RFCs, Debian and Samba build dependencies

[Karolin Seeger]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 06:58:22PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Well, if there are no other solutions without breaking builds or
> functionality, feel free to go this way.

Unfortunately, I don't see another solution right now.

> Actually, the consequence should be for us to repackage the source
> tarball without the "offending" RFCs (I hope everybody noticed that
> *I* am not offended by them....) and name this something like
> "samba_3.4.4dfsg.orig.tar.gz in Debian (and, as a "minor" side effect,
> Ubuntu, except if they want to fork that packaging). Hopefully, there
> would not be any other consequence except that additional work...and
> as we will very soon rebuild tarballs to use bzip2.
> 
> Hopefully, we will still be able to build packages from source without
> these documents. If we can't, then we have a bigger problem.

As far as I know, only the merged build fails without the RFCs. I think
building S3 packages should still work fine after deleting the RFCs.

I am going to re-add the RFCs with 3.4.4 and 3.5.0pre2 as nobody declined
this proposal.

Cheers,
Karolin

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