Bug#621479: debian-policy: retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
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On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 10:49:29AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk> writes:
>
> > I was just looking at the incoming version of policy, and it occurred to
> > me: is there any particular reason why there still needs to be a section
> > in policy for "The OSF/Motif and OpenMotif libraries"? It defines the
> > circumstances under which packages compiled against non-free Motif
> > should be given names with -smotif or -dmotif suffixes; but the last
> > such package left in the archive vanished or switched to LessTif
> > somewhere around about Sarge. The only remaining rdeps of libmotif4
> > that I can see anywhere in Debian are the other members of the openmotif
> > source package.
>
> Yeah, this whole section looks completely obsolete. I think we should
> just remove it entirely. Objections or seconds?
>
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 91173a5..9b4a93e 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -9370,41 +9370,6 @@ name ["<var>syshostname</var>"]:
> policy (such as for <ref id="appdefaults">).
> </p>
> </sect1>
> -
> - <sect1>
> - <heading>The OSF/Motif and OpenMotif libraries</heading>
> -
> - <p>
> - <em>Programs that require the non-DFSG-compliant OSF/Motif or
> - OpenMotif libraries</em><footnote>
> - OSF/Motif and OpenMotif are collectively referred to as
> - "Motif" in this policy document.
> - </footnote>
> - should be compiled against and tested with LessTif (a free
> - re-implementation of Motif) instead. If the maintainer
> - judges that the program or programs do not work
> - sufficiently well with LessTif to be distributed and
> - supported, but do so when compiled against Motif, then two
> - versions of the package should be created; one linked
> - statically against Motif and with <tt>-smotif</tt>
> - appended to the package name, and one linked dynamically
> - against Motif and with <tt>-dmotif</tt> appended to the
> - package name.
> - </p>
> -
> - <p>
> - Both Motif-linked versions are dependent
> - upon non-DFSG-compliant software and thus cannot be
> - uploaded to the <em>main</em> distribution; if the
> - software is itself DFSG-compliant it may be uploaded to
> - the <em>contrib</em> distribution. While known existing
> - versions of Motif permit unlimited redistribution of
> - binaries linked against the library (whether statically or
> - dynamically), it is the package maintainer's
> - responsibility to determine whether this is permitted by
> - the license of the copy of Motif in their possession.
> - </p>
> - </sect1>
> </sect>
>
> <sect id="perl">
Applied to the git repository,
Thanks!
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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