Hi,
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2008-08-15radmanic@novell.com it's completely outdated, lacks specific features like ACL support and is unmaintained since 2003, we should drop this package!
2009-05-20mt@novell.com Changed status to dropped Approved by:ro@novell.com
D.h. wir hatten schlicht niemand mehr, der es maintained. hmm, und es ist halt seit 2003 auch upstream nicht mehr maintained.
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. of course you can get it back, but if we take it to the invis project it means that we as a team have to maintain it for Factory.
I think we have work enough and should reduce the needed packages where possible. And in this case we have good replacements that are maintained anyway in Factory. regards, Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-invis+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-invis+help@opensuse.org