[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#547280: Bug#547280: Bug#547280: Not fixed after all...

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 07:02 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: 
> Quoting Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer at debian.org):
> > tags 547280 -fixed-upstream upstream pending
> > thanks
> > 
> > Unfortunately heimdal (which Samba 4 includes) extracts data from these
> > RFCs during its build, so we can't just remove these RFCs. As upstream
> > we don't think it's a problem for RFCs to not be modifiable. 
> 
> As an individual, I don't either.
> 
> As a Debian developer, I have to think this is a problem because my
> project voted this way.
> 
> If samba4 depends on these files for its build, then we're screwed,
> aren't we? And we need to move it to non-free...
I'd like to figure out what approach has been taken with Heimdal in
Debian (as those problematic files are in the copy of Heimdal that we
ship with Samba 4). I don't see any open bug reports on Heimdal, I'll
try to figure out what they are actually shipping. 

> That would indeed make an interesting headline "Debian to move samba 4
> in its non free section in application of the Debian Free Software
> Guidelines".
Yeah, that wouldn't be good, I agree.

Cheers,

Jelmer