Bug#863082: pulseaudio: debian/copyright does not contain AGPL-3+ text, and references missing file instead

[Felipe Sateler]

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On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:

> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > Source: pulseaudio
> > Version: 10.0-1
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > the copyright file has this paragraph:
> >
> > |Files: src/utils/qpaeq
> > |Copyright: 2009  Jason Newton <nevion at gmail.com>
> > |License: AGPL-3+
> > | This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > | it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
> > | published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
> > | License, or (at your option) any later version.
> > | .
> > | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> > | GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
> > | .
> > | On Debian systems, the complete text of the AGPL 3 can be found in
> > | /usr/share/doc/pulseaudio/AGPL
> >
> >
> > This is not acceptable for our current policy for the same points:
> >
> > * said file /usr/share/doc/pulseaudio/AGPL is missing, it appears to be
> >   compressed instead
> > * so /use/share/doc/pulseaudio/AGPL.gz iscompressed, and quoting the
> >   policy "This file must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic link"
>
> Indeed, it was compressed by dh_compress. I need to add an exclusion
>
> > * there are binaries shipped by src:pulseaudio which do not depend on
> >   the pulseaudio binary package, thus totally missing the AGPL-3 text
>
> All packages ship AGPL file, but indeed the reference is to the
> pulseaudio package directory. Will fix.
>
> > * policy does not consider files different than
> >   /usr/share/doc/<pkg>/copyright to be possible, except for a few cases
> >   explicitly listed there (where this is not one of those)
>
> `grep usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/*/copyright` in my system lists
> several files making references to copyright in other files. Policy
> might need to be updated.
>

I've found myself lacking the time to do this. NMU welcome.


-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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