Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-invis (21 mails)

[Stefan Schäfer <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi
Am 07.12.2010 16:09, schrieb Klaas Freitag:
> Am Donnerstag 18 November 2010, 17:32:45 schrieb Stefan Schäfer:
> Hi,
>
> > > afio             ->   home:flacco
> > > ipcalc           ->   home:flacco
> > These both packages are kicked of the openSUSE OSS Repos in the newer
> > past. Get them back into the Distribution wood be nice.
> I investigated a bit on these two. afio was dropped and it has a
> questionable license, check the wikipedia article. I would not want
> to take it back into Factory.
At the Conference i talked to Jürgen Weigert about this problem. That's 
what he told me about afio (Sorry it's in german):

"Hi Stefan!

Ich habs mal eben nachgeschlagen. Afio wurde aus rein technischen Gründen
von der Distribution genommen. Die rechtliche Seite ginge klar.

14.03.05, denicolo:
        Packages licenses have been checked and approved.
    Einmal scheint die Non-commercial Klausel sehr schwach.
    Zum Zweiten hatten wir 1998 den damaligen Upstream Koen Holtman direkt
    auf diese Klausel angesprochen und seine Zustimmung eingeholt.

2008-08-15radmanic@xxxxxxxxxx
        it's completely outdated, lacks specific features like
        ACL support and is unmaintained since 2003,
        we should drop this package!

2009-05-20mt@xxxxxxxxxx  Changed status to dropped
        Approved by:ro@xxxxxxxxxx

D.h. wir hatten schlicht niemand mehr, der es maintained.

Einfache Lösung:
   mach einen submitrequest und schlage Dich
   gleich selbst als Maintainer vor.

$ osc submitpac home:flacco afio openSUSE:Factory -m "I use the package, I'll 
maintain it."

        cheers,
                JW-"



> I attached a patch that patches afio out of bin/alldump in Invis,
> that seems the only place where its used. afio has the advantage
> over other programs to compress before archiving, I simulated that by
> first bzip2'ing all dumps and archive them via tar later.
>
> Is that acceptable?
afio is a very good tool an i wish it back, but i test your patch.
> regards,
>
> Klaas
regards

Stefan

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