Re: Why is heyu not in debian?
On Monday, 30 May 2022 11:00:50 EDT The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2022-05-30 at 10:49, gene heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > I have been useing it, or writing its functions to talk to a cm-11a
> > interface to all the X10 modules for remoting and automating things
> > about the house, since back in the 80's. Suffering from 2, 2T seagate
> > failures in the last 2 months, the rebuild of a workiing system and
> > all its backups has been slow. I *think* I still have a working
> > CM-11a, but its recently come to my attention that there is now an
> > arduino kit to emulate the CM-11a. That removes the lack of a
> > computer to line power interface that for some unk reason, has not
> > been available from X10 for about 20 years now. We can now make our
> > own.
> >
> > So I issued a 'sudo apt install heyu", only to have apt report it
> > couldn't find such a critter.
> >
> > Why is that?
>
> A bit of Googling finds https://sources.debian.org/src/heyu/ , which in
> turn (via the version-specific sub-pages) finds
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/heyu , which shows that this *was* in
> Debian a long time ago; specifically, it was part of slink and potato,
> and the last version included was both x86-only and packaged back in
> 2001.
>
> I've looked for packages.debian.org information on it, but found
> nothing.
>
>
> More Googling revealed that what appears to be you yourself responded
> to someone asking about why heyu was not in Debian, back in 2005:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg02525.html
>
> That answer implies that the removal might have been for licensing
> reasons. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/12/msg00073.html
> (from 2002) seems to support that idea, and references bug #149128.
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149128 indicates what
> happened, but doesn't contain much explanation as to why; it would
> seem fine to have moved heyu into non-free, rather than removing it
> from the archive entirely.
>
> My best guess remains that the package maintainer decided (perhaps for
> that licensing reason) to not continue maintaining it, and so it wound
> up being dropped.
I faintly remember something like that, but I believe the license has now
been changed to gplv2, which should remove that objection. I just dl'd
the latest tarball, ./Configured it, sudo make install, and it thinks its
working. So it seems to build/install on modern hardware.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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