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Bug#955005: Relax requirements to copy copyright notices into d/copyright



Hello,

On Wed 08 Apr 2020 at 01:18AM +02, Guillem Jover wrote:

>> +The copyright information for files in a package must be copied
>> +verbatim into ``/usr/share/doc/package/copyright``, when
>                                   ^ Shouldn't this and other instances
> of "package" be marked as replaceable text?

Possibly, though that's an issue with the existing Policy text not this
patch -- perhaps I should just find and replace after applying the patch
from this bug?

> I'm assuming the entire list is supposed to hold at the same time? If
> so perhaps adding an «and» here would make this completely unambiguous.

Hmm, thanks for the feedback, but I don't think "a; b; and c" is
ambiguous in English, and "a; and b; and c" would be an irregular usage.

If this really does need clarification it would be better to add "all of
the following" or something before the list.

> I'm don't think abbreviating debian/ as d/ is appropriate in policy?
> (Personally I fint it annoying also on debian/changelog, because then
> you need to search using multiple variants of the filenames, but meh. :)

Thanks for catching this error -- fixed in my local git branch.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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