On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:31:25AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:57:10PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:15:29PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > > - tcltutor (non-free) - a few bugs and I'm not very Tcl knowledgeable (that's why I > > > packaged it). I believe the maintainer could be asked to move to a free license in > > > any case (since some restrictions I believe are unnecesary) > > > > If you can't find a new maintainer for this, please file a bug against > > ftp.debian.org requesting its removal. > > If I can't find a new maintainer I'll probably contact the author > myself and try to make it go into main. If I understand how the katie database works[1], then it's about as much work for the archive admins to move a package from non-free to main as it is to accept a new one, so why not go ahead and request the package's removal? It can always be pushed into main when it has been freed. > I won't get into flames. We had enough in Debian's BOF at Hispalinux > congress Madrid) last weekend. Ooh, sounds like fun; I'll have to ask Amaya for the gory details. ;) [1] which I don't certify is necessarily the case -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux | Lincoln today -- just a rumor that branden@debian.org | is put about by people who have http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | nowhere to live. -- G. L. Murfin
Attachment:
pgp0vGem4q8fm.pgp
Description: PGP signature