* 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.
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.
--
Jakub Wilk