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Bug#944296: debian-policy: Source provenance requirement is WET



Hello,

On Thu 07 Nov 2019 at 09:00AM -08, Russ Allbery wrote:

> I'm in favor of dropping this information from debian/copyright and
> instead writing some language saying that packages should include this
> information in Homepage in debian/control and, if there's a substantial
> non-obvious difference between the package home page and how to download
> it, put download information in debian/watch.

For a lot of packages I've put some sort of git web view URL into the
Source: field and a descriptive homepage into the Homepage: field.

I don't think this is a very strong reason not to drop the Source:
field, since the descriptive homepage will usually have a link to the
git web view.  But I thought I'd note my experience.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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