Bug#617613: FreeCAD not in Testing

[Adam C Powell IV]

On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 15:20 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:18:01 +0100 Anton Gladky wrote:
> 
> > Can we decrease the severity of this bug to return the freecad back to testing?
> 
> Why?
> I think the bug is still unfixed and still serious, unfortunately.
> 
> > The bug filed on March, but freecad was removed from testing on May
> > because of FTBFS's (I think).
> 
> Yes, but I think freecad should not be released in a stable version
> (again) with this serious issue unsolved.

Indeed, a package with a copyright/licensing issue can't go into a
release, and can't go into testing.

IMO this isn't an issue, and the fact that Debian allowed it into
unstable and the squeeze release indicates that the project probably
doesn't think so either.  (Ubuntu has had Freecad since from lucid to
oneiric, so they don't seem to think there's a OCTPL-GPL incompatibility
either.)

But until there's an official ruling on this issue, the package can't go
any further in Debian.

-Adam
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