Please review text-engine in the NEW queue

Jeremy Bicha jeremy.bicha at canonical.com
Wed Jan 11 16:39:18 GMT 2023


On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 3:19 PM Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 3:10 PM Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 8:00 PM Thorsten Alteholz
> > <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> wrote:
> > > Hi Heather,
> > >
> > > please also mention debian/* in your debian/copyright.
> > > At least Jermey Bicha should be mentioned for his patch.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >  Thorsten
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ===
> > >
> > > Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why
> > > your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
> > > concerns.
> >
> > I consider my patches to be derivative works of the upstream source.
> > They use the same license and I do not require explicit
> > acknowledgement in debian/copyright.
> >
> > My 1-line patch was already accepted upstream. It is not required for
> > every single contributor to upstream to be added to debian/copyright.
> >
> > Similarly, I consider my packaging to be a derivative work of upstream
> > and many of the Debian GNOME packages do not have debian/ specifically
> > referenced in debian/copyright (beyond the wildcard copyright and
> > license). I don't believe this should be REJECT criteria.
> >
> > If Heather wants to claim copyright, she is welcome to. But I don't
> > think we should be forced to.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Jeremy Bicha
>
> ftpmasters,
>
> Could you please re-review text-engine in Debian NEW? This is one of
> the first uploads for a new Debian contributor and I'm frustrated on
> her behalf that the review is taking significantly longer than
> average.
>
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bicha

Hi, I am pinging again to request a re-review of text-engine in Debian
NEW. It has been in the NEW queue much longer than nearly anything
else and it's my opinion that the copyright review for this package
should be relatively simple.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha



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