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Review: wattsi 0.0~git20260506.8b5e695+dfsg-1

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DescriptionPreprocessor for the HTML Standard

Wattsi is a build tool for creating the HTML Standard from its source. It works in concert with other scripts.

MaintainerFab Stz <fabstz-it@yahoo.fr>
Changed ByFab Stz <fabstz-it@yahoo.fr>
Sponsormaytham@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureany
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wattsi.git (browse)
Closes#1133348
Blocked Bugs#1133423 (wishlist)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wattsi
Uploaded2 hours ago

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Distributionunstable
DateFri, 08 May 2026 20:11:35 +0200
Sourcewattsi
Version0.0~git20260506.8b5e695+dfsg-1
Changed-ByFab Stz <fabstz-it@yahoo.fr>
Architecturesource amd64
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wattsi (0.0~git20260506.8b5e695+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release. Closes: #1133348
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Componentmain
Package-Listwattsi deb devel optional arch=any
Sectiondevel
Priorityoptional
debian/copyright◂
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: wattsi
Source: https://github.com/whatwg/wattsi
Files-Excluded:
 .gitignore
 src/icon.jpeg
 src/lib/debug.pas
Comment:
 - src/lib/debug.pas
   Mentions the code in function GetStackTrace is a verbatim copy from
   http://wiki.freepascal.org/Logging_exceptions
   This function is needed only when the binary is built in Debug mode, which is
   not the case for the Debian package.
   According to [1] and [2] the code from that wiki wouldn't be free
   "As there is no specific license indicated on the wiki, all author's rights
   and copyrights of submissions remain with the original authors."
   [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20231207202427/https://wiki.freepascal.org/Talk:licensing
   [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250512082052/https://wiki.freepascal.org/Licensing#Licensing/copyright_of_Wiki_articles

Files: *
Copyright: Google, Inc.
License: Expat

Files: src/wattsi.pas
Copyright: 2014, Google, Inc.
           2015, Ian Hickson.
           WHATWG (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft).
License: Expat AND CC-BY-4.0
Comment: CC-BY-4.0 & WHATWG (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft) through
 application of patch Replace-privacy-breach-by-base64-reprensentation-of-pictu.patch

Files: src/lib/*
Copyright: 2014, Google, Inc.
           2015, Ian Hickson.
License: Expat

Files: src/lib/base64encoder.pas
Copyright: 1999, Sebastian Guenther
           1999-2000, Michael Van Canneyt and Florian Klaempfl
           2012, Ian Hickson
License: LGPL-2.1-or-later with linking-exception exception

Files: src/lib/heaptrc.pp
Copyright: 1999-2000 by the Free Pascal development team.
License: LGPL-2.1-or-later with linking-exception exception
Comment: LGPL-2.1-or-later as defined in the "src:fpc" Debian package

License: LGPL-2.1-or-later with linking-exception exception
 The source code of the Free Pascal Runtime Libraries and packages,
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DFSG NEW review for wattsi version 0.0~git20260506.8b5e695+dfsg-1

Summary

  • Licensing is DFSG-compliant and debian/copyright is accurate: No
  • Packaging is of good quality: Yes
  • Issues: 0 blocker, 1 important, 1 minor
  • debian/watch: version 5
  • debian/copyright: machine-readable
  • Scan before the review: nothing found

Licensing

The licences themselves are DFSG-free: Expat for the WHATWG/Google code, LGPL-2.1-or-later with the Free Pascal linking exception for the three FPC-derived files (a permissive-enough exception), and CC-BY-4.0 for the WHATWG tracking-vector SVG that the privacy patch embeds, with its full text in debian/copyright. The +dfsg repack is genuine: .gitignore, src/icon.jpeg and src/lib/debug.pas are gone from the tree, and no copy of the non-free wiki GetStackTrace code is left (only the replacement strings in src/lib/unixpaths.pas). debian/copyright is nevertheless inaccurate in its holders: the only catch-all stanza credits every file to Google, Inc., so the Debian packaging the maintainer wrote in 2026 is misattributed, and src/lib/heaptrc.patch, which reproduces FPC's heaptrc.pp with its Free Pascal copyright notice, is declared Expat.

