[Debian-med-packaging] r5060 - trunk/packages/python-cogent/trunk/debian

[Steffen Möller]

Hello,

On 07/24/2010 08:18 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Added: trunk/packages/python-cogent/trunk/debian/README.Debian
>> ===================================================================
>> --- trunk/packages/python-cogent/trunk/debian/README.Debian	                        (rev 0)
>> +++ trunk/packages/python-cogent/trunk/debian/README.Debian	2010-07-23 23:00:33 UTC (rev 5060)
>> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
>> +The package is in non-free just because some comparatively tiny contribution
>> +by someone who is limiting his code for free use in acedemia only.
>> +The user needs to think strongly if he/she can use this package.
> 
> Is there any chance to convince this contributor?
> What means "some comparatively tiny contribution" and what about
> dropping / rewriting this contribution?

this is a matter of upstream to decide upon / clarify. My hunch is that
something like that will happen, "either way" (like Satellite-Lena
would say it). From what I understood, upstream is rather thankful
about that piece of foreign code since it in the past had
substituted their own attempt to implement such which just was
buggy at some hidden corner. So, things are possibly emotionally
loaded to some degree and I don't want to poke in there for the
very moment.

Time will solve this issue, and we will put all the reverse dependent
packages of Girish into contrib for the while being... which will
take some time to prepare, too.

Best,

Steffen