Bug#683578: unblock: getlive/2.4+cvs20120801-1
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package getlive
I was planning to upload the latest upstream release in June, when I detected
that the source code (including the one currently in the archive) embeds a
piece of code that is non-free (non-commercial clause), see #677005.
Also, both the current version in the archive, and the last one released by
upstream are useless, as the Hotmail page has changed.
Upstream has fixed a while ago the functionality problem, and just fixed the
freeness issue. Both are in CVS only.
Since the code is not exactly stellar, and there were many changes, I don't
feel comfortable backporting the hotmail fix, and fixing the freeness issue
would mean a source repackaging that includes code changes, so I think that
uploading the latest version is going to cause a lot less issues.
TL;DR: please, accept this unblock exception :-)
unblock getlive/2.4+cvs20120801-1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (900, 'stable-updates'), (900, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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