[pkg-crosswire-devel] Fwd: sword-comm-mhc_2.0-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Teus Benschop]

On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 at 15:10, Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto at debian.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 02:07:18PM +0200, Teus Benschop wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The package was rejected. It was because the copyright didn't match with
> > the DFSG.
> >
> > On thinking about this, I think that it does not in any way impact users
> > who want to use the commentary that was to be included in the package.
> > Everyone can install it from the online Crosswire repositories.
> >
> > Taking it one step further, my question is what the additional value of
> > this package would have been in the first place?
> >
> > Was it to assist people who don't have any internet connection, or who
> for
> > certain reasons don't want to use that?
> >
> Several years ago I took it upon myself to package some of what I
> thought would be the most common and useful modules.  It feels "better"
> to me to be able to install components via apt rather than downloading
> modules, for example here with Sword modules, CPAN modules, Python
> modules, etc.  It simplifies deploying across multiple machines, where I
> can deploy a meta-package that pulls in the necessary package as a
> dependency, rather than having to script the installation of an external
> component.  Just a preference on my part.
>
>
> I get the point Roberto, it is clear.

Thinking about this a bit more, for this particular commentary, it might
help if there were another source for it, a source that has a copyright
notice that matches with the DFSG.

Teus