On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:18:41PM +0800, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > What is the deal with disabling support for tls/peap and going so far > as to check for linking to libssl in the rules file to break building > the package with openssl support?
/usr/share/doc/freeradius/copyright explains it: ---- Some GPL parts of this software depend on OpenSSL, the combination of which cannot be distributed in compiled binary form. ---- The debian/rules snippet is presumably there to ensure that noone accidentally uploads something to the archive in Debian (from whence this this change originated) that violates this. One could argue that we can reasonably safely remove this, because we always build packages in a clean environment[1], and we have little benefit from preventing people from building them locally and using them locally. They are simply undistributable, so as long as we never have them in the archive, we're in the clear, no? [1]: Since all our packages are built on buildd's, whereas Debian uses binary builds from developers. -- Soren Hansen | Lead virtualisation engineer | Ubuntu Server Team Canonical Ltd. | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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