On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:10:00AM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: > Hi Markus, > > On 2014-09-20 01:22, Markus Koschany wrote: > > The debian/copyright file is identical for ufoai-data, ufoai-music and > > ufoai-maps. > > I find this somewhat confusing. > > Generally speaking, I don't believe that listing the copyright of files > which are not part of the source package (in fact, which are part of > another package) is policy-conform, regardless of whether upstream > created the source split, or you. Just as a minor data-point, I think that it might actually be policy-conformant, as witnessed by e.g. Policy 12.5, the section about /usr/share/doc/package being a symlink to another directory. True, it discusses a slightly different case (two packages coming from the same source package), but I do believe that the intent is exactly the same - a single source package generating, say, two packages (a binary one and a data one), with the same copyright file for both. The copyright file would have to contain information about all the files in the two binary packages, which means that for each of the binary packages "its" copyright file would contain information about files that are part of another package. It's true that the Debian Policy does not contain explicit provisions for this case - two different source packages coming from the same upstream distribution point - and it's true that the final say in these matters belongs to the FTP Masters. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org p.penchev@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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