Bug#556015: Clarify requirements for copyright file
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> OTOH, thinking ahead a little bit, if we *do* insist on requiring
> changelog entries for binNMUs in the package that may make things
> interesting for multiarch. Since binNMUS are per-architecture, binNMUS
> on two architectures may have the same version but different changelog
> entries, making it impossible to share the /usr/share/doc/ directory
> between archs for these packages. Maybe the answer there is to have a
> policy of always binNMUing multiarch packages in lockstep; I don't think
> the alternative of *requiring* multiarch packages to symlink to an arch:
> all package for their changelogs makes much sense.
We could simply require multiarch packages to not symlink their
/usr/share/doc directory. It's a space optimization only, really, and
feels like something we can give up if there's a reason to do so.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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