[DRE-maint] ruby-dbm_1.1.0-1_amd64.changes is NEW

Antonio Terceiro terceiro at debian.org
Sat Dec 31 22:14:41 GMT 2022


On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 11:04:46PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> I've marked this package for ACCEPT.
> 
> However, there's one borderline issue that I'm going to allow through
> NEW, because I don't believe it impacts our distributability, however
> it's likely an RC bug IMHO.
> 
> The debian/coypright file describes source files, not binaries. It
> looks like you've added GPL-3+ because of the GDBM implementation we
> link to, which is a welcome degree of diligence I do appreciate, but
> it may change without the involvement of this source package (if the
> implementation were to change, or how a downstream changes the way the
> deb is built). If we had to list all the licensing information of all
> our build-deps / links, things would get very messy indeed! I'd expect
> someone to look through the dependency tree iff they need to determine
> the binary distribution terms.
> 
> If you could upload a new version of this package with a fixed
> d/coypright, that'd be super helpful!

Fair enough, thanks for the feedback. I will make a new upload dropping
those notes.

Also, thanks for handling this quickly.
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