Bug#828218: libsoftware-license-perl in Debian has become fork of upstream code

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Dominique Dumont (2017-01-08 15:36:34)
> On Sunday, 8 January 2017 13:05:14 CET Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > For the record: As a direct consequence of this bug, licensecheck 
> > testsuite now ignores some failures that occur only when using the 
> > Debian fork.
> 
> I guess that you are referring to this commit:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/licensecheck.git/commit/?id=eee0dfa250409c07fb8369b04e254794f6541389
> where Software::LicenseUtils->new_from_short_name is giving you some trouble
> because you rely on a fallback mechanism that is still Debian specific (PR pending since 2015).
> 
> For the record, Debian version accepts some more short names than upstream's version.
> E.g. BSD-3-clause and expat because I believe they are Debian specific. If you think otherwise, 
> feel free to submit a PR upstream.

Here is the full list of patches applied to libsoftware-license-perl:

summary_method
artistic_1.0_summary
apache-2-summary
gpl-1-summary
gpl-2-summary
gpl-3-summary
lgpl-2-1-summary
lgpl-3-summary
lgpl-2-summary
summary_test
add_or_later_clause
add-bsd-3-clause-short-name
backward-compat
add-expat-short-name
add-debian-text-method
short-name-fallback

Examples you mention seem to be these - each changing a single line:

add-bsd-3-clause-short-name
add-expat-short-name

My concern, and what I call a fork, is functionality deviating 
substantially from that released upstream.

Could you please elaborate on how - in your opinion - the _other_ 
patches do not cause the resulting package to deviate substantially from 
upstream project?


 - Jonas

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