Hi Andreas, Thank you for your detailed answer!
On Thu, 24 May 2018 at 07:44 Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:14:56PM +0200, Liubov Chuprikova wrote: > > > W: ncbi-tools6 source: missing-field-in-dep5-copyright copyright > > > (paragraph at line 30) > > > W: ncbi-tools6 source: missing-field-in-dep5-copyright license > (paragraph > > > at line 35) > > > W: ncbi-tools6 source: missing-field-in-dep5-copyright copyright > > > (paragraph at line 35) > > > > > > (It also issues a few unrelated complaints, which I'll be happy to > > > address myself.) > > > > > > > I cannot reproduce the same lintian output on my computer. > > You should always install lintian from unstable. To do so create two > files: > > $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/01-unstable.list > deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian unstable main > > $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/01-lintian.pref > Package: lintian > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 601 > > Package: debian-policy > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 601 > > > Try first > > $ apt-cache policy lintian > > which should show > > Candidate: 2.5.88 > > and to make sure that your general preferences are set correctly > > $ apt-cache policy dpkg > > This should *not* have a candidate from unstable. Otherwise add > > $ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/01-unstable.pref > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 50 > > > to make sure you will not upgrade your whole system to unstable which is > probably not what you want. Than do > > sudo apt-get install lintian debian-policy > > (This also pulls debian-policy from unstable which is also what you > want.) > I have updated lintian and debian-policy as you wrote. Now they are of 2.5.88 and 4.1.4.1 versions, respectively. > > I tried it like > > this: > > lintian -i -I --show-overrides > ncbi-tools6_6.1.20170106-3_amd64.changes > After that I've also noticed a mentioning of "ncbi-tools6 source" in the warnings above and realised that I should use .dsc instead of .changes to reproduce them. > > > trnascan-se_sample.output > > I generated that file by running *trnascan-se* (another Debian Med > > package), so I have no > > idea what the license and copyright should be written for it. Could you > > help me with this > > problem? > > I admit I'm unsure myself. Either it inherits the copyright of the > original data file (which should be mentioned in trnascan-se) or you > become the copyright owner. Besides this I doubt that data are > copyright-able at all. So I would not see any problem to use > > Copyright: Liubov Chuprikova > License: public_domain > Ok, I've decided to mention myself as a copyright owner. By the way, trnascan-se_sample.output already has a mentioning about tRNAscan-SE (including tRNAscan-SE's copyright and license info). But, as you wrote, the data itself can hardly follow the same license as the program. Thanks again! Liubov
