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Bug#65577: PROPOSED] README.Debian should include notice if a package is not a part of Debian distribution



On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:35:17PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 07:59:15AM -0400, Brian Mays wrote:
> > I think that an explanation of the choice of section in the Debian archive
> > in which the package appears is more closely related to the contents of
> > the copyright file than what is currently being placed by maintainers in
> > the README.Debian file. Therefore, it is my opinion that this information
> > is more appropriately placed in /usr/share/doc/<p>/copyright.
> Agreed.

Ditto; leaving it in copyright also makes it easy to remember to change
it if the license becomes more free in the future: you're just editing the
one file.

Cheers,
aj

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