Bug#165504: acknowledged by developer (Re: ITA: junit-freenet -- basic reimplementation of the JUnit)

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 12:03:25PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:36:44PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> > That's not nice. I didn't orphan junit-freenet so that someone would
> > remove it from debian without even asking me about it.
> 
> But orphaning means that you no longer wish to take responsibility for
> the package.  Perhaps you wanted to RFA instead?

No, I wanted to orphan because I was unable (due to lack of time) to
take responsability for this package. Which is different than not being
interested on junit-freenet. If i didn't have any interest on it, I could have
requested its removal myself.

I think we should have a junit implementation in main; IBM's junit is
preferred, but after a long (and useless) discussion with its maintainer to
convince him of moving junit into main I opted for packaging junit-freenet.

If the junit maintainer agrees to drop junit's arbitrary dependencies on
non-free components, then we'll have this problem solved. Otherwise someone
will have to ITP junit-freenet again (and it seems that someone will have to
be me.. *sigh*)

Stefan, now that you bring all this trouble to me it'd be nice if you did
something to fix it; like, for example, trying to convince junit's maintainer.

-- 
Robert Millan