Bug#727091: opu (binnmu): chrony_1.24-3+squeeze1+b1 -- GPL-2-only program linking GPL-3+ libreadline6 on amd64

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertag: opu

On 10/20/2013 18:10, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 04:06:06PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> The security update for chrony links against libreadline6 on
>> amd64. However chrony is licensed under GPL-2-only and libreadline6 is
>> GPL-3-or-later.
>>
>> The buildd uploads still link against libreadline5 (GPL-2+). So it looks
>> like the amd64 version was built in an unclean environment.
>>
>> So chrony needs either
>> a, a binNMU on amd64 for the next point release, leaving the current
>>    version on security.d.o, or
> 
> We should trigger a binBMU for amd64.

Please consider scheduling a binNMU for chrony in oldstable. The program
is licensed under GPL-2-only, but links a GPL-3+ library on amd64[1].

  [1] <http://bugs.debian.org/726817>

Ansgar