On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 11:11:09PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > As every year x-mas is coming closer and it is time to start xsnow to > get the right feeling. :-) > > Unfortunately the package is only available for i386 and the maintainer, > Martin Lazar, seems not to react to the bug (#457742), that is open > since 2007. At least for amd64 it is pretty easy to build the package, > there is no need to alter. Just apt-get build-dep xsnow; debuild; dpkg > -i ../xsnow*.deb.
A maintainer is not supposed to have access to all architectures and build stuff there by hand. That's the problem with non-free. I wonder if the procedure in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/11/msg00012.html still stands. > There are also other bugs, partly with a patch but no reaction of > Martin. These bugs are unfixable. The license disallows any modifications save for the makefile. And considering how badly xsnow runs for example on my system this makes it pretty worthless. -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101203025557.ga28...@angband.pl
