Bug#321795: O: lg-* -- lg-* - Linux Gazette, 111 packages
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I would love to adopt this package and try to make that changes that you
suggests.
Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
> Hi People,
>
> i now go and O: all the lg-* packages from the Linux Gazette.
> That are about 111 packages right now, I wont upload them all just to
> set the email address to the qa-group. :)
>
> If someone wants to take them please consider the following points:
>
> - They have a license that is considered to be non-free, so you need to
> move them out of main or try to get upstream to use a better
> license. That could be hard, as there are a lot of contributors to the
> gazette.
>
> - Many people dislike them, so if you want to keep them in the current
> way - have a thick skin.
> But I would propose to change it to some of the following:
> - A package that just contains the latest version, so interested
> people always have that, and there arent hundreds of lg-issue*
> packages.
> Advantage: Small, easy to follow. Disadvantage: Only last issue
> available.
> - Provide a installer-like package that does the work of monthly
> fetching the new issues and putting them in the right location for
> the user. As that would be written by you it wouldnt have a license
> problem, so could go into contrib/.
> Advantage: Small, easy to follow. Disadvantage: Either needs a
> monthly upload to provide the right url, or needs to run on multiple
> days at the beginning of the months to be sure new issue is there
> upstream. Or needs to be run manually by admin.
> Also you would need to think about what to do with older
> issues. Keep? Delete?
>
> If noone volunteers to take this packages and deal with them I will go
> and request their removal from Debian within the next 3 weeks.
>
> If you go and take them - contact me, I can give you at least the script
> I used to update to newer issues. :)
>
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