Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license
Le Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 04:47:34PM +0200, Ferenc Kovacs a écrit :
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> from the replies on the debian mailing lists it seems that this decision on
> dropping any project using the php license distributed outside of php-src
> is controversial to say the least.
Hello Ferenc,
from an outsider point of view (I do not maintain PHP packages in Debian),
my impresssion is also that the removal of PHP packages is controversial.
I guess you also saw the LWN article here: http://lwn.net/Articles/604630/
The good news is that things can resolve without formal decision: the immediate
cause for removing some PHP packages from our Testing distribution (that
represents our future release, not the Debian archive as a whole) is that bugs
of severity serious were filed against them to represent the licensing
question. If one closes these bugs or downgrade their severity, then the
packages automatically (modulo a small delay) become part of Testing again.
This already has been done for packages such as php-memcached, and could be
done for others.
Thank you for your patience !
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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