DFSG NEW review for dart-file version 7.0.1-1

Summary

• Licensing is DFSG-compliant and debian/copyright is accurate: Yes
• Packaging is of good quality: Yes
• Issues: 0 blocker, 0 important, 0 minor
• debian/watch: version 5
• debian/copyright: machine-readable
• Scan before the review: nothing found

Licensing

debian/copyright is DEP-5 (Format 1.0). The tree is a plain Dart source package: 62 files, all under lib/, test/, example/ plus top-level md/yaml/LICENSE. Every .dart file carries the identical header 'Copyright (c) 2017[-2020], the Dart project authors ... Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license', and top-level LICENSE is the 3-clause BSD text naming Google Inc. The Files: * stanza names the same holder and BSD-3-clause, the debian/* stanza names the maintainer, and the full BSD-3-clause text is reproduced as a stand-alone License paragraph. No third-party or vendored code, no binary, minified or generated artifacts, no non-free wording.

Packaging

Small, clean single-binary arch:all package that ships the Dart library's sources (lib/ and pubspec.yaml) into /usr/share/dart/packages/file/, matching the pattern of the existing dart-meta and dart-path packages. debhelper compat 14 with dh-sequence-single-binary is the forward-compatible choice at this level; dh_install is overridden only to stamp directory mtimes from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. Build-Depends are minimal and the runtime Depends (dart-meta, dart-path) exist in the archive at compatible versions and mirror pubspec.yaml's meta/path constraints. Standards-Version 4.7.4 is current (Policy 4.7.4.1), the changelog is a well-formed initial release closing #1152039, and an autopkgtest smoke test runs the installed library offline.

Issues

None.

Verified

• Tree inventory: 62 files; all are Dart sources, Markdown, YAML or the top-level LICENSE. No .jar/.so/.dll/.pyc/PDF/image/font or other binary or generated artifact anywhere; nothing needs a preferred form of modification.
• Top-level LICENSE is the BSD-3-clause text with 'Copyright 2017, the Dart project authors. All rights reserved.' and the 'Neither the name of Google Inc.' clause; debian/copyright reproduces it verbatim as the stand-alone License: BSD-3-clause paragraph.
• Every file whose header was checked carries the same notice: 'Copyright (c) , the Dart project authors. Please see the AUTHORS file for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.' Years run 2017-2020 (minor year drift from the 2017 in debian/copyright, not noteworthy).
• The prescan's holder check reports 'every holder found is named in debian/copyright' and lists no files needing individual accounting; only one holder (the Dart project authors) appears in the tree, matching the Files: * stanza.
• Files: * is the catch-all and covers lib/, test/, example/, top-level files and their headers; Files: debian/* (later stanza) covers the packaging.
• No .gitignore-dependent files were missed: glob and grep were run with gitignore:false; the only dot-paths are .pc/ (deliberately ignored per instructions).
• No third-party source is embedded or vendored; there is no debian/patches, so nothing to check for upstream status, and no maintainer scripts or .maintscript files.
• debian/control: debhelper-compat (= 14) with dh-sequence-single-binary; apt-cache confirms dh-sequence-single-binary is provided by debhelper 14.5, and the debhelper compat checklist says explicit activation is the recommended form at compat 14 and required at 15.
• Runtime Depends exist in the archive: dart-meta 1.19.0-2 and dart-path 1.9.1-2, both maintained by the same maintainer, satisfying pubspec.yaml's meta ^1.9.1 and path ^1.8.3.
• debian/tests/control: Tests: smoke, Depends: @, dart-sdk, Restrictions: allow-stderr; dart-sdk 3.13.4+dfsg1-6 is in the archive and provides the dart VM the script uses.
• debian/source/format is 3.0 (quilt); debian/docs installs README.md; no files named by debian/rules are absent (debian/install sources lib/ and pubspec.yaml, both present).
• Standards-Version 4.7.4 has the same first two components as the reviewing system's Policy 4.7.4.1, so it is current.
• uscan found the packaged version as the newest upstream release (upstream 7.0.1, packaged 7.0.1).

Not confirmed

None.

Proposed changes

None.