Bug#771126: libav/tests/lena.pnm: also not mentioned in debian/copyright

[Niels Thykier]

On 2014-11-27 12:46, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> control: tags -1 + wheezy-ignore
>> Are you part of the release team?
> 
> No, but the release team is explicitly happy with *me* tagging stuff wheezy-
> ignore following guidelines discussed on debian-release.
> 
> the conclusion there has been: (in stable) distributable stuff which is non-
> free or wrongly mentioned in debian/copyrights are serious bugs - but serious 
> bugs which *can* be ignored.
> 
> (and yeah, usually I cc: debian-release at l.d.o explicitly on such taggings, 
> because it's the proper thing to do. as I also know that most if not all of 
> the release team are subscribed to all RC bugs anyway, I sometimes forget 
> this...)
> 
> [...]
> 

Hi,

FTR, I believe Holger is referring to [1].  At first glance, it seems to
mostly apply to this particular case.

I say mostly because it is not immediately clear to me that we got an
exact license (combined with "... and there is *no doubt about the
license* of the files [...]""" from [1], emphasis mine).
  That said, provided that we *are permitted* to distributable, I see no
issue with the -ignore tag for Wheezy.

Should it turn out that the files are in fact non-distributable, the
-ignore tag will have to go and we would need a stable-update to fix it.

~Niels

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2014/03/msg00409.html



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