Bug#697848: [Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-25 Thread Thomas Girard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On 23/01/2013 22:16, Ralf Treinen wrote: the source package is now available at http://people.debian.org/~treinen/ace/ I would appreciate if you could check that everything is fine before I will upload it to sid. If possible I would

Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-23 Thread Johnny Willemsen
Hi, I'm more annoyed by #697848. The first two issues raised by Ansgar were not yet discussed with upstream because I need a confirmation on what is exactly the issue. If this is what I underlined in my reply then I am afraid we will have no easy solution except for moving ace to non-free. I

Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-23 Thread Johnny Willemsen
Hi, For the AW license, I would recommend to check that on the regular ACE mailing list, the files where added by Doug Schmidt himself. Theoretically TAO_IDL can be replaced at some point by ridlc as new IDL compiler which doesn't have this license problem, but probably that is 6 months of

Bug#697848: [Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697848: Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-23 Thread Thomas Girard
Hello, On 22/01/2013 23:30, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: I'm afraid Johnny was not CC'ed in your mail, do not forget to add pkg-ace-devel to the CC list There's no need to add pkg-ace-devel@ since bug #697848 is on ace, the maintainer (pkg-ace-devel@) gets all mail about it. Regards, Thomas

Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-23 Thread Thomas Girard
Hello, On 23/01/2013 08:33, Ralf Treinen wrote: Relicensing is probably the best solution, generally speaking, but I suppose it will come too late for wheezy. Ack. On 23/01/2013 09:08, Johnny Willemsen wrote: Agreed, but I believe Sun intent here was to ensure that standardization and

Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-23 Thread Johnny Willemsen
Hi, On 23/01/2013 09:08, Johnny Willemsen wrote: Agreed, but I believe Sun intent here was to ensure that standardization and implementation efforts (IDL to C++ and IIOP marshalling rules) do not get ruined by code modifications. Yes, I am interpreting. @Johnny: any opinion on this? See [1]

Bug#697848: [Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-23 Thread Thomas Girard
Hello, On 23/01/2013 08:39, Ralf Treinen wrote: OK. Here is what I will try tonight when I get back from work: - repack the orig.tar.gz without the two windows executables, the TAO source tree, and the files in examples/ that are under Addison Wesley licence. There is something slightly

Bug#697848: [Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-23 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:28:00PM +0100, Thomas Girard wrote: Hello, On 23/01/2013 08:39, Ralf Treinen wrote: OK. Here is what I will try tonight when I get back from work: - repack the orig.tar.gz without the two windows executables, the TAO source tree, and the files in examples/

Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-23 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hello, the source package is now available at http://people.debian.org/~treinen/ace/ I would appreciate if you could check that everything is fine before I will upload it to sid. If possible I would like to upload over the coming weekend at latest. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:39:14AM +0100,

Bug#697848: [Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-22 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Ralf Treinen trei...@free.fr wrote: Hello, I may help with uploading an ace with a repackaged source if necessary. In your opinion, which files would have to be dropped ? How would dropping parts of the source affect the packaging ? Most of the files

Bug#697847: Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-22 Thread Thomas Girard
Hello, On 22/01/2013 13:55, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Ralf Treinen trei...@free.fr mailto:trei...@free.fr wrote: I may help with uploading an ace with a repackaged source if necessary. Thanks for offering your help. I have requested a refresh on my

Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-22 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hi, On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 08:27:14PM +0100, Thomas Girard wrote: Thanks for offering your help. I have requested a refresh on my updated GPG key but so far I got no news. In your opinion, which files would have to be dropped ? How would dropping parts of the source

Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-22 Thread Thomas Girard
On 22/01/2013 21:40, Ralf Treinen wrote: I'm more annoyed by #697848. The first two issues raised by Ansgar were not yet discussed with upstream because I need a confirmation on what is exactly the issue. If this is what I underlined in my reply then I am afraid we will have no easy solution

Bug#697848: [Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-22 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Thomas Girard thomas.g.gir...@free.frwrote: On 22/01/2013 21:40, Ralf Treinen wrote: I'm more annoyed by #697848. The first two issues raised by Ansgar were not yet discussed with upstream because I need a confirmation on what is exactly the issue. If this

Bug#697848: [Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-22 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:30:14PM +0100, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Can we try to get that code relicensed? I'd say Remedy, OCI and even the very DOC Group are infringing the license themselves by redistributing and modifying[*] this code. [*] I have not checked the SVN

Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

2013-01-22 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hi, On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:32:13PM +0100, Thomas Girard wrote: ace source package consists in the following software: - ACE, a C++ networking library - TAO, a CORBA ORB built on top of ACE What is faulty here is TAO_IDL (idl to C++ mapping) and a piece of marshalling code (again,