Re: Goals of debian/copyright
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:56:57PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > I think we're getting bogged down in the debian/copyright
> > discussion, and I'm starting to think that some enumeration of
> > what we need debian/copyright for would help us figure out what it
> > should actually contain.
> > 3) Satisfy licence requirements in binary .debs
>
> I'd like to remember that binary .deb files are not required by policy
> to include a copyright file at all, due to 12.3:
>
> `/usr/share/doc/<package>' may be a symbolic link to another
> directory in `/usr/share/doc' only if the two packages both
> come from the same source and the first package Depends on the
> second.[2]
I'm not really concerned yet with what policy requires; we can change
policy if necessary, after all. Lets first come to agreement with what
we need debian/copyright to do.
Don Armstrong
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