On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 09:59:05AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
§2.2.1 refers to REJECT-FAQ as the URI https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html but that link is broken.
(this link is in a footnote)
Raising severity since Debian Policy seemingly at no place explicitly state that source packages must contain the source code that upstream prefer for their modification (as opposed to intermediate autogenerated data). Seemingly that requirement is deferred to that external URI which is now missing (probably since the split of the DFSG team).
Footnotes can't defer anything: "The footnotes present in this manual are merely informative, and are not part of Debian policy itself." (§1.1)
Either the Policy should have specific DFSG interpretations explicitly, whether "the project’s current working interpretation of the DFSG" as a separate document exists or not, in which case it should be a separate bug report, or it shouldn't, in which case the only bug report needed is to fix/remove the footnote.
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