Re: Bug#191804: general: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright wastefully duplicated
On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 03:56:51AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: general
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-05-04
> Severity: minor
>
> Gentlemen, do
> $ ls -og /usr/share/doc/*/copyright|sort -k 3n
> Notice: all of the files have just a link count of 1 whereas there are
> many that are just in fact the same file.
>
> OK, at least some must be the same as /usr/share/common-licenses/*,
> therefore they should simply be symlinked to there.
Those copyright files are supposed to have more than just the LICENSE
text in them and actually should just have a pointer to
/usr/share/common-licenses for the license text if it is one of the ones
listed in that dir.
Example
-BEGIN-
This package was debianized by Foo Developer <foo@debian.org> on
(date -R output).
It was downloaded from http://localhost/somedir/somefile.tar.gz
Upstream Author(s): Someone <someone@somewhere.org>
Copyright:
Copyright (c) 2002, Someone
(License Text or location of a common license in /usr/share/common-licenses)
-END-
Look at the example from dh-make if you need more help.
Chris
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