❦ 30 novembre 2015 10:41 +0100, Ferenc Wagner <[email protected]> :

> Makefile.in files distributed in an upstream tarball often have several
> copyright notices: the FSF copyleft at the top added by Automake and
> later those carried over from other macro packages included into
> Makefile.am (for example: include doxygen.am).  The result is like
> this:

Usually, autoconf generated files are ignored in
debian/copyright. That's a "special unwritten" rule. You don't need to
mention them, you don't need to exclude them from the tarball. It's
better to regenerate them from source during build time.
-- 
Parenthesise to avoid ambiguity.
            - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)

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