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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Carnë,

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 02:40:35PM +0100, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 21 April 2017 at 00:02, gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> > [...]
> > - 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?

I don't know about Perl team policy but I personally agree with Gregor
that removing those files is the most easy to understand way and I for
myself would prefer this solution.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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