On 2016-06-30 03:22:09 +0000, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:44:36PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The Debian policy manual says: > > > > "In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources > > (if any) were obtained, and should name the original authors." > > This clause is made up of two requirements: > > 1. "the copyright file must say where the upstream sources ... were obtained" > > 2. "the copyright file ... should name the original authors" > > libstroke does not violate the first requirement: the copyright file > does say where the upstream sources /were/ obtained, even though they > can no longer be obtained there. (I believe that the requirement is for > FTP-master verification of the copyright status that the copyright file > claims; since that verification has already taken place, it is not a > problem that the source is no longer accessible there.)
I thought that it would still be needed as long as the package is in Debian (so that users could check too) so that the location should implicitly still be valid. > I'm not sure whether libstroke violates the second requirement. The > original author is, arguably, the company called "ETLA", and one could > argue that the URL included in the copyright file names them. You are > correct that it could be much clearer, and the next upload of libstroke > ought to correct this. This is not exactly ETLA. The upstream COPYRIGHT file says: "Mark F. Willey, ETLA Technical". > Someone has contributed a patch fixing the autoconf problem. You are > encouraged to prepare a QA upload applying it (and also fixing this > bug): <https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/rfs-howto>. I might have some time to look at this next week (otherwise after July 16). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
