Bug#665792: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D
Hi Simon,
On Mo, 26 MÀr 2012, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> texlive-bin-2011.20120322/libs/zlib/zlib-1.2.6/doc/rfc1951.txt
> texlive-bin-2011.20120322/libs/zlib/zlib-1.2.6/doc/rfc1950.txt
> texlive-bin-2011.20120322/libs/zlib/zlib-1.2.6/doc/rfc1952.txt
I will remove the files in the next .orig.tar.gz
And I will forward your message to upstream because we (upstream)
are also not supposed to have something in the source, so it might
get deleted upstream, too.
> 1. Ask the author of the RFC to re-license the RFC under a free
> license. A template for this e-mail request can be found at
> http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments
Has this be done already? I mean, libz is in Debian??
On Mo, 26 MÀr 2012, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> It looks like there are embedded copies of several libraries in the
> libs/ sub-directory:
>
> freetype, freetype2, gd, graphite, icu, libpng, obsdcompat, poppler,
> t1lib, teckit, xpdf, zlib, zziplib
>
> Looking at the build logs (e.g. [1]) it seems these libraries are at
> least being built. I recall that the security team doesn't like this as
Yes, that is a small problem. The libraries are AFAIK not actually *USED*
since the binaries are linked to the system libs, but everything is build,
as far as I see.
We are running the configure script with:
--with-system-freetype2
--with-system-gd
--with-system-libpng
--with-system-poppler
--with-system-t1lib
--with-system-zlib
--with-system-zzlib
--with-system-gd
--with-system-xpdf
so they should not be used, but as far as I see this is a restriction
of the build system that it does build it anyway. I will look into it.
Some of the libraries with --with-system we seem to have missed:
graphite, freetype, teckit
ICU allows linking partly to system library, but not for xetex, since
the version of ICU included in TL is slightly different/chagned,
so no way to use system icu for xetex.
Finally, using system-obsdcompat seems not to be supported for TL builds,
so I will not do that.
I will try my best to get rid of some of those libs ...
Best wishes
Norbert
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