mpak.py needs to be re-implemented or re-licensed because the current
implementation as distributed by Arch does not have any license attached
to it, so it is not distributable by Debian and Arch folks are violating
copyright law.
Thanks for explaining why the bug has not been fixed.
Ideally though, upstream needs to be revived and the mpak stuff ripped
out and replaced with either filesystem accesses or some standard pack
format like zip/tar.
Seems like a good idea to me.
I've been trying to do that for a while but
upstream hasn't responded.
Since upstream is not responding I am not sure how to deal with the
situation. Either mpak.py has to be run at orig.tar.gz creation time or
a second tarball needs to be added with the pre-fixed data.
Alternatively the project could be completely forked, but that does not
seem to be a good way to do things to me.
IMO if you have made reasonable attempts to contact upstream and have
seen no
signs of life then forking (and announcing your fork to other distro
packagers) is
the corect thing to do.
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