Hi Chris, > I have now fixed the licencing issues (see README.Debian) and updated > the packages. I am still getting the library-not-linked-against-libc > warning from lintian but I am reasonably sure the library is linked > against libc as you can see below. >
[...] You might want to take a look at http://markmail.org/message/u7qajey4e2dxbj2r (in the quoted part towards the end). I can confirm that this makes lintian happy :-) There are a number of other remarks I'd like to add. First for bluecove: - There is missing/incomplete license information in three source files: ./src/main/java/com/sun/cdc/io/ConnectionBaseInterface.java: *No copyright* UNKNOWN ./src/main/java/com/ibm/oti/connection/CreateConnection.java: UNKNOWN ./src/main/java/com/ibm/oti/vm/VM.java: UNKNOWN All of them carry a marker "Not in distributed bluecove jar", but this doesn't make the source of those files distributable. I guess you will have to repack the tarball to produce a DFSG-free version. - Apropos repacking: both bluecove and bluecove-gpl tarballs produce a warning with tar, please check. - Please review your debian/copyright, "License:" stanza and fix it (no, you'll have to spot the error yourself). A DEP-5 formatted copyright file would still be nice to have. - Your README.Debian should probably be README.source - this information isn't really useful for users of the binary package (they won't see LICENSE.txt anyway). - debian/watch doesn't work. bluecove-gpl: - See above for tarball and DEP-5 for debian/copyright. - It's not only GPL 3 - use licensecheck `find src/ -type f` to find out for yourself. - After acting according to the markmail.org post referenced above you'll have to updated debian/control as lintian is going to tell you. - Package doesn't build on non-i386 architectures because of a library_suffix that is added. Use libbluecove*.so instead of libbluecove.so in your debian/rules file (both in clean and for the mv command). - debian/watch doesn't work. I hope I'm not leaving too much open to find out for yourself, but I strongly believe that this is way more educative :-) Hope this helps, Michael
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