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Source: maxima
Version: 5.36.1-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 4.5
User: [email protected]
Usertags: timestamps
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Hi,
Your packages contains an embedded code copy of texi2html which is
copyright Lionel Cons and others and is licensed under the GPL and
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. This information is
missing from debian/copyright of maxima and is thus a violation of
policy §4.5.
I found this bug while working on the reproducible builds project [1] to
make texi2html produce reproducible output.
From that point of view there are two options:
1. remove the embedded code copy [2] and build-depend on texi2html
(this would also make policy §4.13 happy). I would prefer this
solution and would supply you with a patch if you want.
The package would not become immediately reproducible with this
solution though because it does not use dh in debian/rules but
instead classic debhelper. Because of that $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH has
to be exported in debian/rules [3]
2. keep the embedded code copy and amend your debian/copyright. In this
case I would open another bug so that your embedded copy of
texi2html is patched to produce reproducible output.
Kind regards,
akira
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/About
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/EmbeddedCodeCopies
[3] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsProposal
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Closed with release 5.37-1.
Take care,
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