Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Hi, I am unsure if it was a mistake by me to not submit the request for your opinion below as a bug, i.e. that the message was lost in your e-mail filters. Therefor I now file the request as a bug in the BTS. Apologies if my previous e-mail to debian-release@l.d.o was still in your queue and this is a duplicate. Paul On 25-11-12 13:53, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi release team, > > Cacti has a nearly 5 months old standing RC bug [1] filed against it > about files with a non-DFSG license (distribution is possible, but > others can not use the copy for other purposes, they need to get their > own free copy). I was hoping that cacti upstream would create the code > needed to provide the functionality [2] that would be removed by > removing the files in question. I have now given up on that happening > soon, so I have created a patch [3] to do that. Before implementing this > in the Debian cacti package, I request your opinion on what is > acceptable for wheezy. > > I see several options: > > 1) Ignore this bug for wheezy as these files are shipped already for so > long and distribution is still allowed (I would prefer we don't choose > this option). > > 2) Remove the problematic files from source, leaving the cacti package > slightly crippled. The functionality in question is not needed for cacti > to work, but if you monitor lots of systems with cacti, your ability to > locate the proper graphs easily is decreased. (I would rather prefer 1)). > > 3) Remove the problematic files from source, and apply the patch I > attached to bug 679980 [3], but DON'T add the needed jstree code to the > package. As my patch, in contrast to the current tree, generates a > visible (but non-collapsing) HTML tree, this option is already better > than 1). However, the tree would be enormous for large sites, still > making it hardly useful for them. This option will be better than 2), > even more so for small sites. > > 4) Same as 3) but also embed jstree in the package [4]. As the jquery > and jquery-cookies dependency can be satisfied by packages already in > Debian, only jstree is needed to be in cacti. It should be clear that I > prefer this solution (that is why I did the work) but I can imagine that > the release team finds it too intrusive in this stage of the release cycle. > > So my request is that you state how you want this bug resolved for > wheezy. If needed, I can prepare the preferred option in experimental > first, so you can postpone the final decision. But the main change will > be the patch [3] and the inclusion of jstee [5] and it's css and > pictures [6]. > > With kind regards, > Paul > > By the way, I would still like to include the changes in the unblock bug > 683684, as I already see questions popping up on the upstream forum > (mostly Ubuntu users of current version 0.8.8.a-3). > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/679980 > [2] The functionality being that you have a tree on every page with > graphs which you can expand or collapse to navigate through all possible > (groups of) graphs. > [3] > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=27;filename=replace_treeview_by_jquery.jstree.patch;att=1;bug=679980 > [4] I have already filed a wish-list bug against jsquery-goodies to > create a package for jstree: http://bugs.debian.org/694313 > [5] > http://svn.cacti.net/viewvc/cacti/branches/0.8.9/include/js/jquery/jquery.jstree.js?revision=7218&content-type=text%2Fplain > [6] > http://svn.cacti.net/viewvc/cacti/branches/main/include/js/jquery/themes/default/ > [7] http://bugs.debian.org/683684
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