[DRE-maint] Bug#984689: ruby-vcr: DFSG violation (Hippocratic license)

[Pirate Praveen]

On 2021, മാർച്ച് 8 1:24:48 AM IST, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 11:01:16PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>> [adding release team]
>> 
>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 10:49 pm, Utkarsh Gupta <utkarsh at debian.org> wrote:
>> > Hi Praveen,
>> > 
>> > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 10:15 PM Pirate Praveen
>> > <praveen at onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
>> > >  It looks like we will have to remove ruby-vcr and we will have to
>> > >  disable tests for the following packages. I don't think there is
>> > >  another way, thoughts?
>> > 
>> > Maybe worth opening an issue upstream and discuss the cons of this
>> > change or something? Or if that doesn't work out
>> > and we need this
>> 
>> I doubt discussing with upstream will yield any possitive outcome as this is
>> a specific philosophical movement.
>> 
>> See https://github.com/vcr/vcr/pull/792
>> and
>> https://github.com/vcr/vcr/issues/804
>> 
>> > package or something, would forking be an option?
>> 
>> https://github.com/vcr/vcr/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#510-feb-5-2020
>> 
>> We will have to go back to 5.0 and someone will have to maintain it
>> independently.
>> 
>> Hi Release team,
>> 
>> Do you think this needs to be fixed before bullseye? If yes, do you agree to
>> change the reverse dependencies listed in my previous message to this bug?
>
>I don't think that will be needed. I reverted to 5.0.0 locally, added a
>few patches, and at least all of our reverse dependencies seem to pass
>their tests with it:
>
>========================================================================
>=  Testing reverse (build) dependencies
>========================================================================
>
>rebuild      nanoc               ... PASS
>rebuild      ruby-coveralls      ... PASS
>autopkgtest  ruby-faraday        ... PASS
>rebuild      ruby-graphlient     ... PASS
>rebuild      ruby-mixlib-install ... PASS
>rebuild      ruby-octokit        ... PASS
>
>So in principle we could fix this issue without touching anything else.

Thanks. Are you waiting for an ack from release team to upload it?
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