[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#944467: virt-manager: should the debian/copyright file be updated?

Francesco Poli (wintermute) invernomuto at paranoici.org
Sun Nov 10 14:45:04 GMT 2019


Package: virt-manager
Version: 1:2.2.1-2
Severity: important

Hello and thanks for maintaining this package in Debian.

While looking at its debian/copyright file, I noticed that it states,
in part:

[...]
| help/:
| 
|     Copyright 2007 Red Hat Inc., and Hugh Brock
| 
|     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
|     document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
|     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.
| 
| On Ubuntu / Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU Free
| Documentation License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL'.

However, I fail to find any trace of this help/ directory or of
any GFDL-licensed material in the [source] package.

[source]: <https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/virt-manager/tree/e3e1e87de602cd44fdde01a1d6ebd940f85abb5c>

Maybe I looked in the wrong places, hence I am not sure, but I
am beginning to suspect that such material is no longer present
in the package. Should the debian/copyright file be perhaps updated
so that it reflects the current licensing status of the package?

Please note that this bug (if confirmed) could be seen as a violation
of a "must" directive of Debian Policy (section [2.3]), and hence
the severity of the bug report should probably be "serious".
Nonetheless, I chose "important", as I am not sure about the actual
presence of the bug...

[2.3]: <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-pkgcopyright>

Please let me know and/or fix the bug.
Thanks for your time!



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