Re: RFS: jabbin

[George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>]

On Sunday 06 August 2006 07:40, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "jabbin".
>
> * Package name    : jabbin
>   Version         : 2.0beta2-2
>   Upstream Author : Stefano Grini <stefanogrini@gmail.com>/Jabbin Team
> <http://jabbin.com>
> * URL             : http://jabbin.com
> * License         : GPL
>   Section         : net
>
> It builds these binary packages:
> jabbin     - Jabber IM client with VoIP support
>
> The package is not lintian clean, there are quite a few warnings,
> however the problems are due to an unclean upstream tarball. Upstream
> has promised to fix the problems soon.
>
> The package is not very clean (it still has a lot of example files and
> stuff) but I am working on that. It also does not contain much by way
> of documentation (not even a man page).
>
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/jabbin
> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
> main contrib non-free
> - dget
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/j/jabbin/jabbin_2.0beta2-2.dsc

Hi,
	Just to let you know that the upstream tarball (jabbin_2.0beta2.orig.tar.gz) 
contains non-free bits, that is 3party/iLBC/* [1], thus you should repackage 
it as dfsg tarball with these bits removed. I don't know how vital that is 
for the jabbin application, but you can give it a try, considering the 
possible impacts. Also talk to upstream to consider remove it from their next 
version too. This seems to be a common problem for almost all voip apps 
around, and you might find more specialized help by pkg-voip people [2] if 
you need to. 

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/10/msg00002.html
[2] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-voip/

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