Bug#618943: corrections

[Arand Nash]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bruno Kleinert <fuddl at debian.org> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 19.03.2011, 19:43 +0000 schrieb Arand Nash:
>> Initial report is somewhat erroneous, some of this is detailed in
>> README.Debian, items in include/ are not in the binary package.
>> However, they are still in the dfsg.orig.tar.gz, which I assume is a
>> problem.
> It's not a problem as long as they are DFSG-compliant. I once read
> somewhere in the maintainer guide, that we should only remove non-DFSG
> stuff from .orig.tar.gz files as Debian users should be expected to
> build/compile software for different platforms from our .orig.tar.gz
> sources.
> I was searching the maintainers' guide for the exact wording, but failed
> to find it, so I can't give evidence here (d'oh!). Honestly I don't
> think there are many users out there who really use our .orig.tar.gz
> files to compile software for any *BSD or whatever ;)
>

Yes[1] I wasn't aware of this when I wrote the report initially,
however it is my understanding that everything in the .orig tarball
distributed needs to be documented regardless..? (A pain indeed, I've
personally looked for any excuses to remove similar things :)

>> Also, the additional ./enet/ items are not mentioned in the
>> README.Debian nor in the copyright
> That's not true (phew! ;) ) it's mentioned at the end of
> debian/copyright.
>

I was referring to the autoconf/libtool files (Listed above), they are
copyrighted to FSF and the  X Consortium, and don't use the Expat
license of Enet, I asked in #debian-mentors about the very similar
files for Enet of AssaultCube and I was told that all copyright should
be included :/ it was a pain to write that copyright file[2], you
might be able to steal some things from it? I've also done the same
for Red Eclipse[3] which might be closer to Sauer as far as the
components go, not sure..

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-origtargz

[2] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/contrib/a/assaultcube/assaultcube_1.1.0.4+dfsg-1/assaultcube.copyright

[3] https://launchpad.net/~arand/+archive/redeclipse/+files/redeclipse_1.01%2Bsvn2630-ppa1.debian.tar.gz
-    dget https://launchpad.net/~arand/+archive/redeclipse/+files/redeclipse_1.01%2Bsvn2630-ppa1.dsc

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arand