Bug#617516: debian-policy: Clarification that what needs to be machine-extractable is the copyright file, not its contents.
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.1.0
Severity: wishlist
Dear all,
following the discussion on debian-project, here is a small patch that
clarifies §12.5, where it is written that copyrights must be extractable by
mechanical means.
See http://lists.debian.org/87r5aha46g.fsf@zancas.localnet for the small discussion.
With the possible arrival of DEP-5 in the debian-policy package, I think that
it can be good to clarify that what the Policy requires to be
machine-extractable are the copyright files, not their content.
Have a nice day,
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Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>From 35ae4ecea9c6b26f55d7dc8fdd9ef813fb8fd259 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:28:21 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] What needs to be machine-extractable is the copyright file, not its contents.
See: http://lists.debian.org/87r5aha46g.fsf@zancas.localnet
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policy.sgml | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 6e04c81..2a01b02 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -9630,8 +9630,8 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
<file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></file> may be a symbolic
link to another directory in <file>/usr/share/doc</file> only if
the two packages both come from the same source and the
- first package Depends on the second. These rules are
- important because copyrights must be extractable by
+ first package Depends on the second. These rules are important
+ because <file>copyright</file> files must be extractable by
mechanical means.
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