You wrote:
Hello,
I'm currently packaging the GNUstep developement environment
(primarily for my own use by now, but I may release it in
experimental if some people are interested. However, the email I
sent to the person listed as working on it in the WNPP bounced, so
I may end up actually maintaining it <.
That's probably me. Where did you send the mail to ?
I had packaged a previous snapshot, but ran into similar problems. I came up
with the issues on debian-policy, but got no responses. I second your
observations: GNUstep is not compatible with FHS/FSSTND and it has good reasons
to do so. Making it compliant with FSSTND is a major effort that tends to make
GNUstep less attractive to developers.
Second, a main problem with the current snapshot is that it depends on non-free
software: The dgs snapshot has portions licensed by Aladdin according to the
Aladdin Public License (similary to gs-aladdin). Therefore, most of the gstep
packages had to go into contrib (a little bit strange given this is an official
GNU project). This should change in the near future when dgs-5.20 is released
under the conditions of the GPL (a snapshot by Peter Deutsch already is in the
hands of the developer core team).
Conclusion: I still feel responsible for packaging the GNUstep packages. Given
the developer snapshot character of the current release, I don't know if
there's a real use for those packages, and if it makes much sense to include
them in Debian 2.0 in their current form. If you tell me so, I'd happily
release packages of these snapshots in the next days.
Gregor
