On 19/01/15 03:51, Axel Beckert wrote: > Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 04:06:01PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: >>> asr-manpages unfortunately got removed from testing manually without >>> explicit reason instead of just waiting for the autoremoval period. >>> That happened despite there are obvious efforts to fix this issue -- >>> which definitely lowered my motiviation to do an NMU for this issue >>> once the upstream authors have answered. :-( >> >> The maintainer indicated in #774932 that "it would be best to remove it". > > Gah, this anonymous submitter is annoying. His claim that this "is > practically impossible" is yet to be proved as I'm trying to prove the > opposite.
I am not anonymous. My name is Riley Baird. I am the maintainer of pyelliptic. Is there any more information you would like to know about me? > He rather should be constructive instead of kicking people's work in > the ass. I'm quite pissed that anyone seems to ignore that I'm trying > to fix this issue to avoid the same fate as with funny-manpages (where > the copyright questions are indeed difficult to fix as the authors > first have to be figured out). You might not have seen this, but I have tried contacting many of the authors of the funny-manpages, and not a single one responded - except RMS, who refused to relicense his manpages. I even tried making a phone call to someone after looking up their name in the white pages. The reason that I filed the RM request was that the RC bug on funny-manpages was left open for several hundred days, with no action. Since it seemed that nobody cared about this issue with funny-manpages, I saw no reason to assume that anyone would care about it with asr-manpages. Now that you are making an effort to fix it, that's great. I *want* asr-manpages to be in Debian. I just don't think that you are likely to get permission from all, or even most, of the authors, and especially not in time for the jessie release. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
