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Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)



Andreas Tille writes ("Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was:	Minified javascript files)"):
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:37:18PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Andreas Tille writes ("Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was:	Minified javascript files)"):
> > >  1. The new field Files-Excluded in debian/copyright contains
> > 
> > I don't think debian/copyright should be an controlling input to the
> > build process.  It's supposed to be semi-machine-readable
> > documentation.
> 
> Sorry, could you please define the term "semi-machine-readable"?

Some of the information is machine-readable, and some is not.  This is
obviously necessary in the general case for a description of
software's licensing status, since licences are written in human
natural languages and might be arbitrary in form.

Ian.


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