Yeap noted. I did reply to that email from you. Not sure if that was via debian-devel or else how.
Indeed then my patch is not needed then. Just a one liner adding "breaks". Regards, Dimitri. On 6 May 2014 18:46, Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2014-05-05 Dimitri John Ledkov <[email protected]> wrote: >> Source: gnutls28 >> Severity: normal >> Tags: patch > >> Dear Maintainer, > >> Following recent gnutls28 transition thread on debian-devel, here is a >> patch to implement transition from gnutls26 to gnutls28 source and >> binary packages, whilst at the same time enforcing strict GPLv2+ >> compatibility of the resultant binary packages. > >> Please consider applying below patch or tweaking it, as you see more >> appropriate. > [...] > > Hello, > > As debian-devel seems to swallow my mail let me publish my > thoughts/progress report here: > > ----- Forwarded message from Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 17:53:19 -0000 > From: Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: gnutls28 transition > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <[email protected]> wrote: >> Le dimanche, 4 mai 2014, 02.14:17 peter green a écrit : >>> Personally I'd add a (build-)depends on the relicensed gmp in the next >>> gnutls28 upload. That way packages can (build-)depend on the new >>> gnutls and be assured of getting a GPLv2 compatible version. > > Hello, > > Afaiui it would be perfectly fine to /build/ GPLv2 code against older > GMP as long as we distribute the resulting binary only together with > the newer GMP binary. (The binary will often be identical, no matter > whether it is built against gmp 5.3 or 6). > > Also I am reluctant with manually overriding gmp shlibs. How about > simply adding > Breaks: libgmp10 (<< 2:6) > to the libgnutls28 binary package? > [...] > >> Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >>> Should we start transition to gnutls28 by default, for all packages >>> that are compatible? > > Due to size of the transition it is a little bit difficult, see > <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.release/73990> > (Please keep this thread on d-d, -release is not a discussion list.) > > I have done some test-builds and reported most of the issues I > found[1]. Some important library packages have already switched (cups, > curl), I guess the next one would be neon or gnome-vfs. > > cu Andreas > > [1] > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=gnutls3;[email protected] -- Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
