Soren, On Mon, 16 Sept 2024 at 22:27, Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> wrote: > > Dmitry, > > debian/source/format lists this package as 3.0 (native). Is Debian the > upstream for this package?
Yes, see how gcc-defaults handle the same case. > You should delete the debian/compat file as it is deprecated. > > In debian/control you should build-depend on "debhelper (= 13)". Ack. > You should add "Rules-Requires-Root: no” to debian/control (I assume you don’t > need root to build this package). Ack. > > As an example, see: > > https://salsa.debian.org/soren/privacybrowser/-/blob/master/debian/control? > ref_type=heads > > debian/copyright says: > > Source: <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.9.1/gcc-4.9.1.tar.bz2>, notice > that this package only contains several license files. > > Is that current? Yes, we haven't been updating it since that time, it wasn't required. > > Comment: > This package was put together by Nikita V. Youshchenko <yo...@debian.org> > on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:34:35 +0400. > . > Copyright (C) 2006, Nikita V. Youshchenko <yo...@debian.org> > > This looks obsolete (replaced by the debian/* entry). Ack. > > Can you give me a little bit of background on why parts of this package are > non-free? I am having a hard time imagining that the Free Software Foundation > released a bunch of documentation that isn’t DFSG-free. The documentation is released under GFDL with invariant sections. It's considered non-DFSG-free. -- With best wishes Dmitry
