[cc'ed debian-perl team] Hello Vasudev
Sorry for the late reply. I did not notice this bug until now. On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 14:04:31 +0530 Vasudev Kamath <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to give background for this bug report. I'm helping Jonas > Smedegaard who has adopted licensecheck tool from devscript and > creating a new library called App::LicenseCheck ¹. We intend this tool > to be useful cross distro and not only Debian. Which is a good thing. > During the development > we noticed that libsoftware-license-perl has diverged too much from > upstream source. What problem led you to this opinion ? > This library is patched not to adopt to Debian environment but to > change its behavior to suite Debian better. I somewhat disagree. The fundamental behavior has not changed. Some features are added because debian handles license somewhat diffrently: - usage of summary to point to /usr/share/common/licenses - usage of code word (like GPL-2+) when user is given a choice of license version - usage of Expat keyword instead of MIT license You're free not to use debian specific parts. The only non-debian specific feature is the short-name-fallback patch [1] for which there an upstream pull-request [2]. You're welcome to voice your opinion there to help RJBS decide whether to merge it or not. > This means the package > effectively has become a fork of original upstream code. Technically, this is not a fork, since these functionalities are provided as patches applied on top of upstream License::Check. > I'm filing bug with severity important because this will cause > interoperability problem. As an example if App::LicenseCheck is use > din other distro it might not work as expected because it was coded > using libsoftware-license-perl in Debian which is not same as the > original upstream. (just an example). Which would mean either: - you're using a Debian specific part outside of Debian. It may be a bug on your side, or you've found a valid use case outside of Debian for the Debian specific parts. In the latter case, we can try to push some patches upstream - you've found a bug where the fundamental behavior of Debian's Software::License is changed. Then please give me details so I can reproduce the problem. All the best [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libsoftware-license-perl.git/tree/debian/patches/short-name-fallback [2] https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/Software-License/pull/44 -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org
