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--- Begin Message ---Package: wnpp Severity: normal These (libxml-ruby and libxslt-ruby) are fairly useful; however, afaict they are no longer maintained upstream. There is a fairly sordid history here; basically, the original author (Sean Chittenden) stopped maintaining them around 2002 or 2003. He licensed them under a BSD license (iirc). In 2003, Gregoire Lejeune started maintaining libxslt; however, he relicensed the program under the GPL, and stripped off Sean's copyright information (violating Sean's license); this is according to Sean, anyways. At some point in 2004/2005, someone named Trans Onoma imported them into the xml-tools [1] repository, but he hasn't worked on them since 2004 or so. I have no idea whether or not he intends to actively maintain them. Sid still contains Sean's last releases, from 2002/2003. I don't know whether Gregoire's latest version even contains any of Sean's original code; I no longer have a use for either of these packages, so I haven't bothered to figure it out. Whoever takes over these packages should probably talk to the upstream (or ask on one of the ruby lists) to find out which will actively be maintained. Both licenses are problematic for libraries as well, so maybe simply rewriting them from scratch under the LGPL or 3-clause BSD would be the best way to go here. Given the licensing pains and upstream squabbling, as well as the fact that I don't use them anymore, I'm no longer willing to maintain them. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>signature.asc
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--- Begin Message ---Source: libxml-ruby Source-Version: 0.3.8-1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of libxml-ruby, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: libxml-ruby1.8_0.3.8-1_powerpc.deb to pool/main/libx/libxml-ruby/libxml-ruby1.8_0.3.8-1_powerpc.deb libxml-ruby_0.3.8-1.diff.gz to pool/main/libx/libxml-ruby/libxml-ruby_0.3.8-1.diff.gz libxml-ruby_0.3.8-1.dsc to pool/main/libx/libxml-ruby/libxml-ruby_0.3.8-1.dsc libxml-ruby_0.3.8-1_all.deb to pool/main/libx/libxml-ruby/libxml-ruby_0.3.8-1_all.deb libxml-ruby_0.3.8.orig.tar.gz to pool/main/libx/libxml-ruby/libxml-ruby_0.3.8.orig.tar.gz A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Filipe Lautert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated libxml-ruby package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 21:35:12 -0300 Source: libxml-ruby Binary: libxml-ruby libxml-ruby1.8 Architecture: source all powerpc Version: 0.3.8-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Filipe Lautert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Filipe Lautert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: libxml-ruby - Ruby interface to libxml libxml-ruby1.8 - Ruby interface to libxml Closes: 335698 Changes: libxml-ruby (0.3.8-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Package adopted - maintenance changed to Debian/Ruby Extras team. Closes: #335698. * Converted debian/rules to cdbs. * Added remove command to debian/rules that removes empty test file resolving litian warning. * Conforms to Standards version 3.7.2. Files: 67ce9f85f9398fb7672f6978f07761d8 1369 interpreters optional libxml-ruby_0.3.8-1.dsc 0f01496523ccdcaf0210004dfa860213 54755 interpreters optional libxml-ruby_0.3.8.orig.tar.gz 3aca4ac21f117c0010b3db37b26422f8 2663 interpreters optional libxml-ruby_0.3.8-1.diff.gz ea2d9012290a891d2580803def717692 15598 interpreters optional libxml-ruby_0.3.8-1_all.deb 365819b9cff6e3e4359e32ca1c3f668c 44402 interpreters optional libxml-ruby1.8_0.3.8-1_powerpc.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFUfFvJBBhylAGQYERAsDtAJwISSS8iR8Pvk5kV8eMmgse7yePTwCfR4Ji ajYZmcH1FTlyJrFjcSBp9cI= =xzUw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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