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

[Fernando Hueso González]

Hi, they just merged the PR into master, so now the upstream tarball is 
free of those files, too.
No tag was published yet, I just asked for it.

> 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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/ctk/-/commit/cdf9e91b1ec73d741ac1f5ec544a429f73ad72a8__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WPIAI_nfMzFsDVh4B5VYITKigmi2lSei-7vzubcbskVIfy-i_u8vPmXXZtimYj3bp4wqHjNC_1ChioiU$
> 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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