On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 at 15:45:07 +0100, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 24/04/12 17:25, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > this bug has been brought to my attention by my boss today. > > If I understand the situation correctly, the problem is: > > > > • OpenLDAP links against GnuTLS (gnutls26) > > • gnutls26 links against gcrypt, which has the bug > > • gnutls28 links against nettle, but also gmp which is LGPLv3+ > > • OpenLDAP thus can’t link against gnutls28, as it has reverse > > dependencies that are not LGPLv3-/GPLv3-compatible > > • the package affected is libnss-ldap though > > If there isn't any GPLv2 reverse dependency, then OpenLDAP can be just > recompiled to link against gnutls28 and this long standing bug will be > fixed.
As far as I understand it, this became simpler in recent months: * gnutls28 links against gmp, which was relicensed to "LGPL-3+ or GPL-2+", making it possible to link GPL-2 (only) code to gnutls28 So would linking OpenLDAP to gnutls28 (#745231, tagged pending) close this RC bug as a side-effect? S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org