On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:56:57PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I think we're getting bogged down in the debian/copyright > > discussion, and I'm starting to think that some enumeration of > > what we need debian/copyright for would help us figure out what it > > should actually contain.
> > 3) Satisfy licence requirements in binary .debs > > I'd like to remember that binary .deb files are not required by policy > to include a copyright file at all, due to 12.3: > > `/usr/share/doc/<package>' may be a symbolic link to another > directory in `/usr/share/doc' only if the two packages both > come from the same source and the first package Depends on the > second.[2] I'm not really concerned yet with what policy requires; we can change policy if necessary, after all. Lets first come to agreement with what we need debian/copyright to do. Don Armstrong -- I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
