Re: Referring to upstream copyright statement from debian/copyright
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:58:10PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> or should I be pasting the entire text of AUTHORS into
> debian/copyright?
Yes you should. The promise we make in Policy is that the copyright and
licensing status of the package is provided in the debian/copyright
file, and the only exception we make is that common-licenses are
incorporated by reference and not by textual inclusion. The idea is
that it is sufficient to extract that one file from the package to get
this information.
I don't believe you can build the copyright file at build time either.
From Policy 12.5:
A copy of the file which will be installed in
/usr/share/doc/package/copyright should be in debian/copyright in the
source package.
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