On 12 December 2012 at 17:35, Jakub Wilk wrote:
| Source: gsl
| Version: 1.15+dfsg-1
| Severity: serious
| Justification: Policy 2.2.1
| Usertags: gfdl
|
| doc/gsl-ref.* has the following license:
| | Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
| | under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
| | any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the
| | Invariant Sections being ``GNU General Public License'' and ``Free Software
| | Needs Free Documentation'', the Front-Cover text being ``A GNU Manual'',
| | and with the Back-Cover Text being (a) (see below). A copy of the
| | license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
| | License''.
| |
| | (a) The Back-Cover Text is: ``You have the freedom to copy and modify this
| | GNU Manual.''
|
| As per GR 2006-001, works licensed under GFDL with unmodifiable sections
| are not suitable for main:
| http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001
You didn't look at the package's changelog, did you?
gsl (1.11+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New source tarball without so-called 'non-free' documentation released
under the FSF's standard GFDL. (Closes: #495935)
* The documentation will still be provided by packages in non-free which
is not technically part of Debian but accessible via the package
management system.
* debian/README.Debian: Added, explaining this somewhat unfortunate change
* debian/control: Removed gsl-doc-pdf entry
* debian/rules: Adjusted accordingly
* debian/watch: Added version mangling before comparison [lintian]
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:19:59 -0500
In this case, the package is fine (as were the other ones) but I seem to not
have updated the tarball. Which is a pretty trivial matter, but if this gets
you all upset about an 18 months old issue you can certainly forge ahead and
NMU this. Else I might get to it this evening or one of the next days.
Dirk, who still hates this splitting of GNU packages nonsense
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