Bug#552761: no-copyright-file
reassign 552761 ftp.debian.org severity 552761 normal retitle 552761 RM: gaim-otr -- RoQA; RC-buggy; obsolete transitional package thanks Relevant parts of Bug#552761 follow. gaim-otr turns out to have its own source package (the real plugin to which people should transition is in src:pidgin-otr) so I think it can just be dropped altogether. On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 at 15:35:58 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Package: gaim-otr Version: 3.0.0+cvs20060530-3+fake.1 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: no-copyright-file On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 at 14:11:47 +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote: I couldn't care less. This is a fake, empty transitional package, meant to be removed anyway. On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 at 23:29:16 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Since this transitional package was present already in lenny, I would suggest dropping it entirely in the next upload; there should be no need to keep a transitional package around across multiple releases. Regards, Simon signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#552761: no-copyright-file
clone 552761 -1 reassign -1 ftp.debian.org severity -1 normal retitle -1 RM: gaim-otr -- RoQA; RC-buggy; obsolete transitional package thanks On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:57:20AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: reassign 552761 ftp.debian.org severity 552761 normal retitle 552761 RM: gaim-otr -- RoQA; RC-buggy; obsolete transitional package thanks (Looks like you missed control@ on the first go - in any case, please don't downgrade and reassign RC bugs, this prevents being able to track the actual RC issue in the package.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#552761: no-copyright-file
tags 552761 confirmed thanks It is possible to create a transitional package that doesn't fail this Policy requirement; e.g., by making /usr/share/doc/gaim-otr a symlink to /usr/share/doc/pidgin-otr. Since this transitional package was present already in lenny, I would suggest dropping it entirely in the next upload; there should be no need to keep a transitional package around across multiple releases. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#552761: no-copyright-file
I couldn't care less. This is a fake, empty transitional package, meant to be removed anyway. T-Bone On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: Package: gaim-otr Version: 3.0.0+cvs20060530-3+fake.1 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: no-copyright-file Justification: Each binary package has to include a plain file /usr/share/doc/pkg/copyright Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 12.5 (Copyright information) for details. ,[ 12.5 Copyright information ] | Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and | distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This file | must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic link. | | In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources (if any) | were obtained. It should name the original authors of the package and the Debian | maintainer(s) who were involved with its creation. | | Packages in the contrib or non-free archive areas should state in the copyright | file that the package is not part of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and | briefly explain why. | | A copy of the file which will be installed in /usr/share/doc/package/copyright | should be in debian/copyright in the source package. | | /usr/share/doc/package may be a symbolic link to another directory in | /usr/share/doc only if the two packages both come from the same source and the | first package Depends on the second. These rules are important because | copyrights must be extractable by mechanical means. | | Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Apache license (version | 2.0), the Artistic license, the GNU GPL (version 2 or 3), the GNU LGPL (versions | 2, 2.1, or 3), and the GNU FDL (versions 1.2 or 1.3) should refer to the | corresponding files under /usr/share/common-licenses,[92] rather than quoting | them in the copyright file. | | You should not use the copyright file as a general README file. If your package | has such a file it should be installed in /usr/share/doc/package/README or | README.Debian or some other appropriate place. ` manoj -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.4-anzu-2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gaim-otr depends on: pn pidgin-otr none (no description available) gaim-otr recommends no packages. gaim-otr suggests no packages. -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#552761: no-copyright-file
Package: gaim-otr Version: 3.0.0+cvs20060530-3+fake.1 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: no-copyright-file Justification: Each binary package has to include a plain file /usr/share/doc/pkg/copyright Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 12.5 (Copyright information) for details. ,[ 12.5 Copyright information ] | Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and | distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This file | must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic link. | | In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources (if any) | were obtained. It should name the original authors of the package and the Debian | maintainer(s) who were involved with its creation. | | Packages in the contrib or non-free archive areas should state in the copyright | file that the package is not part of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and | briefly explain why. | | A copy of the file which will be installed in /usr/share/doc/package/copyright | should be in debian/copyright in the source package. | | /usr/share/doc/package may be a symbolic link to another directory in | /usr/share/doc only if the two packages both come from the same source and the | first package Depends on the second. These rules are important because | copyrights must be extractable by mechanical means. | | Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Apache license (version | 2.0), the Artistic license, the GNU GPL (version 2 or 3), the GNU LGPL (versions | 2, 2.1, or 3), and the GNU FDL (versions 1.2 or 1.3) should refer to the | corresponding files under /usr/share/common-licenses,[92] rather than quoting | them in the copyright file. | | You should not use the copyright file as a general README file. If your package | has such a file it should be installed in /usr/share/doc/package/README or | README.Debian or some other appropriate place. ` manoj -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.4-anzu-2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gaim-otr depends on: pn pidgin-otrnone (no description available) gaim-otr recommends no packages. gaim-otr suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
