[Pkg-ace-devel] 6.0.1

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

Let me know what has to be merged upstream, can take care of that next week.

Forgot to contact you, but I am in Paris right now, returning home
tomorrow morning early

Johnny

On 02/16/2011 08:27 PM, Thomas Girard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le 13/02/2011 23:08, Pau Garcia i Quiles a écrit :
>> I have created a tag for 6.0.0-1 and updated trunk to 6.0.1-1 (still
>> using source format 1.0). As I cannot upload yet (I plan to apply for
>> DM very soon, and later for DD), I have uploaded the source package
>> for 6.0.1 to mentors:
>>
>> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/ace/ 
> 
> Great, thanks! I'll have a look at this hopefully tomorrow.
> 
>> A lintian run discovered this:
>>
>> --8<-----------------
>> X: libtao-2.0.1: shlib-calls-exit usr/lib/libTAO_IDL_FE-2.0.1.so
>> N:
>> N:    The listed shared library calls the C library exit() or _exit()
>> N:    functions.
>> N:
>> N:    In the case of an error, the library should instead return an
>> N:    appropriate error code to the calling program which can then determine
>> N:    how to handle the error, including performing any required clean-up.
>> N:
>> N:    In most cases, removing the call should be discussed with upstream,
>> N:    particularly as it may produce an ABI change.
>> N:
>> N:    Severity: wishlist, Certainty: possible
>> N:
>> N:    This tag is marked experimental, which means that the code that
>> N:    generates it is not as well-tested as the rest of Lintian and might
>> N:    still give surprising results. Feel free to ignore experimental tags
>> N:    that do not seem to make sense, though of course bug reports are always
>> N:    welcomed.
>> N:
>> --8<-----------------
>>
>> The problem is the ACE_wrappers/TAO/TAO_IDL/fe/lex.yy.cpp file, in
>> particular the tao_yy_fatal_error function 
> 
> Hmmm. A new lintian warning. Worth reporting upstream, I guess.
> 
>> Lintian also complained about this:
>>
>> --8<-----------------
>> E: libace-ssl-6.0.1: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl
>> N:
>> N:    This package appears to be covered by the GNU GPL but depends on the
>> N:    OpenSSL libssl package and does not mention a license exemption or
>> N:    exception for OpenSSL in its copyright file. The GPL (including version
>> N:    3) is incompatible with some terms of the OpenSSL license, and therefore
>> N:    Debian does not allow GPL-licensed code linked with OpenSSL libraries
>> N:    unless there is a license exception explicitly permitting this.
>> N:
>> N:    If only the Debian packaging, or some other part of the package not
>> N:    linked with OpenSSL, is covered by the GNU GPL, please add a lintian
>> N:    override for this tag. Lintian currently has no good way of
>> N:    distinguishing between that case and problematic packages.
>> N:
>> N:    Severity: serious, Certainty: wild-guess
>> --8<-----------------
>>
>> But I'd say it's a false alarm, I cannot find any trace of
>> GPL-licensed code in the ACE_wrappers/ace/SSL directory or even the
>> ACE_wrappers/ace directory
> 
> Yep, a false positive. You can silent it up using an override.
> 
> Thomas
> 
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