Documenting automatically generated files in debian/copyright
I’m doing a copyright check on a source package and it contains a number of automatically generated Makefile.in files.
These files are most likely the result of upstream not fully cleaning their source tree before compressing into a tarball.
Each Makefile.in file includes a Free Software Foundation copyright line and their licence (FSFULLR).
As these files are transient and automatically generated by automake, do they need to be documented in debian/copyright?
The same could be asked of the configure script and other files.
I’ve been documenting these files to be safe, since they are shipped with the source tarball, but I’d like to know if this detail is required.
I couldn’t find anything in Policy on this.
Thank you,
Hugh
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