#987606 sift: does not autobuild on buildds

#987606#5
Date:
2021-04-26 12:35:35 UTC
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Hi Maintainer

This package has 'XS-Autobuild: yes' in debian/control[1], yet it does
not seem to autobuild.
Was step 3 from `Marking non-free packages as auto-buildable`[2] omitted?

Regards
Graham


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/sift/-/blob/master/debian/control#L5
[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#marking-non-free-packages-as-auto-buildable

#987606#10
Date:
2021-04-26 15:16:06 UTC
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Hi,

a really long time ago we were talking about licensing blimps and sift.
The package sift now received a bug report[1] which is somehow caused by
the non-free license.  I personally do not use blimps and sift and I do
not have any interest in maintaining non-free software (since it is
really hard to deal with such kind of bugs and other issues that prevent
using the full Debian infrastructure).  That's why I intend to orphan or
even remove blimps and sift from Debian except there will be a free
license in the next couple of months.

So I'd happily keep on working on the packages if you would be able to
put it under a free license.

Kind regards

      Andreas.


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/987606