Hi Thanks for all feedback and suggestions. On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 10:40:20AM -0600, gregor herrmann wrote: > ... or ... > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/ Okay, attached is the updated proposed patch to policy.pod. Regards, Salvatore
From 98e0c3202cfea0d32412f74184351109464c6be5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:48:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document handling of debian/copyright in policy Add a note that every copyright file should follow copyright-format 1.0 (or newer) as released together with Debian Policy 3.9.3. --- policy.pod | 26 +++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/policy.pod b/policy.pod index 4f6734b..2786065 100644 --- a/policy.pod +++ b/policy.pod @@ -24,19 +24,21 @@ Perl Group Git Guide (L<http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/git.html>). =item 3. L<debian/control handling|/"debian/control handling"> -=item 4. L<debian/watch handling|/"debian/watch handling"> +=item 4. L<debian/copyright handling|/"debian/copyright handling"> -=item 5. L<Package Naming Policy|/"Package Naming Policy"> +=item 5. L<debian/watch handling|/"debian/watch handling"> -=item 6. L<Test suites|/"Test suites"> +=item 6. L<Package Naming Policy|/"Package Naming Policy"> -=item 7. L<Debian Maintainers practice|/"Debian Maintainers practice"> +=item 7. L<Test suites|/"Test suites"> -=item 8. L<Release Process|/"Release Process"> +=item 8. L<Debian Maintainers practice|/"Debian Maintainers practice"> -=item 9. L<Authors|/"Authors"> +=item 9. L<Release Process|/"Release Process"> -=item 10. L<License|/"License"> +=item 10. L<Authors|/"Authors"> + +=item 11. L<License|/"License"> =back @@ -168,6 +170,16 @@ The pkg-perl group members prefer to directly use debhelper when packaging. We suggest you don't use cdbs as part of the build process for packages intended to be group-maintained. +=head1 debian/copyright handling + +Each package should have the copyright file F<debian/copyright> following the +copyright-format 1.0 or newer. copyright-format 1.0 as released together with +Debian policy 3.9.3 is documented at +L<http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/>. + +All released copyright-format specifications can be found under +L<http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/>. + =head1 debian/watch handling Each package should have a watch file (F<debian/watch>) to make manual and -- 1.7.10.4
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