[pkg-gnupg-maint] gnupg2_2.2.38-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Sun 2022-09-04 13:56:20 +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 20:42 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> I'm a little bit confused by this REJECT message:
>> 
>> On Thu 2022-09-01 23:05:39 +0000, Debian FTP Masters wrote:
>> > gnupg2 source: lintian output: 'license-problem-non-free-RFC doc/OpenPGP', automatically rejected package.
>> > gnupg2 source: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag.
>> 
>> Nothing has changed in the gnupg2 source package upstream for
>> doc/OpenPGP between 2.2.35 (in testing) and 2.2.38 (just uploaded), and
>> doc/OpenPGP itself doesn't even contain an RFC, it just refers to the
>> RFCs related to OpenPGP (RFC 4880 and RFC 2440).
>> 
>> Furthermore, when i run lintian 2.115.3 locally on the package before
>> uploading, i don't see these error messages.
>
> ftp-master has lintian 2.104.0 from bullseye. For the previous gnupg2
> upload (gnupg2_2.2.35-3.dsc) it says:
>
>     E: gnupg2 source: license-problem-non-free-RFC doc/OpenPGP
>     W: gnupg2 source: mismatched-override license-problem-non-free-RFC [doc/OpenPGP]
>
> I think the last gnupg2 upload was before the upgrade of ftp-master to
> bullseye where it was still running an older version of lintian.

I don't see anything in this conversation that suggests that we think
there is an actual RFC in doc/OpenPGP, or any other kind of license
problem with the source.

Do you want me to just add a lintian override to the gnupg2 source
package that will be ignored (actually, complained about as unnecessary)
by the version of lintian in unstable?

Or is there some other way that i should respond to this?

             --dkg
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