Re: Status in Incoming (Re: Status of Potato)
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Sep 19: splay 0.8.2-5
> > - Sound player for MPEG-1,2 layer 1,2,3
> > splay 0.8.2-2.1 is installed in potato, why not upgraded?
>
> It has moved from contrib to main, this is another situation that requires
> manual intervention.
>
> > [Why not installed in potato and still in incoming?]
> > Aug 24: freetds-jdbc 990813-1
> > - Pure Java JDBC driver for MS SQL and Sybase
Sorry I don't understand your reference which package would have moved
here. The background is that I misunderstood something which lead me
to the opinion freetds-jdbc would have to go to contrib. Now the
package could ge into main in my opinion because I declared it
dependend from the abstract packages
java-compiler, java-virtual-machine, java-common
which should be OK for main. The driver itself has a free license.
I really wonder why it is not yet uploaded to main. The freetds
people asked me to bundle also the pure FreeTDS driver which can
be found on
http://www.freetds.org
At this time I don't need it and so I do not see any reason to package
it. If there would be requests for packaging it I could think about
but I have problems to test the package reasonable. In my opinion
both packages are valuable for Debian and I hope at least FreeTDS-JDBC
will be included sonn to make its way into potato.
If you think I should make a new upload of the package with the correct
location of main instead of contrib before it is included in the
override file please mail me.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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