This one time, at band camp, Michael Tautschnig said: > Hi all, > > (thread was started on pkg-clamav-devel) > > > Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > In libclamav/inflate64.c now there is code that is in parts a verbatim > > > copy of > > > zlib's code. It contains the proper copyright and attribution > > > information, but > > > lintian and possibly also the security team gets mad at us because of the > > > verbatim copy of zlib code. Now of course it is modified as deemed > > > necessary to > > > serve their purpose, and as such we cannot get rid of it. Is it ok to > > > just add a > > > lintian override? > > > > Hi Michael, > > unfortunately I think there's no other way around that. > > Upstream's not interesed in the needed hacks, and for a reason, and > > fiddling with the interal status of the zlib state machine makes it a > > nightmare to maintain across zlib versions. > > In the end decision was to ship the hacked zlib. > > Is it acceptable to override the lintian error in this case?
I think so, yes. An error we're not going should be silenced (although not forgotten about). Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [email protected] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
_______________________________________________ Pkg-clamav-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-clamav-devel
