[Pki-devel] osutil: some issues regarding copyright, code

[Timo Aaltonen]

	Hi!

  I'm currently packaging Dogtag et al for Debian and Ubuntu, so I filed
an intend-to-package bugreport on the Debian bugtracker about osutil. It
got reviewed, and here's a summary of the issues that were found:

- src/com/netscape/osutil/unixdefs.h has a Netscape copyright, that
forbids distribution and copying. Is it merely a mistake?

- "Signal.java has one architecture's signal numbers hardcoded in". Is
it still portable to more obscure architectures?

- the java files have hardcoded library paths, which will break with
multiarch (http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch)

- "full of error messages printed to stdout / stderr"

- some of the functionality is apparently duplicated from (current)
standard java? (string to byte conversion was mentioned)


so it would be great to see at least the copyright issue sorted out,
soon, since it prevents inclusion.

link to the original bugreport:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654689

(you can reply there by sending email to 654689 at bugs.debian.org)

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t