Thanks for all the clues. I'll continue the thread on http://bugs.debian.org/295760 to see if we can get libming going on, and my package too (BTW my package is op-panel [1]).
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323689 El jue, 10-11-2005 a las 16:06 +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar escribió: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:29:27PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > >On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:08 +0100, Joost van Baal wrote: > > > >>>Since ming is not in Debian anymore, > >> > >>You're talking about libming, which is still supported in woody > >>(oldstable). Do you know why it didn't make it to sarge? It might be > >>possible to get it re-enter Debian. (Just saw upstream released 0.3.0, > >>which never was shipped with Debian.) > > Mattias Nordstrom is trying to get it back in unstable. > > See http://bugs.debian.org/295760 > > >From http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt > > > >[Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:30:29 -0500] [ftpmaster: James Troup] > >Removed the following packages from unstable: > > > > libming | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, > > m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > >libming-dev | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, > >mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > >libming-fonts-openoffice | 0.1-2 | source, all > >libming-util | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, > >mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > >libswf-perl | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, > >mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > > php4-ming | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, > > mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > >python2.1-ming | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, > >mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > >python2.2-ming | 0.2a.cvs20030716-2 | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, > >mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > >Closed bugs: 166973 166990 > > > >------------------- Reason ------------------- > >RoQA; orphaned, dead upstream, grave bugs, unused. > >---------------------------------------------- > > > >Upstream CVS is slowly ticking over (last change 3 weeks ago), and if > >they make an actual release, I'll be adding ming to the list of osflash > >related packages to do on http://osflash.org/debian_packaging > > > >>>should the > >>>package be on the non-free section? > >> > >>If it _depends_ upon libming, your program can't be shipped with Debian > >>as long as libming is not in Debian. > > > >It can be shipped in contrib though. contrib is for free packages with > >dependencies (free or otherwise) that are not in debian. > > > >-- > >bye, > >pabs > > > >http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > Aníbal Monsalve Salazar > -- > .''`. Debian GNU/Linux > : :' : Free Operating System > `. `' http://debian.org/ > `- http://v7w.com/anibal -- Alejandro Ríos Peña Ing. en Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones. Avatar ltda. Grupo GNU/Linux Universidad del Cauca - GLUC. Comunidad Debian-Colombia.
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