gmameui_0.2.11-1_i386.changes REJECTED

[Loïc Martin]

Hi,

This email could be off base, because I'm not sure I can verify the 
version uploaded to you is the exact version I prepared 
(http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/g/gmameui), but if it is 
I'd probably need some hints on what the problems are. Please excuse me 
if the questions I ask are trivial.

Torsten Werner wrote:
> Hi Maintainer,
> 
> missing license/copyright statements

1.
> gnome-doc-utils.make
> Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Shaun McCance <shaunm at gnome.org>
> GPL-2+

The file it GPL-2+ with special exemption, as mentioned in 
debian/copyright ll. 41-50:
> Files: config.guess, config.rpath, config.sub, decomp, gnome-doc-utils.make,
>  intltool-extract.in, intltool-update.in, missing
> Copyright: 1992-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc
>            2000, 2001  Eazel, Inc
>            2004-2005 Shaun McCance <shaunm at gnome.org>
> License: GPL-2+ with special exemption
>  As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
>  distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
>  configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
>  the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.

2.
> setup-gettext
> Copyright (C) 2002 Christian Hammond.
> GPL-2+

I'm at a loss at what is missing in debian/copyright, see 
debian/copyright ll. 25-27:
> Files: setup-gettext
> Copyright: 2002 Christian Hammond
> License: GPL-2+


3.
> help/C/legal.xml
> License (GFDL), Version 1.1 or any later version published
> by the Free Software Foundation with no Invariant Sections,
> no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

We build it with --disable-doc since no Gnome documentation has been 
written for the program yet. I assumed legal.xml was the license for the 
Gnome documentation written for GMAMEUI, which at the moment is inexistant.

Wouldn't documenting help/C/legal.xml in debian/copyright be the same as 
documenting in debian/copying the _license_ the file COPYING in any 
source tarball (or documenting any other license file) is released in 
(i.e. license of the license text itself, not license the 
source/documentation that are released under this said license)?

I can make a new upload to debian.mentors.net in case you believe I 
should mention that license in debian/copyright (even though we don't 
ship the non-existent documentation), but in that case shouldn't I 
document help/C/gmameui.xml instead of help/C/legal.xml ?

I'll be happy to make a new upload if someone thinks it is necessary, 
but I just need a few pointers about what was wrong and what needs to be 
changed.

Thanks a lot for your review Torsten,
Loïc