Bug#445119: This package is two years old

[Encolpe Degoute]

Michael Koch a écrit :
> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:49:38PM +0200, Encolpe Degoute wrote:
>> Arnaud Vandyck a écrit :
>>> On 10/3/07, Encolpe Degoute <encolpe.degoute at free.fr> wrote:
>>>> Julien Cristau a écrit :
>>>>> You'll need some justification if you want to make this a critical bug.
>>>>> The whole system doesn't get broken just because this particular package
>>>>> is a bit old.
>>>> The goal was to awake mainteners... It seems to work.
>>> No it doesn't, I don't consider this bug serious and I merge it with
>>> two other bugs that were asking for new upstream.
>>>
>>> When you'll have your head in the build system and the hell
>>> dependencies, maybe you'll understand how a pain it is to package
>>> argouml. See the mdr license and source problem for example.
>> As see with argouml developers, 0.24 is not compilable for now and
>> there's no maintenance branch for it, only a unstable development branch.
>> Can you envisage to drop argouml out of Debian ?
>> The goal is to remove an outdated and obsolete package. Perhaps in few
>> years we will have an argouml release that would be packagable.
> 
> How does upstream build argouml when its not buildable according to you?
> Perhaps using icedtea for building will solve all issues. icedtea will
> (hopefully) be soon included in Debian.

The development branch can be built, but it's not usable for packaging:
http://argouml.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&&msgNo=21295

The build issue for 0.24 can be fix using a part of the development
branch (MDR) on which there's a license issue as Arnaud Vandyck said before.

Regards,
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Encolpe DEGOUTE
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