On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 12:14 +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ke, 2008-07-16 kello 09:57 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst kirjoitti: > > "Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and > > distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright (may be > > compressed with gzip -9). This file must not be a symbolic link."
The symbolic link thing is also a possible issue for Emdebian although it really isn't that bad - there aren't that many packages where Emdebian installs more than one binary from any one source package (in particular, -dev and -doc packages are not relevant to Emdebian). Nevertheless, debhelper support is essential to this idea. (Emdebian also drops changelog.gz and changelogDebian.gz - even compressed, these can be very large files.) > Would it make sense to change that to "must be compressed"? I know it > makes all packages instantly buggy, but since that's a _really_ easy > thing to change, and almost all packages can be fixed via a debhelper > change plus a rebuild, it's should be trivial to get things fixed for > lenny+1. Some packages handle copyright without debhelper, including generating it from LICENCE files and similar. > Having every package have the same name for the file seems like a better > situation than having to check which name to use. I'd agree that having the same filename is preferable. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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