That's kinda sad... Re-implementation as GPL seems the best course...
G On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > 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 > >
