[Python-modules-team] Bug#524131: python-scipy: outdated and incomplete copyright file

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Package: python-scipy
Version: 0.7.0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.3

Currently shipped copyright file has only

Copyright:

Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 Enthought, Inc.

so it is far from the current state I bet

THANKS.txt lists contributors without describing either they contributed
and transfered a copyright or they reserved (kept) the copyright. According to
the code -- copyright still belongs to plenty of contributors. just run

dpkg -L python-scipy | xargs grep -i copyright  | grep -v Entho

to see what I am talking about 

The proper solution is to list all the copyright holders (with proper
terms/years) within the copyright file.

Sorry for being pedantic

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-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/bash

Versions of packages python-scipy depends on:
ii  libatlas3gf-base [liblapack. 3.6.0-22    Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so.3gf]  1.2-2       Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6                        2.9-4       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3                 4.3.2-1.1   Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapack.so.3 3.1.1-1     library of linear algebra routines
ii  libstdc++6                   4.3.2-1.1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse-3.2.0         1:3.2.0-4   collection of libraries for comput
ii  python                       2.5.2-3     An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central               0.6.11      register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-numpy                 1:1.2.1-1   Numerical Python adds a fast array

Versions of packages python-scipy recommends:
ii  g++ [c++-compiler]            4:4.3.2-2  The GNU C++ compiler
ii  g++-4.2 [c++-compiler]        4.2.4-6    The GNU C++ compiler
ii  g++-4.3 [c++-compiler]        4.3.2-1.1  The GNU C++ compiler

Versions of packages python-scipy suggests:
ii  python-profiler               2.5.2-1    deterministic profiling of any Pyt

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