[pkg-go] golang-github-remyoudompheng-go-liblzma_0.0~git20190301.da7c45f-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Lluis Campos]

Hi Thorsten,

Thanks for looking into the package and for the insightful input.


On 05.05.2019 20:14, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> the file debian/copyright shall contain all copyright information from 
> upstreams files. We don't have to be better than upstream but we also 
> should not add information where we think upstream might agree. Of 
> course we can tell upstream that there is a problem. Lluis commendably 
> did this with his PR. Until this is settled, a comment would be great.
I will try again to contact upstream and see if the author is willing to 
accept the Copyright PR. If I don't get a response in few days time, 
then I will follow your advise and do option a/ suggested by Andreas

>
> On Sun, 5 May 2019, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
>> a/ drop the patch and upload again (but I suspect the discrepancy
>>   between debian/copyright and upstream will cause a reject)
>
> I am not sure why you think there is a discrepancy. go_spec.html was 
> created 2011 (at least the header says so), so it is not wrong to 
> state 2011-2012 in LICENSE. It might be questionable that upstream is 
> the only author of that document but than at least the 
> debian/copyright is incomplete.
> Anyway, one year difference between the information in LICENSE and 
> information in file headers (especially if there are files with no 
> information at all) are not a reason for a REJECT.
Thanks for the clarification.


>
>   Thorsten
>

Best regards,

Lluís