[Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#746825: ACE+TAO 6.2.7

Johnny Willemsen jwillemsen at remedy.nl
Sun Jun 29 20:28:13 UTC 2014


Hi,

Are you able to share the warnings, maybe host them somewhere?

Johnny

Op zondag 29 juni 2014 heeft Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org> het
volgende geschreven:

> Hello,
>
> Yes, it did but apparently I didn't notice :-/ In fact, it's been so
> long since I did anything in ACE packaging that my packaging for 6.2.7
> (available in pgquiles-6.2.7-wrong) was missing some of my own changes
> in git from a long time ago (!!!)
>
> I have taken your branch, fixed a few unimportant issues, and added
> the useful parts from my branch: lintian overrides, fix some typos,
> remove privacy breach complaints and little more. It's available in
> the jwi+pgquiles-6.2.7 branch (building right now for the first time).
> There is still quite some work to do to clean all the lintian
> warnings, especially in regards to large file support
> (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, etc).
>
> Also, what is the licensing issue with TAO that Steven Hartmann
> mentioned in the 6.2.7 thread? The Sun-licensed files? I seem to
> remember something from a long time ago but I cannot find the
> specifics, only this from Fedora:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450164
>
> And lintian is also complaining about mixed OpenSSL + GPL code but I
> have not verified yet:
>
> E: libtao-orbsvcs-2.2.7: 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
> N:
> N:    Check: copyright-file, Type: binary
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Johnny Willemsen <jwillemsen at remedy.nl
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Did post that on the list, didn't that post got through it?
> >
> > Johnny
> >
> > Op zondag 29 juni 2014 heeft Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org
> <javascript:;>> het
> > volgende geschreven:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> No, I started from the 6.1.2 packaging. I didn't know you had started
> >> work on a branch :-/ I'll check
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Johnny Willemsen <jwillemsen at remedy.nl
> <javascript:;>>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Great, did you use the branch I created earlier this week?
> >> >
> >> > Johnny
> >> >
> >> > Op zondag 29 juni 2014 heeft Pau Garcia i Quiles <
> pgquiles at elpauer.org <javascript:;>>
> >> > het
> >> > volgende geschreven:
> >> >
> >> >> Hello,
> >> >>
> >> >> I am packaging ACE+TAO 6.2.7, which should solve #746825
> >> >>
> >> >> Packaging is done. Now I need to do some QA. There are hundreds of
> >> >> lintian issues, some of them serious (e. g. a licensing problem with
> >> >> OpenSSL).
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Pau Garcia i Quiles
> >> >> http://www.elpauer.org
> >> >> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
> >> >>
> >> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> >> Pkg-ace-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org <javascript:;>
> >> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Pau Garcia i Quiles
> >> http://www.elpauer.org
> >> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
>
>
>
> --
> Pau Garcia i Quiles
> http://www.elpauer.org
> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
>
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