Bug#65765: a needless paragraph
Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
Section 2.4.4 "Documenting your changes" contains a paragraph talking about
the copyright file, but that doesn't fit in the contents of the paragraphs
before and after, which talk about the debian/changelog file. Furthermore,
placement of both the copyright and the changelog files in the binary
package is explained in sections 6.6 "Copyright information" and 6.8
"Changelog files". Therefore, I think this paragraph should be removed.
I doubt this proposal needs to be voted on (seconded|objected to), since
it doesn't change the spirit of the text, it's typographic.
The diff:
--- policy.sgml~ Fri Jun 16 19:34:56 2000
+++ policy.sgml Fri Jun 16 19:51:05 2000
@@ -1012,11 +1012,6 @@
properly in the <tt>debian/changelog</tt> file.</p>
<p>
- A copy of the file which will be installed in
- <tt>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/copyright</tt> should be
- in <tt>debian/copyright</tt>.</p>
-
- <p>
In non-experimental packages you may only use a format for
<tt>debian/changelog</tt> which is supported by the most
recent released version of <prgn>dpkg</prgn>. If your
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