On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 07:02 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Jelmer Vernooij (jel...@debian.org): > > tags 547280 -fixed-upstream upstream pending > > thanks > > > > Unfortunately heimdal (which Samba 4 includes) extracts data from these > > RFCs during its build, so we can't just remove these RFCs. As upstream > > we don't think it's a problem for RFCs to not be modifiable. > > As an individual, I don't either. > > As a Debian developer, I have to think this is a problem because my > project voted this way. > > If samba4 depends on these files for its build, then we're screwed, > aren't we? And we need to move it to non-free... I'd like to figure out what approach has been taken with Heimdal in Debian (as those problematic files are in the copy of Heimdal that we ship with Samba 4). I don't see any open bug reports on Heimdal, I'll try to figure out what they are actually shipping.
> That would indeed make an interesting headline "Debian to move samba 4 > in its non free section in application of the Debian Free Software > Guidelines". Yeah, that wouldn't be good, I agree. Cheers, Jelmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
