Bug#65764: changelog shouldn't be in the copyright file

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist

Hi people,

I don't think the copyright file should explain the modifications made in
the Debian package compared to the upstream one. The purpose of the
changelog.Debian(.gz) file is to describe such changes (and any others), so
this is a needless duplication of text. Also, this means that the maintainer
has to update the copyright file if he makes another or removes an existing
modification, which I don't think we should need to do, since we already
have the Debian changelog file.

Unified diff against the SGML source:

--- policy.sgml~        Fri Jun 16 19:31:05 2000
+++ policy.sgml Fri Jun 16 19:34:56 2000
@@ -3458,9 +3458,7 @@

        <p>
          In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream
-         sources (if any) were obtained, and explain briefly what
-         modifications were made in the Debian version of the package
-         compared to the upstream one.  It must name the original
+         sources (if any) were obtained. It must name the original
          authors of the package and the Debian maintainer(s) who were
          involved with its creation.</p>

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