Packaging

Good packaging: debhelper 14 with the plain dh $@ sequencer, Standards-Version: 4.7.4 (current against Policy 4.7.4.1), the arch-specific compilers and pandoc correctly in Build-Depends-Arch and only debhelper-compat in Build-Depends, every build dependency present in unstable. All seven patches carry DEP-3 headers with Forwarded, apply cleanly, and the ones that alter behaviour (version source, DFSG removal, build flags) are explained by debian/README.source. The man page is generated from debian/wattsi.1.md and installed through debian/wattsi.manpages; upstream/metadata, salsa-ci.yml, gbp.conf and source/format are all present and sane. The unusual 147~0.0~git… binary version from override_dh_gencontrol is deliberate, documented, and consistent with the dbgsym package's = ${binary:Version} dependency; the only real gap is the absence of an autopkgtest, and the in-tree test harness cannot serve as one because it needs the unshipped html5lib-tests.

Issues

important licensing 1. debian/copyright credits the Debian packaging to Google, Inc. and never names Fab Stz ◂
  • Files: debian/copyright:20-22, debian/rules, debian/control, debian/changelog, debian/patches/debian-set-real-version.patch:1-3, debian/wattsi.1.md, debian/salsa-ci.yml
  • Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
  • Evidence: The only catch-all is Files: * / Copyright: Google, Inc. / License: Expat. The packaging is the maintainer's own work with his own dates, e.g. debian/patches/debian-set-real-version.patch begins From: Fab Stz <fabstz-it@yahoo.fr> / Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 23:01:50 +0200.
  • Problem: Files: * matches every path, including debian/* (copyright-format 6.9), so debian/rules, debian/control, debian/changelog, the seven debian/patches/* and the hand-written debian/wattsi.1.md are described as Google's work under Expat. Nothing in the file mentions the Debian maintainer or the licence of the packaging, so the copyright information for those files is wrong even though the source stanzas are not.
  • Fix: Add a stanza after the upstream ones, e.g. Files: debian/* with Copyright: 2026, Fab Stz <fabstz-it@yahoo.fr> and License: Expat (or whichever licence the packaging is meant to carry).
minor licensing 2. src/lib/heaptrc.patch contains FPC's heaptrc.pp under its Free Pascal copyright but is covered only by the Expat src/lib/* stanza ◂
  • Files: debian/copyright:32-35, debian/copyright:43-46, src/lib/heaptrc.patch:11-13
  • Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
  • Evidence: The patch quotes This file is part of the Free Pascal run time library. and Copyright (c) 1999-2000 by the Free Pascal development team.. Files: src/lib/heaptrc.pp gives that file LGPL-2.1-or-later with linking-exception exception, but the pattern names the single path heaptrc.pp only, so heaptrc.patch falls under Files: src/lib/* = Copyright: 2014, Google, Inc. / 2015, Ian Hickson. / License: Expat.
  • Problem: The file is a diff against FPC's heaptrc.pp and reproduces a substantial part of it together with FPC's copyright notice, so recording Google and Ian Hickson as its holders and Expat as its licence is inaccurate. The licence is free, so nothing about it is non-DFSG.
  • Fix: Widen the stanza to Files: src/lib/heaptrc.pp src/lib/heaptrc.patch (or add a stanza for the patch) with the same LGPL-2.1-or-later with linking-exception exception licence and the Free Pascal copyright line.
Verified ◂
  • Read all of debian/ (control, rules, changelog, copyright, install, clean, wattsi.manpages, wattsi.1.md, README.source, gbp.conf, salsa-ci.yml, set_version.sh, source/format, upstream/metadata, patches/series and all seven patches), and every upstream file that carries a licence, copyright or provenance notice: LICENSE, src/LICENSE, src/lib/README, src/lib/base64encoder.pas, src/lib/heaptrc.pp, src/lib/heaptrc.patch, src/lib/filter.pl, src/html/entities/README.
