Bug#829027: libstroke: missing/obsolete coypright information

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>, 2016-06-30, 14:34:
> > > The Debian policy manual says:
> > >
> > > "In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources 
> > > (if any) were obtained, and should name the original authors."
> >
> > This clause is made up of two requirements:
> >
> > 1. "the copyright file must say where the upstream sources ... were 
> > obtained"
> >
> > 2. "the copyright file ... should name the original authors"
> >
> > libstroke does not violate the first requirement: the copyright file 
> > does say where the upstream sources /were/ obtained, even though they 
> > can no longer be obtained there.

According to archive.org, http://www.etla.net/ stopped mentioning 
libstroke somewhere between February and March 1999. The current 
upstream release was first uploaded in 2002, when the link was already 
invalid.

> I thought that it would still be needed as long as the package is in 
> Debian (so that users could check too) so that the location should 
> implicitly still be valid.

No, there's no such requirement.

--
Jakub Wilk