[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#423956: passwd: upstream link in copyright file is dead

[brian m. carlson]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.0.18.1-8
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 12.5

The upstream link in the copyright file does not exist:

  sh-3.1$ host ftp.pld.org.pl.
  Host ftp.pld.org.pl not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

However, this is required by Policy:

  In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources
  (if any) were obtained. It should name the original authors of the
  package and the Debian maintainer(s) who were involved with its
  creation.

I would have provided a patch[0], but I only became aware of this problem
after a friend informed me that he couldn't find the upstream source.
Therefore, I have no way to create a patch.

[0] Yes, yes, I know that it's trivial, but a patch makes it that much
easier to fix.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  debianutils                 2.18         Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.5-7        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules              0.79-4       Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                    0.79-4       Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                 2.0.15-2     SELinux shared libraries
ii  login                       1:4.0.18.1-8 system login tools

passwd recommends no packages.

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