Bug#477972: ITP: hamster-applet
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 07:22:20PM -0300, Tim Retout wrote:
> Gajim changed the file to GPLv3 *only*,
Well, this is apparently another mistake, I'll notify them about it. I
tend to read diffs quickly (just because there are megabytes of them!)
so I really missed this important distinction.
Nevertheless, it is not a stopper for this ITP (assuming upstream
includes idle.c at the end); it will be a potential problem when the
current GNU licenses will be upgraded.
> so hamster-applet upstream has moved to use the g-p-m (or
> gnome-screensaver?) dbus api.
Because of this (almost obvious and easily fixable error)? By reading
the GNOME Bugzilla bug my impression is that your (hamster) upstream
just chose a more suitable API -- being a GNOME applet, portability
within environments doesn't matter much.
There seems to be another bug to make hamster-applet Python-only (I just
saw the title; don't know details/rationale), so upstream's decision
might be based on the overall evaluation of the reported bugs and/or
some unwritten (or "unspoken", as they say) design goals. Anyway, I'm
just speculating.
I'll pester the Gajim folks anyway.
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