question about copyright file

2009-05-08 Thread Stani
Hi,
I'm working on a new version of Phatch.
I'd like to include the copyright file in the source tarball of phatch.
Right now it was only present in the debian svn papt repository. As I feel
that other linux distributions need this file as well, would it be possible
to that the installation scripts copies it from the source tarball into the
debian folder in such way that it can be removed from svn debian? I prefer
not to maintain two identical copies of the same file.
Best regards,
Stani


Re: question about copyright file

2009-05-08 Thread Ben Finney
Stani  writes:

> I'd like to include the copyright file in the source tarball of phatch.
> Right now it was only present in the debian svn papt repository. As I feel
> that other linux distributions need this file as well, would it be possible
> to that the installation scripts copies it from the source tarball into the
> debian folder in such way that it can be removed from svn debian?

Are you in communication with the upstream developers? You could
maintain a patch adding the file you want in the source package, present
that patch to upstream arguing your case for why it would be good to
include it, and remove the patch when it's incorporated upstream

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Ben Finney


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