Bug#699808: tech-ctte: syslinux vs the wheezy release
Hi,
On 08/02/13 20:52, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
>> syslinux is GPL'd, so this would result in shipping d-i images in wheezy
>> which contain a GPL'd binary for which there is no source in wheezy.
>
> My unstated assumption was that if d-i were able to successfully build
> against the syslinux version in sid, that said version would be promoted
> into testing before the actual release.
But the new upload of syslinux would not satisfy the Release Team's
freeze policy, would it? As per their most recent 'bits' mail to d-d-a
and published at:
http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html
Regards,
--
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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