[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#1142847: Debian NEW review of kronosnet 1.35-1: ACCEPTED

Andrew McMillan andrew at mcmillan.net.nz
Sun Oct 25 20:47:21 GMT 2026


On Sun, 2026-10-25 at 14:11 +0100, Ferenc Wágner wrote:
> 
> > 2. Wireshark dissector mis-declared as GPL.
> > 
> > libknet/wireshark/packet-kronosnet.{c,h} are LGPL-2.0+
> > (packet-kronosnet.c:8). But the glob libknet/* in DEP-5 does not
> > match
> > subdirectories
> 
> Why does it not match subdirectories?  According to
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#files-field
> 
> > Both [* and ?] match slashes (/) and leading dots, unlike shell
> > globs.
> 
> so I don't see why the dissector would fall through to Files: *.

That's the first time I've seen the LLM make that mistake - weird. 
I'll add an explanation of copyright globbing to the prompt.

Cheers,
Andrew McMillan

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