Bug#738537: Packages's debian/copyright file incomplete, package contains non-DFSG files

[Mike Gabriel]

Package: nautilus
Version: 3.8.2-2
Severity: serious

Dear maintainer,

while packaging Caja from the MATE Desktop project for Debian, I  
stumbled over a severe issue with the debian/copyright file of  
nautilus and its upstream tarball.

(1) the debian/copyright file is incomplete. Several LGPL-2+ files  
from the upstream tarball (libnautilus-extension1a package) are not  
covered by debian/copyright.

(2) the upstream source tarball contains a COPYING-DOCS file  
(containing a version of the GNU FDL-1.1+ license). This file probably  
relates to the docs/ folder in the upstream tarball (it is not quite  
clear). These files should not be in Debian as the GNU FDL-1.1+ is not  
considered as a DFSG compliant license by the Debian project [1].

For Caja the solutions are:

(for 1) provide a detailled license file, compliant to DEP-5 proposal
(for 2) drop nearly all files found in the docs/ folder (except man pages)

light+love,
Mike
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