Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > Le Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 03:48:33PM +0200, Andrew Shadura a écrit :
>> By the way, how about adding something under debian/source/... to allow >> automatic repacking regardless of Files-Excluded? (Or please tell me >> how to repack upstream's zipball to targz automatically without having >> to specify --repack every time.) > actually, wouldn't a file under debian/source (or directly under > debian/) be a better place than debian/copyright, given that there are > reason for excluding files that are not related to copyright, such as > for their size, or a safeguard against accidentally building against > convenience code copies. It would be nice to keep all of the information about the provenance of the upstream source in one location. Currently, that's (mostly) debian/copyright. If we start moving that data, perhaps we could move *all* of it, rather than deciding every new piece of data piecemeal? The argument for having that data in debian/copyright is, so far as I understand it, two-fold: identifying the upstream location allows people to review and confirm license information, and some upstream licenses may require pointers to the original source location. However, the latter should, I hope, be dealt with by the license text, which we have to reproduce anyway, and in any case are a minority. And the former seems like a relatively weak association with debian/copyright to me. Personally, I care more about it being in one place than about what that place is. As long as people aren't going to move this information out of debian/copyright, I want new, related information, such as excluded files, to go in the same place so that the information isn't split. But I'm fine with moving it entirely. -- 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/87lih7n9y3....@windlord.stanford.edu
