Johanathan, If you want to help, as indicated by one of your last sentences in your RM request, then reupload the package without that .jar. That .jar is of tertiary importance for the package's overall functionality, it can just go. I do not perceive your RM request as any helpful or as constructive by any means. Time is a scarce resource. If you want Free Software to be successful in all phases of one's life, then please allow for compromises not only on the developer's side, but also with experimental packages from time to time.
My next upload of this package will be a new version of that package, hopefully also with a new dedicated maintainer, without that .jar. If you manage to have the Ensembl package removed now, then you indicate a severe disinterest by the Debian community into all what the Ensembl package stands for. It would mean quite a blow to me. Steffen -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 14:18:15 -0700 > Von: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> > An: sub...@bugs.debian.org > Betreff: Bug#689749: RM: ensembl -- includes GPL code without source > Package: ftp.debian.org > > Steffen Möller wrote[1]: > > > We need to do some communication and some thinking for bringing the > > Ensembl package up to speed again. Quite some investment was once > > made for it. It is trickier than it seems. > > Thanks for writing. I actually think the package needs technical work > mostly. > > I respectfully disagree about removing the current package from > experimental being a harmful thing to do at all. Indeed, it would > make it clearer to potential testers that they should look to the > packaging VCS, and it would mean we were not asking mirror admins to > violate the GPL any more. This bug has been known for more than a > year, and once it is fixed the package could return to the archive. > > FTP team, please remove ensembl/63-1. > > If I understand correctly, the maintainers oppose this. I think it is > important anyway, for the reasons described above. > > If there is anything I can do to help the packaging effort (e.g., > testing), please don't hesitate to let me know. > > Thanks again, > Jonathan > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/645487 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
