Robert Millan a écrit : > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 05:50:40PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> An example of such a package is glibc (bug#382175). I don't think that >> removing SUNRPC support (and with it NIS, NFS and more) is a suitable >> choice (unless we want to lose all users who haven't switched yet to >> Ubuntu). > > I have my doubts that the problem with glibc is so difficult as you present > it. It's probably just a matter of contacting the right person at Sun, or > perhaps integrating another library from one of the *BSD. > > In any case, if it really *is* as difficult as you present it, I trust that > you'll have no problem convincing the developers that an exception should be > granted for this particular package, at least for Lenny. >
I don't said it is difficult, though that surely not easy to contact the *right person* at Sun. In most case you just get ignored. Anyway I don't really care about this bug, and nothing oblige me to fix it. I will accept patches though. Also note that given that the bug is not yet fixed and was opened a long time ago (almost 6 years), I guess that most people in Debian also don't care. BTW, as you seems really concerned by this kind of bug and think it is easy, I offer you to do the job of getting this code relicensed. If in 60 days (the same delay as you proposed) it is not done, I will consider that this bug can be ignored for Lenny. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
