Bug#742330: RFS: gravit/0.5.1-1 ITP -- visually stunning gravity simulator

[Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr>]

On 25/09/14 17:27, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Le 25/09/2014 09:15, Tomasz Buchert a écrit :
> 
> >
> > Hi Thibaut,
> > I corrected these problems: http://mentors.debian.net/package/gravit
> > (changes:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-astro/packages/gravit.git/)
> > I also added cc-by-sa-3.0.txt to gravit-data since in theory every
> > license text should be distributed with Debian, but I couldn't find
> > it in /usr/share/common-licenses.
> >
> > Tomasz
> >
> 
> 
> Hi Tomasz,
> 
> Not really important, but the purpose of sponsoring is to teach you the
> True Way of Debian: you should dump the WTF and the CC-BY-SA licenses
> directly in copyright instead of putting them somewhere else. The
> sentence "On Debian systems, <such license> can be found..." is only for
> the licenses in common-licenses. Policy says:
> 
> Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright
> information and distribution license in the file
> /usr/share/doc/package/copyright (see Copyright information, Section
> 12.5 for further details).
> 
> The common licenses are an exception, where we put only a pointer to
> another file. So technically it's an RC bug to put the license in any
> other place, although I doubt that you would get a REJECT for that (the
> FTP master would file a bug, though, or otherwise remind you to fix this).
> 
> Kind regards, Thibaut.
> 

Hi Thibaud,
you can find the new version at http://mentors.debian.net/package/gravit.
It has now a huge d/copyright file. :)

Cheers,
Tomasz