On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:08 +0100, Joost van Baal wrote: > > Since ming is not in Debian anymore, > > You're talking about libming, which is still supported in woody > (oldstable). Do you know why it didn't make it to sarge? It might be > possible to get it re-enter Debian. (Just saw upstream released 0.3.0, > which never was shipped with Debian.) From http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt [Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:30:29 -0500] [ftpmaster: James Troup] Removed the following packages from unstable: libming | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc libming-dev | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc libming-fonts-openoffice | 0.1-2 | source, all libming-util | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc libswf-perl | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc php4-ming | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc python2.1-ming | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc python2.2-ming | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc Closed bugs: 166973 166990 ------------------- Reason ------------------- RoQA; orphaned, dead upstream, grave bugs, unused. ---------------------------------------------- Upstream CVS is slowly ticking over (last change 3 weeks ago), and if they make an actual release, I'll be adding ming to the list of osflash related packages to do on http://osflash.org/debian_packaging > > should the > > package be on the non-free section? > > If it _depends_ upon libming, your program can't be shipped with Debian > as long as libming is not in Debian. It can be shipped in contrib though. contrib is for free packages with dependencies (free or otherwise) that are not in debian. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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