Re: RFS: ext3grep

[rercola@acm.jhu.edu]

Hi world,
I am about to upload a fixed package for review, but I have a question - I 
spoke to the author of ext3grep about backtrace.cc and the other GPLv3 
files, and he informed me that that was an oversight when he switched the 
license from GPLv3 to GPLv2, and has been corrected in Subversion.

Is the Right Thing to do here to modify the orig.tar.gz to contain the 
GPLv2 files, to have a patch modify the license headers appropriately 
(eww) at compile-time, or something else?

As for the kernel-jbd.h, a similar question stands. As far as I can see, 
the clearest thing to do is to have it use the kernel's jbd.h and make 
kernel-headers a Build-Depends, but that still raises the question of what 
to do about the orig.tar.gz.

I have added a correct watch file and Homepage tag to my package.

I believe including debug symbols is important here, as there are known
bugs in the software, and the upstream author's first command to 
anyone who reports a bug is to rebuild with the options included in my 
package, including debug symbols. This will save Debian users time, and 
help improve the software. :)

Thanks!
- Rich