Package: wnpp Severity: normal These (libxml-ruby and libxslt-ruby) are fairly useful; however, afaict they are no longer maintained upstream. There is a fairly sordid history here; basically, the original author (Sean Chittenden) stopped maintaining them around 2002 or 2003. He licensed them under a BSD license (iirc). In 2003, Gregoire Lejeune started maintaining libxslt; however, he relicensed the program under the GPL, and stripped off Sean's copyright information (violating Sean's license); this is according to Sean, anyways. At some point in 2004/2005, someone named Trans Onoma imported them into the xml-tools [1] repository, but he hasn't worked on them since 2004 or so. I have no idea whether or not he intends to actively maintain them. Sid still contains Sean's last releases, from 2002/2003. I don't know whether Gregoire's latest version even contains any of Sean's original code; I no longer have a use for either of these packages, so I haven't bothered to figure it out. Whoever takes over these packages should probably talk to the upstream (or ask on one of the ruby lists) to find out which will actively be maintained. Both licenses are problematic for libraries as well, so maybe simply rewriting them from scratch under the LGPL or 3-clause BSD would be the best way to go here. Given the licensing pains and upstream squabbling, as well as the fact that I don't use them anymore, I'm no longer willing to maintain them. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
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