[Debichem-devel] dl-poly-classic_1.10+dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Sean Whitton]

Hello Michael,

On Sun 23 Feb 2020 at 02:48PM +01, Michael Banck wrote:

> Are you saying I should be able to modify LICENSE.pdf to say it is
> GPL'd? Sorry for being a bit grumpy, but honestly, I am starting to lose
> interest in Debian packaging if we get caught up on the preferred form
> of modification for a simple text-file PDF.
>
> I packaged this because it is a relevant piece of software, see e.g.
> page 6 of this slidedeck:
> https://cug.org/proceedings/cug2014_proceedings/includes/files/pap127-file2.pdf

Sorry about all this.  It feels a bit silly to me, too.

Nevertheless, one key point of NEW processing is not to let files into
main which don't satisfy DFSG, and this file doesn't, and I don't feel
able to just ignore that.

I will not be offended if you want to leave LICENSE.pdf in and just wait
to see what other ftpteam members, more experienced than me, think about
it.

> To be more constructive, are you ok with some elaborate scheme where we
> first pipe LICENSE.pdf through pdftotxt or whatever (which appears to
> have semi-sensible output), and then purge the PDF before repackaging?

This is fine with me though you would have to ensure the text does
actually come out identical.

If I were in your position I'd be inclined to do it manually.  If you
commit the upstream source to git and then merge new upstream versions
into your master branch, git-merge would take care of replacing
LICENSE.pdf with plain text each time, so you'd only have to do it once.

Just a reminder, you'll want to suffix +dfsg to the upstream version
number when doing the repacking.

> Or maybe just add the .txt (as a Debian patch), as there is really no
> artistic add-ons in the PDF to the text whatsoever, and I hope we are
> not going to argue about the margin sizes or font types etc.

I think this is okay but it wouldn't satisfy Stuart's concern that
someone downloading only the .orig.tar should be able to find the
license text there.

Please ping me when reuploaded to NEW.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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