Hi all! On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:22:43 +0100, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:13:51AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >>> We went back and forth on this several times on debian-mentors and I >>> think everyone finally agreed that debian/copyright is the correct >>> place to explain any repackaging of the upstream source. Since >>> debian/copyright is the standard place to explain where the upstream >>> source came from, it's the logical place for that information to go. >>> Please let's not add a new documentation file that isn't automatically >>> collected by the PTS, packages.d.o, etc. >> >> Personnally I put it in debian/README.sources with instruction on how >> to generate the tarball from the upstream one. >> >> debian/README.sources is mentionned in another policy proposal. > > Which I am similarly opposed to. I think Policy 12.5 is reasonably clear > here: > > In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources > (if any) were obtained. > > To me at least, that includes information about how a custom pack of the > upstream sources is generated, if that's necessary.
I think there's a problem here, according to the facts below...
- debian-policy_3.7.3.0, § 12.5, reported above by Russ, doesn't sound
so clear to me (but I'm not an English native speaker).
Let's say that I grab foo from foo.alioth.d.o, then I remove some
non-DFSG-free material and I repackage the orig.tar.gz: the upstream
sources are still obtained from foo.alioth.d.o.
- developers-reference_3.3.8 (11 November, 2006, the version available
on sid...), § 6.7.8.2:
A repackaged .orig.tar.gz
1. must contain detailed information how the repackaged source was
obtained, and how this can be reproduced, in README.Debian-source
or a similar file.
- developers-reference_3.3.9 (04 August, 2007, available *only* on
www.d.o), § 6.7.8.2:
A repackaged .orig.tar.gz
1. must contain detailed information how the repackaged source was
obtained, and how this can be reproduced in the debian/copyright.
- on 04 December, 2007, I asked on #debian-devel about where I should
have explained how I repackaged thinkinger and the answer was duplex:
debian/copyright if the explanation was simple or debian/README.Source
if more complex (which I chose, since I prefer to be more verbose)
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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