evince-gtk3_48.1-5_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Mechtilde Stehmann]

Hello Jeremy

Am 09.02.26 um 16:54 schrieb Jeremy Bícha:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde at debian.org> wrote:
>> In the package I found files (eg. po/br.po) with GPL-2 only which is incompatible with GPL-3+.
> 
> Thank you for your attention to detail. In response, I filed these
> bugs in Debian and upstream:
> https://bugs.debian.org/1127487
> https://bugs.debian.org/1127488
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/papers/-/issues/617
> 
> Notably, my evince-gtk3 binary packages **do not** install anything
> from /usr/share/locale/ . I will add a warning to the install files
> about why that cannot be changed at this time. Because no translations
> are included in the binary packages, I would prefer not to create ave a
> new "DFSG" tarball for evince-gtk3. Is that acceptable?

It is not acceptabel to have sourcecode in the archive which isn't 
license compliant

> 
> I intend to do a new evince-gtk3 upload today with debian/copyright
> updated to copyright format 1.0.
> 
>> d/control defines dependencies that are no longer available in Debian
> 
> I believe this is simply because there are Build-Depends (maybe
> Depends too) on virtual packages which many Debian utilities don't
> know how to handle. The package is buildable and installable.

then I think you can remove the names of packages which are not 
available in Debian
> 
> One other comment: evince-gtk3 is simply a repackage of the existing
> evince source package, version 48. It is stripped down to no longer
> provide the evince app (or translations) but it does provide the gtk3
> libraries since there are apps using those libraries.
> 
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bícha

Kind regards

Mechtilde Stehmann
Member of the DFSG and New Packaging Team


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