Hi Thibaut, On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:56:51PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > I remember that debian/copyright should not only list where the > source was downloaded from, but also the files which were removed by > the packager and the motivation for the removal (DFSG, patents, > large convenience copy of a library...). At least, that's how I > interpret this (from [1], I cannot find an excerpt from policy): > "3) Include a description of how you obtained the upstream source > tarball. This should be sufficient for anybody to duplicate the > process immediately, but don't worry too much if it isn't (eg, the > server is not public or no longer accessible)." This is not a requirement of Debian Policy; there are two other ways that Policy already recommends communicating this information: - in the debian/README.source file - by way of a get-orig-source target in debian/rules Providing the same information in debian/copyright would be redundant, and should be avoided. > I see no way with the current [2]DEP-5 proposal to store this > information. > My proposal would be to add a new type of sections: > Removed-Files: similar to Files, for removed files > Rationale: reason for the removal. Given that Policy says to put this elsewhere than debian/copyright, I don't think it makes sense for DEP-5 to specify such sections; this is probably better addressed by including support for free-form comments, as suggested elsewhere. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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