Cleaning up the team's packages?

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2014-04-28 17:33 GMT+02:00 Alessio Treglia <alessio at debian.org>:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > E: petri-foo: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl
> > N:
> > N:    This package appears to be covered by the GNU GPL but depends on
> the
> > N:    OpenSSL libssl package and does not mention a license exemption or
> > N:    exception for OpenSSL in its copyright file. The GPL (including
> > version
> > N:    3) is incompatible with some terms of the OpenSSL license, and
> > therefore
> > N:    Debian does not allow GPL-licensed code linked with OpenSSL
> libraries
> > N:    unless there is a license exception explicitly permitting this.
> > N:
> > N:    If only the Debian packaging, or some other part of the package not
> > N:    linked with OpenSSL, is covered by the GNU GPL, please add a
> lintian
> > N:    override for this tag. Lintian currently has no good way of
> > N:    distinguishing between that case and problematic packages.
> > N:
> > N:    Severity: serious, Certainty: wild-guess
> > N:
> > N:    Check: copyright-file, Type: binary
>
> The warning is self-explanatory. Remove the build-dep on libssl, then
> either:
>
> 1. Try to build it with libgnutls-dev instead
> 2. Ask upstream to avoid linking against it directly; he could use dlopen
> for it
>
> Cheers!
>
>

Build with libgnutls-dev doesn't work so I asked upstream for using dlopen.

mira
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