Re: New Maintainer
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:35:19AM +0100, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:00:57AM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > Sylvain LE GALL <sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org> writes:
> >
> > > Hello,
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > > I want to apply this week... Is there anyone interested in my
> > > application.
> > >
> > > I could do two things for this appliance :
> > > - adopt cameleon
> > > - package mldonkey ( initscript, manpage, documentation... )
There are also other ocaml stuff that are not yet packaged, if you are
interrested. ensemble is one of those that come to mind, but there may
be others.
> > I recall that someone is already working on packaging mldonkey.
> > Unfortunately, mldonkey *cannot* enter Debian as long as no
> > change is made to the okey license (QPL) that will make it
> > GPL compatible (mldonkey is GPL). You need to fix this.
> >
>
> Yes, in fact, i think we have already talk about that. A part of the
> code was hidden, it is no more. Concerning the QPL licence, i don't see
> what code you are talking about, i will browse the code tonight.
There were two peoples interrested in this some time ago, check the
archive list, and there were two discutions about this, but i don't know
what came of it. Maybe you should ask the two potential packagers and
ask them about what happened.
> > > I know that mldonkey is maybe not a good political solution ( since it
> > > is a peer to peer application, which is tool for hacker ).
This is no problem, we already package gnutella and maybe other such,
the licence problem is more serious.
> > > If anyone want to be my AM, please contact me.
> >
> > You first need an advocate. I don't have a lot of time for
> > advocacy, but if noone else is available, I'll do it.
I can do it also, but maybe it is better that Jerome does it, i don't
know, it will depend mostly on with whome you work more about Cameleon
and other packaging, since the advocate will need to tell the AM (which
is not someone you choose but a member of the new maintainer team) what
we think about you, and that is best down if your advocate has been
working a bit with you before.
> Maybe i will begin to package mldonkey and then ask for an advocate ( i
> already package mtink... i think i know some basis, but i need to be
> more accurate, especially for packaging ocaml things ).
Maybe someone (me ?) could have a look at your mtink package ?
> At last a question : where can i find ocaml-packaging policy ? There is
> file in /usr/share/doc/ocaml* but i am note sure that this is the most
> up to date document.
Yes, this is the official document (for now) i plan to add something,
and maybe i should make it available on the web somewhere too, but this
is it. The parts missing are the bytecode/nativecode split and the
proposal from stefano. Also there are some problems with virtual
packages and the autobuilders, but i don't know what these are exactly.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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