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regarding RFP: wmi-client -- useful package for those interacting with windows
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Package: wmi-client
Severity: wishlist
Per bug 523638 ( http://bugs.debian.org/523638 ), wmi-cli was removed, but its
a useful package for those interacting with windows machine. My main use is for
backuppc backing up windows machines with shadow copy.
As there is still no samba4 package in debian and the upstream finally
release the winexe as GPL3 and seens to be trying to resync with
main samba4, maybe debian could re-add this package.
I just compiled the package and seems to work and many people would be
glad to be able to use this without compiling or using the ancient
static build that starts to give problems with new windows versions.
(compiled version works fine)
From:
http://winexe.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=winexe/winexe;a=commit;h=2cfe0997688065250e8659633ad1e33ee832bde0
author Andrzej Hajda <[email protected]>
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:48:33 +0000 (22:48 +0200)
committer Andrzej Hajda <[email protected]>
Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:27:57 +0000 (17:27 +0100)
commit 2cfe0997688065250e8659633ad1e33ee832bde0
tree 3baca65d5f489b84df66f0d3dcc9ce1c238a228e
parent 86bfb3c49f34878abc69871d1a9bdcc7f3ea6d1f
Changed license to GPLv3
Thanks to all and happy Debian Appreciation Day
http://thank.debian.net/ :)
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--- Begin Message ---
wmi-client was already part of Debian and has been removed again.
If I understand correctly, the reason for this package was to execute
programs on remote Windows machines. As winexe is now part of
samba-common-bin, the wmi-client is no longer needed.
If I am wrong, please reopen this RFP.
Thorsten
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