Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org> writes: > I agreed with Steve at the time, that files not shipped in a .deb need > not be documented in /usr/share/doc/foo/copyright shipped in the .deb;
I don't think anyone disagrees with this, including the ftp-masters. The question is whether the source package also needs a copyright file of its own. In other words, if you created both debian/copyright and debian/binary-package.copyright, where the latter contains only information about what's in the binary package and is installed in that binary package, I highly doubt ftp-master will complain. However, they currently still rely on debian/copyright documenting the entire source package for the purposes of license review. I think we need a broader discussion following the Policy process to work out and reach consensus on exactly what copyright documentation we, as a project, want to require in our packages, both source and binary. We keep having one-off, ad-hoc discussions without all the involved parties participating, which is a large part of why we don't reach consensus. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sk2jbbuo....@windlord.stanford.edu
