Bug#880414: RFS: wordgrinder 0.7-1 -- word processor which runs in a terminal
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:33:13AM +0100, David Given wrote:
> * Package name: wordgrinder
> Version: 0.7-1
> WordGrinder's not a new package --- it's been in Debian since wheezy.
> Unfortunately my existing sponsor has retired and is unable to upload
> the new version, so for the this version I'm looking for a new
> sponsor. The package should be in pretty good shape as the old sponsor
> waa pretty conscientous; it's lintian clean, has hardening enabled,
> and uses dquilt for patching.
>
> Disclaimer: when I'm wearing my other hat, I am the upstream author.
>
> Changes since the last upload:
>
> - New upstream release
I'm afraid the new version ships a bunch of big external projects such as
lua-5.1, minizip, uthash (aka "convenience copies"). It'd be better to
remove them from the tarball to ensure only the system version is used --
this greatly helps the Security Team. This is not strictly needed, but
there should be a good reason to do otherwise.
You also don't even mention them (other than uthash) in the copyright file,
despite them not having been written by you.
There's also a bunch of smaller files from external source (lfs, wcwidth,
lua-bitop) -- you also falsely claim that you own copyright for them.
(Yeah, copyright issues are an unfun thing, but these days lawyers rule the
world.)
Meow!
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