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Review: polymake 4.15-2

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Distributionunstable
DateTue, 10 Feb 2026 10:46:28 +0900
Sourcepolymake
Version4.15-2
Changed-ByDavid Bremner
Architectureall amd64 source
.dsc
Sectionlibdevel
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listlibpolymake-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libpolymake-dev-common deb libdevel optional arch=all
libpolymake4.15 deb libs optional arch=any
polymake deb math optional arch=any
polymake-common deb math optional arch=all
debian/copyright
Original Source  was downloaded from http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/polymake

It was repacked to removed the non-dfsg free package nauty, and (to
simplify packaging), gpl licensed packages lrslib and cddlib

Files: *
Copyright: © 1997-2009 Ewgenij Gawrilow <polymake@math.tu-berlin.de>
           © 1997-2009 Michael Joswig
Licence: GPL2
 ************************************************************************
 *  The GNU General Public License cited below applies to the           *
 *  entire polymake code written in whatever programming language.      *
 *                                                                      *
 *  There are, however, parts of external software included in this     *
 *  distribution with the solely aim to make the installation process   *
 *  easier.  Most of all is protected by GPL too, but some libraries    *
 *  other open source licenses.  All external components, however,      *
 *  allow free non-commercial use and redistribution.                   *
 *                                                                      *
 *  Please refer to the appropriate copyright notices in the            *
 *   external/*  subdirectories for details.                            *
 ************************************************************************

Files: bundled/atint/apps/tropical/*
Copyright: © 2011-2015, Simon Hampe <simon.hampe@googlemail.com>
Licence: GPL2+
  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, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
  Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.

Files: external/TOSimplex
Copyright: ©   Thomas Opfer (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany)

   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, or (at your option) any
   later version: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

   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.

Files: external/js/*
Copyright: © 2010-2015 three.js authors
License: MIT

  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
  to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
  copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
  furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
  all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
  IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
  LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
  OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
  THE SOFTWARE.

Files: external/Miniball/*
License: GPL-3
Copyright: © 1999-2013 Bernd Gaertner
 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
 along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Files: external/permlib/*
License: BSD-3-clause
Copyright: © 2006-2012  Thomas Rehn <thomas@carmen76.de>
 All rights reserved.

 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 are met:
 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
    derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
 IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
 OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
 IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
 INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT
 NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
 DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
 THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
 (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Files: bundled/sympol/external/sympol/*
Copyright: © 2006-2010  Thomas Rehn <thomas@carmen76.de>
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, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.

Files: resources/jupyter-polymake/*
Copyright: © 2015-2017 Sebastian Gutsche
License: WTFPL
    Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
    copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
    as the name is changed.

               DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
      TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

     0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

Files: resources/JuPyMake/*
Copyright: © 2017-2018 Sebastian Gutsche  sebastian.gutsche@gmail.com
License: GPL2+
    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, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.



Files: debian/*
Copyright: © 2015 David Bremner
License: same as upstream, GPL2

On Debian systems, you can find the full license text for the GPL2 at
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2





Review Information

accepted — allocated to awm 1 month, 6 days ago, started 1 month, 6 days ago, completed 1 month, 6 days ago.

Final Comment

I'm accepting this, but it would be nice if some of the packaging could be updated...

  • Updated URLs for upstream in debian/control and debian/copyright
  • Updated debian/copyright to meet current best practice DEP-5 format
  • Updated debian/control to remove out-of-date build-depends/recommends

See full notes for details.

Thanks!

Public Notes

1 month, 6 days ago ● public

duck - check URL redirections

Command: duck
Exit code: 0

I: debian/copyright:1: URL: http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/polymake: INFORMATION (Certainty:possible)
   Domain redirect detected: http://www.math.tu-berlin.de -> https://polymake.org. Probably a new upstream website?

I: debian/control: Homepage: http://www.polymake.org/: INFORMATION (Certainty:certain)
   URL schema changed from HTTP to HTTPS during redirect(s): http://www.polymake.org -> https://polymake.org
   Please investigate and update the URL eventually, to avoid unnecessary redirects!

1 month, 6 days ago ● public

Licenserecon

Command: lrc -s
Exit code: 1

en: Versions: licenserecon '11.0'  licensecheck '3.3.9-1'

Parsing Source Tree  ....
Reading d/copyright  ....
Invalid DEP-5 header in debian/copyright
Failed to process debian/copyright
1 month, 6 days ago ● public

CME fix

Command: cme fix --verbose dpkg
Exit code: 25


Reading package lists... 0%

Reading package lists... 100%

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... 0% 

Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... Done
cme: running fix on dpkg configuration...
Connecting to api.ftp-master.debian.org to check 31 package versions. Please wait...
Got info from api.ftp-master.debian.org for 28 packages.
Warning in 'control source Standards-Version': Current standards version is '4.7.3'. Please read https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html for the changes that may be needed on your package
to upgrade it from standard version '4.5.0' to '4.7.3'.

