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

[Thayer Williams]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Daniel Isenmann <daniel.isenmann at gmx.de> wrote:
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>> Datum: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 22:06:05 -0700
>> Von: Thayer Williams <thayerw at gmail.com>
>> An: Public mailing list for Arch Linux development <arch-dev-public at archlinux.org>
>> Betreff: Re: [arch-dev-public] Maintainers wanted for wicd and pure-ftpd
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>> 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 for wicd, is outdated and in need of some work.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.
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> According to Debian's package information the license is: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/d/dhcp3/dhcp3_3.1.2-1/dhcp-client.copyright
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> I think the license is provided in the source package and should be installed with the package.
>
> I prefer dhclient for my needs and not dhcpcd. I will maintain it and I will have a look at the license of the new version. So, why not have two implementations of a dhcp client?

A dhcp client is interchangeable to me, but then again I don't do
anything too fancy--if it polls and assigns an IP for me I'm a happy
camper.

I just wondered, with all the orphaned packages we have in extra, if
it made sense to keep two packages that did the exact same thing.  But
like I said, I don't use either extensively so I'm unaware of any
peculiar features of two.