Re: ITP: fossology -- FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit.

[Gaurav Mishra <gmishx@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Thank you Chris, I will keep that in mind.

Thanks Moritz to inform that. The FOSSology version last maintained on Debian was 1.2.0 which was released in 2012. The current version is 3.4.0.

Thanks Guillem. I went through the bugs reported and most of them are solved now. And FOSSology was removed due to being obsolete in bug 656591.

But we are maintaining FOSSology from 2014 so it active from at least 5 years again and I would like to adopt FOSSology.

Since I am not a Debian developer, I need your help to package and publish FOSSology as a Debian package.

You help will be much appreciated.

Thanks and regards,

Gaurav Mishra

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 at 03:35, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:

Hi!

On Fri, 2019-03-15 at 20:27:57 +0530, Gaurav Mishra wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Gaurav Mishra <gmishx@gmail.com>

>   Package name : fossology
>   Version : 3.4.0
>   Upstream Author : Michael Jaeger <michael.c.jaeger@siemens.com>
>   URL : https://www.fossology.org/
>   License : GPL-2.0-only, LGPL-2.1-only
>   Programming Lang: C, C++, PHP
>   Description : FOSSology is an open source license compliance software
> system and toolkit.
>
>  FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and
> toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control
> scans from the command line. As a system, a database and web ui are
> provided to give you a compliance workflow. License, copyright and export
> scanners are tools used in the workflow.
>
>  - Why is this package useful/relevant?
>    - FOSSology is a famous tool used for open source license compliance.
>      We have a large database of users which can be benifited by
>      publishing this as a Debian package.
>  - Do you use it?
>    - You can check https://www.fossology.org/ to get a list of compaines
>      and organizations using FOSSology.
>  - How do you plan to maintain it?
>    - FOSSology is currently maintained at
>      https://github.com/fossology/fossology. I have created a mirror for
>      the same at https://salsa.debian.org/fossology-team/fossology.
>  - Are you looking for co-maintainers or a sponsor?
>    - We are looking for a sponsor to help us publish FOSSology as a
>      Debian package.

JFYI:

  ,---
  $ deb-why-removed fossology
  Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:58:31 +0000
  Ftpmaster: Luca Falavigna
  Suite: unstable
  Sources:
   fossology_1.2.0-3.1
  Binaries:
   fossology_1.2.0-3.1 [all]
   fossology-agents_1.2.0-3.1 [amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc]
   fossology-agents-single_1.2.0-3.1 [amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc]
   fossology-common_1.2.0-3.1 [amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc]
   fossology-db_1.2.0-3.1 [all]
   fossology-dev_1.2.0-3.1 [amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc]
   fossology-scheduler_1.2.0-3.1 [amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc]
   fossology-scheduler-single_1.2.0-3.1 [amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc]
   fossology-web_1.2.0-3.1 [all]
   fossology-web-single_1.2.0-3.1 [all]
  Reason: RoQA; unmaintained, RC buggy
  Bug: 656591
  Also-Bugs: 591107 592025 595593 627771 639468 658953 674381
  `---

Thanks,
Guillem