On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:44:10 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Dear Santiago and everybody,
>
> how about the following ? (in section 4.5)
>
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -1822,12 +1822,16 @@ zope.
> <sect id="dpkgcopyright">
> <heading>Copyright: <file>debian/copyright</file></heading>
> <p>
> Every {+source+} package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy
> of its copyright information and distribution license in the
> file [-<file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/copyright</file>-]{+<file>debian/copyright</file><footnote>+}
> {+ The <file>debian/copyright</file> file must be present, to+}
> {+ ease the review of new packages and to facilitate automatic+}
> {+ extraction of this information. It may be generated from+}
> {+ templates, but not at build time.</footnote>+}
> (see <ref id="copyrightfile"> for further details). Also see
> <ref id="pkgcopyright"> for further considerations related to
> copyrights for packages.
> </p>
> </sect>
> <sect>
>
> Even after that change, the sentence "Every package must be accompanied by a
> verbatim copy of its copyright information and distribution license in the file
> /usr/share/doc/package/copyright" still appears twice in the Policy.
>
FWIW I disagree with this change, I don't think making a new requirement
for source packages is the way to solve NEW review workflow.
Cheers,
Julien
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