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Bug#977807: RFS: far2l/2.2+git20201201-1 [ITP] -- Linux port of FAR v2



On 23.12.2020 14:22, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 02:07:44PM +0100, Gürkan Myczko wrote:
> Also, why would the package go into non-free?

Because if not:
https://github.com/elfmz/far2l/issues/692
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/license-problem-convert-utf-code.html

And I should fix missing-explanation-for-contrib-or-non-free-package.

Then it's incompatible with GPL2, and can't go into the archive anyway.

Is this just this single file that's bad?  I've written UTF8<->16<->32
conversions by hand a number of times, and so did other folks. This isn't
exactly functionality that's hard to come by.

As far as I can tell, yes:
$ find . -name "ConvertUTF*"
./utils/include/ConvertUTF.h
./utils/src/ConvertUTF.c

$ grep -ri "ConvertUTF.h" |grep -v obj-x86
WinPort/src/APIStringCodepages.cpp:#include "ConvertUTF.h"
WinPort/src/Backend/TTY/TTYFar2lClipboardBackend.cpp:#include <ConvertUTF.h>
WinPort/src/Backend/TTY/TTYInput.cpp:#include "ConvertUTF.h"
WinPort/src/Backend/TTY/TTYInputSequenceParser.cpp:#include "ConvertUTF.h"
WinPort/src/Backend/TTY/TTYOutput.cpp:#include "ConvertUTF.h"
WinPort/src/Backend/WX/Paint.cpp:#include <ConvertUTF.h>
far2l/VTFar2lExtensios.cpp:#include <ConvertUTF.h>
far2l/viewer.cpp:#include "../utils/include/ConvertUTF.h"
utils/include/ConvertUTF.h:/*===--- ConvertUTF.h - Universal Character Names conversions ---------------===
utils/include/ConvertUTF.h:#ifndef CLANG_BASIC_CONVERTUTF_H
utils/include/ConvertUTF.h:#define CLANG_BASIC_CONVERTUTF_H
utils/src/ConvertUTF.c: See the header file "ConvertUTF.h" for complete documentation.
utils/src/ConvertUTF.c:#include "ConvertUTF.h"
utils/src/InMy.cpp:#include "ConvertUTF.h"
utils/src/InstallPath.cpp:#include "ConvertUTF.h"
utils/src/utils.cpp:#include "ConvertUTF.h"

I've also found some other packages that replaced it with ICUsomething... but then thought meh.
I'm going for the low hanging fruits, freeze is soon.


喵!


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