Re: glibc is unlikely to enter testing
En réponse à Sven Luther <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:21:17PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm seen on debianplanet.org that glibc is unlikely to unter
> > testing because of the RPC code being non-free.
>
> Just plain FUD, the release manager told that he will not stop glibc
> from entering testing because of that, that the solution can be worked
> out later.
>
> Notice that this really makes sense, since the RPC code has been in
> glibc since years (7 or even 13 or so, if i remember well), and
> anyway,
> the RC bug is present in both the version in unstable and the version
> currently in testing, so we will not be introducing any new bug into
> testing because of that, which is ok with the testing script.
It must be ok with the serious severity.
> Anyway, the non-freeness of the RPC code doesn't even seem to be
> confirmed, and it may be possible that sun would simply update the
> licence accordyingly.
>
> BTW, you best look at the debian-glibc mailing list for definite
> answers
> on that, and i think there was also some info on on of the pasts
> debian
> weekly news, with the mail from the RM about this issue.
>
> > So, are there still reasons for the mini-free?
>
> So, i think, yes, it would be ok. Anyway, do you need to upload
> something nextly ?
Well, because of a tetex-bin failure on ia64, I decided not to
upload a fix for cameleon. So, I won't upload anything in the
next days.
Cheers,
--
Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>
<jerome.marant@free.fr>
http://marant.org
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