Package: hydrogen-doc
Version: 1.2.0~beta1+dfsg-1
Severity: important
Hello and thanks for maintaining Hydrogen in Debian!
I noticed that the hydrogen-doc binary package is now almost empty:
$ dpkg -L hydrogen-doc
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/hydrogen-doc
/usr/share/doc/hydrogen-doc/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/hydrogen-doc/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/hydrogen-doc/copyright
/usr/share/hydrogen
/usr/share/hydrogen/data
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/Bridge1_4th.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/Bridge3_3a_hh.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/C3_6+7.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/Intro4th.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/PatternBase1.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/PatternBase2.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/Riff1b.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/Riff1c.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/Riff1d.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/Verse8th.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/VerseAll.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/VerseBridge.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/VerseBridge_hh.png
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/new_tutorial/img_tutorial/warn.png
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/hydrogen-doc
/usr/share/doc/hydrogen-doc/manual_and_old_tutorial
/usr/share/doc/hydrogen-doc/new_tutorial
$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/hydrogen-doc/manual_and_old_tutorial
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 27 20:22
/usr/share/doc/hydrogen-doc/manual_and_old_tutorial -> ../../hydrogen/data/doc
$ readlink -f /usr/share/doc/hydrogen-doc/manual_and_old_tutorial
/usr/share/hydrogen/data/doc
$ ls /usr/share/hydrogen/data/doc
ls: cannot access '/usr/share/hydrogen/data/doc': No such file or directory
Basically a bunch of screenshots and a dangling symlink...
Then I took a look at the 'changelog.Debian.gz' file, which says:
[...]
* Clean Hydrogen of currently non-DFSG new documentation
- Use Files-Excluded to exclude tutorial_en.html, which has no source.
[...]
OK, I totally agree with excluding non-free documentation (while in
the meanwhile contacting upstream and persuading them to properly
release source for the documentation and license it under DFSG-free
terms[^NOTE], something which I hope you have already done or are going
to do very soon!).
[^NOTE]: the best option would to license documentation under the same terms
as the documented program (GPL-2+ in this case)...
But, if, after excluding non-free documentation, almost nothing remains
in the -doc binary package, I wonder what's the point in keeping this
binary package around...
Is there a reasonable hope that the documentation will be re-licensed
in a DFSG-free manner (with source available) real soon now?
If not, I would say that binary package 'hydrogen-doc' could be
dropped entirely...
Please let me know what you think.
Thanks for your time! :-)
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