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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