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bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly othe
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Ludovic Courtès |
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bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:57:21 +0100 |
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Vagrant Cascadian <address@hidden> skribis:
> On 2019-03-08, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Vagrant Cascadian <address@hidden> skribis:
>>> I'm not sure where it would be appropriate to add more comments
>>> regarding the GPL/Openssl incompatibilities; e.g. if someone were to
>>> propose adding one of the u-boot targets that requires it, they might
>>> just go ahead and re-add the openssl input...
>>
>> There’s always a risk. I guess we’ll have to be careful when doing
>> reviews.
>
> Sure. I was thinking maybe putting a comment in the native-inputs where
> "openssl" was removed, but wasn't sure what the conventions might be.
Yeah that would have worked I guess.
>> In addition, we can add a ‘lint’ checker for this case, WDYT?
>
> Does the lint checker have a way to identify a confidence level,
> e.g. *maybe* it has this issue vs. *certainly*? Is there a way to
> override the lint checker issues for known false positives? Otherwise,
> it might just be annoying noise for packagers where it isn't
> appropriate.
No it doesn’t have that notion of a confidence level.
The warning could be triggered only when a package is GPL’d and has a
direct dependency on OpenSSL (we’d forget about indirect dependencies in
this case.) The noise would be rather limited and justified in this
case, I think. WDYT?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Vagrant Cascadian, 2019/03/02
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/03/06
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Danny Milosavljevic, 2019/03/06
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Vagrant Cascadian, 2019/03/06
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Vagrant Cascadian, 2019/03/07
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/03/08
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Vagrant Cascadian, 2019/03/08
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Vagrant Cascadian, 2019/03/09
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Jack Hill, 2019/03/09
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/03/10
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/03/08
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/03/08
- bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others, Adonay Felipe Nogueira, 2019/03/15