Bug#610083: Remove requirement to document upstream source location in debian/copyright ?
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
> Le Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:21:02PM -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
>> Especially if the plan is to later remove policy's requirement that
>> copyright specify the Source, which would presumably mean deprecating
>> the field in DEP5. And there's a good agument that policy's current
>> requirement is vestigial, having been supersceded by more specific
>> information that is provided in a machine-usable format in the watch
>> file and Homepage field. The only remaining use for Source in DEP5
>> would then be things like "Source: usenet posting from 1983".
> I support Joey's comment and propose to simply remove the requirement
> from the Policy. I do not think that people will remove the information
> from debian/copyright without having a Homepage field if they do not
> have one, so I propose to keep thinks short and to not cross-reference
> nor replace with incitations.
I could have sworn we'd discussed this before.
I'm opposed to this change as proposed because it means that we can have
packages without any hint as to where the upstream source came from (since
Homepage is not required).
I think it might be okay to make the indication of the origin of the
upstream source in debian/copyright optional *if* Homepage clearly
provides the same information for that package. (Note: this will not be
the case for all packages with a Homepage setting, since in some cases
it's hard or impossible to figure out how to get the upstream source when
starting from the URL in Homepage.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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