Hi Maarten, Maarten L. Hekkelman, on 2023-09-14: > There is a new version of libcifpp in salsa. Based on a new upstream and > with lots of documentation. This package also has a new SONAME and therefore > my kind request: could someone with the proper privileges review this > package and upload it.
Thank you for your time and efforts on the continuous
maintenance of the libcifpp. Since the SONAME bump will
introduce a round trip through NEW, I focused my review on
copyright pickiness, so it does not have to go through several
review cycles by ftpmaster. Let's try to make it a single
round:
1. The two following files have been introduced in version 5.2
and would need dedicated entries in d/copyright since they
declare being licensed under Boost Software License 1.0
(careful not to make a single paragraph, as copyright
holders are not exactly the same, although a concatenation
of holders of both files may be tolerable):
cmake/GetGitRevisionDescription.cmake
cmake/GetGitRevisionDescription.cmake.in
2. The holder of the following file went back in time in 2021,
but the stamp in d/copyright doesn't go as far in the past:
cmake/VersionString.cmake
Reading further, these go as far as 2020:
include/cif++/pdb/pdb2cif.hpp
include/cif++/utilities.hpp
src/pdb/pdb2cif_remark_3.hpp
So it might be worth extending the range of dates for all
files to 2020-2023 to be on the safe side in my opinion.
There could be other issues, as I have only reviewed through the
source differences since version 5.0.7.1, but that may be a good
start.
Please also have a look at lintian warnings and informational
messages, and see whether the noise could be reduced a bit. For
instance, I spent some time on bash-term-in-posix-shell until I
noticed it was a false positive, so it might be worth wrapping
up an override, commented with a justification why the situation
is so. Also, the standards version can probably be bumped to
the current 4.6.2[1].
[1]:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html#version-4-6-2
Hope this helps,
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