Re: jbidwatcher for debian-volatile.
Hi again !
Any news on this ?
Romain
Le mardi 8 décembre 2009 18:22:00, Romain Beauxis a écrit :
> Hi all !
>
> Jbidwatcher is a useful tool to monitor and bid on ebay. It used to be in
> the main archive, section contrib.
>
> It was remove for two reasons:
> * first, the software was too dependent to ebay's website layout, so it
> could break easily, and that's what hapenned right before it was removed.
> * second, upstream's is not happy to see its software being sold on ebay
> under a new name, so he changed its licence to a derivative of the
> CC-BY-SA, which basically says "no to commercial use".
>
> For more informations, you can see this bug report:
> http://bugs.debian.org/504279
>
> However, the package is still actively maintained and works well with the
> latest version. Hence, I was considering pushing it to volatile, under the
> non-free section.
>
> I have prepared a package, you can find the diff attached, it is basically
> the previous package updated with the latest version.
>
> I have looked at the difference rules for uploading to volatile, it seems
> to me that this package should fit.
>
> Please let me known what you think.
>
>
> Romain
>
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