get them
      to talk to Debian about the license;
    * Identify or write a drop-in replacement for afio with a better
      license;
    * Use an alternative to afio; historically, tar was a bad choice due
      to missing and broken features and an inconsistent interface acros
      platforms, but in today's more modern, Linux/BSD centric world it
      would probably work out better

Regards,


John Pearson

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