Bug#556015: debian-policy: Clarify requirements for copyright file
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 05:36:34PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>>> I'm also proposing changing the requirement for debian/copyright from
>>> a should to a must. I believe that reflects existing practice. A
>>> package that has no debian/copyright file is not going to make it into
>>> the archive now.
>> Is this actually true? e.g. libxcb does 'cat debian/copyright.debian
>> COPYING > debian/copyright' at build time, and that's never been an
>> issue for NEW processing afaik...
> This is one of the lintian checks that is now enforced by dak, AIUI.
I don't think Lintian ever looks at debian/copyright in the source
package. The copyright checks in Lintian are all performed against the
binary package.
If ftp-master doesn't care, then Policy shouldn't care. Copying
ftp-master for an opinion.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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