[Debian-med-packaging] ctk | Licensing improvements (!3)

[Andreas Tille]

Am Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 05:24:35PM +0200 schrieb Fernando Hueso González:
> Hi Andreas, thanks for the feedback!
> > However,
> > we keep on shipping the affected code inside the source tarball.
> 
> I don't think so? Since I explicitly removed those files from the
> repository, see https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/ctk/-/commit/cdf9e91b1ec73d741ac1f5ec544a429f73ad72a8

Its inside the upstream tarball, right?  This is what the DFSG team
as well as users who download the source package will see.
 
> Or do you think it's not a good to do that because GitHub still has those,
> and it's better to restore them and instead use Files-Excluded tag?

Yes.
 
> > Thus we either need to strip it from our source tarball (via Files-Excluded
> > in d/copyright) or more preferable upstream would tag a new upstream
> > release which does not contain the code any more.  This would make
> > things even more convenient.
> > 
> > Do you see any chance to convince upstream to tag a release including
> > the latest patch?
> 
> It's likely, but the timing is not sure, sometimes they solve things within
> a week, sometimes it takes months...

What about explicitly asking for some schedule?  If they think it could
be done in 1-2 weeks I would wait.  Otherwise we should use
Files-Excluded. 

Kind regards
   Andreas.

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