[Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#746825: ACE+TAO 6.2.7

Mon Jun 30 06:42:03 UTC 2014

Hi,

 > The large file support warning is easy to fix if MPC supports some
> kind of "test" feature. I implemented that in CMake script for Wt a
> while ago:
>
> https://github.com/pgquiles/wt/commit/90d5bfeb5f87232a8f074e2c7fe7eb0a92dd6d58

With MPC we can't do that, it would mean we compile this with each 
program. Maybe we can use some template meta programming to determine 
the size?

> The only thing that I am actually worried about is the licensing issue
> with OpenSSL. If lintian is complaining, most probably GPL-code is
> transitively being linked to OpenSSL, thus causing a licensing
> problem.

To my idea this is not the case, the only GPL part I know is ace_gperf, 
that isn't linked with anything.

The Sun part is still part of TAO_IDL. That license is probably now 
owned by MicroFocus which bought all progress orbs some time ago. 
Another option is to replace TAO_IDL with RIDLC with a new C++ backend, 
but that will be a significant amount of work, that is something that 
has to be funded by someone.

At the moment you have everything compiling, could you document the 
steps to provide a new release to debian, than we can integrate a future 
release into the debian as part of the release progress.

Thanks for your work.

Johnny

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> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles
> <pgquiles at elpauer.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Sure, I'll dump lintian output to a file and upload it. Still compiling :-)
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Johnny Willemsen <jwillemsen at remedy.nl> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Are you able to share the warnings, maybe host them somewhere?
>>>
>>> Johnny
>>>
>>> Op zondag 29 juni 2014 heeft Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org> het
>>> volgende geschreven:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Yes, it did but apparently I didn't notice :-/ In fact, it's been so
>>>> long since I did anything in ACE packaging that my packaging for 6.2.7
>>>> (available in pgquiles-6.2.7-wrong) was missing some of my own changes
>>>> in git from a long time ago (!!!)
>>>>
>>>> I have taken your branch, fixed a few unimportant issues, and added
>>>> the useful parts from my branch: lintian overrides, fix some typos,
>>>> remove privacy breach complaints and little more. It's available in
>>>> the jwi+pgquiles-6.2.7 branch (building right now for the first time).
>>>> There is still quite some work to do to clean all the lintian
>>>> warnings, especially in regards to large file support
>>>> (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, etc).
>>>>
>>>> Also, what is the licensing issue with TAO that Steven Hartmann
>>>> mentioned in the 6.2.7 thread? The Sun-licensed files? I seem to
>>>> remember something from a long time ago but I cannot find the
>>>> specifics, only this from Fedora:
>>>>
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450164
>>>>
>>>> And lintian is also complaining about mixed OpenSSL + GPL code but I
>>>> have not verified yet:
>>>>
>>>> E: libtao-orbsvcs-2.2.7: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl
>>>> N:
>>>> N:    This package appears to be covered by the GNU GPL but depends on the
>>>> N:    OpenSSL libssl package and does not mention a license exemption or
>>>> N:    exception for OpenSSL in its copyright file. The GPL (including
>>>> version
>>>> N:    3) is incompatible with some terms of the OpenSSL license, and
>>>> therefore
>>>> N:    Debian does not allow GPL-licensed code linked with OpenSSL
>>>> libraries
>>>> N:    unless there is a license exception explicitly permitting this.
>>>> N:
>>>> N:    If only the Debian packaging, or some other part of the package not
>>>> N:    linked with OpenSSL, is covered by the GNU GPL, please add a lintian
>>>> N:    override for this tag. Lintian currently has no good way of
>>>> N:    distinguishing between that case and problematic packages.
>>>> N:
>>>> N:    Severity: serious, Certainty: wild-guess
>>>> N:
>>>> N:    Check: copyright-file, Type: binary
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Johnny Willemsen <jwillemsen at remedy.nl>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Did post that on the list, didn't that post got through it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Johnny
>>>>>
>>>>> Op zondag 29 juni 2014 heeft Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org>
>>>>> het
>>>>> volgende geschreven:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, I started from the 6.1.2 packaging. I didn't know you had started
>>>>>> work on a branch :-/ I'll check
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Johnny Willemsen
>>>>>> <jwillemsen at remedy.nl>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Great, did you use the branch I created earlier this week?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Johnny
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Op zondag 29 juni 2014 heeft Pau Garcia i Quiles
>>>>>>> <pgquiles at elpauer.org>
>>>>>>> het
>>>>>>> volgende geschreven:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am packaging ACE+TAO 6.2.7, which should solve #746825
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Packaging is done. Now I need to do some QA. There are hundreds of
>>>>>>>> lintian issues, some of them serious (e. g. a licensing problem with
>>>>>>>> OpenSSL).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Pau Garcia i Quiles
>>>>>>>> http://www.elpauer.org
>>>>>>>> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Pau Garcia i Quiles
>>>>>> http://www.elpauer.org
>>>>>> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Pau Garcia i Quiles
>>>> http://www.elpauer.org
>>>> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Pau Garcia i Quiles
>> http://www.elpauer.org
>> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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Hi,