On 2016-07-01 01:19:23 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net>, 2016-06-30, 14:34: > > > > The Debian policy manual says: > > > > > > > > "In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream > > > > sources (if any) were obtained, and should name the original > > > > authors." > > > > > > This clause is made up of two requirements: > > > > > > 1. "the copyright file must say where the upstream sources ... were > > > obtained" > > > > > > 2. "the copyright file ... should name the original authors" > > > > > > libstroke does not violate the first requirement: the copyright file > > > does say where the upstream sources /were/ obtained, even though > > > they can no longer be obtained there. > > According to archive.org, http://www.etla.net/ stopped mentioning libstroke > somewhere between February and March 1999. The current upstream release was > first uploaded in 2002, when the link was already invalid.
http://www.etla.net/ has a link to http://etla.net/libstroke/ in 1999. I suspect that the maintainer forgot to update the URL in the new package versions after the link has been removed. > > I thought that it would still be needed as long as the package is in > > Debian (so that users could check too) so that the location should > > implicitly still be valid. > > No, there's no such requirement. This makes the first requirement completely useless: the maintainer could have downloaded the sources 10 years before the software is Debianized with URLs obsolete for years, so that no-one can check. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
