Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format
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- Subject: Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format
- From: Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:16:44 -0600
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Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
[...]
> Except that debtags are right now for binary packages, whereas
> copyright is for source packages.
Err, not quite right:
Policy 4.5:
> Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and
> distribution license in the file */usr/share/doc/package/copyright*[...]
Policy 12.5:
> Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and
> distribution license in the file */usr/share/doc/package/copyright*.
[...]
> A copy of the file which will be installed in /usr/share/doc/package/copyright
> _should_ be in debian/copyright in the *source package*.
Cheers,
Raphael Geissert
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