Bug#613606: dh-make-perl: Fails to correctly identify GPLv2 in RT::Authen::ExternalAuth v0.08

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Thu Feb 17 22:11:04 UTC 2011


tag 613606 + unreproducible
thanks

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:56:02 -0700, Will Aoki wrote:

> Package: dh-make-perl
> Version: 0.70-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> dh-make-perl fails to correctly identify RT::Authen::ExternalAuth version 0.08
> (available on CPAN) as being licensed under the GPLv2. Per the note it
> generated in debian/copyright, I'm reporting this as a bug.

Thanks for your bug report.
(Which note BTW?)

I tried just running dh-make-perl against RT::Authen::ExternalAuth
0.08, and the result looks good:

Files: *
Copyright: Mike Peachey <zordrak at cpan.org>
License: GPL-2+

This was with dh-make-perl 0.72-1 from unstable; I'm inclined to
close this bug against 0.71-1 or 0.72-1, but I'm hesitating since I
don't find any relevant changes in the code.
 
> As far as I can tell, the text in LICENSE appears to just be an older version
> of the GPLv2 than the one presented in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. The
> only difference I see in the actual text is that still refers to the LGPL by
> its old "Library General Public License" name.

dh-make-perl looks at META.yml first; in this case there's
    license: GPL version 2
and the code in lib/DhMakePerl/Command/Packaging.pm does:
    elsif ( $mangle_cprt =~ /GPL.*version\s*2/is ) {    
so this should be caught (in is in my test).

(That part of the code was last touched in March 2010, and should be
in the package unchanged since 0.65).
 

Mysterious.


Ok, let's install dh-make-perl 0.70-1:

Same result:

Files: *
Copyright: Mike Peachey <zordrak at cpan.org>
License: GPL-2+


Could you please try again, and/or
1) provide exact steps how you see the problem
2) the created debian/copyright

Thanks,
gregor


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