On Monday, 30 May 2022 11:00:50 EDT The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-05-30 at 10:49, gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have been useing it, or writing its functions to talk to a cm-11a > > interface to all the X10 modules for remoting and automating things > > about the house, since back in the 80's. Suffering from 2, 2T seagate > > failures in the last 2 months, the rebuild of a workiing system and > > all its backups has been slow. I *think* I still have a working > > CM-11a, but its recently come to my attention that there is now an > > arduino kit to emulate the CM-11a. That removes the lack of a > > computer to line power interface that for some unk reason, has not > > been available from X10 for about 20 years now. We can now make our > > own. > > > > So I issued a 'sudo apt install heyu", only to have apt report it > > couldn't find such a critter. > > > > Why is that? > > A bit of Googling finds https://sources.debian.org/src/heyu/ , which in > turn (via the version-specific sub-pages) finds > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/heyu , which shows that this *was* in > Debian a long time ago; specifically, it was part of slink and potato, > and the last version included was both x86-only and packaged back in > 2001. > > I've looked for packages.debian.org information on it, but found > nothing. > > > More Googling revealed that what appears to be you yourself responded > to someone asking about why heyu was not in Debian, back in 2005: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg02525.html > > That answer implies that the removal might have been for licensing > reasons. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/12/msg00073.html > (from 2002) seems to support that idea, and references bug #149128. > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149128 indicates what > happened, but doesn't contain much explanation as to why; it would > seem fine to have moved heyu into non-free, rather than removing it > from the archive entirely. > > My best guess remains that the package maintainer decided (perhaps for > that licensing reason) to not continue maintaining it, and so it wound > up being dropped.
I faintly remember something like that, but I believe the license has now been changed to gplv2, which should remove that objection. I just dl'd the latest tarball, ./Configured it, sudo make install, and it thinks its working. So it seems to build/install on modern hardware. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
