[Pkg-gnutls-maint] libksba 1.0.2

[Eric Dorland]

* Peter Eisentraut (petere at debian.org) wrote:
> Eric Dorland wrote:
> > * Andreas Metzler (ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org) wrote:
> > > On 2007-08-03 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> > > > On 2007-08-03 Eric Dorland <eric at debian.org> wrote:
> > > > > Any objections if I upgrade libksba to version 1.0.2? GnuPG
> > > > > 2.0.5 requires it.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > So please go ahead.
> > >
> > > I have just realized that pere actually commited the update to svn,
> > > so I guess he should give the thumbs up.
> >
> > Peter, any objection to uploading this package?
> 
> There is a slight problem with the GPL 3, which is what ksba now uses.  
> The policy says that packages under the GPL should refer 
> to /usr/share/common-licenses/, and in my opinion the GPL 3 is 
> certainly a case of being under the GPL.  However, the base-files 
> maintainer refuses to put the GPL 3 text there until the policy is 
> updated to mention GPL 3 explicitly (which is ludicrous, since it 
> doesn't mention GPL 1 and GPL 2 explicitly either).  The policy 
> maintainers are in turn debating an amendment to call out the versions 
> explicitly, but the draft I've seen doesn't include GPL version 3.  And 
> the way things are going I wouldn't be surprised that the policy people 
> will claim that such an amendment won't be made anyway until there is 
> sufficient "practice" of using the GPL 3.

Yeah, the bug is completely comical.
 
> So I suggest that we just force the issue and upload the package with 
> the copyright file the way it is committed ("On Debian systems, the 
> complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in 
> `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'."), and if someone complains we 
> reassign all the bugs to base-files until he gives up.

I agree, and that's what I've done with the gnupg2 packages. This is
bureaucratic silliness and we shouldn't let it stop us.

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