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



Hello,

On Sat 16 Nov 2019 at 04:13AM +01, Guillem Jover wrote:

> On Sat, 2019-11-09 at 08:55:23 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If upstream does not release tarballs, then I guess that usage of the
> Source: field seems appropriate, otherwise it looks a bit like a
> stretch?

Well, if the tarballs are an afterthought for upstream (perhaps
automatically generated by git-archive(1) on GitHub's releases page)
then I think it's appropriate.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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