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

Luca Falavigna dktrkranz at debian.org
Fri Sep 16 20:16:02 UTC 2011


Il 16/09/2011 18:26, Antonio Terceiro ha scritto:
> 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.

Agreed.

>> 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.

Let's wait for upstream comment, hopefully she will respond in due time.
If that doesn't happen, I think we could accept the unmodified file
for the time being, pending a proper solution.

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