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Bug#556015: Clarify requirements for copyright file



* Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 2010-07-03, 12:15:
+	    <item>
+	      The dependency on the package containing the copyright
+	      information and distribution license must be strong
+	      (<tt>Depends</tt> or <tt>Pre-Depends</tt>).  This dependency
+	      may be indirect through other packages (for example,
+	      packages A and B may have symlinks pointing to package C
+	      with A depending on B and B depending on C), but only if all
+	      packages involved in the dependency chain are built from the
+	      same source package.
+	    </item>

I think this point rather belongs in 12.3 ("Additional documentation").

-	  You should not use the copyright file as a general <file>README</file>
-	  file.  If your package has such a file it should be
-	  installed in <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/README</file> or
-	  <file>README.Debian</file> or some other appropriate place.</p>
+	  You should not use the copyright file as a general
+	  <file>README</file> file.  If your package has such a file it
+	  should be installed in
+	  <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/README</file> or
+	  <file>README.Debian</file> or some other appropriate place.
+	</p>

This hunk is a whitespace-only change; could be please avoid such changes?

--
Jakub Wilk

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