Bug#851111: gargoyle-free: violates font license

Sylvain beuc at beuc.net
Sat Jan 21 18:46:34 UTC 2017


Hi Stephen,

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 06:33:04PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 20:20:46 +0100, Sylvain <beuc at debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > With regard to gargoyle-free in particular: the package is inactive
> > upstream so it's probably best to let the package die and reintroduce
> > it in Debian when they actually make a new release.
> 
> I looked into it quickly yesterday, and the Debian build doesn't use the
> fonts at all — so an easy fix for this bug would be repack the upstream
> source without the fonts. I can take care of that if you want! I think it
> would be a shame if we dropped Gargoyle from the distribution, even if it is
> inactive upstream (since last October anyway).

That, or lower the severity until we get answers from the submitter.
(Do as you please.)

Cheers!
Sylvain



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