Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:54 AM, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:50:40PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>
>> An example of such a package is glibc (bug#382175). I don't think that
>> removing SUNRPC support (and with it NIS, NFS and more) is a suitable
>> choice (unless we want to lose all users who haven't switched yet to
>> Ubuntu).
>
> I have my doubts that the problem with glibc is so difficult as you present
> it. It's probably just a matter of contacting the right person at Sun, or
> perhaps integrating another library from one of the *BSD.
Perhaps the portmap/glibc maintainers (CCed) would like to reply to
the Sun employee who intends to help with this issue, once someone
tells them what needs to be done (see last message on #424957)?
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