On 2018-03-02 13:51:24, Gert Wollny wrote: > Am Freitag, den 02.03.2018, 14:15 +0200 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > > > > > > Counter proposal: let's work on ways in which uploaders can make it > > easy and quick for ftp masters to review packages in NEW. The idea > > should be, in my opinion, that any package that requires more than a > > day of work to review should be rejected by default. > > How do you want to achieve this with a source package that has 13k+ > source files and where upstream does not provide a standard license > header for each file? I.e. there is some license text and it needs to > be quoted, but licensecheck doesn't detect the license or doesn't > detect the copyright entry, so one has to manually inspect many files > to get it right. > > Do you really want to reject these packages outright from Debian, even > though they follow the DFSG?
How do you (we) know the package indeed is DFSG-compliant, if there is no license information? If upstream cannot bother to provide headers, how do we know the code is indeed licenced under the claimed licence? Etc. Note: I haven't looked at the package. Maybe I misunderstand the situation…