RE: please review wip/polarssl

[Tim Larson <Tim.Larson%proxibid.com@localhost>]

> It's not odd so much as it's playing the 'make library GPL to
> encourage software to choose GPL to get the benefit of the library'
> game.  That's the author's call and I don't begrudge it, but most
> embedded systems want to avoid GPL so they can choose their license.
> So a "this library is really great from embedded" while not
> mentioning GPL gives the wrong impression, and I think pkgsrc should
> try to give the right impression.
>
> If polarssl is offering GPL and then pursuing a proprietary
> relicensing model, then pkgsrc should be extra careful to wwarn
> people.

Summary added to DESCR.

> You're supposed to explain:
>
>   why is the patch here?  what does it do?
>
>   has it been sent upstream?  if so, URL to bug?  if not, why not?

Added. Don't know what I've ever commented patches before.

> So is perl needed if you don't run the tests?
>
> (My approach is that dependencies should be minimized.)

They're still run. I probably wasn't clear in my last message. The previous packager seems to have been trying to do something "fancy" with the testing. I'm just trying to get the package to work.

Kindly take another look.



Thanks,
Tim
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