Bug#895940: RFS: python-dataclasses/0.5-1 [ITP]
On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, at 6:21 PM, Joel Cross wrote:
> > Ah! Found it. It's listed in the "setup.py" file. Hmm... I wonder if
> > that's a problem, because no other file contains any kind of copyright
> > notice, and there's no LICENSE file. I'd definitely file a bug against
> > upstream asking them to clarify this, but I honestly don't know if
> > ftp-master will accept the package as is. Maybe there's some
> > precedence, but I'm short on time right now and can't really dive into
> > the archives to find something. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can
> > chime in?
>
> Hi Sergio,
>
> As an update to this, I filed a bug report upstream. The author
> originally planned to license as Apache2 but neglected to add the
> license to the repo (I guess 'MIT' was some default somewhere): see
> discussion at https://github.com/ericvsmith/dataclasses/issues/123
>
> Anyway, the author has now added the license, but has not yet released a
> new version, as no code has actually changed. I was wondering if you
> could help me with regards to packaging based on a specific upstream Git
> commit rather than a release version, and how that works with the git-
> buildpackage flow (if it's even allowed/recommended).
>
Hi again,
Did you get the chance to think about the above? I will happily repackage from the git master, but I'm not sure what to do about version numbers and stuff (and online informaition about this is hard to find!). Please can you help?
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