>> Please rewrite debian/copyright to include required information:
>>
>> - Upstream URL

> You are right, that's a serious bug.

No its not.  There is none!
(Note the "if any" in Policy section 12.5.)

>> - Upstream Name

Was already included.

>> - Upstream contact address (email)

Was already included.

>> - Include full GPL

Inappropriate; see policy.

>> - Reformat the file to conform to dh-make's template

> That's not a requirement either, but highly recommended.

Why?  Its current format does come from an older dh-make template.


This seems like a "regular" bug, at worst, so I'm going to downgrade.
(Unless it is breaking some automated tools; if so, please let me know.)

I've chnaged the copyright file to

    This package was debianized by Barak A. Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    on Mon, 25 Jun 2001.

    Upstream Author: ibid

    Copyright: GPL v2 or later (see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2)

for the next upload, but I don't think any of those changes are really
important.  Unless some automated tool doesn't understand standard
academic Latin phrases, in which case we have a more serious problem
on our hands!

                                        --Barak.
--
Barak A. Pearlmutter
 Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
 http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/



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