Hello all, I am working on my ITP for nixnote2, an open-source Evernote desktop client (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609849) and met some problems. I hope someone could help solve my problems here:
1. Upstream put some *CA certificates* of VeriSign and Thawte inside repository and intends to install it into final binary package. I don't know how to write copyright information for these files. What should I do to deal with this problem? BTW, I looked into the source package of `ca-certificates' and found that those CA certificates was provided by Mozilla in MPL-2.0 in a completely different type and was somehow transformed into usable certificates when building binary package. 2. Even though it is a C++/Qt project, upstream is providing a small prebuilt .jar file for feature enhancement. The source code for the .jar file is provided as well. Does it mean that I should drop prebuilt jar file and rebuild it from source code utilizing the toolchain of Java during building process? 3. When adding debian-specific patches, do I have to write pseudo-headers for patch diff file? It is clear that patches generated by dpkg-source or gbp provides such patches templates as well as "diff --git" format diff files, but when I am trying to manage patches with quilt, the generated patches are just plain traditional "diff -u" style patch files. 4. There is one source file which is licensed under *public-domain*(see the d/copyright file for detail, the whole project is under GPL-2 though). I found some words about this situation (https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#public-domain) but still have little idea about writing correct copyright paragraph in debian/copyright file. Should I just leave the body of license empty, or should I add some description words here? And should I leave the copyright-holder line empty, or just delete the "Copyright: " line? I am in need of your suggestions. A concrete example would be much appreciated. For those who may be interested, my current work is hosted on https://github.com/hosiet/nixnote2 . Thanks, Boyuan Yang
