Bug#799214: License review: tarsnap

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 18:50, Graham Percival <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2025-02-05, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 06:06, Michael Lustfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >

[...]

>
> (Disclaimer: I'm a Tarsnap employee, but not a lawyer, and certainly
> don't own the copyright.)

[...]

>
> To clarify, tarsnap does not have a top-level
>     debian/
> directory.  Rather, we have a top-level
>     pkg/debian/
> directory -- but that's (appropriately) ignored by dpkg-buildpackage and
> related deb packaging tools.
>
> As such, making a package would involve adding a *new* top-level debian/
> directory (which may or may not be an exact copy of pkg/debian/).
> There's no need to modify any files that we distribute -- I specifically
> put packaging stuff in pkg/debian/ so that the tarsnap_*.debian.tar.gz
> would not overwrite anything in the .orig source tarball.

That's great. Propose your company to become the Debian tarsnap
package maintainer and life will be easier for all.

Best regards, R-