Bug#556015: debian-policy: Clarify requirements for copyright file
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> The requirements for the copyright file in binary and source packages
> has been the source of a lot of confusion and a lot of bug reports
> against Lintian. This is an attempt to state the requirements more
> specifically and more completely.
> This also adds a footnote explaining the perl and perl-base exception.
> This was discussed in depth several times and run past ftpmaster and
> left as a special exception after a couple of unsuccessful attempts to
> find a robust transition plan.
I should mention that this proposal also removes the requirement that the
original authors of the package and the Debian maintainers involved in its
creation be documented in the copyright file. The Debian changelog file
should be sufficient for this purpose.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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