Bug#883293: ack: Several copyrighted song texts in source package under t/text

[Axel Beckert]

Source: ack
Version: 2.18-2
Severity: serious
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/beyondgrep/ack2/issues/655
Control: found -1 1.80-1

The source package of ack cointains at least four full song texts under
t/text/ which are very likely not under a free license:

t/text/boy-named-sue.txt (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_Named_Sue)
t/text/me-and-bobbie-mcgee.txt (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_Bobby_McGee)
t/text/shut-up-be-happy.txt
t/text/science-of-myth.txt

The files are in the ack respectively ack-grep source package since at
least upstream release 1.80, but maybe for even longer, since the git
history of Debian's ack/ack-grep package only goes back to 1.80 and
1.80-1.

Upstream is informed about the issue at
https://github.com/beyondgrep/ack2/issues/655

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages ack depends on:
ii  libfile-next-perl  1.16-2
ii  perl               5.26.1-3

ack recommends no packages.

ack suggests no packages.

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