On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:59:49PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > Smokeping 2.4.0 has been released. The main new feature is a new Ajax > traceroute tool written in javascript, using the qooxdoo framework. > > The qooxdoo framework isn't currently in Debian, and although the > files in the upstream tarball that were generated with it (like > htdocs/script/Tr.js) are free, they are clearly not sanely modifiable. > > I feel uncomfortable about packaging the new version for Debian without > a means of rebuilding the files with tools in Debian; this seems to me > like a violation of our Social Contract. > > As I'm far from an expert on javascript myself, I just filed an RFP for > qooxdoo (#485975). I'm hoping the Debian Javascript team will pick it > up, and I'll postpone uploading 2.4.0 at least for now.
Update (far too late, I know): I got qooxdoo 0.8.2 packaged in July 2009 or so, but there's a license blocker upstream hasn't solved yet. I've just pinged them about it. Anyway, unless other volunteers show up I wouldn't hold my breath over getting qooxdoo in Debian very soon. The other way out of this is for Tobi to finally release a version of Smokeping with SmokeTrace (the qooxdoo part) decoupled to another tarball as promised around https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/smokeping-users/2009-November/003874.html I just prodded Tobi a bit about this. In the meantime, an adequate temporary solution might be to leave SmokeTrace out of the binary package but leave it in the source package (it's all DFSG free with sources and all, it just can't be rebuilt inside Debian) and maybe provide a magic DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS flag to include it for folks that don't care about the big picture. No code, sorry. The package is RFA'd for a reason... -- Niko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
