Package: debian-policy Version: 4.4.1.1 Severity: wishlist Hi!
We currently require (with a must) in section §12.5, to add to the debian/copyright, where the upstream source was obtained from: ,--- In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources (if any) were obtained, … `--- This means that when using a debian/watch file one has to duplicate the information in two places, with the possibility of this getting out-of-sync, etc. In addition the machine readable debian/copyright format, specifies the Source field as optional, which could perhaps be interpreted as contradict what policy says. IMO, ideally the requirement in policy would be lifted by clarifying that the information should be provided in *either* debian/copyright or debian/watch. The other option would be, I guess, to turn the Source field into a required one. If that's not desired to be done from the copyright-format itself (because the format can be considered more general and there's no need for this requirement from the parsing PoV) then this requirement could perhaps be added from the policy side. I just noticed recently I've been creating non-compliant packages for a while. :/ Once there's a decision either way we could add lintian tags so that we do not miss this kind of problem. Thanks, Guillem
