Forwarding notes from ftptrainee:
> REJECT > > There are some issues with the d/copyright file. > > The file doc/chicago.bst is not included in the upload, but the > license given for that file in d/copyright cannot be valid. If you > look at the source code for named.bst, it says > > Copying of this file is authorized only if either > (1) you make absolutely no changes to your copy, including name, or > (2) if you do make changes, you name it something other than > btxbst.doc, plain.bst, unsrt.bst, alpha.bst, and abbrv.bst. > This restriction helps ensure that all standard styles are identical. > > Since chicago.bst is apparently a modification of named.bst, these > other file names which are not permitted need to be included in the > license for chicago.bst. plain.bst also has a list of names that > cannot be used. This is upstream's error, but I'm not really happy > about Debian propagating the error by distributing this d/copyright > file, even though we're not distributing the file chicago.bst. > > I also noticed, while reviewing d/copyright, that `Licence: MIT` > should be `License: Expat`, and the Source: field is out-of-date. > There are also some Lintian warnings about the machine-readable > format. > > Having found these issues with d/copyright, I didn't review the > upstream source code. I request a reupload with a cleaned up > d/copyright for a full review. -- Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:07:52 +0000 === Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our concerns.
