On 13/12/2014 11:49, Paul Gevers wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:22:51 +0100 Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@debian.org> wrote: >> On 30/05/14 at 11:29 +0900, mejiko wrote: >>> 1) "scilab-<version>/modules/polynomials/src/fortran/rpoly.f" > There is work in progress upstream (status 13 Dec 2014: Review in > Progress). The amount of code is not much, but I am not able to judge > the workings. Review is needed if this should go into Debian for Jessie. Indeed. I don't have more news. Maybe Vincent knows more. >>> 2) "scilab-<version>/modules/randlib/src/c/fsultra.c" > This file is currently not commented on in the upstream bug report. Yes, I have to remove this algorithm from the package. It is not really used and it should be easy to get ride of it. > >> The versions of scilab in squeeze and wheezy already included those >> files, with the same license. I wonder if this shouldn't simply be >> jessie-ignored, given that both codes are fairly old mathematical codes. > I think if Sylvestre is right with his statement "Old ACM algorithms > were in a kind of public domain but they updated their license policies" > [1] than we can jessie-ignore this. @Sylvestre: do you have any data > that would substantiate this? Should we just file a bug against > release.debian.org (the RT) and ask to jessie-ignore this bug? If the > rpoly implementation is good than only the second file would need > jessie-ignore. > Sorry, I did that a while ago and I don't really remember where I find it. :( I don't think it is a bit issue here.
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