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Review: yaml-cpp 0.9.0+dfsg-1

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Changed-BySimon Quigley
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionexperimental
DateMon, 16 Feb 2026 10:31:17 -0600
Sourceyaml-cpp
Version0.9.0+dfsg-1
Changelog
yaml-cpp (0.9.0+dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release.
   * Update Standards-Version to 4.7.3.
   * Remove patches, they are all reverse-applicable.
   * Rename libyaml-cpp0.8 -> libyaml-cpp0.9.
   * Update Files-Excluded to googletest-1.13.0.
   * Update symbols from amd64 build log.
.dsc
Sectionlibdevel
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listlibyaml-cpp-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libyaml-cpp0.9 deb libs optional arch=any
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: yaml-cpp
Source: https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp
Files-Excluded: test/googletest-1.13.0

Files: *
Copyright: 2008 Jesse Beder <jbeder@gmail.com>
License: X11
 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 X CONSORTIUM 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: debian/*
Copyright: 2011-2013 Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com>
           2018-2025 Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@debian.org>
License: GPL-2.0+
 This package 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 package 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/>
 .
 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 30 days ago, started 30 days ago, completed 30 days ago.

Final Comment

Please update debian/copyright to reflect authorship of src/contrib/dragonbox.h
Even with it's special licensing for yaml-cpp it should still have a stanza
identifying the copyright holder.

Thanks!

Public Notes

30 days ago ● public

Licenserecon

Command: lrc -s
Exit code: 3

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

Parsing Source Tree  ....
Reading d/copyright  ....
Running licensecheck ....

d/copyright      | licensecheck

X11              | Expat             LICENSE
X11              | Apache-2.0 and/or BSL-1.0 and/or Expat src/contrib/dragonbox.h

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