Bug#718487: dotlrn: contains embedded copy of openacs

2013-08-08 Thread Hector Romojaro
Control: severity -1 wishlist Thanks, Helmut, i guess the best solution is leaving this bug open, as you suggest, and downgrade it to wishlist, implying that it is a bug with a very difficult fix due to major design considerations, but hoping it could be done in the future :) Thanks again!

Bug#718487: dotlrn: contains embedded copy of openacs

2013-08-07 Thread Hector Romojaro
Hello Helmut, First of all, thanks for pointing out this issue. * Investigate whether you can replace the embedded copy with a dependency on openacs. I.e. remove the embedded copy. This may be a fair amount of work, if possible at all. This was my first thought when i first packaged

Bug#718487: dotlrn: contains embedded copy of openacs

2013-08-07 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 02:38:15PM +0200, Hector Romojaro wrote: This was my first thought when i first packaged dotlrn and openacs, but upstream authors highly discouraged me about doing it. AFAIK, dotlrn uses a heavily modified version of the openacs core, being stuck with an old version

Bug#718487: dotlrn: contains embedded copy of openacs

2013-08-01 Thread Helmut Grohne
Package: dotlrn Version: 2.5.0+dfsg-8 Severity: important Dear dotlrn maintainer, I noticed that dotlrn contains an embedded copy[1] of half of openacs, but this embedding is not registered with Debian's security tracker[2]. Note that the Debian policy discourages embedded copies, but does not