Re: [GNUnet-developers] debian packages

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 09:44:19AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 18 May 2002 11:42 am, you wrote:
> > 
> > A few people have indicated that they may be interested, but I have yet
> > to get a definite confirmation that somebody is really working on it, so
> > I guess, the answer is that there is nothing to start from yet (except
> > maybe the rpm).
> > 
> 
> I am interested, but im just as happy for someone alse to do it.

I just packaged it, see http://khazad.dyndns.org/gnunet/

I don't have much time to maintain it though, would you like to take
maintainance of the package?

Besides, there is a problem for inclusion in Debian, and it's something
that affects the upstream project too. GNUnet is linked against the openssl
libraries whose license disallows linking of GPL code against them.

My proposed solution is that you switch to GNUtls, which although
not very mature, looks like a sane software piece.

The other (minor) problem is that the autoconf/automake stuff is not
pregenerated, and building it in the package is problematic for
building-dependencies, manual cleaning and packaging utilities differring
generated files. could you distribute it with autogen.sh already run?

cheers,

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992