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Review: soci 4.1.2-2~exp1

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Distributionexperimental
DateSun, 22 Feb 2026 09:56:33 -0500
Sourcesoci
Version4.1.2-2~exp1
Changed-ByWilliam Blough
Architecturesource amd64
Changelog
soci (4.1.2-2~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
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   * Bump soname due to ABI/API break (apparently upstream doesn't use
     semver) Closes: 1125758
   * Fix FTBFS. Build-Depends: pkgconf. Closes: 1119122
   * Add lintian overrides for package-name-doesnt-match-sonames
.dsc
Componentmain
Package-Listlibsoci-core4.1 deb libs optional arch=any
libsoci-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libsoci-firebird4.1 deb libs optional arch=any
libsoci-mysql4.1 deb libs optional arch=any
libsoci-odbc4.1 deb libs optional arch=any
libsoci-postgresql4.1 deb libs optional arch=any
libsoci-sqlite3-4.1 deb libs optional arch=any
Sectionlibs
Priorityoptional
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: soci
Source: https://sourceforge.net/projects/soci/files/

Files: *
Copyright: 2004-2008,2010,2011 Maciej Sobczak
           2004-2008 Stephen Hutton
           2004-2006 David Courtney
           2004-2006 Rafal Bobrowski
           2006 Pawel Aleksander Fedorynski
           2006-2008, 2011, 2013 Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@loskot.net>
           2011 Gevorg Voskanyan
           2011-2013 Denis Chapligin
           2013 Vadim Zeitlin
License: BSL-1.0

Files: debian/*
License: BSL-1.0
Copyright: 2014 Tobias Frost <tobi@coldtobi.de>
           2015-2016 William Blough <devel@blough.us>

License: BSL-1.0
 Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003
 .
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
 obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by this
 license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute, execute, and
 transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the Software, and to
 permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to do so, all subject to
 the following:
 .
 The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including the
 above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer, must be
 included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and all derivative
 works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative works are solely in the
 form of machine-executable object code generated by a source language
 processor.
 .
 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, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
 THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR ANY
 DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
 FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
 THE SOFTWARE.

Review Information

accepted — allocated to awm 2 hours ago, started 2 hours ago, completed 1 hour ago.

Final Comment

I will accept this, since it is a binary-NEW package and is already in Debian, however you
should update the debian/copyright to reflect the licensing of the fonts in the docs/webfonts
folder. They are FontAwesome fonts and according to https://fontawesome.com/v4/license/ -
i.e. the SIL OFL 1.1.

While you're at it you could update debian/control http://soci.sourceforge.net/ to 'https'

Thanks!

Public Notes

2 hours ago ● public

duck - check URL redirections

Command: duck
Exit code: 0

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

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