On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 03:19:35 +0100, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package getlive > > I was planning to upload the latest upstream release in June, when I detected > that the source code (including the one currently in the archive) embeds a > piece of code that is non-free (non-commercial clause), see #677005. > > Also, both the current version in the archive, and the last one released by > upstream are useless, as the Hotmail page has changed. > > Upstream has fixed a while ago the functionality problem, and just fixed the > freeness issue. Both are in CVS only. > > Since the code is not exactly stellar, and there were many changes, I don't > feel comfortable backporting the hotmail fix, and fixing the freeness issue > would mean a source repackaging that includes code changes, so I think that > uploading the latest version is going to cause a lot less issues. > > TL;DR: please, accept this unblock exception :-) > > unblock getlive/2.4+cvs20120801-1 > I'm not too comfortable with this. There was no upload for two years, the package is broken in stable AIUI, and it sounds like it's going to keep getting broken in wheezy as well if we accept it. (I've added a removal hint before seeing this bug, so the broken version of the package is no longer in wheezy, at least for now.) Cheers, Julien
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