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Reviews for hdf5

All reviews for this package from team members (across all versions).

Reviewer Version Allocated Started Status Completed Comment
awm 2.1.0+repack-1~exp3 2 months, 22 days ago 2 months, 22 days ago accepted 2 months, 22 days ago Note Updated 2026-04-07 ======================= This package identifies a license as "BSD-5-Clause", which I have found to be incorrect on further review. The license should be identified as HDF5 to distinguish it from such non-free licenses. While it appears very similar to the BSD-5-Clause license, it uses the phrase "asked, but not required" to remove all power from that clause. So I would just request that you change the name of the license in debian/copyright to identify it as the "HDF5" license, to reduce the chance of confusion in future. Thanks! Original Note ============= Since this package is already in Debian, I'll accept it, however the BSD-5-Clause license includes DFSG-incompatible clauses (so-called "advertising" clause) which should be discussed with upstream. At some point the DFSG team will start to re-review packages in main which are not properly compatible with the DFSG and file bugs to resolve the issue or move the package to non-free. Thanks! View
awm 2.1.0+repack-1~exp2 2 months, 23 days ago 2 months, 23 days ago rejected 2 months, 23 days ago Hi, Looks like doxygen/doxygen-awesome.css needs to be separately recognized in debian/copyright. Also review the lintian checks in the full review, many of which seem legit things that need fixing. Thanks! View
awm 2.1.0+repack-1~exp1 2 months, 24 days ago 2 months, 24 days ago rejected 2 months, 24 days ago Please address the extensive lintian errors and warnings, either through fixes or (if necessary) through justifying overrides. Thanks! View

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