Howto: Create a new package and retiring a package

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 02:00:35PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Currently the nfs-utils-lib package has two libraries, 
> libnfsidmap and librpcsecgss. librpcsecgss is no longer 
> needed since it was functionally replaced by libtirpc and 

Are you happy about the licensing of libtirpc?  I was worried about
this commit where the license seems to have been changed unilaterally:

http://libtirpc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libtirpc/trunk/COPYING?view=log

There are other forks of TI-RPC.  I wrote about some of them here:
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/secure_rpc/ (section 3.13)

Rich.

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