Re: gengetopt - Is this a +dfsg case?
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:58:39AM +0100, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am maintaining a great package - zmap. It depends, for building
> only, on gengetopt [1] to generate main.c stub for command line
> arguments handling. However gengetopt was removed from testing due to
> [2], it is only in unstable for now. This blocks new zmap versions
> going to testing. I already contacted the maintainer some time ago
> asking whether it would be fixed or he needs some help but he has not
> responded yet.
> [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gengetopt.html
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708880
>
> My question is, how this situation should be handled, should these
> manuals be removed and package uploaded as dfsg ?
I suggest to add a well-tested patch to the bug, and tag the bug "patch".
> Or the best is to wait for upstream to change the licence.
Waiting is usually not the best approach.
>
> I am asking out of curiosity, and to know how to handle such
> situations in the future, I do not want hijack the package from
> Alessio.
How to handle such situations in the future depends on the situations. :-) In
this case I suggest ... see above.
Regards,
Bart Martens
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