On Fri, Jan 18, 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > The reason for the Policy requirement is the copyright file, so I don't > think this can be relaxed without running the risk of getting the legal > material for the package wrong. Suppose, for instance, that someone had > an old version of one package installed with a different license than the > package providing the /usr/share/doc directory.
Indeed; I thought about the changelog versions mismatches, but didn't think about copyright which is more criticial; that said, I would guess mismatches would be transient, in sid or when upgrading for example. But well, let's not take the risk indeed. (closing, thanks) > The common thing to do in this situation is to ship only the Debian > changelog and the copyright file in the /usr/share/doc directory of the > other package, along with a pointer to whatever directory has the real > documentation. That's still quite big. :-/ -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
