Cédric Boutillier escreveu isso aí:
> There exists a file with the same name and content, but with a more
> permissive license, already packaged for Debian in the package 'aglfn'.
> (There is almost nothing else in that package).
> I contacted upstream to propose him to use this file instead of the
> problematic one.

This would be the ideal solution.

> In the mean time, if the license from Adobe is still a no-go, I would
> propose the following workaround: I could repack the source of the
> package to remove that problematic file,  add a dependency on that aglfn
> and make a 1-line patch to use the good file instead of the bad one in
> ruby-pdf-reader.
> 
> What do you think?

The problem with doing this is that we will have to carry both this
patch *and* a repackaged tarball, both caused by the same issue. I would
like to avoid this, unless upstream does not respond in a reasonable
time.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]>

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature

_______________________________________________
Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers

Reply via email to