Re: Withdrawal of ITP
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:49:15AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 08:27:01AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > I had intended to package mtrack, aprsd and xastir. I put these aside
> > when I got rather P.O.'d after finding out several months after I had
> > applied that new-maintainer had been frozen. Of course, all attempts
> > to contact the new-maintainer team during that time yielded silence. I
> > guess I'm still disappointed over the way this was handled.
>
> There's a lot of disappointment among the developers too. It should be
> fixed soon but I can certainly understand your position.
I've been following debian-devel, so am aware of what has publicly been
said (which I am sure isn't the whole story). I'm still interested in
helping out in some way.
I realize the system needed changing and what I've seen sounds like the
new proposal is a good approach. I suppose I should have gone ahead
with things anyway, but I didn't. In any case, I am not able to work
on anything at present and will have even less time in a few weeks, so
please go ahead.
Regarding aprsd, I agree with your comments. The only reason I
considered creating a package is that it is very Red Hat specific and
Dale said he created it for his own use and didn't want to add in
support for other distributions (not that a lot of work would be
needed).
I'm not sure what reaction the aprs community would have to a
validation-less version. I know the Xastir author received a lot of
flack for releasing an open source version.
World domination, on the other hand....
Did you ever get any response from Dale Heatherington about your
additions to aprsd?
I expect I'll have some more time in 3 or 4 months, depending on how
things progress and will look for something to package then.
Bob
>
> I'm happy to take all three, although that's a bit selfish of me so
> if there's others out there wanting them please go ahead.
>
> Specifically, I contributed some code to mtrack and aprsd,
> and I am a regular user of Xastir now.
>
> aprsd is a bit messy; the validation code is supplied pre-compiled
> for i386, which creates problems on other architectures. I do have a version
> of the source which has that validation removed; then only aprsd's
> UNIX authentication stuff is left in. It might be possible to link in the
> .o in the i386 version and use the free source in the others. Or perhaps
> some other mechanism where all architectures use the free code, and i386
> can dynamically load (plug-in) the better authentication.
>
> Or I will invent a new authentication scheme and try to take over the world.
>
> Hamish
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