Quoting Dominique Dumont (2017-01-08 12:30:38) > [cc'ed debian-perl team] > > Hello Vasudev > > Sorry for the late reply. I did not notice this bug until now. > > On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 14:04:31 +0530 Vasudev Kamath <vasu...@copyninja.info> > wrote: > > Just to give background for this bug report. I'm helping Jonas > > Smedegaard who has adopted licensecheck tool from devscript and > > creating a new library called App::LicenseCheck ¹. We intend this tool > > to be useful cross distro and not only Debian. > > Which is a good thing. > > > During the development > > we noticed that libsoftware-license-perl has diverged too much from > > upstream source. > > What problem led you to this opinion ?
Tests written for upstream project fails when using the Debian package (and vice versa, but you clearly is of the opinion that you don't find the latter a problem you want to care about, so I will give up on that). > > This library is patched not to adopt to Debian environment but to > > change its behavior to suite Debian better. > > I somewhat disagree. The fundamental behavior has not changed. Some features > are added because debian handles license somewhat diffrently: > - usage of summary to point to /usr/share/common/licenses > - usage of code word (like GPL-2+) when user is given a choice of license > version > - usage of Expat keyword instead of MIT license > > You're free not to use debian specific parts. > > The only non-debian specific feature is the short-name-fallback patch [1] for > which there an upstream pull-request [2]. You're welcome to voice your > opinion there to help RJBS decide whether to merge it or not. > > > This means the package > > effectively has become a fork of original upstream code. > > Technically, this is not a fork, since these functionalities are provided as > patches applied on top of upstream License::Check. Those patches on top of upstream code project cause the package in Debian to behave differently than the upstream package - for functionality provided obth upstream and in Debian (not only for functionality only available in Debian). > > I'm filing bug with severity important because this will cause > > interoperability problem. As an example if App::LicenseCheck is use > > din other distro it might not work as expected because it was coded > > using libsoftware-license-perl in Debian which is not same as the > > original upstream. (just an example). > > Which would mean either: > - you're using a Debian specific part outside of Debian. It may be a bug on > your side, or you've found a valid use case outside of Debian for the Debian > specific parts. In the latter case, we can try to push some patches upstream > - you've found a bug where the fundamental behavior of Debian's > Software::License is changed. Then please give me details so I can reproduce > the problem. The details are in the patches applied: They change upstream functions, not only add new functions (which arguably is bad enough in itself - but you've made it clear here that you disagree with that). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
