Bug#612341: could anyone summarize the status on libjpeg-turbo WNPPs? [question for Tom]
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Tom Gall wrote:
> > then Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> also contributed (no changes in
> > debian/copyright were done though)
> > and then there was
> > + * Drop outdated copyright notice for /debian folder and replace by
> > + GPL-2+ copyright entry in /debian/copyright.
> Hm. News to me.
do not worry -- this will be fixed ;)
> > Tom -- do you remember a reason for choosing GPL for the debian/* works?
> > Ideally we should stay with a license compatible with upstream, in this case
> > BSD-3. Would it be possible to change the license for your works, or am I
> > missing the point here?
> I'm completely supportive of moving to BSD-3 for debian/*.
May be some people would start screaming at me for not being official
enough, but could you explicitly state this on behalf of Linaro as well,
so we could simply switch to BSD-3 for debian/ (as soon as Matthias
confirms as well). Thanks in advance!
> >> Only open (lintian) issues:
> >> mike@sid:~/build$ lintian -IE --pedantic --show-overrides --color
> >> auto libjpeg-turbo_1.2.90-1_amd64.changes
> >> X: libturbojpeg1: shlib-calls-exit
> Yeah that looks like an issue. Worth a look into the current code.
> >> usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libturbojpeg.so.1.2.90
> >> X: libjpeg8-turbo: shlib-calls-exit usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.8.0.2
> Same.
yeah -- needs some research... but I am not sure though if that is
anything we could address here -- I guess it is a legacy of libjpeg and
many other libraries:
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/shlib-calls-exit.html . Since the
ultimate resolution would require API change (or am I missing smth?) --
everyone feels reluctant to do anything about this. our CC list is
already too extended for this matter -- I will reply separately CCing
libjpeg maintainers and possibly turbojpeg author to get feedback.
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