Bug#767372: Reassigning to pantomime

[intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org>]

Hi,

Yavor Doganov wrote (30 Oct 2014 11:59:26 GMT) :
> An attempt to contact the original authors of GNUMail and LuserNET for
> request for relicensing under GPL + OpenSSL exception has failed, so
> the problem will be solved in the library by switching to GnuTLS.

[Looking at it since it's a RC bug affecting Jessie.]

FTR:

* there's a sponsorship request: https://bugs.debian.org/767372
* the patch applied in the proposed package has been proposed
  upstream in August:
  https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gap-dev-discuss/2014-08/msg00000.html
* There's been exactly one reply there, two months later:
  https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gap-dev-discuss/2014-09/msg00000.html
  (... and no other messages on the list in between)
  Upstream asks Yavor a question that's not been answered yet.

I don't personally feel comfortable introducing a crypto-related patch
in Debian, that upstream won't take, and that apparently hasn't been
looked at by many persons yet.

I hope this problem can be fixed on the long term, but I doubt that
anyone who doesn't have a good knowledge of both pantomime *and*
crypto libraries can sensibly sponsor the proposed upload.

As far as Jessie is concerned, I fail to see what can reasonably be
done except letting pantomime1.2 and lusernet.app be auto-removed
(which will be the case in 13 days unless something else happens in
the meantime) :/ ... except if the release team decides to flag this
RC bug jessie-ignore.

Cheers,
--
intrigeri