Re: GENtle new upstream version on salsa - request for sponsoring

Hi Steffen,

Steffen Möller, on 2024-09-05:
> I just sent GENtle 1.9.5alpha2 to https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/gentle . GENtle saw a few binary uploads over the previous year because of the 64 bit time_t transition, so I understood, and this new release brings a series of improvements and fixes that seem worthwhile to be uploaded.
> 
> The packaging should be in a decent shape, at least better than in the previous upload, a review and upload would nice.

Thanks for your work on GENtle, I begun reviewing your changes
for upload, but found out the source shipped a newly introduced
docs/manual.adoc under GFDL license.  I'm afraid I saw nowhere
upstream mention they would apply it with no invariant sections,
so it is probably not DFSG compliant[1].  Way forward would be
to convince upstream to adjust the licensing terms of their
documentation, or declare docs/manual.adoc in Files-Excluded.

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#GNU_Free_Documentation_License_.28GFDL.29

That being said I saw nowhere in upstream documentation that
there were invariant sections neither, so maybe this does not
apply.  I would feel more comfortable uploading the source
without that file though, unless we have unquestionable
confirmation that no Invariant Sections apply.

I have not spent much more time to check the state of the
package from purely technical perspective.  However if that
helps, I haven't located any other licensing issues.

Have a nice day,  :)
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