hdmf-common-schema 1.10.0-1

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Description	HDMF Common data format The HDMF Common specification defines a collection of common, reusable data structures that build the foundation for the modeling of advanced data formats, e.g., the Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) neurophysiology data standard. The HDMF Common schema is integrated with HDMF, which provides advanced APIs for reading, writing, and using HDMF-common data types.
Maintainer	Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed By	Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Sponsor	tille@debian.org
Distribution	unstable
Architecture	all
VCS	git: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/hdmf-common-schema.git (browse)
Closes	#1153601
Tracker	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hdmf-common-schema
Uploaded	2 hours ago

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Version	1.10.0-1
Changed-By	Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Architecture	source all
Distribution	unstable
Date	Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:49:51 +0100
Source	hdmf-common-schema

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hdmf-common-schema (1.10.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release (Closes: #1153601)

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Section	science
Priority	optional
Component	main
Package-List	hdmf-common-schema deb science optional arch=all

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Source: https://github.com/hdmf-dev/hdmf-common-schema/

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DFSG Assistant LLM REVIEW 0 blocker, 0 important, 0 minor

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DFSG NEW review for hdmf-common-schema version 1.10.0-1

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 and accurate. The tree's only licence is the LBNL BSD-3-clause variant, held by The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, exactly as license.txt, Legal.txt and docs/source/conf.py:79 state, and Files: * names that holder. Its full text, which is not in /usr/share/common-licenses, is reproduced in the standalone License: BSD-3-Clause-LBNL paragraph, including the LBNL "Enhancements" paragraph. No other holders or licences appear anywhere in the 34 files, and no non-free terms, field-of-use restrictions or unclear-provenance binaries were found.

Packaging

A minimal, correct packaging of a data-only upstream: dh $@ at debhelper-compat (= 14) (debhelper 14.5 is in unstable and Provides compat 14), one Architecture: all package, no patches (format 3.0 (quilt), no debian/patches), no maintainer scripts, Vcs-* and salsa-ci.yml present, changelog closes the ITP and is in unstable. Rules-Requires-Root, an autopkgtest and a -doc package are all optional here and their absence is not a fault for a package that installs a handful of YAML/JSON files plus README. Standards-Version: 4.7.4 matches Policy 4.7.4.1 in its first two components.

Issues

None.

Verified ◂

Prescan author check (dfsg-author-check): every copyright holder it found is named in debian/copyright; the scan of 34 files matches my own inventory (root, .github/, common/, docs/).
license.txt and Legal.txt read in full: both credit "The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory" 2019-2026; Legal.txt is a US-Government rights notice, not a restriction on use or modification; the licence text in debian/copyright reproduces license.txt, including the "Enhancements" paragraph.
docs/source/conf.py:79 carries the same holder and years; docs/source/credits.rst includes license.txt and Legal.txt rather than restating them, and lists authors (Tritt, Ruebel, Ly, Dichter, Avaylon) who are not separate copyright holders.
Grep over the whole tree (excluding .pc/ and debian/) for Copyright/(C)/©/SPDX/Licensed under/GNU/Apache/MPL/public domain/All rights reserved and for non-commercial, no-modification, NC/ND wording: the only hits are license.txt, Legal.txt, docs/source/conf.py and the release-notes/PR-template text; no GPL, Apache, MPL, CC or "Good, not Evil" terms.
hdmf-common.schema.json is readable, indented JSON Schema text (280 lines, 8.3 KB), not minified, compiled or generated output; the YAML spec it validates ships as editable source in common/*.yaml, so no preferred-form-for-modification problem.
docs/source/figures/ragged-array.png and docs/source/figures/ragged-array-goal.png are documentation figures used by docs/source/format_description.rst; no separate copyright or licence notice exists for them anywhere in the tree, and Files: * covers them.
Documentation: docs/source/*.rst are the source form; the autogenerated docs/source/_format_auto_docs is neither shipped nor needed because no documentation is built or installed by the packaging (debian/docs installs only README.md), and its generator hdmf-docutils is not in the archive.
debian/install: dh_install installs a directory source under the destination (plugins usr/share/my-prog -> usr/share/my-prog/plugins/ in dh_install(1)), so the YAML files land in usr/share/nwb-schema/hdmf-common-schema/common/ with namespace.yaml, base.yaml, table.yaml etc. together, and the JSON schema next to them, matching the upstream layout.
Orig tarball (hdmf-common-schema_1.10.0.orig.tar.gz) lists the same 11 top-level entries as the unpacked tree, so nothing was repacked out and no Files-Excluded is needed; .pc/ is not in the tarball.
Standards-Version: 4.7.4 against Policy 4.7.4.1: first two components equal, so current per the review rules; debhelper-compat (= 14) satisfied by debhelper 14.5 in the archive; ${misc:Depends} is added by dh_gencontrol at compat 14.
Maintainer address debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org matches the existing Debian Med packages python3-hdmf (3.14.5-3) and python3-pynwb (2.8.2-4), so it is not flagged as stale.
uscan found the packaged version as the newest upstream release (upstream 1.10.0, packaged 1.10.0).

Not confirmed ◂

Nothing in the archive can be shown to read /usr/share/nwb-schema/: apt-cache has no binary nwb-schema, and python3-hdmf/python3-pynwb are not installed on the reviewing system, so I could not check whether they ship or consult their own copy of these schemas. Whether the shared-looking /usr/share/nwb-schema directory (rather than /usr/share/hdmf-common-schema) is the intended consumer path therefore stays unverified; it is a FHS recommendation only (FHS 4.11.1) and no consumer means no breakage either way.
The documentation in docs/ cannot be built inside Debian because hdmf-docutils is not in the archive; since no documentation is built or shipped this has no consequence, but a future -doc package could not be built without packaging that helper.

Proposed changes ◂

None.

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