Debian NEW: automated review of p4est 2.8.7-1~exp1

dfsg-team at debian.org dfsg-team at debian.org
Mon Oct 19 09:03:19 BST 2026


Hi,

Your upload of p4est 2.8.7-1~exp1 to the NEW queue has had an automated review: an LLM-based check of its licensing and packaging, run by the DFSG team using the Debian Inference service. It is not a decision on the package, and - like other LLM-based work - it can be wrong.

It found 1 blocker, 2 important, 4 minor issues:

  - [blocker] [licensing] debian/copyright describes bundled BSD-2, MIT, zlib and public-domain files as LGPL-2.1+
  - [important] [licensing] PDF article in the source has no licence grant and no source
  - [important] [packaging] -release 2.8 leaves no libp4est.so/libsc.so, so libp4est-dev.install matches nothing and dh_install aborts
  - [minor] [licensing] Several copyright stanzas name files that are not in the tree, leaving real files mismatched
  - [minor] [licensing] git2cl copyright holders are incomplete
  - [minor] [packaging] do_not_declare_library_dirty.patch lacks a DEP-3 header
  - [minor] [packaging] debian/watch is in the old version 4 format

You can read the full review here:

    https://dfsg-new-queue.debian.org/reviews/p4est#assistant-report

Please look at it, and respond by visiting the link below (you'll be asked to authenticate with Salsa first):

    https://dfsg-new-queue.debian.org/llm-review/Gk1SI-Aq-305N2q-j54LXk-WSa9J0hRX

There you may choose to reject the upload yourself, while you fix issues and re-upload, or add comments to clarify or dispute the review. Comments are public, and in particular are shown to the DFSG reviewer with the review. You may also use markdown in case you want to link to further clarifying information.

If you have any questions, please reply to this e-mail and someone from the
team will respond.

Thanks!



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