Bug#829027: [jwilk@debian.org: Re: Bug#829027: libstroke: missing/obsolete coypright information]
Hello Hamish, Vincent,
On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 10:19:48AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Looking around quickly I think the URL in the copyright file should have
> been www.etla.net/libstroke, which certainly appears to have been valid at
> the time of upload:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20011217134508/http://www.etla.net/libstroke/
>
> The etla.net home page seems to have stopped mentioning libstroke in early
> 1999, after the first upload of libstroke.
> https://web.archive.org/web/19990208013017/http://www.etla.net/
Thank you for getting back to me so quickly, Hamish. It seems like we
can fix this bug by just replacing the URL in the copyright file.
On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 02:31:20AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> http://www.etla.net/ has a link to http://etla.net/libstroke/ in 1999.
> I suspect that the maintainer forgot to update the URL in the new
> package versions after the link has been removed.
Yes, probably right.
> > No, there's no such requirement.
>
> This makes the first requirement completely useless: the maintainer
> could have downloaded the sources 10 years before the software is
> Debianized with URLs obsolete for years, so that no-one can check.
If the purpose of the requirement is for FTP-master verification, as I
suggested, I suspect that they would reject something that was no longer
available at the time of upload. So it's not useless.
If the requirement was that the website remained available so long as
the package is in Debian, the Debian archive would suddenly be beholden
to a lot of random webservers across the Internet staying online. That
would be counter-productive.
--
Sean Whitton
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