Re: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] haskell-digest_0.0.0.6-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs@mega-nerd.com>]

Christopher Lane Hinson wrote:

> >
> >> Quoting Eirk de Castro Lopo:
> >>> For the second issue, this is due to the machine readable cabal file
> >>> format not accepting "BSD2" as a valid license. The solution I
> >>> came up with for this was as suggestion to put the follow in
> >>> the LICENSE file of the upstream package:
> >>>
> >>>     The following is the license for this package even though
> >>>     the cabal file says BSD3. The cabal file is a machine readable
> >>>     file and currently, the parser does not understand 'BSD2'.
> >
> > I do not understand that but you should at least quote this message in
> > debian/copyright if there is no other solution.
> 
> Cabal accepts 'OtherLicense' in this field and a freeform 'license-file' field.
> 
> http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-latest/doc/API/Cabal/Distribution-License.html

Yes, but the upstream maintainer didn't want to use that because apparently
hackage rejects packages with the freeform license field.

Erik
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