Bug#981011: O: gftp -- X/GTK+ and console FTP client (metapackage)
Hi!
I have noticed that you marked my bug orphaning gftp as owned by you
(which annotation then was removed).
As you can see I am still kind of maintaining gftp, even though I have
marked it as orphaned.
What would you say about co-maintaining the package? I would be fine
with that.
I noticed now recently that FTPS was compiled in, and quickly (and
wrongly) enabled it in the build, uploading to unstable.
This shouldn't be done, so I undid the change quickly - there are
license problems with the openssl license and the GPL. [1]
This however, will be solved by changing the license of gftp to the MIT
license, which won't cause the same problems. Upstream is already in
progress with the change. [2] After this is done we can enable the FTPS
support again.
The remaining bigger problem with the package is that it is still using
GTK2. This is tracked at [3] and in Debian at [4]. As you probably are
aware, programs that only support GTK2 will get removed from Debian
sooner or later.
-- Andreas Rönnquist
gusnan@debian.org
1: https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
2: https://github.com/masneyb/gftp/pull/133
3: https://github.com/masneyb/gftp/issues/91
4: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=967390
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