Re: +dfsg extension meaning and reference docs ?
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Olivier Berger wrote:
> I cannot manage to find the reference docs that would explain the
> rationale and requirements on upstream sources to be repackaged in
> source packages with the +dfsg extension.
>
> Any pointer to authoritative docs ?
Everything that is distributed in main (source and binary) needs to be
DFSG free. If you have things in the upstream tarball which are
nonfree, you need to strip them out and repack the tarball before
uploading.
See policy 2.2.1 and debian reference 6.7.8.2[1].
Don Armstrong
1: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-origtargz
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