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

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Tue May 15 17:15:26 UTC 2007


Quoting brian m. carlson (sandals at crustytoothpaste.ath.cx):
> 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:

Well, I think you're hardly nitpicking here, but let's not argue too
deeply here.

We need to adapt a few things in the copyright file anyway. It doesn't
mention Tomasz Kloczeck at all.

> I would have provided a patch[0], but I only became aware of this problem

I wish you could...:-(. We currently lost contact with upstream for a
few months. Nicolas François and I were indeed mostly discussing about
taking the maintenance over after contacting other vendors who use
shadow and then set a maintenance team on a reliable hosting system.

What we can do *now* is fixing the copyright file and say that the
file *was* downloaded on ftp.pld.org.pl which is not working anymore.


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