[Fedora-packaging] mp3 source (but not compiled) in squeak package

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 1 02:22:28 UTC 2012


On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:20:15PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > The Squeak VM package in Fedora includes the upstream source code for MP3
> > > support, but disables actually building it. Is that okay, or does the
> > > tarball need to be sanitized?
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#When_Upstream_uses_Prohibited_Code
> Right, I saw that, but it's not clear if MP3 falls under "not allowed to
> ship even as source code". If that's the case, shouldn't we just say so?

Oh, cool -- just got a message from upstream noting that there is an
mp3-free source tarball at

  http://squeakvm.org/unix/release/Squeak-4.10.2.2614-src-no-mp3.tar.gz

which at least resolves that issue.


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