rejecting wine1.3-gecko

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 02:28:30AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> On 03/24/2011 02:13 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:09:25PM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> >> On 03/22/2011 07:44 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> >>> I'm rejecting wine1.3-gecko, it contains a binary without source but its licence requires that we distribute the source.
> >>>
> >>> Jonathan
> >>
> >> Is this true?  It's MPL-licensed, which I thought allows us to link to
> >> the source rather than ship it directly.
> > 
> > It does but I don't see a link in this package and Ubuntu would have
> > to be certain the source code would remain there for 12 months after
> > the end of life of the distro version.
> > 
> > Jonathan
> 
> Hmm seems you're right.  I'll add the link to the sourceforge page.
> 
> We may have no choice other than the link, really, because this version
> of wine-gecko can't be built entirely on Ubuntu (requires a Windows
> step).  That pushes it into multiverse.

Opinion amongst archive admins is that a link to sourceforge wouldn't
be sensible, we can't rely on a third party hosting the source for as
long as we need it.  The source should be included in the source
package, even if it isn't used directly to build the binary.

Jonathan