Hi,

Please advise regarding this revert request.

Vänliga hälsningar/Best Regards,
Helio Loureiro
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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.
>

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