#467567 buthead: debian/copyright problems (not upstream name, email, url, missing GPL text)

Package:
buthead
Source:
buthead
Description:
copy all but the first few lines
Submitter:
Jari Aalto
Date:
2021-09-22 04:44:36 UTC
Severity:
minor
#467567#5
Date:
2008-02-26 12:32:13 UTC
From:
To:
Please rewrite debian/copyright to include required information:

- Upstream URL
- Upstream Name
- Upstream contact address (email)
- Include full GPL
- Reformat the file to conform to dh-make's template

#467567#10
Date:
2008-02-26 13:59:11 UTC
From:
To:
Hi!

Am 26.2.2008 schrieb "Jari Aalto" <jari.aalto@cante.net>:
[..]

You are right, that's a serious bug.
address are required by the policy (it's a "should" not a "must").

"Packages distributed under the [..] the GNU GPL (version 2 or 3) [..]
should refer to the corresponding files under
/usr/share/common-licenses,[86] rather than quoting them in the
copyright file."
Policy 12.5.

That's not a requirement either, but highly recommended.


Yours sincerely,
  Alexander

#467567#15
Date:
2008-02-26 14:32:42 UTC
From:
To:
No its not.  There is none!
(Note the "if any" in Policy section 12.5.)

Was already included.

Was already included.

Inappropriate; see policy.

Why?  Its current format does come from an older dh-make template.


This seems like a "regular" bug, at worst, so I'm going to downgrade.
(Unless it is breaking some automated tools; if so, please let me know.)

I've chnaged the copyright file to

    This package was debianized by Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org>
    on Mon, 25 Jun 2001.

    Upstream Author: ibid

    Copyright: GPL v2 or later (see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2)

for the next upload, but I don't think any of those changes are really
important.  Unless some automated tool doesn't understand standard
academic Latin phrases, in which case we have a more serious problem
on our hands!

#467567#22
Date:
2017-01-27 01:03:07 UTC
From:
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Date:
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