nwb-schema 2.11.0-1

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Description	NWB data format specification schema The NWB (Neurodata Without Borders) schema defines the structure of NWB files, a standard for storing neurophysiology data. It is described using the NWB specification language and builds on the HDMF Common Schema. This package provides the NWB core schema YAML files, the JSON schema and the bundled HDMF Common Schema.
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/nwb-schema.git (browse)
Closes	#1153603
Tracker	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nwb-schema
Uploaded	2 hours ago

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Distribution	unstable
Date	Tue, 10 Nov 2026 14:07:23 +0100
Source	nwb-schema
Version	2.11.0-1
Changed-By	Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Architecture	source all

Changelog◂

nwb-schema (2.11.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release (Closes: #1153603)

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

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Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: nwb-schema
Source: https://github.com/NeurodataWithoutBorders/nwb-schema

Files: *
Copyright: 2017-2026 The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
License: BSD-3-Clause-LBNL

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2026 Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
License: BSD-3-Clause-LBNL

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DFSG Assistant LLM REVIEW 0 blocker, 0 important, 1 minor

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DFSG NEW review for nwb-schema version 2.11.0-1

Summary

Licensing is DFSG-compliant and debian/copyright is accurate: Yes
Packaging is of good quality: Yes
Issues: 0 blocker, 0 important, 1 minor
debian/watch: version 5
debian/copyright: machine-readable
Scan before the review: 4 found

Licensing

Every upstream file is covered by the Files: * stanza, whose holder and BSD-3-Clause-LBNL text match the upstream notices in license.txt, Legal.txt and README.rst exactly (including the LBNL/Regents wording and the 'Enhancements' grant, which is a grant and not a restriction). debian/* has its own stanza. The license is DFSG-free, the full text is included because it is not in /usr/share/common-licenses, and no other licence or holder appears anywhere in the tree; the empty hdmf-common-schema/ submodule directory means no third-party schema is vendored. debian/copyright is DEP-5, uses the correct Format URL and a valid short name.

Packaging

Simple, correct data package: compat 14 with a minimal dh $@ rules file, only the schema directory and JSON schema installed under /usr/share/nwb-schema, a sound dependency on the separately packaged hdmf-common-schema (1.10.0-1 is in NEW), current Standards-Version 4.7.4, correct Vcs-* fields and a sane initial changelog. The only defect is that the long description claims the package ships the bundled HDMF Common Schema, which neither the source tarball nor debian/install contains.

Issues

minor packaging 1. Long description says the package provides the bundled HDMF Common Schema, but it ships no HDMF schema ◂

Files: debian/control:21-24, debian/install:1-2, hdmf-common-schema/
Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
Evidence: control: This package provides the NWB core schema YAML files, the JSON schema and the bundled HDMF Common Schema.; debian/install installs only core and nwb.schema.json; hdmf-common-schema/ is an empty directory in nwb-schema_2.11.0.orig.tar.gz (the submodule recorded in .gitmodules is not populated).
Problem: The description makes a factual claim about the package contents that is false: the HDMF Common Schema is supplied by the Depends: hdmf-common-schema package, not by this one. Policy 3.4 requires the description to describe the package accurately; a user or a dependent reading it will look for files that are not there.
Fix: Drop the 'bundled' clause and say that the schemas build on the HDMF Common Schema, which this package depends on.

Verified ◂

Read debian/copyright in full: DEP-5 format with the correct copyright-format 1.0 URL, Files: * (2017-2026 The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, BSD-3-Clause-LBNL), Files: debian/* (2026 Andreas Tille, same short name), and one standalone license paragraph reproducing the upstream text.
Compared the standalone license text with upstream license.txt: identical BSD-3-Clause-LBNL text, including clause (3) and the non-obligatory 'Enhancements' grant, which imposes no condition and is DFSG-free.
Searched the whole tree (gitignore false) for Copyright, (c), ©, SPDX-License-Identifier, Licensed under, GPL/LGPL/Apache/CC/MIT/public-domain wording: the only notices are the LBNL/Regents ones in license.txt, Legal.txt and README.rst; no other holder or licence is stated.
docs/format/source/conf.py:79 (copyright = u'2017-2026, Neurodata Without Borders') and docs/storage/source/conf.py (2017, Neurodata Without Borders) are Sphinx project strings naming the project, not an additional copyright holder; the project's own Legal.txt names LBNL as holder.
hdmf-common-schema/ is empty in the orig tarball (submodule recorded in .gitmodules, not populated), so no third-party schema is vendored and no extra stanza is needed; apt-cache shows hdmf-common-schema 1.10.0-1 waiting in NEW, so Depends: hdmf-common-schema is satisfiable and is mentioned here rather than reported.
Prescan archives: docs/format/source/figures/unit_times_refactor_nwb2_release_notesV2.pptx and docs/format/source/figures/units_table.pptx are upstream PowerPoint files, i.e. editable originals, not built artifacts.
Prescan documents: docs/format/source/figures/unit_times_refactor_nwb2_release_notesV2_Part1.pdf and docs/format/source/figures/unit_times_refactor_nwb2_release_notesV2_Part2.pdf are exports of the shipped .pptx of the same base name, which is the preferred form for modification; the same figures are also present as .png. docs/ is not installed in the binary package, so none of these are redistributed by Debian.
docs/format/source/figures/units_electrodes.png, units_spike_times.png, units_waveforms.png and unit_times_refactor_nwb2_release_notes.png are upstream diagram sources with no other source file; PNG is the form upstream maintains them in, they are not installed, and they carry the same package licence via Files: *.
Read debian/control, rules (minimal dh $@ plus empty configure/build/test overrides), changelog, install, docs, source/format (3.0 (quilt)), gbp.conf, salsa-ci.yml and upstream/metadata; there are no patches and no debian/tests.
Standards-Version 4.7.4 is current for the reviewing system's Policy 4.7.x; compat 14 is the recommended level; ${misc:Depends} is present and dh_gencontrol fills it.
Checked dh_missing behaviour at compat 14: it walks debian/tmp, so the uninstalled docs/, .github/ and licence files in the source tree do not fail the build (no debian/not-installed is needed).
uscan found the packaged version as the newest upstream release (upstream 2.11.0, packaged 2.11.0).

Not confirmed ◂

The .pptx and .pdf files were not opened (binary); their relationship was established from their names and the rST references figures/unit_times_refactor_nwb2_release_notesV2_Part1.* / _Part2.*, not from their contents.
Could not check where consumers such as pynwb expect the schema to live, so whether /usr/share/nwb-schema is the right installation path is unverified.

Proposed changes ◂

None.

Uploader's response to the LLM review

Long description is fixed in Git. The HDMF schema was unbundled and pushed to new queue as well.

— Andreas Tille (tille), 0 hours ago

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