Hi, Please advise regarding this revert request.
Vänliga hälsningar/Best Regards, Helio Loureiro http://helio.loureiro.eng.br https://se.linkedin.com/in/helioloureiro http://twitter.com/helioloureiro Note: if you failed to reach me, try my alternative mail " [email protected]". I'm implementing DKIM on my mail server, so some disturbance is expected. 2018-06-11 14:57 GMT+02:00 Helio Loureiro <[email protected]>: > > Package: mpage > Version: 2.5.7 > > I believe mpage was wrongly removed by license issues. > > I was checking BTS tagged as newcomer and found a mpage removal requested > by Eriberto to an upstream package. So I tracked back to this bug, where > the > license issue is correctly stated. > > I considered rewrite the header in order have the package back on sid when > I deep looked at the source and... it isn't used anywhere. It recommends > to replace encondings.h, covered by GPL, by encondings.h.CP850 on OS/2 > platform only, which contains such restrictive license. > > If removed from source code, it compiles flawlessly. > > helio@elxaf7qtt32:mpage-2.5.7$ rm -f encoding.h.PC850 Encodings/CP850.PC > helio@elxaf7qtt32:mpage-2.5.7$ make > gcc -O2 -s -DPAGE_DEF=\"A4\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/share/mpage\" > -DDEFAULT_ENCODING=1 -DDEFAULT_DUPLEX=0 -DDEFAULTSMARGIN=18 > -DSPOOLER=BSD_SPOOLER -Wall -c -o mpage.o mpage.c > gcc -O2 -s -DPAGE_DEF=\"A4\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/share/mpage\" > -DDEFAULT_ENCODING=1 -DDEFAULT_DUPLEX=0 -DDEFAULTSMARGIN=18 > -DSPOOLER=BSD_SPOOLER -Wall -c -o glob.o glob.c > gcc -O2 -s -DPAGE_DEF=\"A4\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/share/mpage\" > -DDEFAULT_ENCODING=1 -DDEFAULT_DUPLEX=0 -DDEFAULTSMARGIN=18 > -DSPOOLER=BSD_SPOOLER -Wall -c -o text.o text.c > gcc -O2 -s -DPAGE_DEF=\"A4\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/share/mpage\" > -DDEFAULT_ENCODING=1 -DDEFAULT_DUPLEX=0 -DDEFAULTSMARGIN=18 > -DSPOOLER=BSD_SPOOLER -Wall -c -o post.o post.c > post.c: In function ‘ps_copyprolog’: > post.c:414:17: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with > attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] > fgets(currline, LINESIZE-1, fd); > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > gcc -O2 -s -DPAGE_DEF=\"A4\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/share/mpage\" > -DDEFAULT_ENCODING=1 -DDEFAULT_DUPLEX=0 -DDEFAULTSMARGIN=18 > -DSPOOLER=BSD_SPOOLER -Wall -c -o file.o file.c > file.c: In function ‘looks_utf8’: > file.c:599:2: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fread’, declared with > attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] > fread (buf, sizeof (char), nbytes, fp); > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > gcc -O2 -s -DPAGE_DEF=\"A4\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/share/mpage\" > -DDEFAULT_ENCODING=1 -DDEFAULT_DUPLEX=0 -DDEFAULTSMARGIN=18 > -DSPOOLER=BSD_SPOOLER -Wall -c -o page.o page.c > gcc -O2 -s -DPAGE_DEF=\"A4\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/share/mpage\" > -DDEFAULT_ENCODING=1 -DDEFAULT_DUPLEX=0 -DDEFAULTSMARGIN=18 > -DSPOOLER=BSD_SPOOLER -Wall -c -o args.o args.c > gcc -O2 -s -DPAGE_DEF=\"A4\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/share/mpage\" > -DDEFAULT_ENCODING=1 -DDEFAULT_DUPLEX=0 -DDEFAULTSMARGIN=18 > -DSPOOLER=BSD_SPOOLER -Wall -c -o util.o util.c > gcc -O2 -s -DPAGE_DEF=\"A4\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/share/mpage\" > -DDEFAULT_ENCODING=1 -DDEFAULT_DUPLEX=0 -DDEFAULTSMARGIN=18 > -DSPOOLER=BSD_SPOOLER -Wall -o mpage mpage.o glob.o text.o post > .o file.o page.o args.o util.o > gcc -O2 -s -DPAGE_DEF=\"A4\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/share/mpage\" > -DDEFAULT_ENCODING=1 -DDEFAULT_DUPLEX=0 -DDEFAULTSMARGIN=18 > -DSPOOLER=BSD_SPOOLER -Wall -c -o sample.o sample.c > gcc -O2 -s -DPAGE_DEF=\"A4\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/share/mpage\" > -DDEFAULT_ENCODING=1 -DDEFAULT_DUPLEX=0 -DDEFAULTSMARGIN=18 > -DSPOOLER=BSD_SPOOLER -Wall -o msample sample.o page.o glob.o a > rgs.o > sed 's:PREFIX:/usr/local:' < mpage.1.in > mpage.1 > Done! > > > So is it possible to revert the package removal or at the least move it to > contrib instead? > > Vänliga hälsningar/Best Regards, > Helio Loureiro > http://helio.loureiro.eng.br > https://se.linkedin.com/in/helioloureiro > http://twitter.com/helioloureiro > > Note: if you failed to reach me, try my alternative mail " > [email protected]". > I'm implementing DKIM on my mail server, so some disturbance is expected. >

