On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 12:09 PM Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, build-common team > <team+build-com...@tracker.debian.org> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > * Package name : dh-rust > Version : 0.0.1 > Upstream Contact: build-common team <team+build-com...@tracker.debian.org> > * URL : https://salsa.debian.org/build-common-team/dh-rust > * License : GPL-3+ > Programming Lang: Perl > Description : debhelper buildsystem for Rust code > > dh-rust provides a debhelper buildsystem to build Rust code. > . > This builds and tests binaries and libraries from rust crates, > the latter installed as source code below /usr/share/cargo/registry. > . > Feature highlights, compared to dh-cargo: > * supports workspace (i.e. multi-crate project) > * allows overriding CARGO_HOME > * installs crate contents using "cargo package" > * can use debian/Cargo.lock or Cargo.lock during build > * uses crates below debian/vendorlibs when available > * builds in make target dh_auto_build (not dh_auto_test)
This project takes existing MIT code from dh-cargo and relicenses it as GPL-3+ without consent from the copyright owners. I guess that is allowed but the MIT license requires that a copy of the MIT license be included and this version does not do that. Beyond that, this looks like a hostile fork of dh-cargo using a very generic name without any related coordination with the Debian Rust Maintainers team. Using a different license (GPL-3+) that is not backwards compatible with the original code makes this look even more hostile. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
