Rejection of kstreamripper

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Wed Jun 13 14:37:34 UTC 2012


I am rejecting the package not because of any single clearly fatal flaw, but 
because a series of issues suggest it is not ready for the archive.

debian/copyright has a different copyright holder than the upstream source.  
There is one that matches the claims in the code in /deb/debian that appears 
to have been done by upstream.

It appears that either the code base is totally rewritten and the copyright 
file in deb/debian (or some variant thereof) should be used or the new upstream 
has removed all of the copyright attributions for the previous upstream (as 
described in debian/copyright and the package isn't distributable.  I didn't 
investigate enough to tell which is it, but the quick look at kradioripper I 
did suggests the latter.

There is a newer upstream release available.

For the kradioripper transitional package: in the short description mention 
what it's a transitional package for.

debian/kradioripper.1 should be updated to be debian/kstreamripper.1 and 
debian/manpages updated (note: there's a man page for kstreamripper.1 in 
deb/debian that should be checked to see which is better).

The transitional package should be section oldlibs/priority extra.  It can 
also be arch all.

Breaks/Replaces versioning is incorrect.  The current version in Ubuntu is 
0.6-0ubuntu2 and the package has << 0.6. 

Scott K





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