[Pkg-xen-devel] xen_4.11.1~pre+1.733450b39b-1~exp1_multi.changes REJECTED

[Hans van Kranenburg]

On 08/23/2018 07:59 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Debian FTP Masters writes ("xen_4.11.1~pre+1.733450b39b-1~exp1_multi.changes REJECTED"):
>> xen source: lintian output: 'license-problem-gfdl-invariants stubdom/grub.patches/00cvs invariant part is: with no invariant sections, with the front-cover texts being a gnu manual, and with the back-cover texts as in (a) below', automatically rejected package.
>> xen source: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag.
>> xen-utils-4.11: lintian output: 'statically-linked-binary usr/lib/xen-4.11/boot/xen-shim', automatically rejected package.
>> xen-utils-4.11: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag.
> 
> I uploaded this despite the gdfl thing because stretch is no better.
> Really that should be dealt with upstream.  For now I think it would
> be possible to do some violence to the offending file (which is a diff
> to an ancient version of grub).
> 
> I hadn't appreciated that the shim thing would cause a REJECTion.
> That clearly needs to be overridden.

I'll have a look at that.

> Hans, can you delete the parts of the 00cvs that edit the texinfo
> document, and provide a filtered upstream git branch for us to make
> the git tarball from ?  We can then rebase onto that.

Yes.

> The patch you use to delete that can probably go upstream.  Or at
> least, we can try.

Hans