Re: Non-recompilable binaries in source and binary packages (Adobe Flash strikes again)
Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> writes:
> I agreed with Steve at the time, that files not shipped in a .deb need
> not be documented in /usr/share/doc/foo/copyright shipped in the .deb;
I don't think anyone disagrees with this, including the ftp-masters. The
question is whether the source package also needs a copyright file of its
own.
In other words, if you created both debian/copyright and
debian/binary-package.copyright, where the latter contains only
information about what's in the binary package and is installed in that
binary package, I highly doubt ftp-master will complain. However, they
currently still rely on debian/copyright documenting the entire source
package for the purposes of license review.
I think we need a broader discussion following the Policy process to work
out and reach consensus on exactly what copyright documentation we, as a
project, want to require in our packages, both source and binary. We keep
having one-off, ad-hoc discussions without all the involved parties
participating, which is a large part of why we don't reach consensus.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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