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<div dir="auto">Hi ftp-masters,<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have some concerns regarding the gstreamer-player(-sys) rust package/crate. It has been rejected twice because "not containing any code":<br></div><div dir="auto">"<br></div><div dir="auto"><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">+----------------------+<br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">| REJECT reasoning |<br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">+----------------------+<br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">There is no source code in this package, so it is not DFSG-comaptible.</span><br></div><div dir="auto">"<br></div><div dir="auto">The code for <b>all </b>gstreamer rust packages are generated the same way as stated by the upstream maintainer (slomo):<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"<br></div><div dir="auto">...<br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16px"><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">In any case, the</span><span><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span><a style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; user-select: text !important; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" href="http://lib.rs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">lib.rs</span></a><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16px"><span><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">is generated from the .gir file you found</span></span></span><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16px"><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">there. That's a description of the API of the library and equivalent to</span></span></span><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16px"><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">a declarations-only header file, so not really relevant copyright-wise</span></span></span><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16px"><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">(see e.g. Google vs. Oracle with regards to Java).</span></span></span><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16px"><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">That XML API description is generated via gobject-introspection from</span></span></span><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="size" style="font-size:16px"><span class="font" style="font-family: monospace, sans-serif;">the GStreamer C source code (specifically the header files).</span></span></span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol""><span class="size" style="font-size:16px">...</span></span></span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol""><span class="size" style="font-size:16px">"</span></span></span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol""><span class="size" style="font-size:16px">I already mentioned this is debian/copyright of gstreamer-player-sys. From my point of view, I don't see how this violates debian policy, especially since the other rust gstreamer packages already in debian are "generated" the same way.</span></span></span><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol""><span class="size" style="font-size:16px">Please advise how I should proceed in this matter. gstreamer-player(-sys) is needed for a variety of Rust GNOME applications such as Podcasts. </span></span></span><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol""><span class="size" style="font-size:16px">Cheers</span></span></span><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol""><span class="size" style="font-size:16px">Matthias Geiger (werdahias)</span></span></span><br></div> </body>
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