Bug#828218: libsoftware-license-perl in Debian has become fork of upstream code

[Vasudev Kamath]

Package: libsoftware-license-perl
Version: 0.103012-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Just to give background for this bug report. I'm helping Jonas
Smedegaard who has adopted licensecheck tool from devscript and
creating a new library called App::LicenseCheck ¹. We intend this tool
to be useful cross distro and not only Debian. During the development
we noticed that libsoftware-license-perl has diverged too much from
upstream source.

This library is patched not to adopt to Debian environment but to
change its behavior to suite Debian better. This means the package
effectively has become a fork of original upstream code.

I'm filing bug with severity important because this will cause
interoperability problem. As an example if App::LicenseCheck is use
din other distro it might not work as expected because it was coded
using libsoftware-license-perl in Debian which is not same as the
original upstream. (just an example).

¹ http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/build-common/licensecheck.git/

Cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libsoftware-license-perl depends on:
ii  libdata-section-perl   0.200006-1
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1
ii  perl                   5.22.2-1

libsoftware-license-perl recommends no packages.

libsoftware-license-perl suggests no packages.

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