Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in source packages
Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> Bug #390664 inspired me to look in source packages for IETF RFC/I-D's
> too, and the situation seem to be more problematic. I've put a list
> of packages in testing (as of a few days ago, my mirror is slow) that
> appear to contain IETF RFC or I-D's at:
>
> http://josefsson.org/bcp78broken/ietf-in-src.txt
>
> There are certainly false positives in that list (I know of some), and
> some have already been reported. The regexp I used was:
>
> -e rfc[0-9]+\.txt \
> -e draft-.*[0-9][0-9]\.txt \
>
> But still, that's 73 source packages.
>
> I will try to go through them and report bugs, but I could use help in
> analysing the packages for false positives. Perhaps a page on
> wiki.debian.org could be used to co-ordinate this.
I've created a wiki page to co-ordinate the effort, see:
http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments
In particular, I'd like help on improving the bug report template.
Unless it turns it is a bad idea to do so (thoughts welcome!), I'll
send the bug reports next weekend.
I've cc:ed debian-devel to reach a wider audience.
/Simon
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