Don: I really like your solution. It's rather elegant.
I guess it is possible we run into some messed up corner case where a directory has the same name as the tarball, but I'm hoping that never happens, and I suppose we'll cross that river when we get there. Later on I'll take a look a closer look at the package in question, and hopefully I can get a reasonable looking copyright file out :-) Thanks for all the discussion everybody. I hope that anyone that has an issue with something like this comes across this message in the future. Cheers, Jonathan On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Don Armstrong<d...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Steve Langasek wrote: >> Is it not sufficient to just list >> >> Files: Stuff.tar.gz >> Copyright: 2005 Some Company A >> 2002 Some Person B >> 2002-2007 Other Fictional Entity >> License: Tar Public License > > Or we could just do > > Files: Stuff.tar.gz/foo.c > Copyright: Copyright 2005 Some Company A > License: ... > > Files: Stuff.tar.gz/bar.txt > Copyright: Copyright 2002 Some Person B > License: ... > > Files: Stuff.tar.gz/baz.c > Copyright: Copyright 2002-2007 Other Fictional Entity > License: ... > > and then just treat files which are known to be tarballs (or some > other archive) as if they were unpacked directories. > > > Don Armstrong > > -- > "You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember > when you are old." > -- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p413) > > 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 > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
