On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 12:14:09PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 27 December 2014 at 04:18, Ron wrote: > | > | Hi, > | > | Did you want to actually close or downgrade this bug now? > > No, because nobody ever replied (including upstream, with whom I've worked on > RDieHarder for years, but whose email response rate is still, err, a little > erratic). > > | The dieharder package got autoremoved from jessie because > | it's still outstanding with RC severity. > | > | I asked -release about jessie-ignoring it like it was for > | wheezy, and the initial answer from them is that they'd > | prefer it if either you resolved it, or it gets punted to > | ftpmaster to decide. > | > | Personally I don't really see a problem with the clause in > | question either. It's the author's own code to licence, > | not an addition to someone else's GPL code, and it's clearly > | said that he doesn't consider the extra request binding. > > I did not want to step on anybody's policy toes. > > If you too are cool with closing this, I can surely do that.
The rough consensus of people who have replied to the bug would seem to be that it's not considered a problem, and ftpmaster were cc'd by the original reporter, and they haven't seen fit to remove it from sid or object to the wheezy-ignore. So yeah, I'd say let's close it and get it back into jessie, and if Raphael strongly disagrees, he can appeal to ftpmaster for more some more formal guidance on their part. They've had plenty of time to respond already if they considered it not fit for main though, so it seems reasonable to call this for the consensus view now. Best case, the matter is closed. Worst case, it escalates to a "dispute" and ftpmaster gives us their opinion. Either way that seems like the right way to resolve this now. Thanks! Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
