reopen 181493 thanks, control, and have a nice day On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:18:25AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #181493: glibc: Sun RPC code is non-free, > which was filed against the glibc package. > > It has been closed by one of the developers, namely > Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org>. > > Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is > unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate > message then please contact the developer, by replying to this email. Once again, this explanation is unsatisfactory. There is enough controversy on -legal to warrant keeping this bug open. I'm sorry if this will prevent you from releasing on December 1, but that's not my problem. This was supposed to be fixed in March, and it has sat open for nine months, which is a long time for a serious bug. If this package were not required for the everyday operation of the Debian system, I would have cloned this bug to ftp.debian.org to have glibc removed by now. If you do not wish to fix this bug for the sarge release, you have the choices of tagging it sarge-ignore (if you just want to release one non-free release) or wontfix (if you really think the Sun RPC code is free software or if you don't care about the Social Contract). I have (somewhat) preliminary XDR code, if this is desired. If someone wants it, they should let me know, and I'll post it somewhere. As for my part in the release, I will start working on a patch to remove the non-free code from glibc. > Debian bug tracking system administrator > (administrator, Debian Bugs database) > > Received: (at 181493-done) by bugs.debian.org; 4 Sep 2003 07:11:20 +0000 > >From ajt@master.debian.org Thu Sep 04 02:11:18 2003 > Return-path: <ajt@master.debian.org> > Received: from ajt by master.debian.org with local (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) > id 19uoH0-0007JP-00; Thu, 04 Sep 2003 02:11:18 -0500 > To: 181493-done@bugs.debian.org > Subject: close > Message-Id: <E19uoH0-0007JP-00@master.debian.org> > From: Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org> > Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 02:11:18 -0500 > Delivered-To: 181493-done@bugs.debian.org > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.0 required=4.0 > tests=BAYES_70,OUR_MTA_MSGID > version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_8_27 > X-Spam-Level: *** > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_8_27 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) > > What fun. -- Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> 0x560553e7 "Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." --Douglas Adams
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