Bug#612341: could anyone summarize the status on libjpeg-turbo WNPPs? [question for Tom]
So officially speaking :-)
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@debian.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, Tom Gall wrote:
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>> > 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 + * Drop outdated copyright notice for /debian folder and replace by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!
Yes I agree, please change this to BSD-3, copyright 2011,2012 Linaro Inc
>> >> 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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Yup already am. I see DRC has commented, his opinion is the one that counts.
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Regards,
Tom
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