gtk-gnutella in Etch
Hendrik-Jan Heins
First of all: I'm not sure this list even exists and if it is for the
purpose I am looking for, but here goes:
I saw that gtk-gnutella is not accepted in Etch because of it not
compiling on ARM and because the current .deb is too old.
I tried to contact the current maintainer (Anand Kumria) several times
about it, and I filed a bug.
The point is: building gtk-gnutella for Debian is really very easy. I
thing I just changed 1 icon issue to make it build without lintian
errors. The build is very clean from source as it is on the
gtk-gnutella website.
I proposed this clean and new package to Anand, but so far I had no
reply, and there is still no gtk-gnutella package for Debian!
So I'd like to propose this package to you.
You can find it at: http://hjh.passys.nl/Debian/Sid
As far as I have tested it has none of the bugs and issues that are
reported for earlier versions (except maybe for the license thing;
haven't looked into that).
best regards,
Hendrik-Jan Heins
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Steve Langasek
> I saw that gtk-gnutella is not accepted in Etch because of it not
> compiling on ARM and because the current .deb is too old.
No, the second of these bugs isn't that the current .deb is too old, it's
that gtk-gnutella is not suitable for inclusion in a stable Debian release
because the versions of gtk-gnutella "expire" a year after their release.
Such software cannot be reasonably included in Debian releases that have a
3-year support cycle.
> First of all: I'm not sure this list even exists and if it is for the
> purpose I am looking for, but here goes:
And no, it isn't. If you think the package is unmaintained, you need to
talk to the QA team; if you think the package is maintained but the
maintainer is unfit, you would need to talk to the technical committee; if
you have some agreement worked out with the maintainer and just need someone
to help you with uploading, you need to talk to debian-mentors.
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