Hi Ben, > I think adding a field to ‘debian/copyright’ for that purpose is a bad > idea, so I am unlikely to incorporate that functionality into the > document.
I'm sure you are aware that policy §12.5 requires the details of where upstream sources were obtained from; that is commonly interpreted to include specifying what modifications were made to the upstream tarball since the modification is part of the tarball's origin. DevRef once recommended that this information be in debian/README.Debian-source, but this recommendation was removed on the basis that this information should already be in debian/copyright (see #413320). In the current copyright-format/1.0, people are including repackaging information with a Comment field, as an explanatory text to the Source field or with some other ad hoc field name. The data are free form and, if some other sort of debian/repack is to be used, are then duplicated between debian/repack (get-orig-source or any of the other options that are in the archive) and debian/copyright. Consolidating this information in one place seems like a good idea which was the very rationale behind #413320 and then these uscan improvements. If you believe there is a better place for this information than debian/copyright and that Policy §12.5 and the thoughts of our policy delegates in #413320 are wrong, then discussing this on the debian-policy mailing list would be appropriate. Both §12.5 and §4.14 (debian/README.source) could certainly be clarified on this point. (See also an abortive attempted to discuss this further in #492661.) Using d/copyright + uscan for this is also finally an opportunity to do this using a standard tool set with a declarative syntax. It's a chance to reduce the number of different ways of doing this in the archive; let's not let the perpetual wait for the perfect to miraculously appear get in the way of using the good that is right in front of us. regards Stuart -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint BE65 FD1E F4EA 08F3 23D4 3C6D 9FE8 B8CD 71C5 D1A8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/l865co$gs6$1...@ger.gmane.org
