[Debian-med-packaging] rtax copyright information

Thorsten Alteholz debian-med at alteholz.de
Sun Dec 22 18:17:05 UTC 2013


Hi Andreas

On Sun, 22 Dec 2013, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Currently rtax is in NEW.  I wonder whether we should ask ftpmaster for
> rejection if they consider this incorrectness (the license statement
> itself remains the same - just the missing "Regents of the University of
> California" in addition to the authors) as reason to reject.

according to [1] currently debian/copyright does not contain the correct 
copyright holder list, so yes it is a reason for rejecting,

>                                                               Feel free
> to simply do this if you consider this a reasonable course of action.
> In any case I think fixing the copyright file in Git should be done
> right now.

Hmm, I admit that git is not my friend, so do I do anything wrong here?

debian at debian-med:~/debian-med-git/rtax$ pwd
/home/debian/debian-med-git/rtax
debian at debian-med:~/debian-med-git/rtax$ git pull
Already up-to-date.
debian at debian-med:~/debian-med-git/rtax$ less debian/copyright
Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: RTAX
Upstream-Contact: David A. W. Soergel <soergel at cs.umass.edu>
Source: http://hg.davidsoergel.com/rtax

Files: *
Copyright: <C2><A9> 2011-2013 David A. W. Soergel, Rob Knight, and Steven 
E. Brenner
License: BSD


Maybe you have some spare time to upload an updated version?

   Thorsten


[1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/NEW-checklist.html





More information about the Debian-med-packaging mailing list