On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:29:27PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:08 +0100, Joost van Baal wrote: > >>>Since ming is not in Debian anymore, >> >>You're talking about libming, which is still supported in woody >>(oldstable). Do you know why it didn't make it to sarge? It might be >>possible to get it re-enter Debian. (Just saw upstream released 0.3.0, >>which never was shipped with Debian.) Mattias Nordstrom is trying to get it back in unstable. See http://bugs.debian.org/295760 >From http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt > >[Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:30:29 -0500] [ftpmaster: James Troup] >Removed the following packages from unstable: > > libming | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc >libming-dev | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc >libming-fonts-openoffice | 0.1-2 | source, all >libming-util | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc >libswf-perl | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > php4-ming | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc >python2.1-ming | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc >python2.2-ming | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc >Closed bugs: 166973 166990 > >------------------- Reason ------------------- >RoQA; orphaned, dead upstream, grave bugs, unused. >---------------------------------------------- > >Upstream CVS is slowly ticking over (last change 3 weeks ago), and if >they make an actual release, I'll be adding ming to the list of osflash >related packages to do on http://osflash.org/debian_packaging > >>>should the >>>package be on the non-free section? >> >>If it _depends_ upon libming, your program can't be shipped with Debian >>as long as libming is not in Debian. > >It can be shipped in contrib though. contrib is for free packages with >dependencies (free or otherwise) that are not in debian. > >-- >bye, >pabs > >http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise Aníbal Monsalve Salazar -- .''`. Debian GNU/Linux : :' : Free Operating System `. `' http://debian.org/ `- http://v7w.com/anibal
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