On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, blah wrote: > > And most DDs who thought of adding it to Debian refrained from doing it, on > > the express wishes of pykota's author. > > This is plain bullshit ! > I've NEVER asked anyone to refrain from uploading PyKota to Debian.
Is it? That's good news! But you need to rephrase what you have in the website, then. As it stands, it looks like we would be hurting PyKota development if we shipped it in the distro. In the CUPS website we have this: (http://www.cups.org/links.php?V60): "Full access to source code is granted to all for no fee via Subversion (aka svn), but installable tarballs, as well as DEB and RPM packages download is for a fee. Redistribution and modification is allowed to all under the terms of the GNU GPL." And there is the whole "Why no tarball or package is available for free :" section at http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/Download/action_Download You don't ask that distributions refrain from packaging pykota directly, but the whole tone of the pages, plus the fact that there ARE official debs/rpm packages can transmit that idea. So you will excuse me (and others) if we took all of that as a subtle hint that we should leave pykota alone. Users probably did too, they probably prefer to use your official DEBs, as we didn't have an avalanche of requests for PyKota in the wnpp buglist requesting its packaging. > In summary, if PyKota is not part of Debian, this entirely the decision > of DDs. Your email just made PyKota ITP'able without any possible drawbacks. It will probably be packaged by someone if I don't get to it soon. Keep in mind that it will be the unnofficial version if *I* package it. I have no personal need for pykota, but it is a damn cool software that I would package to have the full hplip,foomatic,gutenprint+cups+pykota suite in Debian. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
