[Debian-med-packaging] Psortb has errors in Perl testsuite

[Carnë Draug]

On 21 April 2017 at 00:02, gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> [...]
> - remove-3rd-party-libsvm.patch removes two files; while this works
>   now it can cause problems in the future (when those files change);
>   alternatives would be to rm them in debian/rules at the appropriate
>   step, or to repackage the whole thing without them [0].
> - d/copyright mentions a bundled copy of libsvm without spelling out
>   the detailed copyright/license terms for the files (which are still
>   present in the source package despite the
>   remove-3rd-party-libsvm.patch). I think that's not enough; but
>   adding the detailed information is a bit hard since libsvm.{cpp,h}
>   don't contain any information …
> - Putting the last two issues together, I think that repackaging the
>   tarball in order to remove the 2 files would be the best solution;
>   if they're just gone we don't have to worry about merge issues with
>   the patch or about copyright/license issues with the files.
>
> [0] cf. https://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/howto/repacking.html

The actual license for those files is in section 6 of the README file
named 'libsvm·COPYRIGHT·AND·LICENCE'.  Since lack of license is not an
issue, should I still do the repackaging or should I use debian/rules
to remove them?

Carnë