Bug#487523: RM: smssend -- RoQA; RC-buggy (license issues, not released with Etch), upstream dead, not maintained

[Bernd Zeimetz]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

see subject.
Also as the program relies on webpages and filling out forms there, I
guess it is completely broken anyway.

Thanks,

Bernd

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[Didier Raboud]

Le dimanche 22 juin 2008 14:35:46 Bernd Zeimetz, vous avez écrit :
> Package: ftp.debian.org
> Severity: normal
>
> see subject.
> Also as the program relies on webpages and filling out forms there, I
> guess it is completely broken anyway.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bernd

Hi,

I understand that the linking to OpenSSL is problematic, but at least for me,
smssend works perfectly for months [0].

So I disagree with your "completely broken anyway" which is _at least for me_
false.

But I have no time nor capability to maintain this package and I will have to
find another program doing the same !

Best regards,

Didier

[0] Usage example: http://forum.swisslinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=1754 (in
french).
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[Bernd Zeimetz]

Hi,

> I understand that the linking to OpenSSL is problematic, but at least for me,
> smssend works perfectly for months [0].

that's at least good to know, but it doesn't make much sense to keep it
in Debian without a proper fix for that problem, also I doubt that it
still works for all supported providers. Adding a fixed package back to
Debian is not a big problem if somebody is interested in doing this
work. Th emain problem is that the author of smssend doesn't answer to
mails, and smssend needs skytuils to work and therefor needs to link
ssl, which is not allowed by the license of smssend.

Cheers,

Bernd

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