[arch-dev-public] Maintainers wanted for wicd and pure-ftpd

[Thayer Williams]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Thayer Williams <thayerw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Daniel Isenmann <daniel.isenmann at gmx.de> wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 06:54:55 -0700
>> Thayer Williams <thayerw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Daniel Isenmann
>>> <daniel.isenmann at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> > On Sun, 31 May 2009 14:43:21 -0700
>>> > Thayer Williams <thayerw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Daniel Isenmann
>>> >> <daniel.isenmann at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> > I use wicd on my eee. I have adopt it.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Daniel
>>> >> >
>>> >>
>>> >> Daniel, would you mind taking dhclient as well?  It's a dependency
>>> >> for wicd, is outdated and in need of some work.  I don't use wicd
>>> >> much these days myself and I don't really have the time necessary
>>> >> to update it.
>>> >
>>> > I can take it. Just orphan it and I will adopt it.
>>>
>>> Done and thanks!
>>
>> I have seen that dhclient isn't a dependency for wicd. The dependency
>> is dhcpcd. I have adopt it anyway, but if you want it back you can have
>> it, otherwise I will maintain it.

> My bad! dhclient is listed on the Wicd wiki as an optional dep for
> DHCP functionality.
>
> I guess the next question is...do we even need dhclient in our main
> repos, especially if the same functionality is already provided by
> dhcpcd?

If it makes the decision any easier, we don't even have a license
declared for dhclient, whereas dhcpcd is BSD licensed.