Offending value: '4.5.0'
Warning in 'control source Build-Depends:0': compat parameter is deprecated. Please use debhelper-compat dependency. See debhelper(7) for details.
Offending value: 'debhelper (>= 10)'
Warning in 'control source Build-Depends:0': debhelper dependency version is too old (10). It should be 13
Offending value: 'debhelper (>= 10)'
Warning in 'control source Build-Depends:0': debhelper dependency is deprecated. It should be a dependency for debhelper-compat package
Offending value: 'debhelper (>= 10)'
Warning in 'control source Build-Depends:3': unnecessary greater-than versioned dependency: libcdd-dev (>= 094g~). Debian has oldoldstable -> 094l-2; oldstable -> 094m-1; stable -> 094m-1.1+b1; unstable -> 094m-1.1+b1; unstable -> 094m-1.1+b2; testing -> 094m-1.1+b2;
Offending value: 'libcdd-dev (>= 094g~)'
Warning in 'control binary:polymake Recommends:2': package iceweasel is unknown. Check for typos if not a virtual package.
Offending value: 'iceweasel | chromium | conkeror'
Warning in 'control binary:polymake Recommends:2': package conkeror is unknown. Check for typos if not a virtual package.
Offending value: 'iceweasel | chromium | conkeror'
Warning in 'control binary:polymake Breaks:0': unnecessary older-than versioned dependency: polymake-common (<< 4.0). Debian has oldoldstable -> 4.3-4; oldstable -> 4.6-5; stable -> 4.12-3; unstable -> 4.14-2; testing -> 4.14-2; new -> 4.15-2;
Offending value: 'polymake-common (<< 4.0)'
Warning in 'control binary:polymake Replaces:0': unnecessary older-than versioned dependency: polymake-common (<< 4.0). Debian has oldoldstable -> 4.3-4; oldstable -> 4.6-5; stable -> 4.12-3; unstable -> 4.14-2; testing -> 4.14-2; new -> 4.15-2;
Offending value: 'polymake-common (<< 4.0)'
Warning in 'control binary:"polymake-common" Breaks:0': unnecessary older-than versioned dependency: polymake (<< 3.2). Debian has oldoldstable -> 4.3-4; oldstable -> 4.6-5+b2; stable -> 4.12-3+b2; unstable -> 4.14-2; unstable -> 4.14-2+b1; testing -> 4.14-2+b1; new -> 4.15-2;
Offending value: 'polymake (<< 3.2)'
Warning in 'control binary:"polymake-common" Replaces:0': unnecessary older-than versioned dependency: polymake (<< 3.2). Debian has oldoldstable -> 4.3-4; oldstable -> 4.6-5+b2; stable -> 4.12-3+b2; unstable -> 4.14-2; unstable -> 4.14-2+b1; testing -> 4.14-2+b1; new -> 4.15-2;
Offending value: 'polymake (<< 3.2)'
Warning in 'control binary:"libpolymake4.15" Breaks:0': unnecessary older-than versioned dependency: polymake (<< 3.2). Debian has oldoldstable -> 4.3-4; oldstable -> 4.6-5+b2; stable -> 4.12-3+b2; unstable -> 4.14-2; unstable -> 4.14-2+b1; testing -> 4.14-2+b1; new -> 4.15-2;
Offending value: 'polymake (<< 3.2)'
Warning in 'control binary:"libpolymake4.15" Conflicts:0': package libpolymake is unknown. Check for typos if not a virtual package.
Offending value: 'libpolymake'
Warning in 'control binary:"libpolymake4.15" Replaces:0': unnecessary older-than versioned dependency: polymake (<< 3.2). Debian has oldoldstable -> 4.3-4; oldstable -> 4.6-5+b2; stable -> 4.12-3+b2; unstable -> 4.14-2; unstable -> 4.14-2+b1; testing -> 4.14-2+b1; new -> 4.15-2;
Offending value: 'polymake (<< 3.2)'
Warning in 'control binary:"libpolymake-dev" Breaks:0': unnecessary older-than versioned dependency: polymake (<< 3.2). Debian has oldoldstable -> 4.3-4; oldstable -> 4.6-5+b2; stable -> 4.12-3+b2; unstable -> 4.14-2; unstable -> 4.14-2+b1; testing -> 4.14-2+b1; new -> 4.15-2;
Offending value: 'polymake (<< 3.2)'
Warning in 'control binary:"libpolymake-dev" Replaces:0': unnecessary older-than versioned dependency: polymake (<< 3.2). Debian has oldoldstable -> 4.3-4; oldstable -> 4.6-5+b2; stable -> 4.12-3+b2; unstable -> 4.14-2; unstable -> 4.14-2+b1; testing -> 4.14-2+b1; new -> 4.15-2;
Offending value: 'polymake (<< 3.2)'
Warning in 'control binary:"libpolymake-dev-common" Breaks:0': unnecessary older-than versioned dependency: polymake (<< 3.2). Debian has oldoldstable -> 4.3-4; oldstable -> 4.6-5+b2; stable -> 4.12-3+b2; unstable -> 4.14-2; unstable -> 4.14-2+b1; testing -> 4.14-2+b1; new -> 4.15-2;
Offending value: 'polymake (<< 3.2)'
Warning in 'control binary:"libpolymake-dev-common" Replaces:0': unnecessary older-than versioned dependency: polymake (<< 3.2). Debian has oldoldstable -> 4.3-4; oldstable -> 4.6-5+b2; stable -> 4.12-3+b2; unstable -> 4.14-2; unstable -> 4.14-2+b1; testing -> 4.14-2+b1; new -> 4.15-2;
Offending value: 'polymake (<< 3.2)'
Warning in 'dirs:0': Make sure that this directory is actually needed. See L<http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#dirs> for details
Offending value: 'usr/bin'
Warning in 'dirs:1': Make sure that this directory is actually needed. See L<http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#dirs> for details
Offending value: 'usr/sbin'
File debian/copyright line 1 has a syntax error:
	DpkgSyntax error: Invalid line (missing ':' ?) : Original Source  was downloaded from http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/polymake
Connecting to api.ftp-master.debian.org to check iceweasel versions. Please wait...
got no info for iceweasel
Connecting to api.ftp-master.debian.org to check conkeror versions. Please wait...
got no info for conkeror
Connecting to api.ftp-master.debian.org to check libpolymake versions. Please wait...
got no info for libpolymake

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