dahdi-firmware_2.2.1-1_i386.changes REJECTED

[Jonas Smedegaard]

[I dare respond via the mailinglist: please let's be transparent!]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:18:46AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:58:21PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:25:41AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:00:25PM +0000, Torsten Werner wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> you are referencing the copyright file from another source package. 
>>>> Sorry, but that is not allowed. There are 2 options for you: either 
>>>> document the copyright and license info for all files in the source 
>>>> package or strip down the source package to the firmware files 
>>>> only.
>>>
>>> As mentioned in the copyrights file, the only files actually 
>>> included in the produced binary package are:
>>>
>>>  /usr/share/dahdi/*.hex
>>>  /var/lib/dahdi/digium-firm/Makefile
>>
>> The debian/copyright file must cover not only the parts included in 
>> binary packages but *all* sources.
>>
>> Copyright and licensing of *all* that is released must be documented. 
>> The source package is released too.
>>
>>
>> I'd be happy to maintain the copyright file if you permit me to use 
>> CDBS to do so.
>
>I don't permit you to change it to CDBS: [1]

I did not write "change", just "use".

If you want to do it yourself, here is what I would have done:

   touch debian/copyright_check
   DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 debian/rules pre-build
   mv debian/copyright_newhints debian/copyright_hints

Save copyright_hints to VCS and use it as basis for a copyright file.

A later change to copyrights or licensing in source is (most likely) 
detected and warned about (and if setting DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE in a local 
build environment it completely refuses to continue until corrected.

When using same format (DEB5 rev. 135) for the copyright file itself, it 
should be relatively easy to diff the automated file and the manually 
beautified one if loosing track of how up-to-date to latter is.


>[1] Have you checked the link? ;-)

No - I did not feel a need for doing that.  And checking now I still see 
no need for that.  Care to elaborate?


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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