Bug#763819: hdf4 not ready for sponsering
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi Johan,
>
> I'd like to sponsor this package as requested on SoB Wiki page but there
> are several lintian issues (including errors) which would cause an
> auto-reject:
Thanks for taking time to review and sorry for your time. I'll try to
find out what went wrong because I'm pretty sure that at least the
lintian errors should not be present (they were present before and
thought I fixed them in this upload).
Just two more questions/comments:
>
> W: libhdf4-alt-dev: copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
> W: libhdf4g-dev: copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
> W: libhdf4-doc: copyright-refers-to-versionless-license-file usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
>
> seems to be easy to fix
Not really, since this license refers to the debian packaging work.
The only reference points to this directory. I will ask the copyright
holders to choose a version. Strictly speaking they might even have
referred to different versions of the GPL.
>
> W: libhdf4 source: debian-watch-file-in-native-package
> W: libhdf4 source: native-package-with-dash-version
>
> looks suspicious. There are other not that important things but I'd
> call the package in a bad state.
Indeed suspicious and strange, I didn't get these. Wonder what went
wrong. Probably something while rebasing.
Just a final remark: I am planning to make more changes (build only
one library version without netcdf) after the freeze (it will require
a transition). This can make the d/rules files and patches much
easier. I'm now focusing on fixing bugs and ignoring some lintian
errors, since it seems more useful to fix them when a "proper" package
is built. Anyway, it had 134 lintian warnings before I started working
on it, so it is definitely improving :-)
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