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

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

Hi,

the sift package can be auto-build since the license is permissive about
this.  I hesitated to ask for auto-building since I was in discussion
with upstream about an entirely free license.  Unfortunately upstream
is not active any more and this discussion faded out.  So the package
remains in non-free and it would be great to provide it on all release
architectures.

Kind regards
    Andreas.

Hi,

I added it to the allowlist.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

Hi Philipp,

thanks a lot, closing this bug hereby.

Kind regards
   Andreas.

Am Thu, Oct 22, 2026 at 10:53:44PM +0200 schrieb Philipp Kern: