On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:44:10AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:41:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > I think this has come up before, and my recollection of where we ended up > > > in the past is that there probably isn't any *legal* reason to require > > > debian/copyright in source packages. However, there's a substantial > > > *practical* reason, namely that the existing ftpmaster tooling depends on > > > the existence of a source debian/copyright file for the way that they do > > > license reviews, and that some tooling and process changes would be > > > required before we can relax this requirement.
> Le Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:37:20PM +0200, Santiago Vila a écrit :
> > Yes, I think this practical reason (the ability to extract
> > automatically copyright files from source packages) is the main reason
> > why debian/copyright is required.
> > So we could just add it to policy as a rationale.
> Dear Santiago and everybody,
> how about the following ? (in section 4.5)
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -1822,12 +1822,16 @@ zope.
> <sect id="dpkgcopyright">
> <heading>Copyright: <file>debian/copyright</file></heading>
> <p>
> Every {+source+} package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy
> of its copyright information and distribution license in the
> file
> [-<file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/copyright</file>-]{+<file>debian/copyright</file><footnote>+}
> {+ The <file>debian/copyright</file> file must be present, to+}
> {+ ease the review of new packages and to facilitate automatic+}
> {+ extraction of this information. It may be generated from+}
> {+ templates, but not at build time.</footnote>+}
> (see <ref id="copyrightfile"> for further details). Also see
> <ref id="pkgcopyright"> for further considerations related to
> copyrights for packages.
> </p>
> </sect>
> <sect>
>
> Even after that change, the sentence "Every package must be accompanied by
> a verbatim copy of its copyright information and distribution license in
> the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright" still appears twice in the
> Policy.
I disagree with clarifying Debian Policy in this direction. The practical
problem with the ftp team's tooling is a problem of their own making, and
not one that should cause more work for all Debian Developers to spend extra
time complying with a requirement which was never the intent of policy.
I will write more on this subject soon.
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