On 2006-11-03 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: emacs21-common > Version: 21.4a+1-1 > Severity: serious > > The manpages for Emacs and Etags have the following license: > > Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document > under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any > later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant > Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. > > However, there is no copy of the GFDL in either emacs21-common or the > emacs21 source package. This can be remedied by repacking the orig.tar.gz > so that it includes the removed file etc/gfdl.1; either install that file > or put a copy of the GFDL into /usr/share/doc/emacs21-common. > > And don't forget to update debian/copyright, of course.
Shipping gfdl.1 will not really solve the bug. Licenses not shipped in /usr/share/common-licenses/ must be *included* in debian/copyright, a pointer to another file is not enough. See policy 12.5. cu andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
