On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 07:23:05PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:01:10PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >>Package: mirror >>Version: 2.9-62 >>Severity: serious >>User: debian...@lists.debian.org >>Usertags: piuparts >> >>Hi, >> >>during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies the files it >>ships, causing debsums to report mismatches later on: >> >> /usr/share/doc/mirror/mirror.txt.gz >> /usr/share/doc/mirror/html/mirror-ref.html >> /usr/share/mirror/mirror.pl >> /usr/share/mirror/dateconv.pl >> /usr/share/mirror/lchat.pl >> /usr/share/mirror/lsparse.pl >> /usr/share/mirror/ftp.pl >> /usr/bin/do_unlinks >> /usr/bin/mirror-master >> /usr/bin/pkgs_to_mmin >> >>Either the license permits distribution of modified binaries - then this >>can be done at build time [2], or the license violates DFSG 4 [1]. > >"binaries" is a weird concept here, considering this package is mainly >perl scripts. :-) > >I've written to upstream to ask for clarification.
Who has provided it, thankfully: >Yes I intended to allow any reasonable repackaging, changing of >paths, and similar changes and to then be able to ship that version. >Please feel free to use normal Debian practice to bundle up and >distribute Mirror. > >The license came about after the third or fourth time someone relaid >out the entire source code to match their programming style which >made maintenance with patch impossible. > >I'll look into using a more conventional license. I'm in the middle of repackaging it now into a more normal style. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
