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Re: ruby-shadow: new upstream version (fix FTBFS with ruby2.0 #720229)



On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 07:14:49PM +0200, David Suárez wrote:
> Hi Cédric,

> > There seems to be some issues about the license.
> > The disclaimer at the top of debian/copyright and fix_license_patch
> > mention that the software is under Ruby's license. However, according to
> > the LICENSE file from upstream (which present in the github repo, but
> > not in the gem [1]), the license is "Free for any use with your own risk!"
> > our public domain. The gem metadata say its Public Domain License.
> > 
> > I would suggest to:
> > - use github tarball instead of the gem (at least temporarily) to have
> >   the LICENSE file included
> > - fix the copyright file, and fix_license_patch to reflect upstream's
> >   choice for a license
> > 
> > 1: https://github.com/apalmblad/ruby-shadow/issues/12


> Updated, thanks.

I have a question:
shouldn't your get-orig-source target create a .orig.tag.gz tarball,
instead of a .tar.gz? Once generated and moved in the parent directory,
dpkg-source complains that there is no upstream source
../ruby-shadow_2.2.0.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz}.

Cédric

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