Re: Goals of debian/copyright
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:25:28PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >> 8) Provide information about the upstream maintainer and upstream
> >> location of the software for non-native software, including any
> >> necessary repackaging of upstream source for Debian's purposes.
> > Does that information necessarily belong in ‘debian/copyright’? I
> > thought the proposed ‘debian/README.source’ was more suited for this.
> I've had that conversation I think five separate times now and each time
> seem to have convinced people, which is why debian/copyright is what's
> recommended in devref and similar sources (see devref 6.7.8.2). I can
> have the conversation again if you haven't seen the previous rounds, but
> I'd rather not if you're willing to either take my word for it or research
> the previous conversations. (Apologies if this sounds snarky; I'm not
> upset at you. I'm just kind of tired of repeating myself. :/)
Where have these conversations taken place? I don't recall seeing any such
discussions before, and don't understand how documenting "any necessary
repackaging of upstream source" in debian/copyright meshes with Policy 4.14.
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