On 9/14/20 2:04 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > in the Debian Med team there are two GSoC students very busy to write > autopkgtests for (in the long run) all our packages (if possible). That is an excellent thing to do. > On Sun Sep 13 18:00:08 BST 2020, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:[3] >> please don't hide data under debian/*. > > Sorry, Thorsten but I think "hiding" is not the right term. FWIW, I agree that "hiding" seems wrong here. > We have no > other dir to add extra files than the debian/ dir. Assuming a "3.0 (quilt)" package, you have the option of adding another source tarball. [1] I'm not sure if that is better or worse here. It just moves data from one source tarball (the debian one) to another. But it is an _option_ at least. >> Don't forget to mention the copyright information. > > In principle yes, but these data are not copyrightable as far as I know. > Nilesh has mentioned the origin of data in debian/tests/README to > provide a reference. If you consider this information not sufficient > please let us know a better way. I would put the explanation in debian/copyright (instead of or in addition to any other location). If you're using machine-readable copyright, use "License: public-domain", and and note that 7.1.1 _requires_ an explanation of why it is public-domain, as public domain is commonly misunderstood. [2] [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0#How_to_use_multiple_upstream_tarballs_in_3.0_.28quilt.29_format.3F [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#license-short-name -- Richard
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