Bug#795188: missing debian/copyright
Package: pidgin Version: 2.10.11-1 Severity: serious User: alteh...@debian.org Usertags: no-debian-copyright X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org thanks Dear Maintainer, there seems to be no file debian/copyright in your package. According to Debian policy 12.5 [1]: A copy of the file which will be installed in /usr/share/doc/package/copyright should be in debian/copyright in the source package. It is not sufficient to create such a copyright file while building the binary package. Thanks! Thorsten [1]https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#795188: missing debian/copyright
> > It is not sufficient to create such a copyright file while > building the binary package. > Since when? The part of policy you quoted says the copyright file *should* be in debian/copyright, not *must*.
Bug#795188: missing debian/copyright
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities > serious > is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a must or > required directive), or, in the package maintainer's or release manager's > opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#795188: missing debian/copyright
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Ari Pollak wrote: It is not sufficient to create such a copyright file while building the binary package. Since when? The part of policy you quoted says the copyright file should be in debian/copyright, not must. Sorry, but I don't know the exact history of the policy. The actual version says in §1.1: "Non-conformance with guidelines denoted by should (or recommended) will generally be considered a bug" So we can discuss about the severity of the bug, but it still remains a bug. Thorsten
Bug#795188: missing debian/copyright
On Tuesday, 11 August 2015 22:12:46 AEDT you wrote: > On Tue, 11 Aug 2015, Ari Pollak wrote: > > It is not sufficient to create such a copyright file while > > building the binary package. > > > > Since when? The part of policy you quoted says the copyright file > > should be in debian/copyright, not must. Policy goes on to say about copyright files: "These rules are important because copyright files must be extractable by mechanical means." and this is indeed a problem for the source package pidgin. Automated extraction of the source package's copyright fails both for ftp- master's API and on tracker: http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/p/pidgin/ https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pidgin Given that there are practical reasons why having debian/copyright within the source package is useful, would debian/rules be able to be changed so that the copyright file is created prior to upload rather than at build time? thanks Stuart -- Stuart Prescotthttp://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7
