Re: GFDL in main
Am 19.05.2013 20:17, schrieb Russ Allbery:
> Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> These packages include documentation licensed under GFDL with Invariant
>> Sections or Cover Texts:
>
>> autoconf2.64
>
> The documentation has subsequently been relicensed upstream to remove the
> invariant sections requirement. I'm not sure what our stance is on that,
> given that the contents of the documentation in this release are
> essentially identical to the documentation at the point at which it was
> relicensed.
>
> It is, at the least, exceedingly unlikely that anyone would ever enforce
> those license terms, given that they've been changed.
I would like to save the effort to upload that. And if somebody wants to nmu
that, please just append dfsg to the version, not +dfsg. +dfsg is annoyingly
popular, but prevents updates of something like 2.64.1.
> On the other hand, it looks like this package exists almost solely for
> GCC. The only package that Build-Depends or Depends on it other than the
> GCC package set is kyototycoon. So the documentation probably isn't
> particularly important. (It would be lovely if GCC would switch to a
> current Autoconf so that we could just get rid of this package entirely,
> but I suspect that's an upstream problem.)
yes, this always is a major effort.
Matthias
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