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Re: [GNUnet-developers] debian packages
From: |
Glenn McGrath |
Subject: |
Re: [GNUnet-developers] debian packages |
Date: |
Sun, 19 May 2002 10:35:17 +1000 |
On Sat, 18 May 2002 21:18:11 +0200
"Robert Millan" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:44:19AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> >
> > > On Saturday 18 May 2002 11:42 am, you wrote:
> > >
> > > A few people have indicated that they may be interested, but I have
> > > yet to get a definite confirmation that somebody is really working
> > > on it, so I guess, the answer is that there is nothing to start from
> > > yet (except maybe the rpm).
> > >
> >
> > I am interested, but im just as happy for someone alse to do it.
>
> I just packaged it, see http://khazad.dyndns.org/gnunet/
>
> I don't have much time to maintain it though, would you like to take
> maintainance of the package?
>
> Besides, there is a problem for inclusion in Debian, and it's something
> that affects the upstream project too. GNUnet is linked against the
> openssl libraries whose license disallows linking of GPL code against
> them.
>
> My proposed solution is that you switch to GNUtls, which although
> not very mature, looks like a sane software piece.
>
This was discused recently, and i agree with you completely, however it
isnt seen as a problem here.
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/gnunet-developers/2002-May/000095.html
This issue is the only reason why im hesitant to take responsibility for a
debian package of GNUnet.
> The other (minor) problem is that the autoconf/automake stuff is not
> pregenerated, and building it in the package is problematic for
> building-dependencies, manual cleaning and packaging utilities
> differring generated files. could you distribute it with autogen.sh
> already run?
>
I dont see that as a problem, it only has to build-depend on autoconf-2.13
i think.
Glenn
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