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Review: nip4 9.0.15-1

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Architecturesource amd64
Distributionexperimental
DateSat, 10 Jan 2026 17:18:04 +0100
Sourcenip4
Version9.0.15-1
Changed-ByLaszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Changelog
nip4 (9.0.15-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * Initial release (closes: #1132190).
.dsc
Componentmain
Package-Listnip4 deb graphics optional arch=any
Sectiongraphics
Priorityoptional
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: nip4
Upstream-Contact: https://github.com/libvips/nip4/issues
Source: https://github.com/libvips/nip4

Files: *
Copyright: 2000-     John Cupitt <jcupitt@gmail.com>,
 Kirk Martinez <km@ecs.soton.ac.uk>,
 Joe Padfield <joseph.padfield@ng-london.org.uk>
License: GPL-2+

Files: LICENCE.txt
Copyright: 2024-     John Cupitt <jcupitt@gmail.com>
License: GPL-2
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; under version 2 of the License.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
 On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License version 2
 can be found in the file `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

Files: meson.build
Copyright: 2024-     John Cupitt <jcupitt@gmail.com>,
  Kleis Auke Wolthuizen <info@kleisauke.nl>
License: GPL
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
 any later version.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Files: src/parse.h
Copyright: 2002-2015, 2018-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: GPL-3+ with Bison-2.2 exception
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 3
 along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 As a special exception, you may create a larger work that contains
 part or all of the Bison parser skeleton and distribute that work
 under terms of your choice, so long as that work isn't itself a
 parser generator using the skeleton or a modified version thereof
 as a parser skeleton.  Alternatively, if you modify or redistribute
 the parser skeleton itself, you may (at your option) remove this
 special exception, which will cause the skeleton and the resulting
 Bison output files to be licensed under the GNU General Public
 License without this special exception.
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 version 2.2 of Bison.
Comment:
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
 version 3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.

Files: src/kplot/*
Copyright: 2014-2016 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
License: ISC
 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
 purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
 copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
 .
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 WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
 MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE AUTHORS AND
 CONTRIBUTORS ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY IN ANY CONCEIVABLE MANNER.

Files: src/kplot/reallocarray.c
Copyright: 2005-2020 Rich Felker, et al.
License: Expat
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
 in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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 OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
 THE SOFTWARE.

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2026      Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>
License: GPL-2+

License: GPL-2+
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
 version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

Review Information

accepted — allocated to awm 9 days ago, started 9 days ago, completed 9 days ago.

Final Comment

Hi,

There's a couple of Lintian warnings, but not the sort of thing that stops
the package from being accepted into Debian.

Thanks!

Public Notes

9 days ago ● public

Lintian

Command: lintian -Iiv -L '>=warning' --show-overrides --color=never ../$(basename $PWD)_*.changes
Exit code: 0

N:
W: nip4: groff-message troff:<standard input>:120: warning: no font mounted at position 6 [usr/share/man/man1/nip4-batch.1.gz:1]
N: 
N:   A manual page provoked warnings or errors from the man program. Here are
N:   some common ones:
N:   
N:   "cannot adjust" or "can't break" are issues with paragraph filling. They
N:   are usually related to long lines. Justifying text on the left hand side
N:   can help with adjustments. Hyphenation can help with breaks.
N:   
N:   For more information, please see "Manipulating Filling and Adjusting" and
N:   "Manipulating Hyphenation" in the Groff manual (see info groff).
N:   
N:   "can't find numbered character" usually means that the input was in a
N:   national legacy encoding. The warning means that some characters were
N:   dropped. Please use escapes such as \[:a] as described on the groff_char
N:   manual page.
N:   
N:   Other common warnings are formatting typos. String arguments to .IP
N:   require quotes. Usually, some text is lost or mangled. See the groff_man
N:   (or groff_mdoc if using mdoc) manual page for details on macros.
N:   
N:   The check for manual pages uses the --warnings option to man to catch
N:   common problems, like a . or a ' at the beginning of a line as literal
N:   text. They are interpreted as Groff commands. Just reformat the paragraph
N:   so the characters are not at the beginning of a line. You can also add a
N:   zero-width space (\&) in front of them.
N:   
N:   Aside from overrides, warnings can be disabled with the .warn directive.
N:   Please see "Debugging" in the Groff manual.
N:   
N:   You can see the warnings yourself by running the command used by Lintian:
N:   
N:       LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 \
N:           man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z <file> >/dev/null
N: 
N:   Please refer to the groff_man(7) manual page and the groff_mdoc(7) manual
N:   page for details.
N: 
N:   Visibility: warning
N:   Show-Always: no
N:   Check: documentation/manual
N:   Renamed from: manpage-has-errors-from-man
N: 
N:
W: nip4: groff-message troff:<standard input>:137: warning: no font mounted at position 6 [usr/share/man/man1/nip4-batch.1.gz:2]
N:
W: nip4: icon-size-and-directory-name-mismatch 512x512 [usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/org.libvips.nip4.png]
N: 
N:   The icon has a size that differs from the size specified by the name of
N:   the directory under which it was installed. The icon was probably
N:   mistakenly installed into the wrong directory.
N: 
N:   Visibility: warning
N:   Show-Always: no
N:   Check: desktop/icons
N: 
N:
W: nip4 source: inconsistent-appstream-metadata-license org.libvips.nip4.metainfo.xml (mit != gpl-2+) [debian/copyright]
N: 
N:   The specified AppStream metadata file specifies a metadata_license field
N:   but this does not match its entry (possibly via the Files: * stanza) in
N:   debian/copyright.
N: 
N:   Please refer to https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines,
N:   https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/, and
N:   https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#tag-metadata_license
N:   for details.
N: 
N:   Visibility: warning
N:   Show-Always: no
N:   Check: debian/copyright/dep5
N: 

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