On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:03:40PM -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:50:20PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Package: abiword > > Severity: serious > > Justification: Policy 12.5 > > > The abiword source includes the sources for libpng, zlib, libiconv, fribidi, > > expat, pbx, popt, wv (and maybe some others I didn't see), none of which > > copyright holder and license is given in the copyright file. > > None of these libraries are included in the binary package though, right? > Is it really necessary for debian/copyright to document the licenses of > files not actually part of the binary packages?
At least wv is part of the binary package. > Obviously, one option here then is to just repack the source package without > them... anyway, I'm just not sure if this really ought to be a serious bug. It would need to repack AND modify some Makefiles. Some of the directories are used at clean time. (cf. buildd logs) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
