[Pkg-scicomp-devel] atlas lintian clean?

sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org
Sat Sep 27 19:13:15 UTC 2008



On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:21:47 +0000, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
<ojsbug at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I would like to work a bit on atlas to make it lintian clean but I am
> having problems understanding one of the main things there, the
> copyright file.
Great idea (and good luck ;). This package needs some work.

> All the packages have the same copyright file and it is not lintian
> warning free, it gives out "copyright-without-copyright-notice"
> warning.
This one is easy to fix. 
If you add the flag -i "lintian", you will see:
"A copyright notice must consist of Copyright, Copr., or the Unicode symbol
of C in a circle followed by the years and the copyright holder"


> I don't know much about copyright policy and how to do this but in
> octave we make the copyright files for the octave-forge package so
> that they list all the different files (since there is no one
> copyright holder to the files) like can be seen in [1]. But this is
> not a good solution for atlas since many of the files don't have a
> copyright notice and there are just way to many files.
Well, you have too. 
The basic procedure is to open each file. If the copyright is different,
you should add it into debian/copyright.
Borring and painful...

Sylvestre





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