Bug#342200: argouml: Please advise

[Arnaud Vandyck]

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Michael Koch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:44:08PM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote:
> 
>> Could you please share with us the reasons for not closing
>> this bug, in other words, why we don't yet have the latest
>> version of ArgoUML in Debian? Namely, is it because of
>> personal reasons, lack of motivation, etc., or because
>> said version has known fatal bugs?
> 
> Arccording to http://wiki.debian.org/Java/ShouldGoToMain argouml doesnt
> run with free Java runtimes yet. This lowers the motivation for working
> it a lot. We want to move all Java packages to the Debian main section.
> this can only be done when a package can be built and run with purely
> free software. To help with this you can e.g. test argouml with free
> runtimes and report bugs to upstream so they can fix it. then when these
> fixes enter Debian we can reconsider argouml and update it.

This is one reason, another one is __time__! I have a lot of work at the
moment and packaging ArgoUML is not an easy task. I'll try to resolve
the ArgoUML bugs asap, but I'm full at the moment.

Thanks for your comprehension,

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