On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:58:39AM +0100, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > Hi, > > I am maintaining a great package - zmap. It depends, for building > only, on gengetopt [1] to generate main.c stub for command line > arguments handling. However gengetopt was removed from testing due to > [2], it is only in unstable for now. This blocks new zmap versions > going to testing. I already contacted the maintainer some time ago > asking whether it would be fixed or he needs some help but he has not > responded yet. > [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gengetopt.html > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708880 > > My question is, how this situation should be handled, should these > manuals be removed and package uploaded as dfsg ?
I suggest to add a well-tested patch to the bug, and tag the bug "patch". > Or the best is to wait for upstream to change the licence. Waiting is usually not the best approach. > > I am asking out of curiosity, and to know how to handle such > situations in the future, I do not want hijack the package from > Alessio. How to handle such situations in the future depends on the situations. :-) In this case I suggest ... see above. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140222114258.gb3...@master.debian.org