Bug#829027: libstroke: missing/obsolete coypright information
On 2016-07-01 01:19:23 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * 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.
http://www.etla.net/ has a link to http://etla.net/libstroke/ in 1999.
I suspect that the maintainer forgot to update the URL in the new
package versions after the link has been removed.
> > 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.
This makes the first requirement completely useless: the maintainer
could have downloaded the sources 10 years before the software is
Debianized with URLs obsolete for years, so that no-one can check.
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