Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Please unblock package yforth. This version is a new upstream release that fixes bug #687348 which was originally filed as RC but which I downgraded to important. The claim was that yforth had a non-free license, which I did not completely agree with. But the upstream author offered to re-license from a home-grown license to GPL v3 to eliminate any ambiguity in his intentions.
The only other changes made by upstream were to roll in various patches I and others had provided in the many years since the last yforth upstream release, including a few suggestions I made on improvements to the Makefile to allow me to enable hardening build flags, etc. Since yforth is a leaf package that nothing else depends on, I hope you will agree that allowing it in to wheezy even if for no other reason than to eliminate the license freedom ambiguity pointed out in #687348 despite my downgrading of that bug to a non-RC severity is a good idea. Thanks for considering this! Regards, Bdale
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