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--- Begin Message ---Package: info Version: 4.8.dfsg.1-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 12.5 The file /usr/share/doc/info/copyright contains: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. ... On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' file. However, both the man page for info as well as info clearly state: Copyright C 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING. and There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING. Since the file COPYING is not shipped by Debian, I could not check there. So in conclusion, the copyright file for Debian claims "version 2 or any later version" while both documentation and programm output miss this clause (and hence refer to the original GPL). The original GPL is, however, not included in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. So looking at the package installed, the licences is clearly wrong and missing on Debian. Given the authorship, I assume this is an (consistent) oversight in the source for both the man page and the programm itself. For clarity, COPYING should be checked. I suggest the following: *Contact upstream and ask to clarify *Patch both the man page and the programm to refer to /usr/share/doc/info/copyright instead of the file "COPYING" so that the reader is drawn to a file actually shipped in the package (or, alternativly, ship COPYING as well). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.6-grsec-cz03 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages info depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand info recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/
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--- Begin Message ---Source: texinfo Source-Version: 4.8.dfsg.1-2 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of texinfo, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: info_4.8.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb to pool/main/t/texinfo/info_4.8.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb texinfo_4.8.dfsg.1-2.diff.gz to pool/main/t/texinfo/texinfo_4.8.dfsg.1-2.diff.gz texinfo_4.8.dfsg.1-2.dsc to pool/main/t/texinfo/texinfo_4.8.dfsg.1-2.dsc texinfo_4.8.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb to pool/main/t/texinfo/texinfo_4.8.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated texinfo package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:16:29 +0200 Source: texinfo Binary: texinfo info Architecture: source i386 Version: 4.8.dfsg.1-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: info - Standalone GNU Info documentation browser texinfo - Documentation system for on-line information and printed output Closes: 367243 380128 Changes: texinfo (4.8.dfsg.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium . * standards version 3.7.2, no changes necessary * fix a missing translation/locale fix (thanks Sven Joachim) (Closes: #367243) * extend wording of the copyright file to clear the differences between info --version (and man page) and the actual copyright. Add a note that the file COPYING mentioned contains GPLv2. (Closes: #380128) (urgency set to medium as this is an RC bug present in testing) Files: f0c8396c562b7bca6276de89239bd136 635 doc standard texinfo_4.8.dfsg.1-2.dsc 67429e6e341009e0cb47c19f66584896 100485 doc standard texinfo_4.8.dfsg.1-2.diff.gz 4444f6c23b476d06ddcc137acc837f96 680682 text standard texinfo_4.8.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb a6e6c0dac1ce25b6e417a89870019063 164662 doc important info_4.8.dfsg.1-2_i386.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE2z9r1IXdL1v6kOwRArkeAJ45tFzAFB0pIv4a9b/cD8L/AMth0wCfYydd UjE8B1bgFuWlDuvTNVECeS8= =k1qz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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