Bug#489135: debian-policy: how to document a repackaged .orig.tar.gz

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Subject: Bug#489135: debian-policy: how to document a repackaged .orig.tar.gz
From: Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:03:28 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 1215083008.5683.24.camel@pluto.hg.intranet>
Reply-to: Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>, 489135@bugs.debian.org

Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist

Not so long ago the Developer's Reference explained how a repackaged
upstream tarball must be documented in debian/README.Debian-source.  Now
the Developer's Reference states that this must be documented in
debian/copyright.

developers-reference 3.4.0 :
file:///usr/share/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-origtargz

        "must contain detailed information how the repackaged source was
        obtained, and how this can be reproduced in the
        debian/copyright."

Please consider moving this information to debian-policy.

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