On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:58:52PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> Hello Adrian Bunk,
>
> Thanks for your bug report....
>
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:11:54PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Source: navit
> [...]
> > -- Could NOT find OpenSSL, try to set the path to OpenSSL root folder in
> > the system variable OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR (missing: OPENSSL_LIBRARIES
> > OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR)
> [...]
>
> navit has no build-dependency on openssl as you already noticed.
>
> The code also seems to be licensed (mostly) under GPLv2 (with no
> OpenSSL exception in sight as far as I could see), so the lack
> of openssl in the (binNMU) build seems like a *bugfix* to me....
Good catch.
> (Ofcourse, explicitly disabling openssl somehow might be even better
> to prevent accidentally building against it (again) in the future.
> I doubt the severity for that is serious until the problem actually
> occurs again though.)
>
> Would you agree?
In that case we have an RC licence violation in stable and oldstable
(and possibly earlier releases).
Whether to use the binNMU or an explicit Build-Conflicts for closing
this RC bug for stretch/sid is not the biggest issue. :-(
> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson
cu
Adrian
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