[PATCH] Fix check for strippable relocation section.

Mark Wielaard mjw at redhat.com
Wed Sep 25 11:18:22 UTC 2013


Hi Nick,

On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 13:19 +0100, Nick Alcock wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2012, Mark Wielaard said:
> > Grin, yeah. I have been straining myself to not just recreate the fix
> > from scratch (writing this email is probably more work). Because I
> > think it is better to have someone blocked on something this simple than
> > have them being blocked in the future when they have something more
> > substantial. Lets see if Nick can get something good out of his legal
> > department. After that all future contributions should come "for free".
> > Nick please let us know if things look hopeless then we can certainly
> > just write a very similar fix ourselves. I have it on my list to double
> > check before we do a new release.
> 
> Things do definitely not look hopeless: there was a communications
> screwup and nobody had actually talked to the legal dept at all
> (everyone was deadlocked waiting for someone else). Given that numerous
> people in the same dept are Fedora maintainers of long standing, I'm
> reasonably certain that I will be allowed to sign the thing soon!

Sorry I rewrote the patch for now, since I didn't want to miss it going
in before the next release (it missed the last one). So I pushed the
attached.

Cheers,

Mark
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