On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:40:15 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 16:56 +0200, Francesco Poli (t1000) wrote: [...] > > Please update the debian/copyright file, so that it reflects the > > current content of the package. > > Thanks in advance. > > Policy requires a copyright file in each binary package, not in the > source package.
This is true: I looked at the copyright file from the PTS (http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/firmware-nonfree.html), without thinking that I should have checked individual copyright files for binary packages (e.g.: http://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-linux). The fact is that I had never encountered a source package with several binary packages having *distinct* copyright files, so far... :-o I wasn't aware it was possible at all! > debian/copyright is the conventional source for this > file but is not required. This is also true, it's a "should", rather than a "must": | A copy of the file which will be installed | in /usr/share/doc/package/copyright should be in debian/copyright in | the source package. [quoted from http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile] > The copyright/licence texts for binary > packages are actually taken from the corresponding directories in the > source package. Good, I've just checked and they seem to include what I was looking for. But now the question arises: what should be put into a debian/copyright file, when individual binary packages get distinct copyright files? I mean: in order to prevent people from being misled to think that the debian/copyright is incomplete or inaccurate, like I was... -- New location for my website! Update your bookmarks! http://www.inventati.org/frx ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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