Bug#697615: adanaxisgpl: contains (possibly modified) embedded copy of Ruby 1.8.4

[Balint Reczey]

Control: severity -1 serious

Hi Antonio,

On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:09:56 -0300 Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: adanaxisgpl
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> Today I was using http://codesearch.debian.net/ and have discovered that
> adanaxisgpl contains an embedded copy of Ruby 1.8.4 under src/MushRuby/.
>
> This is a violartion of the Debian Policy § 4.13
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles
>
> I did not investigate whether this embedded copy was modified wrt Ruby
> 1.8.4, or whether the package would work with the packaged versions of
> Ruby.

It is pretty much an RC bug in any way. Thanks for reporting it!

Cheers,
Balint