pd-zexy (upstream copyright)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:29:12AM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>On 2010-08-19 10:23, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> On 2010-08-18 20:38, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>
>>> After I stomped the topmost one about source URL (puredata.info was 
>>> down earlier today, apparently), there are now 2 FIXMEs left.
>>>
>
>ah i was so busy answering your questions, that i forgot to rephrase my 
>original question (remember, i'm still trying to learn):
>how are those FIXMEs to be fixed (apart from your questions).
>i mean, can i just edit the debian/copyright file, or do i have to tell
>cdbs somehow else how to FIX.
>if i add the FIXMEs manually, how do i ensure that the format stays 
>DEP5 compatible?

CDBS do not automagically maintain debian/copyright.  Instead it 
maintains a "shadow" file debian/copyright_hints.  At every build, 
source is scanned and a temporary debian/copyright_newhints generated 
and then diff'ed with debian/copyright_hints, and if the first contains 
additions compared to the latter, a warning is emitted (or the build 
fails, if DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE is enabled).

debian/copyright still needs to be maintained "by hand".  There is 
not yet any DEP5 validators or parsers, only the work-in-progress 
definition itself, at http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ - so hava a go at 
reading that :-)


For the concrete FIXMEs I suggest we simply release the package as-is, 
and when next upstream release hopefully improves its copyright and 
licensing hints we may be able to sanely remove them.


  - Jonas

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