On 2016-08-06 23:37, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 05:00:09PM +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: >> as you somehow add jquery.js to your doc-package, please add its license >> to your debian/copyright. > > The jquery.js is installed by doxygen in the documentation process. It > does not belong to the source package (the full autogenerated > documentation provided by upstream was intentionally removed to avoid > compressed JS files). I wonder why I should add licenses of files that > are not part of the source package and do not even have an idea how I > could do this syntactically correctly - lintian would claim an unused > copyright paragraph and IMHO lintian is correct here.
A bug has been filed against lintian about this, see #736360. This does seem like one of the intended use cases of the "Built-Using" field, as Helmut and Jakub discuss. Policy ยง 7.8: | Some binary packages incorporate parts of other packages when built | but do not have to depend on those packages. Examples include | linking with static libraries or incorporating source code from | another package during the build. In this case, the source packages | of those other packages are a required part of the complete source | (the binary package is not reproducible without them). Christian
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