[meego-commits] 5136: Changes to Trunk:Testing/gzip

[Anas Nashif]

This does not justify removing zless however, this is a very useful tool.
Instead you should patch zless to report about missing less or something like that, but do not remove it completely.


On 2010-06-30, at 10:09 PM, Yang, Yi Y wrote:

> No, we just ensure MeeGo core hasn't GPLv3 packages, gzip is one of core packages, but less may not be in.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Anas Nashif [mailto:nashif at linux.intel.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:07 AM
>> To: Yang, Yi Y
>> Cc: meego-commits at meego.com
>> Subject: Re: [meego-commits] 5136: Changes to Trunk:Testing/gzip
>> 
>> 
>> On 2010-06-30, at 9:59 PM, Yang, Yi Y wrote:
>> 
>>>>> changes files:
>>>>> --------------
>>>>> --- gzip.changes
>>>>> +++ gzip.changes
>>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
>>>>> +* Wed Jun 30 2010 Yi Yang <yi.y.yang at intel.com> - 1.3.14
>>>>> +- Remove zless (we mustn't depend on less)
>>>> 
>>>> why not?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Because less is GPLv3, zless = gzip -cd | less, a very simple shell script, no
>> package depends on it, as you knew, we need to remove such dependencies.
>> 
>> So you are saying we are dropping less?
>> 
>> Anas