[openstack-dev] [horizon] python-selenium is non-free, Horizon shouldn't use it

Thomas Goirand zigo at debian.org
Thu Jul 4 14:07:44 UTC 2013


On 07/04/2013 09:16 PM, Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> On 07/04/2013 02:34 PM, Sascha Peilicke wrote:
>> On 07/04/2013 12:03 PM, Matthias Runge wrote:
>>> On 04/07/13 11:27, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Horizon seems to use python-selenium. The problem is that, in Debian,
>>>> this package is in the non-free repository. So I strongly suggest to
>>>> not
>>>> use it for Havana. That otherwise would put Horizon into the contrib
>>>> repository of Debian (eg: not officially in Debian), or eventually,
>>>> remove any possibility to run the unit tests, which isn't nice.
>>>>
>>> Thank you for the heads-up.
>>>
>>> Selenium is used for tests during development, it is not a runtime
>>> requirement at all.
>>>
>>> Would that still make it non-free for Debian?
>>
>> BTW. this is identical for openSUSE.
>>
>>> How did Horizon went into Debian packages at all, since the situation in
>>> this front is unchanged for at least a year (just curious).
>>
>> At least here, our horizon test package just doesn't depend on selenium.
> 
> This could help: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/35649/

Oh, great! :)
Exactly what I was asking for. Thanks.

Thomas



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