[DRE-maint] ruby-pdf-reader_0.10.0+real-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

Antonio Terceiro terceiro at debian.org
Fri Sep 16 16:26:07 UTC 2011


Cédric Boutillier escreveu isso aí:
> There exists a file with the same name and content, but with a more
> permissive license, already packaged for Debian in the package 'aglfn'.
> (There is almost nothing else in that package).
> I contacted upstream to propose him to use this file instead of the
> problematic one.

This would be the ideal solution.

> In the mean time, if the license from Adobe is still a no-go, I would
> propose the following workaround: I could repack the source of the
> package to remove that problematic file,  add a dependency on that aglfn
> and make a 1-line patch to use the good file instead of the bad one in
> ruby-pdf-reader.
> 
> What do you think?

The problem with doing this is that we will have to carry both this
patch *and* a repackaged tarball, both caused by the same issue. I would
like to avoid this, unless upstream does not respond in a reasonable
time.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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