  • Every holder the scan found is named in debian/copyright under a stanza that matches its file: Google, Inc.; Ian Hickson; the Free Pascal development team; Sebastian Guenther; Michael Van Canneyt; Florian Klaempfl; WHATWG (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft). No other copyright or licence wording exists in the tree (grep over all upstream files for copyright/(C)/©/SPDX/licence names/GPL/LGPL/Apache/MPL/public domain).
  • Files-Excluded names exactly the three paths absent from the tree (.gitignore, src/icon.jpeg, src/lib/debug.pas), and the reason in the header Comment matches the removed file. No occurrence of the wiki-derived GetStackTrace remains; src/lib/unixutils.pas only prints a replacement message, and the two other {$IFDEF DEBUG} debug references (src/lib/autostorable.pas:25, src/html/test.pas:8) are in units that are not compiled by the release build.
  • src/LICENSE is the provenance note for src/icon.jpeg, which the repack excludes; nothing else in the package references that image.
  • src/html/entities/entities.inc (33040 lines) is generated code, but both its input (entities.json) and its generator (src/html/entities/preprocessor.pas) are shipped, so the preferred form for modification is present.
  • src/lib/tests/json-*.json and resutils.txt are test data registered as FPC testdata resources by json.rc/resutils.rc; src/html/test.pas is a standalone test program that is not built and whose data paths (/home/ianh/...) are dead.
  • The base64 SVG added by the privacy patch is the WHATWG asset named in the patch; the src/wattsi.pas stanza carries CC-BY-4.0 and the full CC-BY-4.0 text follows. The in-source comment at src/wattsi.pas:1708 is truncated at File is originally licensed under, but the licence is documented in debian/copyright.
  • Checked against debhelper 14.5 and its sources: at compat 14 dh_gencontrol adds ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} and ${fpc:Static-Built-Using} to their fields itself and strips a field's trailing comma; dh_auto_install and dh_auto_test do nothing because the upstream Makefile has no install, test or check target; execute_before_dh_gencontrol runs before dh_gencontrol reads the substvars, so fpc-depends output is used.
  • Build deps exist in unstable: debhelper 14.5 (provides debhelper-compat (= 14)), fp-compiler, fp-units-fcl, fp-units-net, fp-utils, pandoc 3.11-1. Standards-Version: 4.7.4 matches the reviewing system's Policy 4.7.4.1.
  • uscan found upstream releases with debian/watch; a newer upstream version is available (upstream 0.0~git20260914.49fc4eb, packaged 0.0~git20260506.8b5e695+dfsg), which is not a fault of the package.
  • Every pointer of debian/copyright to /usr/share/common-licenses names a file that is there (LGPL-2.1).
Not confirmed ◂
  • fpc-depends, run in debian/rules, could not be verified: fpc is not installed on the reviewing system, there is no man page for it, and the fp-utils package description lists only data2inc, fpcmake, h2pas, plex/pyacc, ppdep, ppudump, ppufiles, ppumove and ptop. If the archive's fpc does not ship it, the build stops at dh_gencontrol; a build would show it either way.
  • The licence of src/html/entities/entities.json: the README beside it gives only the URL https://html.spec.whatwg.org/entities.json and the file states no licence of its own, so Files: * records it as Google/Expat. The HTML Standard is WHATWG's CC-BY-4.0 work (the copyright file itself names WHATWG for CC-BY-4.0 material), but I could not fetch the upstream file to see what licence, if any, is attached to this data, and it may be uncopyrightable data in any case.
  • Hardening: the release build uses FPC's own @hardening (debian-build-03) rather than dpkg-buildflags, and debian/salsa-ci.yml sets SALSA_CI_DISABLE_BLHC: 1, so I could not check what hardening the resulting binary actually gets. Nothing here is verifiable without the FPC toolchain.
Proposed changes ◂

None.

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